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Politics Is about Relationship: A Blueprint for the Citizens' Century
ISBN: 9781403971456 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, Harold Saunders outlines how concerned citizens can bring about social and political change. Using examples from the U.S. to South Africa, Tajikistan to China, this book is full of real stories of how building 'relationship' among people can empower citizens outside government.
In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, Harold Saunders outlines how concerned citizens can bring about social and polit...
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189,17 |
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Citizenship and Vulnerability: Disability and Issues of Social and Political Engagement
ISBN: 9781403992369 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body', Beckett proposes a new model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'.
Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's...
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201,24 |
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Citizenship
ISBN: 9781405105521 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.
A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of...
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148,04 |
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Children and Citizenship
ISBN: 9781412935371 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children and Citizenship offers a contemporary and critical approach to the central debates around notions of children's citizenship. Drawing on different disciplinary perspectives and including contributions by leading scholars in the field, this book makes explicit connections between theoretical approaches, representations of childhood, and the experiences of children themselves, legal instruments, policies, and their implementation. The book contains reflections on the notion of children's citizenship in general as well as in relation to international instruments, in particular the UN...
Children and Citizenship offers a contemporary and critical approach to the central debates around notions of children's citizenship. Drawing on diffe...
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The Megacity Saga: Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
ISBN: 9781551641645 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story of the creation of a "Megacity." Does it still mean something to be a citizen?
A story of the creation of a "Megacity." Does it still mean something to be a citizen?
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58,24 |
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Tyranny of the Common Man and the Perversion of American Liberties
ISBN: 9781563114762 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Ralph Cantafio traces the great changes which have occurred in American society over the past twenty years as a result of political, ethical and moral decline. An in-depth look at the forces that have turned American society away from the path as envisioned by our forefathers.
Dr. Ralph Cantafio traces the great changes which have occurred in American society over the past twenty years as a result of political, ethical and m...
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106,24 |
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Decision-Making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders
ISBN: 9781563245022 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in ec...
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850,12 |
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Decision-making in Deng's China: Perspectives from Insiders
ISBN: 9781563245039 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in economic and non-economic arenas on the other. The contributors held significant party and government positions in China up to 1989.
Considers the politics of central decision-making by focusing on senior policy makers and implementing bureaucracies on the one hand, and actors in ec...
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223,41 |
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Toward an Ethic of Citizenship: Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781583485729 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,22 |
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The Porto Alegre Experiment: Learning Lessons for Better Democracy
ISBN: 9781842774052 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by locality, of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities. This book examines how this democratic innovation works in practice and asks the difficult questions. Can local participation in public management really strengthen its efficiency? Is genuine participation possible without small groups monopolizing power? Can local organizations avoid becoming bureaucratized and cut off from their roots? Can neighborhood mobilization go... With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, loca... |
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169,97 |
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Reviving Democracy: Citizens at the Heart of Governance
ISBN: 9781853838811 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at the centre of the political process. This has enormous importance for future policy which the authors explore. With support from the Commonwealth Foundation, the book sets out to change the current political consensus and demonstrate the route forward to sustainable development.
The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at th...
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704,38 |
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Reviving Democracy: Citizens at the Heart of Governance
ISBN: 9781853838842 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at the centre of the political process. This has enormous importance for future policy which the authors explore. With support from the Commonwealth Foundation, the book sets out to change the current political consensus and demonstrate the route forward to sustainable development.
The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at th...
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194,26 |
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Recasting German Federalism
ISBN: 9781855675803 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding Germany's federal structure is crucial to understanding contemporary Germany. The federal system shaped the way German unification was carried out, it shapes the way which policies are made, and it plays a role in determining the way in which Germany presents its priorities in the European Union. This first part establishes the context by setting out and analyzing the character of pre-unification West German federalism and the challenge posed for the federal system by German unification. The second part takes stock of key issues in the operation of post-unification federalism,...
Understanding Germany's federal structure is crucial to understanding contemporary Germany. The federal system shaped the way German unification was c...
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357,89 |
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The Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America
ISBN: 9781859734711 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or material - culture, but all too rarely have scholars examined the politics that lie behind that culture. This book fills the gap and explores the political and state structures that have shaped the consumer and the nature of his or her consumption. From medieval sumptuary laws to recent debates in governments about consumer protection, consumption has always been seen as a highly political act that must be regulated, directed or organized according to the political agendas of various groups.... Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or material - culture, but all too rarely have scho... |
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189,41 |
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Behind Closed Doors : Secrecy in International Financial Institutions
ISBN: 9781920118211 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report comprises the findings of a study led by the Institute of Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), in collaboration with civil society organisations in five countries - Argentina, Bulgaria, Mexico, Slovakia and South Africa, to monitor public access to information held by the International Financial Institutions (IFIs). The study was commissioned by the Global Transparency Initiative, a network of civil society organisations promoting openness in the IFIs, such as the African Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank and the International...
This report comprises the findings of a study led by the Institute of Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), in collaboration with civil society organisat...
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152,45 |
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Capacity-Building for Community Organisations
ISBN: 9781920118488 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community-based organisations (CBOs) play an increasingly relevant role in Africa. They provide services at the level of the local community and civil-society and implement important development interventions in a variety of fields such as heath, education and gender. CBOs must perform management, finance and fundraising functions so as to ensure successful and sustainable implementation of projects. This book outlines the principles and strategies that underpin the successful management of community-based organisations, with a particular focus on sensitising development workers to be...
Community-based organisations (CBOs) play an increasingly relevant role in Africa. They provide services at the level of the local community and civil...
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236,02 |
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The EU and Territorial Politics within Member States: Conflict or Co-operation?
ISBN: 9789004141650 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The EU and Territorial Politics Within Member States" draws on case studies from Germany, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Ireland and Italy to address the question: Does the European Union create new conflicts among territorial entities within member states or provide new avenues for the resolution of conflicts between them?
"The EU and Territorial Politics Within Member States" draws on case studies from Germany, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Ireland and Ita...
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434,23 |
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Multiple Citizenship as a Challenge to European Nation-States
ISBN: 9789077874868 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conventional thinking maintains that people can belong to only one society and can be loyal to only one nation-state. In a world with rising rates of trans-national migration, however, the possibility of participation, belonging, and loyalty to more than one state is ever more evident. This has led to a rethinking of the notion of nation-based citizenship and increased tolerance toward holding citizenship in more than one country. In practice, over half of the worlds nation-states currently recognize some form of dual citizenship or dual nationality. This book focuses on clarifying and...
Conventional thinking maintains that people can belong to only one society and can be loyal to only one nation-state. In a world with rising rates of ...
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246,47 |
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Multiple State Membership and Citizenship in the Era of Transnational Migration
ISBN: 9789087900786 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation analyses transnational participation, focusing mainly on the interests of individual people and their transnational networks. Eight contributions present findings from the international research project Dual Citizenship, Governance and Education: A Challenge to the European Nation-State (DCE) conducted in 2002-2006 in Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Greece, Estonia, and Israel.
This compilation analyses transnational participation, focusing mainly on the interests of individual people and their transnational networks. Eight c...
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186,97 |
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Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects
ISBN: 9781405105514 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.
A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of...
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465,08 |
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