Musician and activist Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets. He argues that accountability is the antidote to authoritarianism, and that without it, people can never truly be free.

Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.

In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on a bold experiment in democracy. This book explores that tumultuous time.

In the twenty-first century, Britain faces new challenges from disruptive technology, an ever more competitive world and an ageing population. Structured around a radical manifesto for free enterprise, A Time for Choosing offers a significant contribution to the public debate about the future direction of Britain's government.

A remarkable memoir charting the teenage years of a girl with anorexia nervosa.

We now enjoy the highest living standard in history yet spend more of our income on pointless luxury. Instead, we should tax more in order to invest much more in societal needs, which will in turn reinvigorate the economy and reduce economic inequality and environmental degradation.

Originally a chapter in the "Handbook of Political Science", this analysis develops the fundamental destinction between totalitarian and authoritarian systems. It emphasizes the personalistic, lawless, non-ideological type of authoritarian rule the author calls the "sultanistic regime".

How to rebuilt left populism around the demands for the Green Democratic Revolution

Transatlantic traumas surveys the landscape of external and internal threats to Western values and interests, including Russian and Islamist assaults on the West, illiberal radical right populist challenges, Turkey's undemocratic tendencies, Brexit and the Trump Tsunami. -- .

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders. In this book, Andrew Linklater claims that globalization, the pacification of core areas of the world economy and ethnic revolt challenge these traditional practices.

Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them.

Both memoir and call-to-arms, Tribes explores both the benign and malign effects of our need to belong.

"A major and challenging work... Provocative, and certain to be controversial... Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." -William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book Review

Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize. A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living".

From the multi-award-winning and million-copy bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, a brand new gift book that alternates between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, in a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts of Marxist politics and social theory, the successive waves of change within Marxist theory, and a clear and comprehensive account of Marxism as an intellectual system.

Assembles the best of Chomsky's talks on the politics of power. In a series of wide-ranging discussions, this work radically reinterprets the events, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration.

Public administration - the practice of producing and executing government policy by bureaucrats, politicians, managers and other officials - affects almost everything we encounter in our day-to-day lives.

In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism.

Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures.