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Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook
Ilias Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts. ...more |
Ilias Arnaoutoglou |
21 May 2013 |
$37.95 |

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Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such ...more |
Pauline Jones Luong |
21 May 2013 |
$38.00 |

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British System of Government
The tenth edition of this acclaimed text continues to provide a lively, comprehensive and up-to-date account of British political institutions, of the way in which they operate, and of the society in which they developed. It has been thoroughly revised ...more |
Anthony H. Birch |
20 May 2013 |
$51.95 |

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Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia
This comprehensive Dictionary provides descriptive and analytical coverage of the turbulent political history and striking changes which have occurred both regionally and in key countries since the end of the Second World War. Substantially rewritten ...more |
Michael Leifer |
18 May 2013 |
$65.00 |
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Crony Capitalism
Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country ...more |
David C. Kang |
18 May 2013 |
$30.00 |

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European Law in the Past and the Future
As Europe moves towards economic and political unification, many wonder why legal unification makes so little headway. In this concise but wide-ranging book, R. C. van Caenegem considers the historical reasons behind this legal diversity. He stresses the ...more |
R. C. van Caenegem |
17 May 2013 |
$37.00 |

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Political Change in Thailand
IPolitical Change in Thailand provides an assessment of approaches to studying Thai politics, the various forces reshaping the forms of political activity and their roles in the fluid contemporary political environment. It provides a survey of the more ...more |
Kevin Hewison |
16 May 2013 |
$64.95 |

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Political Change in Thailand
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Kevin Hewison |
14 May 2013 |
$105.00 |

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Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa
The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information ...more |
Robert B. Horwitz |
12 May 2013 |
$48.00 |

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The European Union and South East Europe: The Dynamics of Europeanization and Multilevel Governance
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Andrew Geddes & Charles Lees & Andrew Taylor |
8 May 2013 |
$125.00 |
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The Sources of Roman Law
This book is concerned with four central questions: Who made law? Where did a Roman go to discover what the law was? How has the law survived to be known to us today? And what procedures were there for putting the law into effect? In The Sources of Roman ...more |
O. F. Robinson |
5 May 2013 |
$37.95 |

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Foreign Relations of the PRC: The Legacies and Constraints of China's International Politics since 1949
This cogent but comprehensive book examines the international relations of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949. Noted scholar Robert G. Sutter provides a balanced assessment of the country's recent successes and advances as well ...more |
Robert G. Sutter |
5 May 2013 |
$34.99 |
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The Ritual of Rights in Japan
The Ritual of Rights in Japan challenges the conventional wisdom that the assertion of rights is fundamentally incompatible with Japanese legal, political and social norms. It discusses the creation of a Japanese translation of the word 'rights', Kenri; ...more |
Eric A. Feldman |
2 May 2013 |
$34.00 |

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Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe
Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe examines the European polity and its policy-making processes. In particular, it asks how an institution which is so riddled with veto points manages to be such an active and aggressive policy maker. HÈritier argues ...more |
Adrienne HÈritier |
1 May 2013 |
$26.00 |

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Organizing Democracy in Eastern Germany
The emergence of interest group politics is one of the decisive factors in democratic transformation in post-communist society. Stephen Padgett argues that evidence from eastern Germany suggests that market transition produces rather open and fluid societies, ...more |
Stephen Padgett |
1 May 2013 |
$35.00 |

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Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places
This volume considers an array of power-sharing systems in divided cities and states, with critical evaluations of their merits and defects as well as explanations of their emergence, maintenance, and failings. ...more |
Joanne McEvoy |
25 Apr 2013 |
$85.00 |

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Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: The Control of Foreign Direct Investment Under Socialism
When Chinese leaders announced in late 1978 that China would "open to the outside world," they embarked on a strategy for attracting private foreign capital to spur economic development. At the same time, they were concerned about possible negative repercussions ...more |
Margaret M. Pearson |
23 Apr 2013 |
$14.95 |

