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Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies

Product Description: Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings. Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in particular, are at the very heart of the study of democratic processes in different parts of the world...read more

By Ludger Helms (editor)

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9780415390705 | Routledge, December 2, 2008, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings.

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9781138977952 | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings.

The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy

Product Description: Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series of specific debates and arguments, Finlayson analyzes the way in which apparently neutral methodological devices such as âcharitable interpretationâ and âconstructive criticismâ function so as to protect against challenges to the status quo...read more

By Lorna Finlayson

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9781783482863 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2015, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political.

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9781783482870 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 26, 2015, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This book is a critical exposÃ© of the ways in which mainstream political philosophy silences dissent.

Politics of Dissent

Product Description: There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth. This study highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political agendas...read more

By Oscar Garcia Agustin (editor)

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9783631660942 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 16, 2015, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth.

Why Democracy Is Oppositional

Product Description: Is infrequent voting the most we can expect from a free citizenry? Would democracy be more robust if our political discourse were more deliberative? John Medearisâs trenchant and trend-bucking work of political philosophy argues that democracies face significant challenges that go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate...read more

By John Medearis

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9780674725331 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 9, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Is infrequent voting the most we can expect from a free citizenry?

Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests: Competition and Contamination Effects

Product Description: According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party or withdraw from competition entirely. Why then do non-viable political parties throughout the world systematically continue presenting candidates? This book responds to this evident but unanswered question to create a general theory about deviations from the Duvergerian equilibrium...read more

By Marc Guinjoan

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9781472439086 | Ashgate Pub Co, September 28, 2014, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections.

The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel

Product Description: Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy...read more

By Roy Ben-shai (editor) and Nitzan Lebovic (editor)

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9781623562564 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 25, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy.

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9781623561482 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 25, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Contemporary politics is faced, on the one hand, with political stagnation and lack of a progressive vision on the side of formal, institutional politics, and, on the other, with various social movements that venture to challenge modern understandings of representation, participation,and democracy.

Oppositional Discourses and Democracies

Product Description: When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states...read more

By Michael Huspek (editor)

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9780415803892 | Routledge, August 19, 2009, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states.

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9780415849784 | Routledge, December 11, 2013, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states.

Miscellaneous:

9780203872024 | Routledge, September 14, 2009, cover price $105.00

Political Dissent: a Global Reader: Ancient to Early-modern Sources

Product Description: This is a global anthology of great texts in the history of political dissent. Volume 1 spans the ancient and early-modern world, beginning with the Book of Isaiah, from the eighth century, BCE, and ending with John C. Calhounâs âSouth Carolina Exposition,â from the early nineteenth century CE...read more

By Derek Malone-france (editor)

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9780739127773 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, December 16, 2011), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This is a global anthology of great texts in the history of political dissent.

Political Dissent: A Global Reader

By Derek Malone-france (editor)

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9780739135945 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, December 15, 2011), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This is a global anthology of great texts in the history of political dissent.

The Ideology of Tyranny: Bataille, Foucault, and the Postmodern Corruption of Political Dissent

Product Description: The Ideology of Tyranny traces the contemporary jargon of political correctness and the so-called 'politics of diversity' so prevalent in the academic and administrative discourse of the United States to the fantastic sociology of an obscure French pornographer, Georges Bataille (1897-1962)...read more

By Guido Giacomo Preparata

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9781403982773 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 18, 2007, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The Ideology of Tyranny traces the contemporary jargon of political correctness and the so-called 'politics of diversity' so prevalent in the academic and administrative discourse of the United States to the fantastic sociology of an obscure French pornographer, Georges Bataille (1897-1962).

Political Opposition in Theory and Central European Practice

Product Description: This book offers interpretations of different forms of political opposition in political theory and also in the contemporary development of politics and government in Central Europe. The problem is analyzed through a comparative approach...read more

By Michal Kubat

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9783631591819 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 31, 2010, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book offers interpretations of different forms of political opposition in political theory and also in the contemporary development of politics and government in Central Europe.

Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective

Product Description: Why have dominant parties persisted in power for decades in countries spread across the globe? Why did most eventually lose? Why Dominant Parties Lose develops a theory of single-party dominance, its durability, and its breakdown into fully competitive democracy...read more

By Kenneth F. Greene

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9780521877190 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2007), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Why have dominant parties persisted in power for decades in countries spread across the globe?

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9780521139892 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2009), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Why have dominant parties persisted in power for decades in countries spread across the globe?

