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When people vote in a democracy, they expect the result of the election to be 'fair.' Is this true in the UK and if not, why not This book explains how our system of 'first-past-the-post' translates votes into seats and is essential reading at a time of unprecedented electoral uncertainty. -- .

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Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them. This raises the question of the extent to which repre...

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During the 1990s, many members of the House of Representatives could be characterized as citizen legislators - they either voluntarily limited their term in office or they had no prior political experience. Representing America compares the representational styles of these leg...

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Incorporating the writings of prominent political thinkers, this book looks at how approaches to Israel have been elaborated through broader ideologies - in particular liberal nationalism, Marxism and Islamism. It argues that representations of Israel have reflected Egyptian conceptions of self.

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Where policy is made depends to a large extent on how it is framed early in the process. This book discusses abortion policy in legal and political terms and analyzes how it ultimately led the courts to play a much more active role in policy development in New Jersey than in New York.

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Will French mainstream political parties and republican institutions survive extreme religious and racist movements on the right and left in the future

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An intimate, investigative portrait of how the purveyors of the politics of personal crisis and redemption brought down the GOP--and why they're still calling the shots for the party

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Detailed Political Science analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Since the New Deal, Republican presidents have looked for ways to accommodate rather than abolish the federal social safety net. Yet moderation often led to a backlash from their conservative supporters, leading Republican presidents, in some cases, to move from accommodation to opposition.

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Athanasios Moulakis makes available the essay How to Bring Order to Popular Government, by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an analysis of this work. He shows that, the maturation of Forentine constitutional thought points to a modern idea of the republican state.

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Explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. This book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics, the ideology and practice of official French republicanism and the broader European and American civic republican tradition.

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Examines the extent of the perceived Republican dominance in the South.

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How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy This book attempts to answer this fundamental question through a study of international debt across three centuries. It explains how governments acquire reputations in the eyes of investors, and argues that concerns about reputation sustain international lending and repayment.

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The US Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential This book traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary source of its power, yet also one of its ultimate constraints.

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This text examines a variety of socialist cultural phenomena from China and the Third World to show that Cold War representations of socialism as hostile to artistic expression were misleading.

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Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance. -- .

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Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance. -- .

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This is a comprehensive guide to contemporary research design in Political Science introducing a wide range of cutting-edge research models and examining their respective implications.

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Provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change.

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Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change.

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In this concise and readable book Stephen Kinzer takes the reader on a tour of modern Middle Eastern history, highlighting the errors, alliances and betrayals all acted out for what was shortsightedly seen as being in the interest of Western states.