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Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively ...more |
Bård A. Andreassen |
19 Apr 2013 |
$135.00 |
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The Americanization of France: Searching for Happiness after the Algerian War
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country has never ...more |
Barnett Singer |
12 Apr 2013 |
$64.99 |

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Regional Integration in East Asia and Europe: Convergence or Divergence?
A fascinating insight into how regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges. This issue-based overview of political integration focuses on the differences and similarities ...more |
Bertrand Fort |
7 Apr 2013 |
$49.95 |
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Enemy Brothers: Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain
This examination of the historical relationship between Socialist and Communist parties in France, Italy, and Spain since 1920 contends that during the 1960s and 1970s these parties made critical alliance decisions that shaped their subsequent political ...more |
W. Rand Smith |
21 Mar 2013 |
$74.99 |

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Private Organisations in Global Politics
Private Organisation in Global Politics is a groundbreaking study which brings together a broad range of case-studies to examine the role and character of private organisations in the process of political globalization. Focusing on areas such as human ...more |
Karsten Ronit |
11 Mar 2013 |
$140.00 |
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Crafting Democracy: Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe
A decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of democratization and marketization in East Central Europe, a handful of countries introduced territorial and administrative reforms and created regional "self-governments": autonomous subnational-level ...more |
Jennifer A. Yoder |
1 Mar 2013 |
$78.99 |

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Crafting Democracy: Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe
A decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of democratization and marketization in East Central Europe, a handful of countries introduced territorial and administrative reforms and created regional "self-governments": autonomous subnational-level ...more |
Jennifer A. Yoder |
23 Feb 2013 |
$78.99 |

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God's Plans for the American Working Class and the Holy land After 9/11/01
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Thomas J. Kuna-Jacob |
16 Feb 2013 |
$10.76 |

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Return to Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain
Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis available of the challenges facing Putin as he resumes the presidency. Leading scholars explore the daunting domestic ...more |
Stephen K. Wegren |
15 Feb 2013 |
$44.99 |

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World Report 2013: Events of 2012
"The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . ."—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books"An ...more |
Human Rights Watch |
12 Feb 2013 |
$30.00 |

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An Economic Development Architecture for New Orleans
In response to the current situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this report provides recommendations regarding effective organizational and strategic approaches to revitalizing the city?s economy, identifies the best practices ...more |
Kevin F. McCarthy |
7 Feb 2013 |
$9.95 |

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The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: The Argentine Puzzle in Context
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF's intervention, there are influential interactions between IMF technocrats ...more |
Claudia Kedar |
6 Feb 2013 |
$74.50 |

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European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet
How do right wing extremist organizations throughout the world use the Internet as a tool for communication and recruitment? What is its role in identity-building within radical right-wing groups and how do they use the Internet to set their agenda, build ...more |
Caiani Manuela & Linda Parenti |
1 Feb 2013 |
$99.95 |
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Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact
The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when the Soviet Union attacked Japan. Japan's neutrality had enabled Stalin to move Far Eastern forces to the German ...more |
Boris Slavinsky |
15 Dec 2012 |
$195.00 |
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Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration
Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans the fifty-year history of European integration, ...more |
Jens Henrik Haahr & William Walters |
15 Dec 2012 |
$49.95 |
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Organising Labour in Globalising Asia
This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organising capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case-studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organisations (NGOs) and more (dis)organised struggles. ...more |
Andrew Brown |
13 Dec 2012 |
$52.95 |
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Changing Images of Civil Society: From Protest to Governance
Examines the concept of civil society, the role attributed to civil society in different countries, at different times and historic situations, the reasons for its surfacing and its multiple forms in political discourse. ...more |
Bruno Jobert |
1 Dec 2012 |
$140.00 |

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Categorically Incorrect: Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror
Borovoy argues that Canada has pursued an ethically cockeyed war against terror, being needlessly dovish abroad and excessively hawkish at home. ...more |
A. Alan Borovoy |
28 Nov 2012 |
$24.99 |