Anti-Political Establishment Parties: A Comparative Analysis

Product Description: Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands, the People's Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have demonstrated the appeal of parties that challenge the political establishment...read more

By Amir Abedi

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9780415319614 | Routledge, February 1, 2004, cover price $180.00

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9780415553896 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 14, 2009), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands, the People's Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have demonstrated the appeal of parties that challenge the political establishment.

Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis

Product Description: Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach...read more

By Karl-Dieter Opp

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9780415483889 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 11, 2009), cover price $175.00 | About this edition: Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena.

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9780415483896 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 8, 2009), cover price $66.95 | About this edition: Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena.

Miscellaneous:

9780203883846 | Routledge, April 8, 2009, cover price $54.95

The Muslim Brotherhood: Hasan Al-hudaybi and Ideology

Product Description: The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today. Based in Egypt, its network includes branches in many countries of the Near and Middle East. Although the organisation has been linked to political violence in the past, it now proposes a politically moderate ideology...read more

By Barbara H. E. Zollner

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9780415435574 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 10, 2008), cover price $155.00

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9780415664172 | Reprint edition (Routledge, March 17, 2011), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today.

21st Century Dissent: Anarchism, Anti-Globalization and Environmentalism

By Giorel Curran

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9781403948816 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 9, 2007, cover price $125.00

Sovereignty And Its Discontents: On The Primacy Of Conflict And The Structure Of The Political

Product Description: This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'...read more

By William Rasch

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9781859419847 | Taylor & Francis, January 30, 2005, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political.

The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent

A diverse group of Israelis offers their views on Ariel Sharon's military invasions of the West Bank and Gaza and argue that his policies undermine the security, moral authority, democratic ideals, and liberal values of Israel. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Anthony Lewis (introduced by), Tom Segev (editor) and Jonathan Shainin (editor)

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9781565849143 | Reprint edition (New Pr, April 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A diverse group of Israelis offer their views on Ariel Sharon's military invasions of the West Bank and Gaza and argue that his policies undermine the security, moral authority, democratic ideals, and liberal values of Israel.

The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent

A diverse group of Israelis offer their views on Ariel Sharon's military invasions of the West Bank and Gaza and argue that his policies undermine the security, moral authority, democratic ideals, and liberal values of Israel. (view table of contents)

By Tom Segev (editor) and Jonathan Shainin (editor)

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9781565847897 | New Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A diverse group of Israelis offer their views on Ariel Sharon's military invasions of the West Bank and Gaza and argue that his policies undermine the security, moral authority, democratic ideals, and liberal values of Israel.

Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society

By Homa Katouzian

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9780415297547 | Routledge, April 1, 2003, cover price $200.00

Miscellaneous:

9780203222553 | Routledge, January 14, 2004, cover price $39.95

The Fall of the Gdr: Germany's Road to Unity

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By David Childs

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9780582315686 | Longman Pub Group, January 1, 2004, cover price $79.95

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9780582315693 | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 2001, cover price $57.95

Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World

Product Description: Rejecting theories of economic deprivation and psychological alienation, Mohammed Hafez offers a provocative analysis of the factors that contribute to protracted violence in the Muslim world today. Hafez combines a sophisticated theoretical approach and detailed case studies to show that the primary source of Islamist insurgencies lies in the repressive political environments within which the vast majority of Muslims find themselves...read more

By M. M. Hafez

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9781588261243 | Lynne Rienner Pub, February 1, 2003, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Rejecting theories of economic deprivation and psychological alienation, Mohammed Hafez offers a provocative analysis of the factors that contribute to protracted violence in the Muslim world today.

The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms

Product Description: Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F. G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about Orissa, The Need for Enemies, offers a ground-level view of regional politics in South Asia in the years following independence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By F. G. Bailey

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9780801434709 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F.

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9780801484742 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $21.95

Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest

Product Description: The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl...read more

By Michael F. Logan

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9780816515127 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl.

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9780816515530 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl.

Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective

Product Description: Political explanations in comparative foreign policy research typically centre on the assumption that foreign policy decision-makers in democratic regimes are far more politically constrained than are their counterparts in authoritarian polities...read more

By Joe D. Hagan

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9781555870270 | Lynne Rienner Pub, October 1, 1993, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Political explanations in comparative foreign policy research typically centre on the assumption that foreign policy decision-makers in democratic regimes are far more politically constrained than are their counterparts in authoritarian polities.

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