Offering a clear introduction to Rational Choice approaches, this critically-acclaimed text is designed for readers with no prior knowledge. The updated edition features expanded coverage of game theory, collective action, and revisionist public choice, along with insights into the application of rational choice in International Relations, making it a comprehensive resource for understanding these concepts.
Focusing on significant advancements in political science, this book explores their implications for governance discussions. It aims to bridge theoretical insights with practical applications, enhancing the understanding of contemporary governance challenges. Through a comprehensive analysis, it addresses how these developments can inform policy-making and improve governance structures.
Curators of nightmares, archivists of fears and trustees of all things that go bump in the night, museums are not simply places that preserve and display historical artifacts. Andrew Hind cracks open the crumbling vault of true ghost stories to reveal the restless spirits inhabiting museums and galleries across Ontario. He guides the reader through cursed artifacts, spectral evidence of the afterlife and timeless mysteries:* At Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village, the past may be more alive than even the costumed interpreters could imagine--the mill wheel turns of its own accord; unseen horses pull a wagon up to the door; a little ghost boy plays peek-a-boo* The mysterious spirits inhabiting the elegant Brown House at the Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum reveal their secrets to a paranormal investigation team* At the Art Gallery of Sudbury, the ghosts of the original owners of the mansion mingle with staff and visitors* Canada's ace of aces, the legendary World War I aviator Billy Bishop, inhabits his boyhood home in Owen Sound long after leaving this mortal plane.* Almost every building at Muskoka Heritage Place has a phantom or two that make their presence felt* All who encounter the ghost of Hollywood silent film star Marie Dressler at her childhood home in Cobourg note that while her mouth moves as if speaking, no words are heard.So visit a museum and experience its collection, physical and ethereal alike.
At a time when polarised argument on social media has obscured the fact that politics is usually cast in shades of grey, [Hindmoors] nuanced case ought to be welcome. John Harris, New Statesman
This book offers a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s. Twelve chapters take as their starting-point one particularly important day in recent British history and describes what happened on that day and what happened as a result of that day.
The first full history of the last two and a half decades, compellingly told by a leading contemporary historian Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London who went on to other things, has been credited with once saying that there are decades where nothing happens but weeks when decades happen. The first two and a half decades of this century in Britain have had plenty of those weeks. Indeed, our recent history has at times resembled an episode of Casualty, the long-running BBC hospital drama in which every hedge trimmer slips, every gas pipe leaks, every piece of scaffolding collapses and everyone ends up in intensive care. In Haywire Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the deluge of events which have rained down on Britain since 2000, from the Iraq War to financial collapse, austerity to Brexit, as well as more easily forgotten moments such as the MP's expenses scandal. He shows not simply how one crisis has quickly followed another, but how each crisis has compounded the next, so that disaster feels like the new normal. Has Britain simply been the victim of a particularly prolonged run of bad luck which will, sooner or later, come to an end? No. Hindmoor argues that the way the British state is organised has, time and again, made a crisis out of a drama - and that it is time to find an alternative before we all go haywire.