Political insights and biography

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book delves into the UN’s relationship with CSOs, exploring who participates in negotiations and how their input is integrated into ratified documents. The author uncovers the complexities of accreditation, participation, and the interpretation of CSOs’ contributions.

This optimist’s guide to truth contends that truth is the best device we have for coordinating collective decisions and actions, and the concept of truth is a target ideal to strive for . This long-standing problem will not be solved with modern technology or regulations, but with mindfulness, humility, cooperation and optimism.

Journalism faces multiple threats today all over the world:. Jon Allsop examines key concepts that constitute journalism’s role: good judgement, concern for truth and critical scrutiny of one or more communities.

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s new government pursued a monetarist economic policy in response to double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. Tim Lankester's insider’s account offers fascinating insights into one of Britain's most unsuccessful economic episodes and also examines monetarism's legacy today.

Uncomfortably Off reveals that those generally considered to be the most affluent feel anxious about the future and struggle to keep up, or even to stay put., but reducing income inequality will benefit everyone, even those quite near the top.

Peak Injustice follows up the best-selling Peak Inequality (2018), offering a carefully curated selection of Danny Dorling’s latest published writing with brand new content looking to the future, including challenges for a new government in 2024/25. An essential addition to readers’ Dorling collections.

Father and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley.

Drawing on interviews with contacts in Washington, Belfast, Dublin and London, the authors of this book explore how Irish-American advocacy groups reshaped US policy towards the UK and Ireland and defended Irish peace from threats posed by Brexit.

Why are liberation and independence movements often betrayed when their leaders get into government? Peter Hain offers a gripping exploration of why they often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power, using global examples ranging from Africa to Latin America, Russia, the Caribbean, and Malaysia.

The first book to provide systematic and comparative empirical insights into a major way that social workers engage with policy – by holding elected office – this book analyses how and why social workers engage in electoral politics in liberal democracies.

This book develops a concept and a theory of reluctance in world politics. Applying it to regional crisis management by leading powers, it finds that reluctance emerges when governments fail to devise clear foreign policy preferences and face competing international pressures.

Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the challenges they face.