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2024

Isaac Arnsdorf , Josh Dawsey , Tyler Pager

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Thrilling.' New York TimesThe most definitive, deeply...

Great Britain?

Torsten Bell

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, updated with a new PrefaceThe essential blueprint for a better future, by Labour's economic mastermind‘Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic’ Rory Stewart‘Refreshingly optimistic’ The Times‘No one has done more to re-inject sanity into...

How They Broke Britain

James O'brien

***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK***THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.Something has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing....

Original Sin

Jake Tapper , Alex Thompson

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe damning inside story of Joe Biden's decline while in office – and the desperate attempts of his inner circle to hide it from the American people.'Explosive' Guardian'Explosive' The Times'Explosive' Daily...

Get In

Patrick Maguire , Gabriel Pogrund

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Get In is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Labour’s brutal reinvention and dramatic return to power.'The book about Keir Starmer we have all been waiting for' TIM SHIPMAN'Stuffed full of scoops . . . revealing who's really in...

A More Perfect Party

Juanita Tolliver

"A beautifully written political-social page turner" (Joy-Ann Reid) about the legendary party hosted by Diahann Carroll for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign, which changed the playing field for Black women in politics. In 1972, New York...

Beyond the Ballot

Campaign For Social Science

2024 has been a year of change, elections and political upheaval throughout the world. The UK General Election is just one of many prompts for analysis about the collective challenges we face and how best to address them. In these key moments, social scientists play an...

The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales

Jamie Furlong , Will Jennings

The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite trend occurring in...

Not Your Parents' Politics

Neta Kligler-Vilenchik , Ioana Literat

Social media has become a key space for young people to experiment with their political voice and to hone it through interaction with others. However, authors Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Ioana Literat argue that in order to seriously consider social media as a space for...

Now What?

Carol Vorderman

Retrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability

Theres Matthieß

This book examines retrospective pledge voting; the phenomenon of whether and under which conditions citizens are likely to withdraw their support for political parties that have failed to turn their pre-election pledges into tangible policies once they have joined...

The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales

Jamie Furlong , Will Jennings

The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite trend occurring in...

Toppling Trump

Samuel J. Best , Jeffrey W. Ladewig

This book tells the story of the 2020 presidential election campaign, exploring how Joe Biden secured the Democratic nomination and defeated Donald Trump in the general election. It argues that Democratic Party elites paved the way for Biden’s victory, enabling him to...

The Thinkers

E.J. Fagan

Increasingly, political parties have adopted not only different policies, but different sets of facts. As E.J. Fagan argues, partisan think tanks have helped create these alternate realities in their capacity as de facto formal party organizations. Through the analyses...

The Fundamental Voter

John H. Aldrich , Suhyen Bae , Bailey K. Sanders

Why is American politics so intense and emotionally competitive today, and how did we get here? In The Fundamental Voter, John H. Aldrich, Suhyen Bae, and Bailey K. Sanders explain why the notion that we are divided into tribal loyalties is, at best, only partially...

Bonding, Bridging, & Bypassing

Colm A. Fox

Societal divisions and even violence can occur when electoral candidates appeal to race, religion, or tribe. Why do candidates make these ethnic appeals? More specifically, why do some candidates appeal to their own ethnic group while others reach out to other ethnic...

Adventures in Democracy

Erica Benner

'Sparkling . . . a page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition' Guardian'Enjoyable vitality' The Times'Highly stimulating . . . wonderfully readable . . . her analysis of democracy's key strengths and weaknesses is forensic' Literary...

Data-Driven Campaigning and Political Parties

Katharine Dommett , Glenn Kefford , Simon Kruschinski

What is data-driven campaigning? According to prevailing accounts, this idea describes the rise of increasingly sophisticated, highly targeted, and often invasive uses of data deployed to suppress votes, manipulate voter preferences, or boost a candidates' popularity....

The Long Game

Aoife Moore

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn Féin, long widely-regarded as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the...

The Big Break

Ben Terris

"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris…THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of ‘how it works’ in this ongoing post-Trump (pre-Trump?) maelstrom. I just imbibed this book." ―Mark Leibovich, author of This...