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The global challenge to democracy in historical perspective.

Fuentes Codera M: Fascism and the Global
Far Right

Fascism and the Global Far Right

A Historical View

This volume explores the state of representative democracy on the global stage. It does this against the backdrop of crises such as the USA Capitol attack on 6 January 2021, recent refusals to accept election results in various countries, and attempts to restrict the voting franchise, as well as longer-term trends such as the rise of populism and declining trust in political elites. The first substantive chapter examines representative democracy in theory, history and practice today. Taking the representative model as their point of departure, the subsequent chapters explore a range of themes in relation to this model. The contributions include timely reappraisals of democracy in countries, such as the UK and USA, with old, well-established democratic structures, as well as analyses of the state of democracy in regions such as Africa, Asia and South America, where democracy has had a more chequered history. Across all of its chapters, the book invites readers to rethink fundamental questions about representative democracy: Why is it valuable? How should it be organised? Do steps need to be taken to strengthen representative democracy, and if so, what are those steps? The volume's target audience - politicians, public servants and interested members of the public - are provided with arguments and evidence to form their own views at a time when the ideals and practices of representative democracy are being challenged around the world, and new ideas and initiatives to revitalise it are being debated and implemented.

The Putney Debates 2023

Democracy in Crisis?

The Right to Strike Reimagined

This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda. Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII. Members of the Office of Strategic Services, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in Europe, across enemy lines in occupied China and in Washington D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane and Marlene forged letters and 'official' military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs and even developed rumours for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now.

The Secret Women of World War II Intelligence

Propaganda Girls

This handbook provides the first comparative account of the people who govern from the heart of the executive branch: executive politicians, advisers, and senior bureaucrats, together understood as the ‘Executive Triangle’ of modern political systems.
 
 Utilising a unique dataset of over 7,000 individual career profiles from more than 700 executive institutions, including ministries, prime ministerial, presidential and government offices, across 34 political systems worldwide, it explores patterns of elite recruitment, gender representation, educational attainment and expertise, career advancement, and politicisation within the executive triangle. In doing so, the book sheds light on several important themes, including gender distribution in politico-administrative elite positions, the competence and expertise of executive elites, their career trajectories, and how politicised they are. These questions are especially pressing in an age of complex ‘polycrisis’ and a global trend of democratic recession that demands responsive, resilient and effective executive leadership.
 
 The book will serve as an authoritative guide for scholars and students of public administration and comparative politics, as well as a valuable resource for practitioners and policymakers.
 Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
 is Sir Francis Hill Professor of Political Science at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK.
 Tom Bellens
 is Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.&nbsp;
 Anne Bellon
 is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at École Polytechnique, IP Paris, France.&nbsp;
 Levent Demirelli
 is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Istanbul Beykent University, Türkiye. &nbsp;
 Pierre Squevin
 is Assistant Professor at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL), Université Catholique de Lille, France.
 Fanni Tóth
 is Career Development Fellow in Comparative Politics at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK.
 Sylvia Veit
 is Professor of Public Administration and Digital Government at Helmut Schmidt University, Germany.
 Kutsal Yeşilkagit
 is Professor of International Governance at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

This handbook provides the first comparative account of the people who govern from the heart of the executive branch: executive politicians, advisers, and senior bureaucrats, together understood as the ‘Executive Triangle’ of modern political systems.
 
 Utilising a unique dataset of over 7,000 individual career profiles from more than 700 executive institutions, including ministries, prime ministerial, presidential and government offices, across 34 political systems worldwide, it explores patterns of elite recruitment, gender representation, educational attainment and expertise, career advancement, and politicisation within the executive triangle. In doing so, the book sheds light on several important themes, including gender distribution in politico-administrative elite positions, the competence and expertise of executive elites, their career trajectories, and how politicised they are. These questions are especially pressing in an age of complex ‘polycrisis’ and a global trend of democratic recession that demands responsive, resilient and effective executive leadership.
 
 The book will serve as an authoritative guide for scholars and students of public administration and comparative politics, as well as a valuable resource for practitioners and policymakers.

