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Pax Democratica: A Strategy for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780333945988 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a turbulent century characterized by vast bloodshed, but also by the spread of democratic government and humane values, the author suggests that the great democracies - led by Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States - should form an intercontinental community of democracies - a Pax Democratica according to the author. He argues that such a union will culminate centuries of evolution in world order: from empires to balance-of-power Realpolitik, more recently from cooperative international institutions to an era of supranational communities, composed of likeminded peoples...
After a turbulent century characterized by vast bloodshed, but also by the spread of democratic government and humane values, the author suggests that...
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402,53 |
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Democracies and the Populist Challenge
ISBN: 9780333970041 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised by the role of the elites and the limits put on the popular will by liberal constitutionalism.
Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been e...
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684,33 |
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Holding Power to Account: Accountability in Modern Democracies
ISBN: 9780333987681 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance. Richard Mulgan draws on examples and analyses from the United States and the United Kingdom as well as other 'Westminster' countries. Major topics discussed include the contrast between accountability in the public and private sectors, the effects of public management reforms on accountability, accountability for collective actions, accountability in networks and the limits of accountability.
This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance. Richard Mulgan draws on examples and analyses ...
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523,30 |
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After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
ISBN: 9780374529338 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim world Published just as the United States went to war in Iraq, After Jihad put Noah Feldman "into the center of an unruly brawl now raging in policy circles over what to do with the Arab world" (The New York Times Book Review). A year later, the questions Feldman raises-and answers-are at the center of every serious discussion about America's role in the world. How can Islam and democracy be reconciled? How can the United States sponsor emerging Islamic democrats without appeasing... A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim world Published just as the United States went to war in Iraq,... |
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84,74 |
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Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
ISBN: 9780375727559 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things," " Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America's relationship with a world that both admires and hates it.
Purdy has absorbed insights from people around the world: Westernized Egyptians who consider Osama bin Laden a hero, an urbane Indian who espouses gay rights and the most thuggish kind of Hindu nationalism, Cambodian sweat-shop workers, and others. Out of these... Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things," " Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting ...
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84,78 |
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The Politics of Democracy
ISBN: 9780393003062 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
ISBN: 9780393331523 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translated into twenty languages ?The Future of Freedom ?is a modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, examining how democracy has changed our politics, economies, and social relations. Prescient in laying out the distinction between democracy and liberty, the book contains a new afterword on the United States's occupation of Iraq and a wide-ranging update of the book's themes.
Translated into twenty languages ?The Future of Freedom ?is a modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, examining how...
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70,41 |
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The Challenge to Democracy in Nepal
ISBN: 9780415085762 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1990 Nepal's Peoples Movement reduced King Birendra from an absolute ruler to a constitutional monarch. This book is the first academic analysis of these events and places the 'revolution' of 1990 within the context of Nepali history.
Louise Brown examines the background to Nepal's recent upheavals as well as covering the country's ealy history and its continuing problems of national integration. The previous, unsuccessful, democratic experiment and the nature of monarchical rule are discussed within an analysis of Nepal's social and economic modernisation. The evolution of political... In 1990 Nepal's Peoples Movement reduced King Birendra from an absolute ruler to a constitutional monarch. This book is the first academic analysis of...
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734,66 |
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Chartism
ISBN: 9780415096898 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to the Chartism movement, this text examines the controversial debates surrounding the topic. It provides a period background and includes: a study of the Chartists' economic, legislative and political goals; analysis of the patterns of regional and local variations of Chartist support; discussion of the reasons for the Chartist decline; an assessment of the success of Chartism in the light of its goals and its influence over the Poor Law, Corn Laws, trade unions and factory reform; and an exploration of the languages of Chartism - songs, gesture and propaganda.
An introduction to the Chartism movement, this text examines the controversial debates surrounding the topic. It provides a period background and incl...
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195,86 |
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The Extreme Right in France: From Pétain to Le Pen
ISBN: 9780415097550 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive new historical study of the extreme right in France, from the Vichy regime to the present day. The Front National has for some years been France's third political party and the most significant extreme-right force in Europe; its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, contested the second round of the 2002 presidential election with 5.5 million votes. This wide-ranging and authoritative book examines the resurgence of right-wing extremism in France from a historical perspective, tracing the political lineage of Le Pen and the FN through key figures and movements on the... A comprehensive new historical study of the extreme right in France, from the Vichy regime to the present day. The Front National has for s... |
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832,62 |
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Stabilising Fragile Democracies: New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780415118026 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies. They are also likely to play a key role in the establishment of new parliamentary democracies. This volume provides a systematic comparison of the democratic transitions in both Eastern and Southern Europe from this point of view. There are four main themes concerning the role of parties that are examined: coping with the past (party identities and inheritances), the formation and performance of new democratic political elites, parties and alliances and their electoral behaviour. These themes...
Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies. They are also likely to play a key role in the esta...
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759,15 |
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Stabilising Fragile Democracies: New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780415118033 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies. They are also likely to play a key role in the establishment of new parliamentary democracies. This volume provides a systematic comparison of the democratic transitions in both Eastern and Southern Europe from this point of view. There are four main themes concerning the role of parties that are examined: coping with the past (party identities and inheritances), the formation and performance of new democratic political elites, parties and alliances and their electoral behaviour. These themes...
Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies. They are also likely to play a key role in the esta...
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254,64 |
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Democracy
ISBN: 9780415130806 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democracy surrounds us like the air we breath, and is normally taken very much for granted. Across the world democracy has become accepted as an unquestionably good thing. Yet upon further examination the merits of democracy are both paradoxical and problematic, and the treasured values of liberty and equality can be used to argue both for and against it.
In the historical section of the book, Ross Harrison clearly traces the history of democracy by examining the works of, amongst others, Plato and Aristotle, Hegel and Marx. Informed by facts and detailed knowledge of these famous... Democracy surrounds us like the air we breath, and is normally taken very much for granted. Across the world democracy has become accepted as an unque...
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205,65 |
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Prospects of Democracy: A study of 172 countries
ISBN: 9780415144056 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the most extensive comparative survey of the state and conditions of democracy ever made. It focuses on 172 contemporary states, with historical data on the measures of democracy and on explanatory variables extending back to the 1850s. It presents a comprehensive exploration of democratization, its successes and failures, making predictions on the prospects for democracy for single countries and for seven regions of the world.
As well as presenting empirical analyses of democratization on the basis of Vanhanens's resource distribution theory of democratization and... This book provides the most extensive comparative survey of the state and conditions of democracy ever made. It focuses on 172 contemporary states, wi...
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Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries
ISBN: 9780415144063 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the most extensive comparative survey of the state and conditions of democracy ever made. It focuses on 172 contemporary states, with historical data on the measures of democracy and on explanatory variables extending back to the 1850s. It presents a comprehensive exploration of democratization, its successes and failures, making predictions on the prospects for democracy for single countries and for seven regions of the world.
As well as presenting empirical analyses of democratization on the basis of Vanhanens's resource distribution theory of democratization and... This book provides the most extensive comparative survey of the state and conditions of democracy ever made. It focuses on 172 contemporary states, wi...
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352,59 |
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Polish Politics and Society
ISBN: 9780415159036 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of political, social and economic development in Poland since the summer of 1989, with the main focus on democratization.
An examination of political, social and economic development in Poland since the summer of 1989, with the main focus on democratization.
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881,59 |
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Democracy in Practice
ISBN: 9780415168403 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. bThis unique textbook provides students with a detailed look at many different aspects of democracy in practice: clearly describing and analysing all three existing models of democracy:
* participatory democracy * referenda and initiatives * representative or liberal democracy. Using numerous real life examples from all over the world, this text explores how each is used in practice and provides discussion of the main problems with each model, answering the question: Why are there so many different forms of democratic practice? bThis unique textbook provides students with a detailed look at many different aspects of democracy in practice: clearly describing and analysing all ...
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117,50 |
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Private Groups and Public Life : Social Participation and Political Involvement in Representative Democracies
ISBN: 9780415169554 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relevance of social participation and intermediary associations for democracy has been at the centre of approaches to democratic politics since the 19th century. More recently the rise of new states in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary discussions about social conflict, civil society, communitarianism, and social capital have stimulated a revival of the subject. This study explores the changing role and functions of voluntary associations, intermediary organizations and other social movements in democratic societies. The contributors employ macro- and mico-perspectives to...
The relevance of social participation and intermediary associations for democracy has been at the centre of approaches to democratic politics since th...
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636,71 |
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Cyberdemocracy : Technology, Cities and Civic Networks
ISBN: 9780415171342 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is information technology enhancing democracy? Developments in information technology and the Internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements, however, are believed to present opportunities for improving the responsiveness and accountability of political institutions and enhancing citizen participation. In this text the theoretical arguments for and against electronic democracy and the potential of information and communication technology are closely examined. The book is underpinned by a series of case studies in the US and Europe that demonstrate the application...
Is information technology enhancing democracy? Developments in information technology and the Internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace....
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734,66 |
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Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks
ISBN: 9780415171359 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is information technology enhancing democracy? Developments in information technology and the Internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements, however, are believed to present opportunities for improving the responsiveness and accountability of political institutions and enhancing citizen participation. In this text the theoretical arguments for and against electronic democracy and the potential of information and communication technology are closely examined. The book is underpinned by a series of case studies in the US and Europe that demonstrate the application...
Is information technology enhancing democracy? Developments in information technology and the Internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace....
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244,84 |
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