Politiek, het is net een bordspel. Partijen rivaliseren met elkaar om de overheidsinstellingen te koloniseren. En ze bedienen zichzelf rijkelijk met belastinggeld. Om de vijf jaar laten de kiezers de dobbelstenen rollen. Daarmee verdelen ze de grondstoffen over de partijen. Maar wat doen die daarmee? Sommige spelers bouwen een sterk partijapparaat uit. Er zijn er die pretparken afhuren om leden te lokken. Anderen investeren in vastgoed of spenderen miljoenen aan Facebook-advertenties. Wat bez...

België is geen democratie maar een particratie. De instellingen vervullen de hen staatsrechtelijk toegewezen taken niet: het parlement controleert de regering niet, de regeringen regeren niet maar kibbelen wel, onafhankelijke instellingen zitten volgestouwd met partijcreaturen. Een tiental personen nemen alle beslissingen, zonder dat ze ook maar aan iemand verantwoording afleggen.

En de particratie werkt niet meer: het begrotingstekort is monumentaal, er worden al decennialang geen gr...

The most comprehensive introduction to international development, with chapters by leading experts who explore the field's most pressing issues and debates. Introduction to International Development is a collection of contributed chapters comprised of original essays by leading experts from a variety of disciplines. With four new chapters and the most up-to-date content on the global COVID-19 pandemic, this fully revised edition continues to give students a foundational overview to the field ...

Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, and international bodies, and is far more than simply the impact of geographical features on political developments. This book considers both geopolitics' intellectual historical origins and its current concerns.

Fifty years ago, people in leafy North London and people in working-class Northern towns could vote for a Labour party that broadly encompassed all of their interests. Today their priorities are poles apart. In this groundbreaking and timely book, Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved' identities, derived from their careers and education, and 'Somewheres', who get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around...

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been recognised as the single most accurate and...

Political Behavior of the American Electorate, Fifteenth Edition, attempts to answer this question by interpreting data from the most recent American National Election Study to provide a thorough analysis of the 2020 elections and the current American political behavior.

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in ti...

Focusing on the continued terrorist threat by jihadist groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, and homegrown violent far-right and far-left extremists in the West, Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in a historical and contemporary context. In this comprehensive and highly readable text, renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism’s diverse causes, actors, and strategies; outlines anti- and counterterrorist responses; and highlights terr...

A text book for students on foundation degrees which are structured around the Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children's Workforce.