Political Science - Comparative Politics
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A Case for Congress: Volume 17Polarized. Dysfunctional. Toxic. Broken. These are only some of the negative words Americans use to describe the United States Congress. Nowadays hardly anyone has something good to say about either the House of Representatives or the Senate, the two bodies that make up Congress....
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A Mostly Peaceful Book: A Refutation of the Leftist Culture That Plagued 2020Michael Mebruer was born in 1994 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the fourth born out of his father's five kids. From an early age, he found role models in his brother Mark and his adopted mother Helen. These are two people who have...
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America Awakened: The Collapse of Globalism and the Return to Faith, Family, and FreedomAmerica Awakened reveals the rise of a new civilizational order-one that is restoring faith, revitalizing family, and redefining freedom. In this compelling and hope-filled book, Dr. Steve Turley explores how political, technological, and cultural movements are driving a stunning return to America's timeless values...
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Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf StatesHow are authority and influence accumulated and wielded across the six Gulf states? Mixing theoretical and empirical insights, and utilising both historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a comparative analysis of military, political, economic and religious power in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi...
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Comparative Government and PoliticsWhat are the markers of authoritarian and democratic states - and all those that fall somewhere in-between? How do principles, institutions and political processes differ from state to state? And what can we learn from political comparison on a global scale? Comparative Government and...
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Democracy: Eleven Writers and Leaders on What It Is - And Why It MattersThis is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters.In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with...
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Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World PoliticsThis is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence. Following the...
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Divided We StandIn Divided We Stand, Bill Newcott - longtime senior editor/writer for National Geographic and AARP the Magazine - discovers a country that is not what we see in our daily doom scrolls. While Americans may well face many irreconcilable differences, when they actually come...
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Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in JapanAlthough democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
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Eclipsing the West: China, India and the Forging of a New WorldAs the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. The Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end. As America withdraws from its...
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Elites and DemocracyWhy elites always rule democracies--and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said...
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Finish What We Started: The Maga Movement's Ground War to End DemocracyNew York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author "Entertaining, enlightening and disturbing." - Ira Glass The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a...
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Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to KissingerA captivating history of diplomacy--and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competition From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious...
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution"A remarkable new history" (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame--and what we can learn from its embers From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in...
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution"A remarkable new history" (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame--and what we can learn from its embers From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in...
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In the Footsteps of Mr. KurtzKnown as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population...
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Jordan: Politics in an Accidental CrucibleJordan is the runt of the Middle East. Compared to neighboring Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, it has the smallest population, scarcest resources, and greatest vulnerability to regional violence. And yet this contrived place, with its divided society and antiquated monarchy, has outlasted...
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Korea: A New History of South and NorthA major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day "Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and balanced account."--Christopher Harding, The Telegraph Korea has a...
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Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of CrisisHow do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs? Late...
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Making a Career in Dictatorship: The Secret Logic Behind Repression and CoupsWho loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the authoritarian security apparatus to identify which officers participate...
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