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Dynamic Partisanship How and Why Voter Loyalties Change
ISBN: PB: 9780226762364, ISBN: HB: 9780226762227, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 line drawings, 28 tables
Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mostly stable voter identification with a party, are normally considered significant signals of a steady d...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
ISBN: HB: 9780300244175, Yale University Press, July 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 29 black&white illus.
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the inte...
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£20,00
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America's Inequality Trap
ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables
The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...
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£34,00
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£64,00
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Arafat and Abbas Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed
ISBN: HB: 9781787381438, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 26.1x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination....
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£30,00
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Losing Control The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity
ISBN: PB: 9780300236941, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
In this vividly written and compellingly argued book, economist Stephen D. King suggests that the decades ahead will see a major redistribution of wealth and power across the globe that will force consumers in the United States and Europe to stop liv...
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£10,99
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When the Money Runs Out The End of Western Affluence
ISBN: PB: 9780300236934, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
An eminent economist warns that Western nations' economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation and stringent steps will be required to avoid massive political and economic upheaval.
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£10,99
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Invisible Countries Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
ISBN: HB: 9780300221626, Yale University Press, June 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
What is a country? While certain basic criteria – borders, a government, and recognition from other countries – seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules, including self-proclaimed countries such as Abkhazia, K...
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£20,00
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Reclaiming Accountability Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9780226565675, ISBN: HB: 9780226191638, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, esp...
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£27,00
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£36,00
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Despot's Accomplice How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9781849049306, ISBN: HB: 9781849046879, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
296 pp., 19.8x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. Though the true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats, the West is often complicit in contributing to the global decli...
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£12,99
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