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Tyranny of the Minority
How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All
2024 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Ha...
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America Votes 35
2021-2022, Election Returns by State
2024 || Hardcover || John Miles Coleman || SAGE
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Environmental Policy
New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
2024 || Paperback || Michael E. Kraft e.a. || SAGE
Environmental Policy brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and help students think critically about their implications for current policy.
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Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership
Casting Light or Shadow
2024 || Paperback || Craig E. Johnson || SAGE
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century
A Practical Guide
2024 || Paperback || Tony Blair || Cornerstone
Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country's governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.
The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why? Quite simply, some have leaders who understand the principles of good government, and some don't.
Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time ...
Far Right and Islamist Populism
How They Disrupt the Hegemonic Order
2024 || Hardcover || Susan de Groot Heupner || Leiden University Press
'Far Right and Islamist Populism: How They Disrupt the Hegemonic Order' undertakes the challenging task of bringing dialectical logic together with the empirical study of discursive and ideological antagonisms. Examining the European far right, as represented by Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, and Hizb ut-Tahrir as the Islamic interlocutor, the book demonstrates the inner logic by which two opposing political ideologies create a single populist front. In their shar...
Chernobyl Roulette
a War Story
2024 || Hardcover || Serhii Plokhy || Allen Lane
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Ru...
China Under Xi Jinping
A New Assessment
2024 || Hardcover || Qiang Fang e.a. || Leiden University Press
‘China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment’ is one of the first scholarly books on Xi’s China during the Pandemic, which contains several features that are unmatched by existing scholarship. First, all the authors have studied and taught Chinese and American history or politics in both China and the United States for decades. They accordingly are quite familiar with and possess deep understandings of the history, politics, ideology, and society in both countries and therefore their resea...
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The Road to Freedom
Economics and the Good Society
2024 || Hardcover || Joseph Stiglitz || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom
Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society - and is therefore morally better.
But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, wh...
Politics On the Edge (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Rory Stewart || Vintage UK
A searing insider’s account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics
‘The most exceptional political memoir I’ve ever read’ ALAN JOHNSON
‘An instant classic’ MARINA HYDE
‘At last a politician who can write’ SEBASTIAN FAULKS
The Times Political Book of the Year
Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – b...