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  • Policy Bubbles

    Collected Essays

    by Moshe Maor ...
    This authoritative book explains the phenomenon of sustained policy overinvestment or overreaction over extended periods. These long-term patterns of policy overproduction, known as policy bubbles, arise from psychological dynamics, institutional routines, and deliberate strategic action that generate positive feedback loops and lock policymakers into persistent overinvestment.Leading expert Moshe ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Policy Over- and Underreaction

    Collected Essays

    by Moshe Maor ...
    This book presents 12 pioneering essays and a novel introduction on policy over- and underreaction by Moshe Maor, a leading authority on disproportionate policy responses. Maor construes disproportion in an empirical rather than normative manner to improve our understanding of when, why, and how electorally vulnerable political executives and those operating in contexts of declining trust in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Political Parties and Party Systems

    Comparative Approaches and the British Experience

    by Moshe Maor ...
    This comprehensive textbook outlines and illuminates the main theories of political parties and party systems. Applying these theoretical approaches to British party politics, Moshe Maor covers all the key subjects of study including: * classification of party definitions * party systems change * party institutionalization * cohesion and dissent * intraparty conflicts and ligislative bargaining * ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Parties, Conflicts and Coalitions in Western Europe

    The Organisational Determinants of Coalition Bargaining

    by Moshe Maor ...
    This book explores the impact intraparty conflicts have on a party's coalition bargaining. Focusing on Denmark, Norway, UK, Italy and France, it investigates whether organizational imperatives of political parties play a role in interparty competition. ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

  • Developments in Israeli Public Administration

    Edited by Moshe Maor ...
    Series series Israeli History, Politics and Society
    The "Israeli History, Politics and Society" series comprises multidisciplinary studies that range from elections and the Yom Kippur war to the search for a true Israeli identity and the various initiatives to foment or prevent the peace process. This volume brings together a set of articles that try to estimate the direction of developments in Israeli public administration: whether ministries will ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Organizational Reputation in the Public Sector

    Edited by Arild Wæraas, Moshe Maor ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    A favorable reputation is an asset of importance that no public sector entity can afford to neglect because it gives power, autonomy, and access to critical resources. However, reputations must be built, maintained, and protected. As a result, public sector organizations in most OECD countries have increased their capacity for managing reputation. This edited volume seeks to describe, explain, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    "An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and . . . think about policy choices in education." —Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make ... Read more

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  • Human Capitalism

    How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal

    by Brink Lindsey ...
    What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today ... Read more

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  • South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy

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    In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of ... Read more

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  • Envy in Politics

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    How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon contends that if we want to understand these and other forms of puzzling political behavior, we should ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

    The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology.Taking on issues ranging from ... Read more

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  • Understanding Brexit

    Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

    by Graham Taylor ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    On 23rd June 2016 the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. In this clear and concise book, Graham Taylor argues that the result is the most visible tip of an iceberg of social change that has been decades in the making. Hidden from view are a matrix of economic, socio-cultural and political dynamics that have wrought fundamental changes to the British state and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD