Politiek, het is net een bordspel. Partijen rivaliseren met elkaar om de overheidsinstellingen te koloniseren. En ze bedienen zichzelf rijkelijk met belastinggeld. Om de vijf jaar laten de kiezers de dobbelstenen rollen. Daarmee verdelen ze de grondstoffen over de partijen. Maar wat doen die daarmee? Sommige spelers bouwen een sterk partijapparaat uit. Er zijn er die pretparken afhuren om leden te lokken. Anderen investeren in vastgoed of spenderen miljoenen aan Facebook-advertenties. Wat bez...

België is geen democratie maar een particratie. De instellingen vervullen de hen staatsrechtelijk toegewezen taken niet: het parlement controleert de regering niet, de regeringen regeren niet maar kibbelen wel, onafhankelijke instellingen zitten volgestouwd met partijcreaturen. Een tiental personen nemen alle beslissingen, zonder dat ze ook maar aan iemand verantwoording afleggen.

En de particratie werkt niet meer: het begrotingstekort is monumentaal, er worden al decennialang geen gr...

Fifty years ago, people in leafy North London and people in working-class Northern towns could vote for a Labour party that broadly encompassed all of their interests. Today their priorities are poles apart. In this groundbreaking and timely book, Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved' identities, derived from their careers and education, and 'Somewheres', who get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around...

Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, and international bodies, and is far more than simply the impact of geographical features on political developments. This book considers both geopolitics' intellectual historical origins and its current concerns.

An accessible, wide-ranging exploration of the effects of neoliberal globalization on the economy, culture and politics of nation states and individuals

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been recognised as the single most accurate and...

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in ti...

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political science to understand how the EU works, this text covers each of the main processes in the EU political system - executive, legislative and judicial politics, public opinion, interest groups and democracy, and regulatory, monetary and foreign po...

Offering an unparalleled, sweeping survey of the political ideologies that have shaped our world, the seventh edition of Andrew Heywood's seminal undergraduate textbook continues to lead the way in guiding students through the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated politics past and present.