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Political Freedom: Association, Political Purposes and the Law
ISBN: 9780826450302 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Howard Davis looks at how the presence of political motives, when balanced against other motives, affects the legal character of the action, and asks why common law and statute should differentiate the political from the nonpolitical. An original and important contribution to the debate on the nature of an oeffective democracyo and the legal rules necessary to establish and sustain it. Howard Davis looks at how the presence of political motives, when balanced against other motives, affects the legal character of the action, and as... |
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Balancing Democracy
ISBN: 9780826450319 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses one of the classical concerns of comparative politics: the formation and maintenance of stable democracies. How have political scientists analyzed democracy? What are the ideas and ideals that are contained in the concept of democracy? How are notions of sovereignty, territoriality, nation, multiculturalism, representation, rights of individuals, of groups and of communities implicated in our understanding of democracy? What institutional manifestations have these ideas, ideals and theoretical constructs in the real world? How will democracy and democratic institutions...
This book addresses one of the classical concerns of comparative politics: the formation and maintenance of stable democracies. How have political sci...
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Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780826452573 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on a study which brought together scholars from each of the potential member countries of the European Union to develop a methodology for assessing the process of democratization as a condition of eligibility for membership. This book is based on a study which brought together scholars from each of the potential member countries of the European Union to develop a method... |
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Strategies of Democratization
ISBN: 9780844817194 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratization has been spreading rapidly since the 1980's, breaking barriers, and gaining a foothold in new territories, although not with equal success in all parts of the world. This book examines the strategies used in the struggle for democracy and problems of democratization in different parts of the world. The examination is based on the idea that conscious choices of people and their leaders matter and that better knowledge of successful and unsuccessful strategies might help people to adopt more rational strategies in the struggle for democracy. Comparatively examining over 8 states...
Democratization has been spreading rapidly since the 1980's, breaking barriers, and gaining a foothold in new territories, although not with equal suc...
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Strategies of Democratization
ISBN: 9780844817200 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratization has been spreading rapidly since the 1980's, breaking barriers, and gaining a foothold in new territories, although not with equal success in all parts of the world. This book examines the strategies used in the struggle for democracy and problems of democratization in different parts of the world. The examination is based on the idea that conscious choices of people and their leaders matter and that better knowledge of successful and unsuccessful strategies might help people to adopt more rational strategies in the struggle for democracy. Comparatively examining over 8 states...
Democratization has been spreading rapidly since the 1980's, breaking barriers, and gaining a foothold in new territories, although not with equal suc...
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685,68 |
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Beyond Missionaries: Toward an Understanding of the Protestant Movement in Central America
ISBN: 9780847682980 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although many consider Central America a thoroughly Catholic region, Protestant organizations based in the United States began in the 1970s to send missionaries to Latin America in a concerted effort to convert Catholics to Protestantism. In this penetrating analysis of the social and political implications of Protestantism, focusing particularly on the fast-growing Pentecostal groups, Hallum provides a thorough overview of this complex phenomenon.
Although many consider Central America a thoroughly Catholic region, Protestant organizations based in the United States began in the 1970s to send mi...
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205,71 |
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A Wall of Separation?: Debating the Public Role of Religion
ISBN: 9780847683888 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should the wall of separation between church and state be permeable or inviolable? This question has been hotly contested since the nation's founding and contentious debates persist today. With a collection of the most significant documents and an introduction by Clarke E. Cochran that provides the historical context of the debate, prominent scholars Mary Segers and Ted Jelen debate the impact of organized religion on the democratic process, examine its influence on political discourse, and discuss its significance for the creation of public policy. The authors illuminate the constitutional...
Should the wall of separation between church and state be permeable or inviolable? This question has been hotly contested since the nation's founding ...
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On Faith and Free Government
ISBN: 9780847686032 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Responding to the general confusion in the United States about the proper role of religion in politics, five distinguished scholars demonstrate in original essays how our nation's founders carefully and clearly defined the appropriate relationship between church and state, and how we can adapt our current political institutions to reflect the founders' wisdom. Also, includes a collection of the most important statements by the Founders that address religion's role in American political life.
Responding to the general confusion in the United States about the proper role of religion in politics, five distinguished scholars demonstrate in ori...
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Engaging the Public: How Government and the Media Can Reinvigorate American Democracy
ISBN: 9780847688906 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of original essays by leading political scientists and media scholars examines the nature of political disengagement among the public and offers concrete solutions for how the government and media can stimulate public engagement in the political process.
This volume of original essays by leading political scientists and media scholars examines the nature of political disengagement among the public and ...
