The Daily Telegraph's expose of MPs' expenses, which dominated the news agenda for more than six weeks, made history by leading to the resignation of the Speaker and several Cabinet ministers, as well as taking Gordon Brown to the very brink of losing his grip on power. It is a story which began in the unlikely setting of a Chilean vineyard, when Robert Winnett, the paper's deputy political ...

Hugo Young was one of Britain's most influential, respected and trusted political journalists. For decades, he talked off the record to politicians from every party, meticulously writing down everything that had been said. This work features some of the best of those confidential notes and offers an insight into British political life.

For over 33 years, Frank Johnson delighted readers and kept politicians on their toes with his irreverent reports and when he died, the Evening Standard hoardings declared: 'Fleet Street Genius dead'. It was Johnson who coined the terms 'chattering classes', referred to Norman Tebbit as 'The Chingford Strangler', and dubbed the MP Dennis Skinner 'The Beast of Bolsover'. There are many comic ...

Based on 9 years of research from the vantage point of the Adam Smith Institute, Britain's oldest and most prestigious think tank, this work describes it as it is: under Gordon Brown leadership, Britain has achieved that sinking feeling. It shows how over 12 years a way of thinking has settled in that has caused the rot.

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Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the militants in their swamp forest hide-outs to the oil company executives in London, this title tells the story of Nigeria, which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its crude oil pumps through our cities.

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A compendium that draws on a wide variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the 2009 year's insightful and entertaining articles on the political scene.

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Presenting an interpretative essay on the British political system, this very short introduction identifies key characteristics and shaping ideas of the British tradition, and investigates what makes British politics distinctive. It also emphasizes on how these characteristics are reflected in the way the political system actually functions.

Discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The author prompts the reader to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in the society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century.

Offers comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, written from an international perspective. This work contains material on developments such as the 'War on Terror,' identity politics and multiculturalism, and state transformation. It also takes into account throughout of the importance of the global dimension of politics, and features.

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. This book asks if politicians can be morally good or whether politics is destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim.

Focusing on transnational regionalism, this book examines the trajectory and crossing over of the three strands of scholarly analysis concerned with globalization and social policy, global social governance reform and regional integration studies.

Grounded in foundational debates, classic political science scholarship, and some of the best contemporary analysis of developmental trends, this reader invites introductory students to probe the historical dynamics that brought the United States to where it is and how those dynamics are likely to affect the course of American politics.

A critical analysis of Indonesia's civil society and its impact on the country's democratization efforts that take the classical, pro-democratic actors of civil society into account, and portray uncivil groups and their growing influence on political processes. It details the framework for the development of civil society in Indonesia.

Examines the nature of the public in an age in which unprecedented social diversity, technological change and movements towards both sub- and supra-national governance call into question the long-established identification of the state as the proper location of the public realm.

Fully updated for all students taking the new A2 specifications, the third edition of the highly popular textbook A2 US & Comparative Government & Politics includes up-to-date and relevant data and discussion from the 2008 presidential election.