wyszukanych pozycji: 9
On Thinking Institutionally
ISBN: 9780199945993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally. His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century...
The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to con...
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927,28 zł |
Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America
ISBN: 9780801871955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Despite talk of a -naked public square, - religion has never really lost its place in American public life. As the twenty-first century opened, it was re-emerging in unexpected and paradoxical ways. Religious institutions were considered for expanded roles in welfare and education, at the same time that the limits of religious pluralism--as, for example, in the relation of Islam to American values--became a question of urgent public concern. Religion Returns to the Public Square;Faith and Policy in America explores how and why religion has to be mixed up with American... Despite talk of a -naked public square, - religion has never really lost its place in American public life. As the twenty-first century opened, it ... |
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117,39 zł |
The Illusion of Presidential Government
ISBN: 9780367292973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Presidential government is an illusion. It is an image that misleads presidents no less than the media and the American public." Thus begins this realistic look at the presidency, in which nine leading presidential scholars examine how and why we are under the illusion of presidential government and ask such questions as: What is the president's actual role? What has happened to his traditional tools of executive leadership? How is the office of the president organized to deal with domestic, economic, and national security affairs? is federal regulation an area of potential power for the...
"Presidential government is an illusion. It is an image that misleads presidents no less than the media and the American public." Thus begins this rea...
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700,25 zł |
The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy Inside British Politics
ISBN: 9780333265468 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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192,30 zł |
A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington
ISBN: 9780815735359 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? Th answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt. Shifting attention away form the well-publicized actions of the President, High Heclo reveals the little-known everyday problems of executive leadership faced by hundreds of appointees throughout the executive branch. But he also makes clear...
How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative con...
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109,15 zł |
Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden: From Relief to Income Maintenance
ISBN: 9781907301001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden was the winner of the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. " Heclo] painstakingly analyses the evolution of income maintenance policies over the past 100 years in Britain and Sweden in an effort to explain why these policies evolved as they did. He thus poses a question of fundamental importance to both policy and political science and he produces an answer which is neither obvious nor dramatic but which is original, discriminating, and...
Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden was the winner of the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book published in the United...
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317,23 zł |
On Thinking Institutionally
ISBN: 9780199946006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally. His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century...
The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to con...
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136,47 zł |
The Illusion of Presidential Government
ISBN: 9780367308438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
Christianity and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780674032309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in...
Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of ...
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147,15 zł |