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The Shadow Cabinet in British Politics

The Shadow Cabinet in British Politics

First published in 1969 The Shadow Cabinet in British Politics attempts to trace and examine the history growth and development of the body popularly known as the ‘Shadow Cabinet’ in Britain. This body is concerned with power and aspirations of power. The personnel of Shadow Cabinets are or at least should be constantly prepared to assume the mantle of government. The book discusses important themes like the origins of the idea of the Shadow Cabinet; Sir William Harcourt and the Shadow Cabinet; Balfour and the Conservative Party; from MacDonald to Churchill; the difference between formally and informally elected Opposition Front Benches; and the relationship between Opposition responsibilities and ministerial appointments. This comprehensive short book is a must read for students of British politics and political science.

GBP 85.00
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The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

This book is the official history of British Cabinet Secretaries the most senior civil servants in UK government from the post-war period up to 2002. In December 1916 Maurice Hankey sat at the Cabinet table to take the first official record of Cabinet decisions. Prior to this there had been no formal Cabinet agenda and no record of Cabinet decisions. Using authoritative government papers some of which have not yet been released for public scrutiny this book tells the story of Hankey’s post-war successors as they advised British Prime Ministers and recorded Cabinet’s crucial decisions as the country struggled through the exhaustion that followed World War II grappled with a weak economy that could not support its world ambitions saw the end of the post-war economic and social consensus and faced the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers symbol of Western dominance. It looks at events through the eyes of politically neutral senior civil servants the mandarins of Britain. It shows how the dramatic foreshortening of timescales and global news have complicated the working lives of those who daily face the deluge of potentially destabilising events – the skills required to see dangers and opportunities around corners when to calm things down and when to accelerate action; why secrecy is endemic when government comes close to losing control or when political ambition threatens self-destruction. This book will be of great interest to students of British politics British history and British government. | The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries

GBP 42.99
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The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

First Published in 1967 the Tactics of Resignation examines the principles of collective and individual ministerial responsibility and investigates the parallel problems related to the shadow cabinet in Britain. It raises pertinent questions like: why do so many hold their peace and support policies of which they privately disapprove? Loss of confidence in the House of Commons should involve individual resignation. How have so many ministers been able to hang on in the face of adverse criticism or apparent inefficiency? This book is a valuable addition to understand the difference between traditional principles and actual British government. It is an interesting read for students of British government and politics. | The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

GBP 75.00
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Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs Diplomacy and War

Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs Diplomacy and War

Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent ministers to their cabinet. This book shows this is not necessarily the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in ministerial office and how they are linked to ministerial competence the political survival of heads of government and the nature of political institutions. Presenting a formal theory of political survival in the cabinet it systematically analyses the tenure in office of more than 7 300 ministers of foreign affairs covering more than 180 countries spanning the years 1696-2004. In doing so it sheds light not only on studies of ministerial change but also on diplomacy the occurrence of war and the democratic peace in international relations. This text will be of key interest to students of comparative executive government comparative foreign policy political elites and more broadly to comparative politics political economy political history and international relations. | Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs Diplomacy and War

GBP 42.99
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Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

GBP 130.00
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Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Radical and unique in its approach and presentation Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as ‘consumers’ in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function – i. e. how to do marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products businesses technologies information services ads packaging and branding Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new updated or expanded sections on market exclusion the role of the consumer in innovation space and place pricing consumer communities collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references guides to further reading teaching slides and test bank questions | Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

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Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics generational divides wealth inequality monetary policy and the welfare state. Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability public policy domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

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Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. | Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

GBP 36.99
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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

GBP 39.99
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Gulf Crisis

Gulf Crisis

First published in 1991. Gulf Crisis begins with a psychological look at Saddem Hussein and his decisions surrounding the invasion into Kuwait before the start of the Gulf War in May 1990. Ghazi Algosaibi was the Cabinet Minister of Saudi Arabia during the Crisis and therefore writes with a unique insight into the complex political relationships at Arab leaders’ reactions and debates around the initial Iraqi-Iranian War which proceeded the Gulf War. Also including the reactions of the Gulf Media this book gives an insider’s view of the Crisis and exploration of the previously unknown internal events happening in the Middle East.

GBP 32.99
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Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

This title was first published in 2001. This work explores the professional standards of the French bar as it moves rapidly but with misgivings into a world of competition organization and globalism. It focuses on the ideology of French legal ethics in its historical and social contexts rather than the details of the rules governing avocats. Those rules are technical and in many respects similar to the rules in effect in the USA. But lawyers in France and the United States base their rules on strikingly different pictures of lawyers. French avocats classify their duties as a series of virtues - probity honour and delicacy - to follow one official formulation. By contrast lawyers in the USA to judge from the way they justify their rules consider their fellows scoundrels who without regulation would cheat their clients opposing parties and other lawyers. The author's goal is to describe in their cultural and institutional contexts the professional ideals of the French bar as it remembers its past and faces its future. | Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

GBP 27.99
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The British Constitution

The British Constitution

First published in 1938 The British Constitution discusses the basic features of the British Constitution. The author argues that the Constitution is more than a body of institutions working in accordance with principles laid down in law or expressed in conventions. It is society in its political aspect. In addition to the features of the Constitution the book also explains the functions of the House of Commons the House of Lords the King the Cabinet the parties the administration and the armed forces. This book will be of interest to anyone keen on learning about the British Constitution as well as students of political science and history.

