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Impossible Office?(2024) SELDON, ANTHONY (UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM)Why has the office of Prime Minister endured longer than any other democratic political office? Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10 Downing Street, explores the intimate details and experiences of our PMs – including the recent churn of Johnson, TrVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Mobility Economies in Europe's Borderlands(2025) ACHTNICH, MARTHE (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)Tracing migrants' journeys through Libya to Malta, Marthe Achtnich offers a rich, multi-sited ethnography that foregrounds the voices of migrants in Libya and Europe's borderlands. Highlighting how 'mobility economies' shape migrant lives, she considers tVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
African Military Politics in the Sahel(2025) DORING, KATHARINA P. W. (SODERTORNS HOGSKOLA, SWEDEN)Based on extensive empirical research, Katharina P.W. Döring analyses the politics surrounding military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 and stresses the agency of regional organizations in African-led military interventions. Drawing on insights from cVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Shifting Allegiances(2025) ALVAREZ, ROBERT D. (SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY),CASELLAS, JASON P. (UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON)This Element examines the growing influence of Latino Republicans in Congress and state legislatures and reveals their diverse nature. Factors contributing to their success include demographics, conservative values, and strategic campaigning, highlightingVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
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Japan's New Industrial Policy(2025) NOBLE, GREGORY W. (UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO)Japanese firms have increasingly shifted production abroad via outward foreign direct investment. Using data on Japan's policy apparatus, political environment, and policy challenges, this Element examines how Japan, once an exemplar of 'catch up' industrVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Political Dynamics of Partisan Polarization(2025) SCHMIDT, ERIC R. (MILLSAPS COLLEGE),CARMINES, EDWARD G. (INDIANA UNIVERSITY),SNIDERMAN, PAUL M. (STANFORD UNIVERSITY)This Element has three objectives: to identify and explain why some Republicans and Democrats have polarized, particularly over the last twenty years; to demonstrate that they have done so not on this or that issue but systematically, programmatically; anVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Empathy and Political Reasoning(2025) MURADOVA, LALA (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON)This Element is about the conditions under which citizens can be motivated to transcend their egocentric biases and engage in reflection. Rather than asking whether citizens are capable of reflection, the author shifts focus to a more productive question:Vezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond(2025) GOLDRING, EDWARD (THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE),WARD, PETER (THE SEJONG INSTITUTE)Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. The Element contributes to research on comparative authoritarianism by highlighting how dictators use the non-instituVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Watching the Watchers(2025) THOMSON, HENRY (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY)Secret police are central actors in dictatorships, yet we know very little about these institutions. Exploring communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Henry Thomson opens this black box for the first time. This book will appeal to anyone interestVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
It Takes More Than a Candidate(2025) LAWLESS, JENNIFER L. (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA),FOX, RICHARD L. (LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA)Across generations, women have been less likely than men to run for office, despite changing attitudes toward women in politics. This new edition offers a systematic account of the challenges women face throughout the candidate emergence process, featurinVezava: Mehka42,76 € -
Race and the Law in the United States(2025) DEARDORFF, MICHELLE D. (UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA)A senior undergraduate textbook exploring the issues and themes within race and law today, and how these can be explained by the judicial past. Historical cases and primary sources are contextualized to ensure students comprehend how decisions from the paVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Welfare State in East Asia(2025) WONG, JOSEPH (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare stateVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia(2025) LIM, MERLYNA (CARLETON UNIVERSITY, OTTAWA)This Element studies the link between social media and Southeast Asian politics and its dual role in fostering grassroots activism and enabling algorithmic politics. It shows the platform's alignment with communicative capitalism, facilitating oppositionaVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Chinese Soft Power(2022) REPNIKOVA, MARIAThis Element presents an analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power, examining Confucius Institutes, international communication, education and training exchanges, and public diplomacy spectacles. Repnikova concludes by suggesting new directiVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Deadly Decision in Beijing(2023) SU, YANG (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE)In this play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen protests, Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that sVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Power of Polls?(2021) ROY, JASON,SINGH, SHANE P. (UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA),FOURNIER, PATRICK (UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL)This Element draws upon results from ten independent experiments conducted across six countries on four continents to examine how polls affect the amount of information individuals seek and the votes that they cast. Our work provides a comprehensive assesVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Dwelling on the Green Line(2022) SCHWAKE, GABRIEL (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)Analysing the growth of the settlements along the border between Israel and the occupied West-Bank, the Green-Line, this book examines the lives lived around these lines, from the 1970s to the present day, attempting to understand the interface between thVezava: Trda110,91 € -
East Asian Covid-19 Paradox(2022) TIBERGHIEN, YVES (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER)This Element argues that high levels of institutional preparation, social cohesion, and global strategic reinforcement in a context of situational convergence explain why East Asian countries (with caveats) managed to control Covid-19 better than most othVezava: Mehka27,80 €










