John Keane 
Power and Humility [PDF ebook] 
The Future of Monitory Democracy

This readable and comprehensive text is designed to equip students and practitioners with the statistical skills needed to meet government standards regarding public program evaluation. Even those wi …

From The Conversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States—and possible ways to stop it. In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group …

A comprehensive and empirically rich set of case studies that examine the impact of socio-cultural influences on multilateral arms control and security-building processes around the world. …

Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major thrust of EU aid …

Developing a framework of analysis which enables a detailed empirical investigation of Scottish Green Party membership, this is a detailed assessment of why people become members of a green party. Th …

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 …

This book examines the frequent reasonable disagreements of U.S. senators Paul Sarbanes and Dick Lugar, and finds in aspects of their life experiences reasons why they take particular positions and c …

First published in 1995. The text is technically precise but at the same time accessible, and is carried forward by numerous examples. The chapters focus on vote counting rules, voting agendas, voter …

This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Eur …

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping producti …