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Harmonious World and China's New Foreign Policy
The concept of 'harmonious world' has become the basis for the new principles and goals of Chinese foreign policy under the fourth generation leadership. The question remains, however, about the exact meanings of these principles and slogans, ...more |
Guo And Blanchard |
27 Nov 2012 |
$36.99 |
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Essentials of Comparative Politics
The freshest, most contemporary introduction to comparative politics. Essentials of Comparative Politics introduces students to the concepts that political scientists use to study and compare political systems and the particulars of specific political ...more |
Patrick H. O'Neil |
25 Oct 2012 |
$45.83 |

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Cases in Comparative Politics
Thirteen country studies that apply the conceptual framework developed in Essentials of Comparative Politics. Cases in Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United ...more |
Patrick H. O'Neil & Karl Fields & Don Share |
25 Oct 2012 |
$49.16 |

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How Political Parties Respond to Voters
How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation. Do parties today perform that function? If so, how? If not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate? This fascinating ...more |
Kay Lawson & Thomas Poguntke |
24 Oct 2012 |
$49.95 |
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Political Regimes in the Arab World: Society and the Exercise of Power
One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world, as a homogenous entity, is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that, despite their differences, societies across the globe ultimately construct their ...more |
Ferran Izquierdo Brichs |
20 Oct 2012 |
$145.00 |
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Tangled Titans: The United States and China
Tangled Titans offers the most current and comprehensive assessment available of United States–China relations. In this definitive book, leading experts consider the past, present, and future of this complex relationship through an in-depth ...more |
David Shambaugh |
19 Oct 2012 |
$38.99 |

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Tangled Titans: The United States and China
Tangled Titans offers the most current and comprehensive assessment available of United States–China relations. In this definitive book, leading experts consider the past, present, and future of this complex relationship through an in-depth ...more |
David Shambaugh |
19 Oct 2012 |
$38.99 |

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Comparative Politics
Essentials of Comparative Politics introduces students to the concepts that political scientists use to study and compare political systems and the particulars of specific political systems. The text is available with a corresponding casebook of 14 country ...more |
Patrick H. O'Neil & Karl Fields & Dan Share |
10 Oct 2012 |
$35.00 |

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Ending Social Promotion Without Leaving Children Behind: The Case of New York City
The New York City Department of Education asked RAND to conduct an independent longitudinal evaluation of its 5th-grade promotion policy. The findings of that study, conducted between March 2006 and August 2009, provide a comprehensive view of the policy's ...more |
Jennifer Sloan McCombs |
9 Oct 2012 |
$9.95 |

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The Performance of Nations
Why do some nations fail while others succeed? How can we compare the political capacity of a totalitarian regime to a democracy? Are democracies always more efficient? The Performance of Nations answers these key questions by providing a powerful ...more |
Jacek Kugler |
5 Oct 2012 |
$84.99 |

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The Performance of Nations
Why do some nations fail while others succeed? How can we compare the political capacity of a totalitarian regime to a democracy? Are democracies always more efficient? The Performance of Nations answers these key questions by providing a powerful ...more |
Jacek Kugler |
5 Oct 2012 |
$84.99 |

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Italian Critics of Capitalism
The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of theories of democracy and capitalism in twentieth century Italy starting from Vilfredo Pareto. The book is the first (and the unique) collection of Italian classics on capitalism, it is ...more |
Lorella Cedroni |
4 Oct 2012 |
$29.99 |

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Italian Critics of Capitalism
The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of theories of democracy and capitalism in twentieth century Italy starting from Vilfredo Pareto. The book is the first (and the unique) collection of Italian classics on capitalism, it is ...more |
Lorella Cedroni |
4 Oct 2012 |
$29.99 |

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The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire
This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides ...more |
Jeffery R. Webber |
28 Sep 2012 |
$38.99 |

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The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire
This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides ...more |
Jeffery R. Webber |
28 Sep 2012 |
$38.99 |

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