Book Review: Money and Electoral Politics: Local Parties and Funding in...
After scandals around expenses, donations and lobbying, money has become a dirty word in British politics. In Money and Electoral Politics, Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie present a different view,...
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Engaging Enemies uses the left’s late discovery of Hayek to examine the contemporary fate of socialism and social democracy. Did socialism survive the twentieth century? Did it collapse with the fall...
View ArticleBook Review: The Relevance of Political Science
A new collection engages directly with how political science can achieve wider relevance as a discipline. Matt Wood finds The Relevance of Political Science a must read for any scholar interested in...
View ArticleBook Review: Thinking Like a Political Scientist: A Practical Guide to...
In Thinking like a Political Scientist: A Practical Guide to Research Methods, Christopher Howard makes a compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of...
View ArticleBook Review: Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology edited...
In Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, editors Xavier Guillaume and Pinar Bilgin bring together contributors to explore methodologies, theories and sites of analysis emerging out...
View ArticleBook Review: Growing into Politics: Contexts and Timing of Political...
This book presents up-to-date empirical research on crucial questions of political socialisation. The volume maintains that political socialisation is no universal or independent phenomenon, but one...
View ArticleBook Review: India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse...
Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon, offering insights into the social and political life of contemporary India, and how it differs from...
View ArticleBook Review: Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in...
Winner of the UK Political Studies Association W.J.M Mackenzie Book Prize 2013, Jean-Paul Faguet’s Decentralization and Popular Democracy looks at how decentralization in Bolivia has improved public...
View ArticleQ and A with Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Dr Gordon Bannerman and...
We speak to Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Dr Gordon Bannerman and Daniel Skeffington about Political Science at the LSE: A History of the Department of Government, from the Webbs to COVID, which...
View ArticleBook Review: The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research...
In The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings, editors Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler and Sean Yom bring together contributors to give an ambitious overview...
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