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    A history of the Ulster Unionist Party
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    A history of the Ulster Unionist Party

    This is the first substantial history to trace the political development of the Ulster Unionist Party through the years of protest and opposition to Irish Home Rule to the half-century as a governing party within Northern Ireland, and beyond to the...
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    An introduction to post-Communist Bulgaria
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    An introduction to post-Communist Bulgaria

    Assesses the post-communist period in Bulgaria and examines how the democratization process has developed so far - Contains valuable historical and comparative features providing the reader with a comprehensive and detailed account of the ongoing...
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    Public relations democracy
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    Public relations democracy

    Written for social science students, this text is a study of the public relations industry in Britain, examining the rapid expansion of professional public relations and discussing its effects on the mass media and political process. Over the last two...
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    Men in political theory
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    Men in political theory

    Men in political theory builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in Political Philosophy by turning the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies texts. It explains the distinction between 'man' as an...
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    Developments in Latin American political economy
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    Developments in Latin American political economy

    An approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and issues of core significance in the region. The first part of the volume addresses the changing nature and interaction of the state and...
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    The world turned upside down?
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    The world turned upside down?

    This book interrogates the widespread claim that contemporary globalization has ended the centrality of the state in world affairs and is effectively irreversible. It offers discriminating definitions of globalization, internationalization and...
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    The British Presidency
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    The British Presidency

    The premiership of Tony Blair has not only reaffirmed previous trends towards leader-centred parties and governments, it has provided a decisive change in the development of a genuine British presidency. The array of strategies and techniques designed to...
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    Democracy in Latin America
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    Democracy in Latin America

    This book offers an insight into the democratic processes and institutions in Latin and Central America. It analyses the different political systems and the challenges to them from the Left and popular movements.Lievesley questions how far democracy is...
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    Fascist Italy
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    Fascist Italy

    "Fascist Italy" is a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian fascism and its impact. The author balances an up-to-date re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more neglected domestic and...
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    Sport and the making of Britain
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    Sport and the making of Britain

    British enthusiasm for sport is legendary. This book looks at some of the myths and realities surrounding that legend and aims to chronicle how sporting traditions were shaped and how they in turn contributed to the shaping of British social conventions...
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    Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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    Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    Alan Ritter examines the writings of Proudhon concerned with the theme that Proudhon, though a radical, was a realist and moralist, and that the difficulties he faced are those faced by any radical who confronts fact and has a conscience. Originally...
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    The Dean of Shandong
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    The Dean of Shandong

    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong...
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    Algorithms for the People
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    Algorithms for the People

    How to put democracy at the heart of AI governance.Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Police forces use them to decide where to send police officers, judges to decide whom to release on bail, welfare agencies to decide...
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    Restoring the Ballot
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    Restoring the Ballot

    How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Drawing on analysis of...
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    Election Day
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    Election Day

    An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracyVoting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination? In Election Day,...
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    Afghanistan
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    Afghanistan

    A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture.Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the...
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    The Power of Organizations
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    The Power of Organizations

    How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies,...
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    Settling for Less
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    Settling for Less

    Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the...
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    Resurrecting the Jew
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    Resurrecting the Jew

    An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today.Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all...
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    The Shamama Case
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    The Shamama Case

    How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing...
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    Africa's Struggle for Its Art
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    Africa's Struggle for Its Art

    For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa's Struggle for Its Art, Bndicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important...
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    Christianity's American Fate
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    Christianity's American Fate

    Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism? This sweeping work by a leading historian of...
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    The Power of Hope
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    The Power of Hope

    In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely and innovative account,...
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    Pawned States
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    Pawned States

    How foreign lending weakens emerging nations.In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external...
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    Violent Victors
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    Violent Victors

    Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order. Violent...
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    The Aesthetic Cold War
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    The Aesthetic Cold War

    How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways...
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    The Idea of Prison Abolition
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    The Idea of Prison Abolition

    An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane,...
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    Spiderweb Capitalism
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    Spiderweb Capitalism

    In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the super-rich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles. Spiderweb Capitalism takes you inside this shadow economy,...
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    The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
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    The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

    Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed...
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    The Mexican Heartland
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    The Mexican Heartland

    A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuries The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding...
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    Republics of the New World
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    Republics of the New World

    A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In...
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    A Commonwealth of Hope
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    A Commonwealth of Hope

    A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public...
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    The Roots of American Individualism
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    The Roots of American Individualism

    A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's bitterly divided politicsIndividualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike...
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    The American Presidency
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    The American Presidency

    How institutions shape the American presidency. This incisive undergraduate textbook emphasises the institutional sources of presidential power and executive governance, enabling students to think more clearly and systematically about the American...
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    Theories of International Politics and Zombies
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    Theories of International Politics and Zombies

    How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasionWhat would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other...
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    Viral Justice
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    Viral Justice

    'A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.' - Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism SchoolLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes...
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    Agents of Reform
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    Agents of Reform

    A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen.The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century...
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    Pandemic Politics
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    Pandemic Politics

    How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives-and our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics...
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    Politics and Expertise
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    Politics and Expertise

    A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologiesOur ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and...
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    Laboratories against Democracy
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    Laboratories against Democracy

    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the...
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    What Can We Hope For?
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    What Can We Hope For?

    Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, warned of the rise of a Trumpian strongman in America. What Can...
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    Liberalism in Dark Times
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    Liberalism in Dark Times

    A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents.Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms,...
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    Subtle Tools
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    Subtle Tools

    How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itselfIn the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen...
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    The Logic of Social Science
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    The Logic of Social Science

    A groundbreaking logic-based approach to bridging the scientific-constructivist divide in social science.The Logic of Social Science offers new principles for designing and conducting social science research. James Mahoney uses set-theoretic analysis to...
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    Theory and Credibility
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    Theory and Credibility

    A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the...
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    Distant Shores
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    Distant Shores

    A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it. China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the...
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    The Bitter End
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    The Bitter End

    What an intensely divisive election portends for American politics.The year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. It brought a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a razor-thin presidential election outcome. It culminated in an...
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    Weak Strongman
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    Weak Strongman

    Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works**Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize**Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming...
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