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1. Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet: Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany

   By Darren Lilleker, Nigel Jackson

   The Internet first played a minor role in an election in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, and has gradually increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. This book offers an in-depth, comparative analysis of how interactive Web 2.0 online tools, including...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57218-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Politics of Knowledge

   Edited by PATRICK BAERT, Fernando Domínguez Rubio

   In the age of biotechnology, new communication technologies and information economies, the traditional boundaries and categories of the political are being rapidly redefined. Modern political categories like the 'nation-state' seem to be increasingly ill-suited to understand the flows of capital,...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-49710-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America

   Edited by B.Guy Peters, Marleen Brans

   This book addresses an important element of public governance, and does so in longitudinal and comparative manner. The approach enables us to make a number of interesting statements now only about the development of political systems but also about the differences among those systems. It provides...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-78105-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia

   Edited by Oleg Kharkhordin, Risto Alapuro

   This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russia’s second...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-59601-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Intelligence and International Security: New Perspectives and Agendas

   Edited by Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes, Martin Alexander

   The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, have arguably heralded a new age of intelligence. For some this takes the form of a crisis of legitimacy. For others the threat of cataclysmic...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-58387-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. International Relations and Security in the Digital Age

   Edited by Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello

   This book examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature. International Relations and Security in the...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-59967-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. E-government in Europe: Re-booting the State

   Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou

   This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes. Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe: the degree to which...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-59948-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Political Communication in the Digital Age

   Edited by Xiudian Dai, Philip Norton

   This book investigates the ethical challenges the internet presents to contemporary parliamentary democracy in Europe and how these challenges are being addressed. It fills an important gap: current literature until now has largely focused on the study of internet usage by politicians and...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-57222-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Mobile Lives

   By Anthony Elliott, John Urry

   How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-48022-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing Borders and Bodies

    By Benjamin Muller

    This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has...

    February 2010 | 978-0-415-48440-4 | Hardback (Routledge)