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  • Continuity, Change and Crisis in Contemporary Ireland

    Edited by Brian Girvin, Gary Murphy ...
    The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969. The emergence of the troubles in Northern Ireland, the final push to gain entry to the EEC, changing social mores and severe economic difficulties all begin to appear on the horizon at this stage. While considerable change and, indeed, moments of extreme crisis, have ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    What jurors in Canada aren't being told about their rights -- and what we can do about it

    by Gary Bauslaugh ...
    Canadians know that the jurors at a trial decide the defendant's guilt or innocence according to the law of the land. What they don't know is how far that right actually goes, and what the real power of juries is.Sometimes people -- even jurors -- wonder if a law or a judgment in a particular case is a just one. When the law seems wrong, we are told there is only one solution: change the law.In ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Canada's Constitutional Monarchy

    An Introduction to Our Form of Government

    by Nathan Tidridge ...
    The Canadian Crown is a unique institution that has been integral to our ideals of democracy from its beginning in 16th-century New France.Canadians enjoy one of the most stable forms of government on the planet, but there is a crisis in our understanding of the role the Crown plays in that government. Media often refer to the governor general as the Canadian head of state, and the queen is ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Give Us Liberty

    A Tea Party Manifesto

    by Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe ...
    Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as it calls on fiscal conservatives to take back America ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Democratic Professionalism

    Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice

    by Albert W. Dzur ...
    Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic professionalism” to build bridges between specialists in domains like law, medicine, and journalism ... Read more

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  • Colonial Effects

    The Making of National Identity in Jordan

    by Joseph Massad ...
    Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period.Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Jan W. Van Deth, José Ramón Montero, Anders Westholm ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies.Research on the future and quality of contemporary democracy is usually restricted to focus either on political participation, on particular aspects of citizenship, or on social activities, exclusively. This new book offers the first empirical ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Social Capital and Associations in European Democracies

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by William A. Maloney, Sigrid Rossteutscher ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This unique book offers an empirical assessment of how social and political involvement relates to theories of citizenship and democracy, providing a detailed comparative assessment of the potential that voluntary organizations offer citizens for social and political participation in several European countries.The coherent chapters, written by leading European researchers, examine the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Media and Modernity

    Communications, Women, and the State in India

    by Robin Jeffrey ...
    Two puzzles of modern Indiaone well known, the other overlookedform the core of this book. For fifty years, the state of Kerala has been famed, first as a home of Communists, then as a perplexing model of development. But why Communists? And why development, especially in a place where the economy usually underperformed even lowly national averages? Part of an answer lies in the unusual place of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • What Happened to Bernie Sanders

    by Jared H. Beck, Esq. ...
    For the first time, the definitive answer to the relative disappearance of Bernie Sanders and his political revolution in our new Trumpocracy.One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the US 2016 presidential election is still being fought by both parties. As the case of Russian hacking and collusion is investigated, and Hillary Clinton desperately attempts to explain “What Happened” to her and why ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Management and Participation in the Public Sphere

    Edited by Mika Markus Merviö ...
    Public policy has a dynamic effect on multiple facets of modern society. Methods for managing and engaging the public sphere continue to change conceptually across the globe, impacting the ways that governments and citizens interact both within and across borders. Management and Participation in the Public Sphere is a definitive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the interplay ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

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