Political structure and processes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president.

Written by British political reporter Richard Wolffe, Renegade is an election epic as well as an insightful biography of the new President of the United States.

Jennie Jerome was a controversial American society girl and mother of Britain's most revered statesman, Winston Churchill.

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama himself told veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe, 'You'll get more access than anyone else', and Renegade is his unique story of how a political newcomer with no money and an outsider's name grew into the world's most powerful leader.

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization.

Inspiring and practical, BE THE CHANGE is the essential handbook for the budding activist.

A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama-many never before seen-coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format.

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work.

Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book.

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures.

It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes.

This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

Global Democratic Theory is the first comprehensive introduction to the changing contours of democracy in today s hyperconnected world.

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society.

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism.

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution.

What is the source of Obama s power?

There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to real politics.

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it.

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy.

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy.

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics.

This volume makes a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis - that is, the idea of world or 'global' government.

This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community.

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy.

This innovative new text is derived from a highly successful Open University course of the same title.

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility.

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory.

This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today.

This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis.

Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world.

This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World.

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies.

For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history.

After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term?

It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies.

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing.

This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States.

Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'.

Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization.

This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead.

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises and struggling to brace itself for new ones, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary.

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited.