Comparative Politics
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Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking
$17.95 Read moreCuban art critic and curator Ivç–£ de la Nuez explores the effects of the policies that have tried to constrain or liberate Cuba in recent decades in these sparkling essays of cultural criticism.
Essa- Author: de la Nuez, Iván
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1644213249
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$18.00 Read moreA new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
“[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist.”–The Economist Over the last three centuries, the- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280084
- Language: English
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Lo Que Nos Est? Pasando: 121 Ideas Para Escudri?ar El Siglo XXI / What’s Happeni Ng to Us: 121 Ideas to Explore the 21st Century
$22.95 Read moreUn retrato del mundo que no renuncia a un futuro m?s optimista desde la mirada de uno de los analistas m?s influyentes de la actualidad.
Incluso en estos tiempos convulsos de polarizaci?n pol?tica y… [more below]- Author: Na?m, Mois?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 6287669179
- Language: Spanish
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
$33.00 Add to cartBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and… [more below]
- Author: Acemoglu, Daron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0307719219
- Language: English
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Mexico: Biography of Power
$25.00 Add to cartA History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996
“A magisterial history. . . . Will surely stand for many years as the standard history of postcolonial Mexico.” — Wall Street Journal
The concentration of power in
- Author: Krauze, Enrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929170
- Language: English
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Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World
$52.42 Add to cartWhy did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches o… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Wimmer, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: November 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1107673240
- Language: English
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America’s Last Chance
$14.99 Add to cartThe battle for control of the Republican Party has been ongoing for decades; however, it has been especially intense over the last few years, the time period chronicled in this book. On the one side a
- Author: Crouere, Jeff J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997297700
- Language: English
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Governance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe word “governance” is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on “good governance.” Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of “global governance… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevir, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199606412
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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What Have You Done for Me Lately?: a politician explains
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician’s life. From getting elected to staying el
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187293
- Language: English
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Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It
$18.00 Read moreDisinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive a
- Author: Stengel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0802149421
- Language: English
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How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse
$30.00 Add to cartThis accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors present an evidence-… [more below]
- Author: Geddes, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1107535956
- Language: English
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
$55.25 Add to cartCompetitive authoritarian regimes – in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse – proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed stu… [more below]
- Series: Problems of International Politics
- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0521709156
- Language: English
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African Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfrica is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected across… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198806574
- Language: English
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Democracy: Eleven Writers and Leaders on What It Is – And Why It Matters
$15.00 Add to cartIn collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders.
This is an exceptional moment for democracy.
In the year
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1805223712
- Language: English
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Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide
$23.99 Add to cartA citizen’s guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting
There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare–and few issues more politically vexing. Every single America… [more below]- Author: El-Sayed, Abdul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190056622
- Language: English
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Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy
$33.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed book, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so.… [more below]
- Series: Democracy in Times of Upheaval #1
- Author: Qvortrup, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3111327795
- Language: English
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Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
$40.00 Add to cartSome rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources fo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Weinstein, Jeremy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: October 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0521677971
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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What Is Populism?
$24.95 Add to cartDonald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chç–±ez–populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be call
- Author: Muller, Jan-Werner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0812248988
- Language: English
