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Dynamic Partisanship How and Why Voter Loyalties Change
ISBN: PB: 9780226762364, ISBN: HB: 9780226762227, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 line drawings, 28 tables
Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mostly stable voter identification with a party, are normally considered significant signals of a steady d...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226748573, ISBN: HB: 9780226748436, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures
One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over – and upending – nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ub...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Democracy Declined The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection
ISBN: PB: 9780226711799, ISBN: HB: 9780226711652, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 line drawings, 19 tables
As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Difference without Domination Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
ISBN: PB: 9780226681221, ISBN: HB: 9780226681191, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 10 line drawings
Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts t...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Dragonomics How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9780300224092, Yale University Press, May 2020
328 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and th...
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£30,00
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Disraeli The Novel Politician
ISBN: HB: 9780300137514, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Lauded as a "great Jew", excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways...
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£16,99
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Democracy and Dysfunction
ISBN: PB: 9780226612041, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on...
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£19,00
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Doves Among Hawks Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements
ISBN: HB: 9781787380240, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid spiralling violence. Now, and esp...
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£50,00
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Dictators Without Borders Power and Money in Central Asia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243192, Yale University Press, January 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white ilus., 11 figures
Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is...
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£10,99
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Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage
ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...
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£25,00
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