wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Rational Extremism: The Political Economy of Radicalism
ISBN: 9781107407220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil. But they can be, especially when they are intolerant and violent. What makes extremists turn violent? This 2006 book assumes that extremists are rational: given their ends, they choose the best means to achieve them. The analysis explains why extremist leaders use the tactics they do, and why they are often insensitive to punishment and to loss of life. It also explains how rational people can be motivated to die for the cause. The book covers...
Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil....
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279,96 zł |
The Political Economy of Dictatorship
ISBN: 9780521794497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behavior of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. This book uses rational choice theory to understand dictators: How do "successful" dictatorships stay in power? What determines the repressiveness of a regime? How do their economies work? The book contains many applications, including chapters on Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, South Africa under apartheid, and Pinochet's Chile. It also provides a guide to the policies that should be followed by the democracies towards...
Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behavior of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irration...
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202,81 zł |
Rational Extremism: The Political Economy of Radicalism
ISBN: 9780521859646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil. But they can be, especially when they are intolerant and violent. What makes extremists turn violent? This 2006 book assumes that extremists are rational: given their ends, they choose the best means to achieve them. The analysis explains why extremist leaders use the tactics they do, and why they are often insensitive to punishment and to loss of life. It also explains how rational people can be motivated to die for the cause. The book covers...
Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil....
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325,71 zł |
The Political Economy of Theocracy
ISBN: 9780230613102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behave, by providing up to date empirical surveys by leading scholars of the economic performance of Iran and of Muslim countries in general, and by looking at the behavior of historical theocracies.
This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behav...
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192,30 zł |
The Economics of Transparency in Politics
ISBN: 9781138277663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what level of obfuscation in politics is rational. The chapters are arranged in four parts. Part 1 is concerned with the manifestations of transparency and obfuscation in domestic democratic settings whilst Part 2 deals with the same realities but in an international context. Part 3 looks at corruption and Part 4 considers some of the implications of transparency and obfuscation for the working of governments and the formulation of...
The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to...
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259,30 zł |
The Political Economy of Dictatorship
ISBN: 9780521583299 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behavior of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. This book uses rational choice theory to understand dictators: How do "successful" dictatorships stay in power? What determines the repressiveness of a regime? How do their economies work? The book contains many applications, including chapters on Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, South Africa under apartheid, and Pinochet's Chile. It also provides a guide to the policies that should be followed by the democracies towards...
Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behavior of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irration...
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cena:
325,71 zł |