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  • A Court of Specialists

    Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court

    by Chris Hanretty ...
    This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court. Covering the court's first ten years, it examines all stages of the court's decision-making process--from permission to appeal to the decision on the final outcome. The analysis of these distinct stages shows that legal factors matter. The most important predictor of whether an appellant will succeed in the ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Public Broadcasting and Political Interference

    by Chris Hanretty ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    Public broadcasters, like the BBC and the Italian broadcaster RAI, are some of the most important media organisations in the world. Politicians are often tempted to interfere in the workings of these broadcasters and when this happens, the results are highly controversial, as both the Blair and Berlusconi governments have discovered.Public Broadcasting and Political Interference explains why some ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice

    by Nick Vivyan, Benjamin E. Lauderdale, Chris Hanretty ...
    What is the nature of mass opinion on public policies? And what role do citizens' positions on policy issues play in their political choices? This book re-examines these questions, which lie at the heart of fundamental debates about whether democratic elections make policymakers responsive to citizens' policy preferences. The answers that political science currently provides to these questions ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • High Courts in Global Perspective

    Evidence, Methodologies, and Findings

    by Nuno Garoupa, Rebecca D. Gill, Lydia B. Tiede, Aylin Aydin-Çakir, Tanya Bagashka, Clifford J. Carrubba, Amanda Driscoll, Joshua B. Fischman0, Joshua C. Fjelstul1, Tom Ginsburg2, Chris Hanretty3, Lori Hausegger4, Diana Kapiszewski5, Lewis A. Kornhauser6, Dominique Lewis7, Chien-Chih Lin8, Sunita Parikh9, Russell Smyth0, Christopher Zorn1, Professor Melinda Gann Hall2 ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    High courts around the world hold a revered place in the legal hierarchy. These courts are the presumed impartial final arbiters as individuals, institutions, and nations resolve their legal differences. But they also buttress and mitigate the influence of other political actors, protect minority rights, and set directions for policy. The comparative empirical analysis offered in this volume ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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    Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

    by Joshua Green ...
    The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six ... Read more

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  • Liberty and Tyranny

    A Conservative Manifesto

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    Don’t miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin's #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency, Americans responded by making his clarion call for a new era in conservatism a #1 New York Times bestseller for an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Party Is Over

    How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

    by Mike Lofgren ...
    The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington todayThere was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike ... Read more

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  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    by Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Whose Freedom?

    The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

    by George Lakoff ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of the conservative political tactics that have claimed ownership over the United States's most defining value."A very persuasive argument that Democrats have allowed Republicans to hijack words such as 'freedom' and 'liberty' in fundamental ways that have undercut Democrats' credibility." ― Chicago TribuneIn the wake of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Rules for Patriots

    How Conservatives Can Win Again

    by Steve Deace ...
    Time is running out on American exceptionalism. The light of liberty is flickering. At no point since we still had the Redcoats on our shores has freedom been more imperiled. This time it's not an invading foreign power that threatens us, but our own government gone wild— unhinged from its Constitutional limits. Many great books have been written about what we should believe and why, or why the ... Read more

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  • Five Year Mission

    The Labour Party under Ed Miliband

    by Tim Bale ...
    In May 2010, Labour suffered one of its worst ever election defeats. A few months later it chose Ed Miliband as its new leader. His task? To win back power after just one term in opposition - a tall order given how many voters had come to blame Labour for the economic mess the country was in, and to see the party as a soft-touch when it came to immigration and welfare. Even those who were more ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable

    The Liberal Party's Australia

    by Judith Brett ...
    Series Book 19 - Quarterly Essay
    What is the Liberal Party’s core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party’s founder, Sir Robert Menzies?For Judith Brett, the government of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments have always done: it has made its stand firmly at the centre and presented itself as the true ... Read more

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