wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Just Ask for the Muffin Nicely!
ISBN: 9781494480004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An adorable green creature gets a muffin simply by just asking. But his friend's outbursts about many things he has asked for, but never seems to gets them. The message of this book to children is to be polite when asking, listen to your friends calmly and with care and share when you can.
An adorable green creature gets a muffin simply by just asking. But his friend's outbursts about many things he has asked for, but never seems to gets...
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59,29 zł |
Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future
ISBN: 9780199845385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward a sweeping agenda to both address the economic crisis and enact progressive policies that liberals had been advocating for decades. Within a year and a half, they would pass health care reform and financial reform alongside a stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars. Democrats also rescued...
The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans ...
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151,22 zł |
Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness
ISBN: 9780226389837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Public opinion polls are everywhere. Journalists report their results without hesitation, and political activists of all kinds spend millions of dollars on them, fueling the widespread assumption that elected officials "pander" to public opinion-that they tailor their policy decisions to the results of polls.
In this provocative and engagingly written book, the authors argue that the reality is quite the opposite. In fact, when not facing election, contemporary presidents and members of Congress routinely ignore the public's policy preferences and follow their own political philosophies,... Public opinion polls are everywhere. Journalists report their results without hesitation, and political activists of all kinds spend millions of dolla...
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188,87 zł |
Democracy Under Fire: The Rise of Extremists and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party
ISBN: 9780190877248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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123,73 zł |
Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America
ISBN: 9780226389875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Challenging the conventional wisdom that Americans are less engaged than ever in national life and the democratic process, "Talking Together "paints the most comprehensive portrait available of public deliberation in the United States and explains why it is important to America s future. The authors original and extensive research reveals how, when, and why citizens talk to each other about the issues of the day. They find that in settings ranging from one-on-one conversations to e-mail exchanges to larger and more formal gatherings a surprising two-thirds of Americans regularly... Challenging the conventional wisdom that Americans are less engaged than ever in national life and the democratic process, "Talking Together "paint... |
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144,42 zł |
Fed Power: How Finance Wins
ISBN: 9780197573136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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126,23 zł |
The Unsustainable American State
ISBN: 9780195392135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. The crisis exposed the system's manifold political and economic dysfunctionalities. Featuring a cast of leading scholars working at the intersection of political science and American history, The Unsustainable American State is a historically informed account of the American state's development from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses in particular on the...
The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis reveale...
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291,25 zł |
Fed Power: How Finance Wins
ISBN: 9780197573129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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491,21 zł |
Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780190262044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court...
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61,05 zł |
The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles
ISBN: 9780226076423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Despite George W. Bush's professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Clinton administration, and demands on government have continued to grow. Why? Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs show that conservative efforts to expand markets and shrink government often have the ironic effect of expanding government's reach by creating problems that force legislators to enact new rules and regulations. Dismantling the flawed reasoning behind these attempts to cast markets and public power in opposing roles, The Private...
Despite George W. Bush's professed opposition to big government, federal spending has increased under his watch more quickly than it did during the Cl...
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266,62 zł |
Who Governs?: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation
ISBN: 9780226234380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. America s model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman and Jacobs combine existing research with novel data from US presidential archives to show that presidents make policy by largely ignoring the views of most citizens in favor of affluent and well-connected political insiders. Presidents treat the public as pliable, priming it to focus on personality traits and often ignoring it on policies...
America s model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, howeve...
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444,36 zł |
Who Governs?: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation
ISBN: 9780226234410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. America's model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman and Jacobs combine existing research with novel data from US presidential archives to show that presidents make policy by largely ignoring the views of most citizens in favor of affluent and well-connected political insiders. Presidents treat the public as pliable, priming it to focus on personality traits and often ignoring it on policies...
America's model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, howeve...
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133,31 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media
ISBN: 9780199545636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Public opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny by scholars, pundits, and ordinary citizens. This Oxford Handbook takes on the "big questions" about public opinion and the media--both empirical and normative--focusing on current debates and social scientific research. Bringing together the thinking of a team of leading academic experts, its chapters provide a cutting assessment of contemporary research on public opinion, the media, and their interconnections. Emphasizing changes in the mass media and...
Public opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny by scholars...
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793,65 zł |