Jon Elster 
Closing the Books [PDF ebook] 
Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

This highly anticipated addition to the ‘Great Questions in Politics’ series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy. The result of a coll …

Nigeria is the most dynamic country on the African continent. Yet the legacy of colonialism, deep-rooted corruption, exposure to climate change and the proliferation of small arms have created a prec …

Books on gaullism – or, more precisely, books on General de Gaulle – are not uncommon. Originally published in English in 1971, this claimed to be the first book of this sort on gaullism as a politic …

The first book to provide a comprehensive examination of nonunion industrial relations – its definition and parameters, and the causes and factors that led to the nonunion reality. Beyond Unions and …

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon”s contract …

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interw …

This book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West”s res …

America”s Trade Follies controversially argues that the global political economy is hardening into regional blocs, in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific, organized around a po …

Despite predictions that ”new public management” would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intr …

Enduring great danger and often terrible conditions in heavy seas, the Rescue Tug Services worked tirelessly to bring to port damaged vessels and keep up the supply of food and essential items during …