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Deep Democracy: Community, Diversity, and Transformation
ISBN: 9780847692705 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deeply understood, democracy is more than a formal institutional framework for which America provides the model, acting as a preferable alternative to the modern totalitarian regimes that have distorted social life around the world. At its core, as John Dewey understood, democracy is a realistic ideal, a desired and desirable future possibility that is yet-to-be. In this period of global crises in differing cultures, a shared environment, and an increasingly globalised political economy, this book provides a clear contemporary articulation of deep democracy that can guide an evolutionary...
Deeply understood, democracy is more than a formal institutional framework for which America provides the model, acting as a preferable alternative to...
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On Cultivating Liberty: Reflections on Moral Ecology
ISBN: 9780847694051 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of the free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American founding. A series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures such as Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John...
Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business...
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The New Progressive Era: Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy
ISBN: 9780847695744 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A century ago, Americans launched a period of civic renewal and political reform. Today, amid deep dissatisfaction with our major institutions, there are signs that a new movement may revive the spirit of the original Progressive Era. Peter Levine draws inspiration from the great Progressive leader Robert M. La Follete, Sr., and his circle, which included John Dewey, Jane Addams, and Louis Brandeis. He discusses the shortcomings of this group as well as their successes, but he argues that their ideal of a fair and deliberative democracy is right for our time. Combining their philosophy and...
A century ago, Americans launched a period of civic renewal and political reform. Today, amid deep dissatisfaction with our major institutions, there ...
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Theories of Democracy: A Reader
ISBN: 9780847697250 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse roots of the democratic ideal, as well as to provide materials for thinking about the way some...
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to r...
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Democracy Beyond the State?: The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order
ISBN: 9780847699018 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political authority in todayOs leading democracies rests on generally shared perceptions by a given people that their government is responsible to them and considers each individual citizen equal under the law. Yet since the dawn of the industrial age, democratic governments have presided over economies that function on the basis of an unequal distribution of real resources. As globalization opens these economies, the gap between legal, ideal and economic reality widens and boundaries separating Othe peopleO of different democracies erode. This thought-provoking book explores the consequent...
Political authority in todayOs leading democracies rests on generally shared perceptions by a given people that their government is responsible to the...
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Making Democracy Work for Pro-poor Development: Report of the Commonwealth Expert Group on Development and Democracy
ISBN: 9780850927818 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting from the premise that democracy is more than simply a matter of universal suffrage and the holding of regular multiparty elections, and that development is about much more than growth of GDP, this Report focuses on how to make democracy work for pro-poor development and on development policies that in themselves uphold and promote democratic values. It argues that development and democracy are not only goals in their own right but must also be mutually reinforcing.Pro-poor development recognises that people need the 'capabilities' to do and be the things that they have reason to...
Starting from the premise that democracy is more than simply a matter of universal suffrage and the holding of regular multiparty elections, and that ...
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When Might Becomes Human Right
ISBN: 9780852440315 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Janne Haaland Matlary has devoted her life to questions of ethics and politics.This preoccupation has become extraordinarily relevant to many of the issues that dominate the contemporary political agenda; particularly in Europe where the debate over relativism, human rights and majority tyranny has become a vital concern to very many of its citizens. Combining academic research with an active political life as a diplomat serving both her native Norway and the Holy See, Janne Haaland Matlary is able to offer us profound insights into the importance of human dignity and human rights in current...
Janne Haaland Matlary has devoted her life to questions of ethics and politics.This preoccupation has become extraordinarily relevant to many of the i...
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Aiding Democracy Abroad: the Learning Curve
ISBN: 9780870031694 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aid to promote democracy abroad has emerged as a major growth industry in the 1990s. Many Western countries, international institutions and private foundations use aid to support democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. This text provides an independent assessment of efforts in this field, drawing on extensive field research and years of hands-on research. It examines democracy aid programmes relating to elections, political parties, governmental reform, rule of law, civil society, independent media and other elements...
Aid to promote democracy abroad has emerged as a major growth industry in the 1990s. Many Western countries, international institutions and private fo...
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Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion
ISBN: 9780870032097 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accepting as a given that a central aim of US foreign policy is democratization, Carothers (director, Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment) comments on different aspects of the democracy promotion program in a series of 19 previously published essays. He reviews and assesses the Clinton and Bush records on democracy promoti
Accepting as a given that a central aim of US foreign policy is democratization, Carothers (director, Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegi...
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Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780870032110 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States faces no greater challenge today than successfully fulfilling its new ambition of helping bring about a democratic transformation of the Middle East.
The United States faces no greater challenge today than successfully fulfilling its new ambition of helping bring about a democratic transformation of...
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
ISBN: 9780870032219 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 --the "Orange Revolution" --were seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of democratization. Pro-Western presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, an industrial pollutant that left him weakened and horribly disfigured. When this assassination attempt failed, the Kremlin-backed ruling party resorted to voter intimidation and massive electoral fraud to win the runoff election. Supporters of Yushchenko responded with a series of strikes, sit-ins, and marches... The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 --the "Orange Revolution" --were seminal both for... |
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