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Servants of the People by Andrew Rawnsley
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If revenge is a dish best eaten cold, there will be some hastily scalded--and scolded--mouths around Westminster. Heavily serialised already in two national newspapers, political commentator Andrew Rawnsley's account of the honeymoon period of Tony Blair's Labour government is the story of four men who wanted something so much they could not believe it when it arrived. It proved, to a degree, a Fa... ...Read More »

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The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America by Mark J. Green,Eric Alterman
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Not since the heyday of Richard Nixon has there been a president more controversial and polarizing than George W. Bush. From his arrival in office through what many still regard as one of the most flagrant miscarriages of electoral justice in modern history to the long road to Iraq, Bush has been vilified by liberals as ardently as he has been embraced by the neoconservatives who have been the dri... ...Read More »

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Democracy and Diversity: Comparing India and the United States
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This volume is a comparative study of the Indian and American experiences of democracy. They deal with institutions and ethnicity, idea of the nation-state, linguistic diversity, minorities question, political parties and democratic practices, federalism and decentralization. ...Read More »

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Comparative Politics

Comparative Politics

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This major new textbook provides an exciting and authoritative introduction to one of the most important fields of political science. Featuring contributions from key international experts, Comparative Politics examines a wide range of countries, including both advanced industrial nations and developing regions. It provides in-depth coverage of methods and theories; the nation-state and its instit... ...Read More »

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Mastering Modern British History (Palgrave Master) by Norman Lowe
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The third edition of this text brings the story of British history up to the general election of 1997, the end of the Thatcherite era and the 18-year period of Conservative domination. This edition is specifically designed to help Advanced Level students and undergraduates; all the chapters contain new material, taking into account the latest research and the most recent interpretations, and there... ...Read More »

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Studies in Central European Histories, the Cross and the Ballot: Catholic Political Parties in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and the Netherla by Ellen Lovell Evans, Ellen Lovell Evans
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"The Cross and the Ballot describes the origins, development and present status of Catholic political parties in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands. Its comparative perspective contributes significantly to the current debate over Germany's "Sonderweg, that is, whether or not German history has taken a "special path," or unique direction from others. The emergence of a se... ...Read More »

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The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by Graeme Gill
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In this book Graeme Gill traces the disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. The first book to follow the debates in the party over the implications of Gorbachev's reforms and how the party should respond to them, this study is also an in-depth analysis of the institutional dynamics of a party under pressure, showing ho... ...Read More »

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Pretty Straight Guys by Nick Cohen

Pretty Straight Guys

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Pretty Straight Guys by Nick Cohen

Pretty Straight Guys

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In Pretty Straight Guys Nick Cohen, one of the most exciting journalists of his generation, explores the feeling of angry impotence which has swept modern Britain during the Labour administration. Shifting focus away from Westminster and into other territories of New Labour influence, from America to India and based on original research and interviews - this book combines contemporary history with... ...Read More »

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So Now Who Do We Vote For? by John Harris
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War in Iraq. Top-up fees. Blair in bed with Bush. Private companies continuing to buy into schools and hospitals. You wouldn't be alone in feeling unable to rush down to the polling station and vote Labour on election day. John Harris travels up and down the country to talk to MPs, health workers, teachers and policy-makers to find the answers to some key questions: Is there any chance of a swing... ...Read More »

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It by Ronald F. Brecke
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When asked after the Constitutional Convention whether they had produced a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." In the book that derives its title from this portentous quote, Ronald Brecke contends that American government has not done such a good job of keeping it. Brecke describes how changes in our politics and government have illustrated a depart... ...Read More »

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Prejudice and the Old Politics by Allan J. Lichtman
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Combining statistical analysis with well-written narrative history, this re-evaluation of the 1928 presidential election gives a vivid portrait of the candidates and the campaign. Lichtman has based his study primarily on a statistical analysis of data from that election and the presidential elections from 1916 to 1940 for all the 2,058 counties outside the former Confederate South. Not relying ex... ...Read More »

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The Origins of the Southern Strategy by Bruce H. Kalk
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The Origins of the Southern Strategy is a detailed study of the rise of two-party competition in South Carolina during the mid-twentieth century. In 1950, when the study begins, there was for all practical purposes no functioning Republican party in that state, nor was there much of one anywhere in the deep South. During the two decades covered by this study, the interplay between two clear factio... ...Read More »

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The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974 by Samuel B. Hand
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For over a century, from 1854, the year the party was organized, until 1958, the Vermonters never failed to elect Republicans to its state and national offices, and every four years they returned a state of electors pledged to the Republican presidential nominee. The Vermont GOP was trumpeted as the star that never set in the Republican Party's political firmament, until the decline of family farm... ...Read More »

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Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism by Donald C. Hodges
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This work establishes the importance of Machiavelli's radical republican agenda in understanding the major revolutions of the modern world. Donald Hodge's nuanced analysis of "The Discourse of Levy" reveals a subversive republicanism in Machiavelli's theorizing that is at odds with the demoliberalism often perceived as the work's primary political agenda. Hodges follows this strand of republicanis... ...Read More »

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The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974 by Samuel B. Hand
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This volume describes the stranglehold the party held on the state for over a century, drawing from the folkways; demography; personalities; and religious, political, and social institutions that together made up the Vermont Republican party. ...Read More »

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The Future of America's Political Parties by Andrew E. Busch
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The Future of America's Political Parties tackles a question certain to occupy citizens and students of politics for years to come Where do the parties stand in relation to their historic ideals, the voters, and each other? Specific issues include Democratic vulnerabilities on moral values and national security, Republican disillusionment with compassionate conservatism, the challenges of the new ... ...Read More »

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The Future of America's Political Parties by Andrew E. Busch
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The Future of America's Political Parties tackles a question certain to occupy citizens and students of politics for years to come: Where do the parties stand in relation to their historic ideals, the voters, and each other? Specific issues include Democratic vulnerabilities on moral values and national security, Republican disillusionment with compassionate conservatism, the challenges of the new... ...Read More »

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American Progressivism: A Reader by Ronald J. Pestritto
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This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism's role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure's influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the author of a given selection is writing. ...Read More »

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American Progressivism: A Reader
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This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism's role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure's influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the author of a given selection is writing. ...Read More »

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