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Hardcover. Andrew Taylor provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and impact of state failure since the 1990s. Avoiding quickly outdated country-based case studies, he focuses on failure as a process rather than an event, putting contemporary usage in a wider historical context. Series: Global Issues. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230247604
ISBN
9780230247604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.33

Hardcover. This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and belong to nations? And, why, and for whom, might this idea be significant, notably in an era of increasing global uncertainty? Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFFN; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230247611
ISBN
9780230247611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.70

Hardcover. This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign policy, and has expanded its coverage of Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy. Its focus, however, remains on pioneering political leadership in the electoral, governmental, legislative, and administrative sectors of the US and British democracies. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHL; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460. 288 pages. This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on presidential leadership and foreign policy, and has expanded its coverage of Schumpeter's and other leadership models of democracy. Its focus, however, remains on pioneering political leadership in the electoral, governmental, legislative, and administrative sectors of the US and British democracies. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JPHL; JPHV. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 21. Weight: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248151
ISBN
9780230248151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.76

Hardcover. The book extends research on the territorial structure of party systems (party nationalization) to 20 post-communist democracies. It explains party nationalisation as a consequence of ethnically oriented politics, and shows how party nationalisation can increase our understanding of electoral systems. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248274
ISBN
9780230248274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 49.46

Hardcover. Hudson explores the development of communists and other left forces, charting their survival and renewal after 1989. She shows how an open and democratic form of socialism has emerged which embraces environmental, gender and anti-war politics. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPFF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230248762
ISBN
9780230248762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.24

Hardcover. A critical analysis of the political economy of development in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JPSD; KCM; KCP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230250017
ISBN
9780230250017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.58

Hardcover. Based on interviews with officials, requesters and journalists, as well as a survey of FOI requesters and a study of stories in the national media, this book offers a unique insight into how the Freedom of Information Act 2000 really works. Series: Understanding Governance. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPQ; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230250345
ISBN
9780230250345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.60

Hardcover. Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South divide. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPWH; RNA; RNB; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230250352
ISBN
9780230250352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.08

Hardcover. This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPSL; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251502
ISBN
9780230251502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.71

Paperback. Drawing on critical social and political thought, this book argues that late modern wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of exclusion and domination that render war a tool of control in global terms. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251816
ISBN
9780230251816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.45
€ 36.31

Hardcover. This book critically explores civic republicanism in light of contemporary republican political theory and the influence of republican models of citizenship in recent developments in civic education across a number of Western nations. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; JPVH1; YQN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251946
ISBN
9780230251946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.50

Hardcover. Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its particular, inherited character. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; JPFQ; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252066
ISBN
9780230252066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.75

Paperback. Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its particular, inherited character. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; JPFQ; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252073
ISBN
9780230252073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.46
€ 28.24

Paperback. The UK is going through a period of unprecedented constitutional change. There is much unfinished business, and further changes still to come. Where are these changes taking us? In this book, leading political scientists and lawyers forecast the impact of these changes on the UK's key institutions and the constitution as a whole. Editor(s): Hazell, Robert. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438. Britain's Constitution to 2020. 352 pages, 74 figures. Editor(s): Hazell, Robert. The UK is going through a period of unprecedented constitutional change. There is much unfinished business, and further changes still to come. Where are these changes taking us? In this book, leading political scientists and lawyers forecast the impact of these changes on the UK's key institutions and the constitution as a whole. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; JPHC. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
351
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252134
ISBN
9780230252134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 36.28

Hardcover. This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work provides a lively and readable picture of life within the Commission, exploring how thousands of newcomers were recruited and socialized and how they changed the organization, including its gender balance. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPP; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252219
ISBN
9780230252219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.76

Hardcover. The 10th edition of a library classic, British Political Facts records the who, the what and when of British political life from 1900 to the present day. Thoroughly researched and updated, this reliable and unique work is a treasure trove of information for scholars and politicos alike. Num Pages: 642 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JMC; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1060.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
10th Edition
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252295
ISBN
9780230252295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 203.39
€ 113.31

Hardcover. An exploration of Turkey's future role and impact on European energy security, looking at the connection between geopolitics, energy security and the EU's need for energy. The book focuses on Turkey's foreign and energy policies and importance as a natural funnel through which the EU can access hydrocarbons and renewables. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QFE; JPS; KNB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252684
ISBN
9780230252684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.16

Hardcover. In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement market reform policies decisively and resolutely? Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; JPS; KCLF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252820
ISBN
9780230252820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 45.94

Hardcover. Examines the debates and developments about House of Lords reform since 1911, and notes that disagreements have occurred within, as well as between, the main political parties and governments throughout this time. It draws attention to how various proposals for reform have raised a wider range constitutional and political problems. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JPHC; JPL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230271661
ISBN
9780230271661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.59

Hardcover. Exploring the illegal drug issue in international context, this book looks at why harmonization has not already taken place at the European level. It considers the desirability and viability of harmonization, examines the conflict between repressive and liberal drug policies and applies a multi-level governance lens to the issue. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG; JPB; JPSN2; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230271869
ISBN
9780230271869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Hardcover. This book explores the relationship between children and citizenship, analyzing international perspectives on citizenship and human rights and developing new methods for facilitating the recognition of children as participating agents within society. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JKSB1; JNAM; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230271876
ISBN
9780230271876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69
€ 67.86

Paperback. Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state. Series: Global Civil Society Yearbook. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBCY; GTF; JFFS; JPB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 17. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230272019
ISBN
9780230272019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 39.17

Paperback. Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives. Editor(s): Pinto, Antonio Costa. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388. Comparative Perspectives. 304 pages, 3 tables, 3 charts. Editor(s): Pinto, Antonio Costa. Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBTB; JPFQ. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230272965
ISBN
9780230272965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 92.45
€ 33.67

Hardcover. Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230273207
ISBN
9780230273207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69
€ 72.71

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