What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens ... Zobraziť viac
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations... Zobraziť viac
The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis. In this major new book, a group of fifteen international philosophers, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and legal experts compare... Zobraziť viac
Janet Coleman′s two volume history of European political theorising, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction which many have been waiting for. Zobraziť viac
This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors - the BRICS together with the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Mexico - are of profound... Zobraziť viac
Cultural policy has become an increasingly important aspect of government policy at local, national and international levels. This book applies a non-technical economic analysis to problems in cultural policy-making, with specific reference to the arts... Zobraziť viac
In this volume, Almond and Verba focus their origional text and `subject its philosophy, its methodology, its national and comparative findings to searching critiques by appropriate scholars'. Zobraziť viac
A newly revised and updated study of CIA and Pentagon covert operations from World War II through the Persian Gulf a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era. An important book. New York Times. Zobraziť viac
This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in ten African countries. Sebastian Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic and the personalistic party. He uses... Zobraziť viac
Offers a comprehensive, narrative account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. Zobraziť viac
Lodge and Taber propose and empirically test motivated political reasoning that predicts that when citizens think about familiar political leaders, groups and issues, their prior feelings spontaneously bias how information is encoded, retrieved,... Zobraziť viac
The fall of the Berlin Wall launched the transformation of government, economy and society across half of Europe and the former Soviet Union. This text deals with the process of change in former Communist bloc countries, ten of which have become new... Zobraziť viac
Exploring the controversies and problems surrounding post-communist transitions, this multi-disciplinary volume develops a strong theoretical framework as it moves between general issues of transitology and specific analyses. Hungary, a state that has... Zobraziť viac
Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how electoral systems are chosen. Zobraziť viac
Subtitled, "Continuity And Change In A Consensus Democracy". Reveals the richness and history of its institutions. Zobraziť viac
Evidence from 24 diverse countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America examined in this volume shows how poor people do not value democracy any less than their richer counterparts. Political attitudes and participation levels are unaffected by relative... Zobraziť viac
This book deals with the theoretical implications of the changing nature of the European Member states and with the concept of new regionalism. Not only does it explore the historical and philosophical background of democracy in various countries, but... Zobraziť viac
Deliberative democrats seek to link political choices more closely to the deliberations of common citizens, rather than consigning them to speak only in the desiccated language of checks on a ballot. Sober thinkers from Plato to today, however, have... Zobraziť viac
Addresses the proliferation of failed states across the world and our inability to stabilise them. 'Everything this book advocates makes sense' Max Hastings, "Sunday Times" Zobraziť viac
In this book, the author focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a... Zobraziť viac