GBP 90.00
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After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

In the 1980s U. S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared corporate managers consolidated businesses outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change. These developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. During the decades that followed globalization triggered regional economic crises toppled governments transformed societies galvanized economic development in China and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008 a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy and unleashed populist or restrictionist social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s the developments that triggered the Great Recession and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what happened—and what comes next. | After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

GBP 29.99
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Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets squares and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured. The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed regulated and lived. Through in-depth research Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies the realisation of visual priorities and uneven relations between private interests public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways—from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians. | Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

GBP 35.99
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Elite Deviance

Elite Deviance

Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U. S. power and wealth this book introduces students to theories of elite deviance and covers both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause significant harm. This considerably updated 11th edition enriches its coverage of both historical and contemporary elite deviance. Updates include: New and expanded discussions on history property and historical critique from Revolutionary America onward. New analysis on Donald Trump: his cabinet members of the political elite his relationship with the EPA and his business connections. Investigation into Caribbean and European tax havens. An extended review on elite deviance and increasing inequalities. Very current information and examples of scandals in international conflicts. The section on changing media patterns.

GBP 74.99
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Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

This is an account of the dramatic events leading to the reunification of Germany. The author looks into the complex intertwining of popular action national politics and international moves that culminated in the historic events of 1989. After providing a brief historical background the author analyzes the sequence of events in East Germany the interplay between East German discontent and Bonn's policies and Chancellor Kohl's role in mobilizing domestic and international support for reunification. Paying special attention to the attitudes and actions of other powers particularly Russia the author provides a detailed look at the decisive negotiations with Gorbachev that cleared the way for German reunification. The book combines action on the streets with cabinet politics and the challenge of balancing domestic priorities with international concerns. | Uniting Germany Actions And Reactions

GBP 39.99
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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. | The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

GBP 130.00
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Routledge Library Editions: Financial Markets

Routledge Library Editions: Financial Markets

The volumes in this set originally published between 1970 and 1996 draw together research by leading academics in the area of economic and financial markets and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine the stock exchange capital cities as financial centres international capital the financial system bond duration security market indices and artificial intelligence applications on Wall Street whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of financial markets in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of economics and finance respectively. | Routledge Library Editions: Financial Markets

GBP 1850.00
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Ghana Under Military Rule 1966-1969

Ghana Under Military Rule 1966-1969

Originally published in 1972 this book examines the way in which the military/police regime in Ghana which overthrew President Nkrumah in February 1966 performed two overlapping tasks – those of establishing itself as a recognised government and of pursuing its chosen objective of eventually restoring democratic civilian rule. The author who conducted interviews with people at many levels in Ghanaian politics including the majority of members of General Ankrah’s Cabinet traces the progress of the military regime showing that it was successful in building up public support and opening up new political avenues but that it was unable to make any fundamental economic changes. He argues that to understand the operation of the military government it is necessary to look at its relationship with most influential sections of the civilian population and clearly demonstrates that without the co-operation of such civilians the new regime could never have achieved as much as it did. | Ghana Under Military Rule 1966-1969

GBP 70.00
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Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

This volume reproduces the Cabinet Confidential print of January 1855 a time of crisis in British Government when the Aberdeen Ministry heavily defeated on a vote of confidence was eventually replaced by Lord Palmerston’s Ministry. The First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham survived the change and the print reflected his decision to use the Vice Admirals commanding the principal theatres of war the Baltic and the Black sea as scapegoats for the failure of his overly ambitious under-funded strategy. While Sir James Dundas went quietly Sir Charles Napier fought back. While the two collections provide a sound introduction to the key issues of the campaign including the capture of Bomarsund plans to attack other Baltic fortresses the economic blockade the bombardment of Odessa the invasion of the Crimea and the disastrous loss of shipping of Balaklava in November 1854 this collection should be read in conjunction with the other official and private correspondence. | Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

GBP 31.99
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British Politics The Basics

British Politics The Basics

Fully updated and expanded the second edition of this still compact text on British politics expertly analyses the major changes in British political life placing them revealingly within the context of the evolution of British society from absolute monarchy to representative democracy. The author considers each of the major components of British politics in digestible chapters such as the Monarchy and the House of Lords the Commons voting behaviour parties and pressure groups the prime minister and cabinet devolution local government and foreign policy. The book includes two new chapters on the EU referendum and Brexit and the extraordinary December 2019 election as well as coverage of events such as the coronavirus pandemic and the respective travails of the increasingly split two major political parties. This readable and comprehensive introduction will be of key interest to A-level students undergraduates and those new to the study of British politics. | British Politics The Basics

GBP 19.99
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US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however it documents just one of the many ends since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds the African continent and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988 preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how since then some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history US foreign policy African politics and international relations. | US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

GBP 38.99
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Drag Interperformance and the Trouble with Queerness

Drag Interperformance and the Trouble with Queerness

This story of drag kings and queens at Cleveland Ohio’s most popular gay bar reveals that these genres have little in common and introduces interperformance a framework for identity formation and coalition building that provides strategies for repairing longstanding rifts in the LGBT community. Drag Interperformance and the Trouble with Queerness is the first book centered on queer life in this growing midwestern hub and the first to focus simultaneously on kinging and queening. It shows that despite the shared heading of drag these iconically queer institutions diverge in terms of audience movement vocabulary stage persona and treatment of gender class race and sexuality. Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men and challenges the assumption that all identities subsumed under the queer umbrella ought to have anything in common culturally politically or otherwise. Drawing on performer interviews about the purpose of drag contestations over space and the eventual shuttering of the bar they called home Horowitz offers a new way of thinking about identity as a product of relations and argues that relationality is our best hope for building queer communities across lines of difference. The book will be key reading for students and faculty in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist gender and sexuality studies; performance studies; American studies; cultural studies; ethnography; and rhetoric. It will be useful to graduate students and faculty interested in queer culture gender performance and transgender studies. At the same time the clear and relatable writing style will make it accessible to undergraduates and well suited to upper-level courses in queer theory LGBTQ identities performance studies and qualitative research methods.

GBP 38.99
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