The Palgrave Handbook of Careers in the Executive Triangle of Government

'Michael Auerbach has one of the most original minds I've ever encountered . . . This is a dazzling and entertaining book . . . But it is also an urgent warning' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of Empire of Pain A brilliant exploration of the phenomenon of prediction markets that asks: what happens when democracy becomes another commodity? Prediction markets are sweeping the world, fundamentally changing the nature of gambling - and the very ways in which we attempt to divine the future. Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction markets allow any difference of opinion - whether on pop culture or politics, wars or assassinations - to be financialised. A regulatory minefield with moral implications that divide nations, governments and bettors, they have proved as effective at accurately predicting the timing of missile strikes as they have at calling the outcomes of elections.But are these markets really a new phenomenon? And what does it mean when those tasked with safeguarding democracy hold financial stakes in its volatility?From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through nineteenth-century London's wartime coffee house gossip, to the Pentagon's ill-fated terrorism futures exchange and blockchain-based betting on Polymarket today, The Big Bet tells the gripping five-hundred-year story of a permissive regime that no one designed and no one voted for.Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines how these markets are changing our world, and what they mean for the future where democracy becomes just another commodity to be priced and traded. Because prediction markets are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world where everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

The Big Bet

For more than two decades, Marwan Barghouti has been held in an Israeli prison cell, much of that time in total isolation. Yet his voice has never been forgotten.Described by the Economist as 'the world's most important prisoner' and often referred to as Palestine's Mandela, Barghouti remains the most widely supported Palestinian political leader. As a long-standing advocate of peace grounded in justice and equality, he has become an enduring symbol of unity and hope - even from behind bars.Unbroken brings together, for the first time, a powerful and intimate portrait of Barghouti's life and struggle for a free Palestine: private letters to his family, personal writings, correspondence with global public figures, press interviews, public statements and rare personal photographs.This is his story, in his own words. Unsilenced, unbroken.

In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine

Unbroken

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies--the United States and China--have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change. By examining key historical moments--from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI--Frey shows why technological shifts have shaped, and sometimes destabilized, entire civilizations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past--such as Song China, the Dutch Republic, and Victorian Britain--ultimately lost their innovative edge, why some modern nations such as Japan had periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation, and why planned economies like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey uncovers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term--findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today. Through a rich narrative that weaves together history, economics, and technology, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the future requires us to draw the right lessons from the past.

Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

How Progress Ends

This is a clear, compelling guide to improving racial literacy in schools and communities, demonstrating how making that investment can transform our education system. Exploring the ability to understand race, racism and anti-racism as an effective tool for recognising and challenging racism, educators and learners will find opportunities to develop their racial literacy through a range of practical activities. These form part of an ongoing journey of learning, using the impact of De Montfort University's Stephen Lawrence Research Centre. This specific, focused approach places the book's advice and ideas - from decolonising the curriculum and anti-racist educator training to student ambassadors and open dialogue - squarely within the historical context of race and education in the UK. By working through the nuance of racial consciousness and towards a fair and equitable society it stands as a productive counterpoint to the conventional wisdom of how to 'solve' racism. This is essential reading for anyone committed to achieving social justice and racial equity in our education system.

Teaching to transform the world we live in

Racial Literacy

The Battle for Global Economic Supremacy

Peak China?

Data Power, Digital Empires and the Future of Capitalism

The Rise of Datalism

Public Policy

Global Public Policy Imperatives

This open access book argues that the scarcity created by the under-production of vaccines during the Covid-19 years was an entirely predictable, even legitimate consequence of how the international patent system works. Far from being a technical sub-discipline of intellectual property law that simply protects inventions, the international patent system is prismatic of the ways in which we fail to adapt to the challenges of our times: patent rights are intended to incentivise innovation for societal benefit, but in fact facilitate predictable injustice. The patent system ignores the care-constituted nature of our lives, prioritising limiting notions of fairness at the cost of structural harms. The Social Life of Intellectual Property proposes an ethic of just care to temper justice in the global governance of technology. It explores intellectual property as recurring social processes and explains why individual agency and shared responsibility are implicated. On an ecologically imperilled planet, and in a time between pandemics, we must reckon with what we are socialised to believe is legally possible. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Justice, Patents, and Care

The Social Life of Intellectual Property

Fascism and the Global Far Right

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