Political Leaders & Leadership

Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnece...

Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnece...

Politics and Government in South Africa introduces readers to all aspects of government and politics in South Africa, from local, to provincial, na...

Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political e...

Black Politics in a Time of Transition appears at an historic point in American politics. From the vantage point of the maturation of the study of ...

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accept...

First published in 2003, Decentring the Indian Nation examines the various centrifugal forces apparent in recent Indian politics. After achieving i...

Contemporary politics is mass-communication politics. Politicians are not only seen and heard, they are seen and heard in close-up through televisi...

Politics of Socio-Spatial Transformation in Pakistan analyses the relationship between socio-spatial transformation, styles of leadership and natur...

Midterm elections have forced presidents to adjust course and have heralded the rise or fall of new party coalitions, yet they remain understudied ...

How does the regime of Slobodan Milošević and his Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) remain in power? Since legitimizing its power in 1990, the SPS ha...

This is a dangerous time—the international system is teetering, jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terr...

Unless you're a woman on Tinder between the ages of 19 and 30 in the Clapham area, or a high-end cocaine dealer operating in South West London, you...

Contemporary politics is mass-communication politics. Politicians are not only seen and heard, they are seen and heard in close-up through televisi...

War has been an ever-present feature of human existence. The analysis of wars has tended to focus on either their causes or the military and strate...

Politics and Government in South Africa introduces readers to all aspects of government and politics in South Africa, from local, to provincial, na...

Herbert Daniel was a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his de...

A continuation of Hanes Walton Jr.’s work on Southern Democratic presidents, Remaking the Democratic Party analyzes the congressional and president...

The "secret garden of politics", where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful whi...

This book reflects on the role and task perception as well as the behaviour of councillors in the changing context of local democracy. Political le...

This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic...

Choosing a President evaluates the Electoral College system and six legitimate alternatives to it. A team of 37 political scientists consider the f...

Most people believe India’s struggle for independence to have begun with Mahatma Gandhi. Little credit goes to the proof that this call for a mass ...

The challenges that have been facing the European Union in recent years have given rise to the question: who leads the EU? This book offers a syste...

Become an extraordinary visionary leader with the knowledge and skills to make great things happen! Well-educated, charismatic leaders who can impr...

Situating Obama’s end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Ir...

Become an extraordinary visionary leader with the knowledge and skills to make great things happen! Well-educated, charismatic leaders who can impr...

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In these environments, political factions fail to esta...

Governing cabinets are composed of ministers who come and go even as governments march on. They work for the chief executive, the prime minister or...

A major realignment is taking place in the way we understand the state in Indonesia. New studies on local politics, ethnicity, the democratic trans...

Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president—making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied fig...

THE MESSAGE tells the untold story of the hired guns who held the Obama presidency in their hands: the consultants behind his advertising, polling...

A comprehensive biography of the Indonesian nationalist leader and Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic, Sutan Sjahrir. This work is both a st...

The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history o...

This text is the fourth and final volume in a series of essays by Japanese scholars of Southeast Asia. The authors examine issues such as the polit...

American women attain more professional success than most of their counterparts around the world, but - Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin not withsta...

2016 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedFormer Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty shares the story of his life in politics and the leadership lessons h...

Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "tea...

Designed to assist educators of young children in building awareness of their roles as members of a global community in an increasingly divided wor...

The reign of Emperor Yongle, or “Perpetual Happiness,” was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war and...

This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administrat...