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Foundations of Comparative Politics
Now with global coverage, this second edition brings key concepts, theories and methods of comparative politics to life.
Real News about the News
What role does the media play in British politics? There is growing concern that the media environment is biased, and that online news and social media spread fake news, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and foreign interference. Examining TV, radio, newspapers and the internet, Kenneth Newton unravels the real effects of the mainstream and alternative news media. With abundant evidence, Newton demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief: newspapers neither win nor lose elections; nor set election agendas; most citizens have a fairly mixed news diet and do not inhabit echo-chambers; social media influences on political attitudes are generally small and actually expand the range of news people get; impartial and reliable public service news still provides the bulk of the nation's news diet. Evidence shows that the main media effects on political attitudes and behaviour are positive and inform and mobilise citizens rather than influencing their voting choice.
Foundations of Comparative Politics
Now in its fourth edition, this textbook gives a comprehensively updated account of the government and politics of democratic states.
Kelly's Hero
Sir Gerald Kelly had known Degas, Renoir, Monet, Rodin and Cézanne. His knowledge of art led him to become a national star in the early years of television. Towards the end of his life, as President of the Royal Academy, the work of a young student at the Royal Academy schools so impressed him that he insisted that the student use only the best quality paints, brushes and canvases, and Kelly paid for these himself. That artist was Kenneth Newton, who became the most outstanding Royal Academy student of his generation, scooping first prizes for drawing, portrait, landscape and life painting. His painting of Winter at Guildford caused a sensation when it was shown at the Academy, and it was purchased by Kelly himself. A collection of twenty-eight works by the artist has been donated to Falmouth Art Gallery by Mr Richard Harris, who was a friend and patron. This exhibition shows important loans from private collections to mount the first exhibition of the artist's work to be held in the South West. -- Exhibition website.
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The Politics of the New Europe
A pioneering textbook which explains the dynamics of politics across Europe in the post-Cold war era. Comparing democratisation, transition to a market economy and increasing economic and political integration in the countries of central and eastern Europe with experiences in Scandinavia, and southern and western Europe, the book provides a wealth of information and analysis on the state of Europe at the end of a momentous century of European and World history.
Urban Political Economy
The study of urban political economy needs no justification, for cities are the heart (and arguably the soul) of our civilization, and their political and economic conditions are the linchpins of its existence. But how should we study urban political economy? Urban Political Economy deals with different nations – Belgium, Denmark, France, Norway, the UK. and the USA – and with different problems – expenditure patterns, service provision, economic development, fiscal strain, budgetary cuts, and borrowing systems – but they all agree on two fundamental points about the study of their subject matter: first, that the urban economy cannot be understood outside its political context, just as urban politics cannot be understood without its economic background; and second, that the local and the national are knitted together so closely and so tightly that it is necessary to think of them as forming a single system. Urban Political Economy explores the idea of the fusion of factors by demonstrating the extent to which local and national conditions react upon one another to analyze the urban political economy.
The Wit and Humour of Political Science
The Wit and Humour of Political Science is the serendipitous product of two senior scholars working across the world from one another and who independently collected funny and satirical articles on political science over the years with the intent of someday publishing them for a wider audience. The lead editors— Kenneth Newton (Professor Emeritus, University of Southampton, Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) and the late Lee Sigelman (Columbian School of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, George Washington University) — learned by chance of each other's projects. Newton and Sigelman joined forces with Ke...
Foundations of Comparative Politics
An authoritative new introductory text covering the key concepts, theories and issues in comparative politics.
