Politics and Public Policy
Public Policy is one of our core strengths with series including the International Library of Policy Analysis and New Perspectives in Policy & Politics.
We also have a range of valuable public policy textbooks including Studying public policy: An international approach, edited by Michael Hill, and Public management in transition: The orchestration of potentiality, edited by Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen and Justine Grønbæk Pors. Inspection copies are available for these and all our textbooks.
Our politics publishing, in conjunction with the Bristol University Press imprint, includes high-profile titles from authors such as Peter Hain, Nick Raynsford and Patrick Diamond.
Don't miss our related journal Policy & Politics which contains many articles of interest in this area.
Working in Teams
A practical and accessible guide for students focussing on how inter-agency teams may be made to function more effectively, illustrated through real-life examples.
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere focuses intellectually on the legacy of eighteenth century women thinkers, writers and political philosophers in understanding the emergence of women public intellectuals in the US and UK and highlights how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity.
Women of Power
Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide
This unique book presents all 73 female presidents and prime ministers from around the world, from 1960 (when the first was elected) to 2010, through a series of fascinating case studies that discuss the motives, achievements and life stories of these women of power.
Women and New Labour
Engendering politics and policy?
New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters, but how successful have they been? This book offers an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective.
Why We Need Welfare
Collective Action for the Common Good
Explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits from welfare and how and where it is delivered.
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
Why we can’t afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others. With an updated Afterword, Andrew Sayer shows how the rich worldwide have increased their ability to hide their wealth, create indebtedness and expand their political influence.
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
Why we can’t afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others. With an updated Afterword, Andrew Sayer shows how the rich worldwide have increased their ability to hide their wealth, create indebtedness and expand their political influence.
Why the Third Way failed
Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'
This insightful and progressive book proposes a new moral approach to public policy to replace Third Way governments' failed attempts to reconcile global markets with ethically-informed public policies.
Why the Left Loses
The Decline of the Centre-Left in Comparative Perspective
Bringing together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy, Why the Left Loses offers an international, comparative view of the changing political landscape, examining the degree to which the centre-left project is exhausted and is able to renew its message in a neo-liberal age.
Whose Housing Crisis?
Assets and Homes in a Changing Economy
Reconceiving the current housing crisis in England as a ‘wicked’ problem, this book situates the crisis in a broader range of socio-economic issues and calls for a change in how housing is produced and consumed.
Who Stole the Town Hall?
The End of Local Government as We Know It
Arguing that the UK Government intends to privatise all local services through its devolution agenda, Peter Latham proposes a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy, including land value taxation and a wealth tax.
Who Enters Politics and Why?
Basic Human Values in the UK Parliament
Exploring unique survey and interview data on the personality characteristics of British politicians, this book provides a timely psychological analysis of those individuals who pursue political careers and how they represent their constituents once elected.
