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“dave bainton”

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  • Making Policy Move

    Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage

    by John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai, Paul Stubbs ...
    Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy’s movement as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Canadian Regime

    An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, Fifth Edition

    by Patrick Malcolmson, Richard Myers ...
    Lucid and comprehensive, The Canadian Regime provides a unique analysis of Canada’s political regime by challenging readers to think of the political system as an organic entity where change in one area inevitably ripples through the rest of the system. The book’s focus on the inner logic of parliamentary government explains the rationale for Canada’s relatively complex political system.The new ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Eisenhower Volume II

    The President

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, and most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.Eisenhower: The President, the second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliant biography, is the first assessment of a postwar President ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eight Years vs. Three Weeks – Executive Orders Signed by Barack Obama and Donald Trump

    An Analysis of Landmark and Controversial Executive Actions

    by U.S. Government, White House ...
    During his years in office, from 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. His main reforms include the "Obamacare", changes of the financial regulation as a response to the Great Recession; as well as reforms for greater inclusiveness for LGBT Americans. He also advocated gun control and issued wide-ranging executive ... Read more

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  • Bootleggers & Baptists

    How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics

    by Adam Smith, Bruce Yandle ...
    In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities by the general public. Yandle’s theory asserts that regulatory “bootleggers” are parties ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Information Technology and Political Islam

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Tafelberg Short: Nkandla - The end of Zuma?

    The End of Zuma?

    by City Press ...
    Series series Tafelberg Kort/Tafelberg Short
    The R250-million upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla estate have tainted his image in the eyes of South Africa and the world. It may even signal the demise of his presidency. The story of Nkandla goes back to 2004 and Zuma’s connection to Shabir Shaik. In the ensuing years, there have been numerous reports about the lavish spending at the president’s home and in the Nkandla district, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Social Networks and the Jewish Migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924–1928

    by Magdalena M. Wrobel Bloom ...
    Series Book 8 - Studies in Jewish History and Memory
    This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed to the migration experience. Presenting these stories through correspondence, she shows how migrants ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • World in Chains

    Nuclear Weapons, Militarisation and their Impact on Society

    by Angie Zelter ...
    This book is dedicated to the next generations. World in Chains is a collection of essays from well-reputed experts, all of which deliver engaging and analytical critiques of nuclear warfare. In the past I have often wondered why obviously unethical or inhumane horrors were able to take place, what people were doing at the time to prevent them or what kind of resistance was happening, how many ... Read more

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  • The U.S. Constitution

    Anti-Federalist Edition

    by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton ...
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America, and worthy of study. In formation though, the path to adoption was not without dissent: the Anti-Federalist movement was against the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government, and vocally opposed the ratification of the Constitution, because the Articles of Confederation originally gave state governments ... Read more

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

    by Doctor Thiven Reddy ...
    Series series Africa Now
    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

    $97.99 USD