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Presidential Elections
ISBN: 9780029227862 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This guide to the strategies of candidates and political parties during American presidential election campaigns has been revised and updated to include data on the 1988 presidential elections. The authors identify the important factors that determine the American political environment, such as voting behaviour, interest groups and the electoral college, and the key resources, including money, staff and committed followers. The importance of primaries, the role of public financing and debates are also examined. In particular, the authors evaluate the impact that various reforms have had on...
This guide to the strategies of candidates and political parties during American presidential election campaigns has been revised and updated to inclu...
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94,75 zł |
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God and George W. Bush: A Spiritual Life
ISBN: 9780060779566 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. George W. Bush has brought the question of religion back into American political life in a way that it has not been for decades. From the 2000 election through the challenges America has faced in the wake of September 11, Bush's personal faith -- and his conviction about the importance of religion in our national life -- have won him lasting admiration from the right, while attracting fury and scorn from the left. Now presidential scholar Paul Kengor, the author of the acclaimed God and Ronald Reagan, reconstructs the spiritual journey that carried George W. Bush to... George W. Bush has brought the question of religion back into American political life in a way that it has not been for decades. From the 2000 elec... |
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73,58 zł |
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Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race
ISBN: 9780060859848 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Who will be president in 2008? Many believe that the White House is Hillary Clinton's to lose. As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal in Condi vs. Hillary, however, Hillary's plans for higher office are vulnerable to a challenge from a most unexpected quarter: the Bush administration's secretary of state and former national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice. Rice is the only figure on the national scene who has the credentials, the credibility, and the charisma to lead the GOP in 2008. And, as this first book on the subject demonstrates, a race... Who will be president in 2008? Many believe that the White House is Hillary Clinton's to lose. As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGa... |
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65,36 zł |
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Democracy Derailed
ISBN: 9780156014106 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, how initiatives are remaking our democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics.
Where once most state laws were passed by legislatures, now voters in half the states and hundreds of cities decide directly on such explosive issues as drugs, affirmative action, casino gambling, assisted suicide, and human rights. Ostensibly driven by public opinion, the initiative process is far too often manipulated by moneyed interests, often funded by out-of-state millionaires pursuing their own agendas. In this highly controversial book, David Broder, the "dean of American... Now in paperback, how initiatives are remaking our democracy, creating a hazardous new arena of politics.
Where once most state laws were passed b... |
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89,55 zł |
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Power Failure : New York City Politics and Policy since 1960
ISBN: 9780195044270 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world. Its annual operating budget is now a staggering $29 billion a year, plus it has a capital budget of $4 billion more. The city and its various agencies employ approximately 360,000 full-time workers. The Office of the Mayor alone employs some 1,600 people (and spends some $135 million). And the Police Department boasts a small army of over 25,000 officers, with a budget of $1.5 billion. Anyone wanting to make sense of an organization this vast needs an excellent guide.
In Power... New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world. Its annual operating budget is now a stagger...
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346,04 zł |
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Democracy and Elections
ISBN: 9780195044294 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book addresses the relationship between four values of democratic theory--popular sovereignty, liberalism, personal development, and community--and the electoral institutions used to implement them. After a chapter sketching the electoral institutions of Athens, the Roman Republic, the medieval church, and pre-reform Britain, the book examines what role elections are expected to play in a variety of democratic theories. The major theme of this section is that the four values are largely incompatible; therefore, different choices must be made between them. Part II addresses the empirical...
This book addresses the relationship between four values of democratic theory--popular sovereignty, liberalism, personal development, and community--a...
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882,29 zł |
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New Media and American Politics
ISBN: 9780195120608 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New Media and American Politics is the first book to examine the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloid journalism, television talk shows, entertainment media, and computer networks. Davis and Owen discuss the new media's cultural environment, audience, and content, before going on to evaluate its impact on everything from elections to policy making to the old media itself.
New Media and American Politics is the first book to examine the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloi...
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571,83 zł |
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Votes for Women : The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
ISBN: 9780195130164 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the movement's antecedents in the minds of women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the historic gathering at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience during World War I orchestrated by the National Woman's Party, the essential elements of this tumultuous story emerge in...
In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrag...
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712,95 zł |
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Navigating Public Opinion : Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy
ISBN: 9780195149340 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how the relationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research.
The... Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic el...
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312,17 zł |
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The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930
ISBN: 9780195159936 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British suffragette movement over the past century. Their story has become a defining moment in feminist history, in effect separating women's fight for voting rights from contemporary issues in British political history and disconnecting their militancy from other forms of political activism in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Drawing upon private... The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strik...
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600,05 zł |
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The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
ISBN: 9780195174076 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ronald Reagan's first great victory in the 1966 California governor's race is one of the pivotal stories of American political history, a victory that seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just four years earlier Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown was celebrated as the "Giant Killer" for his 1962 victory over Richard Nixon, and his liberal agenda reigned supreme. Yet in 1966 political neophyte Reagan trounced Brown by almost one million votes, marking not only the coming-of-age of Reagan's new conservatism but also the first serious blow to modern liberalism. Drawing...
Ronald Reagan's first great victory in the 1966 California governor's race is one of the pivotal stories of American political history, a victory that...
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165,12 zł |
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How Congress Evolves : Social Bases of Institutional Change
ISBN: 9780195182965 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this greatly entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50's to the 90's, Congress evolved. In short, Polsby argues that air conditioning altered the demography of the southern states, which in turn changed the political parties of the South, which transformed the composition and in due course the performance of the US House of Representatives. This evolutionary process led to the House's liberalization and later to its transformation into an arena of sharp partisanship, visible among both Democrats and Republicans....
In this greatly entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50's to the 90's, Con...
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187,70 zł |
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A New Engagement? : Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen
ISBN: 9780195183177 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature of citizen engagement, it is critical to separate political from civic engagement. Using the results from an original set of surveys and the authors' own primary research, they conclude that while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by volunteering and being active in...
In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Eng...
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187,70 zł |
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Proportional Representation : Critics of the British Electoral System 1820-1945
ISBN: 9780198201366 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Offering the first scholarly history of the proportional representation movement, Hart explores its origins in the early nineteenth century and analyzes the contribution of major political thinkers such as Thomas Hare and John Stuart Mill. She traces the history of the early campaigns and the progress and vicissitudes of the cause through the twentieth century. Based on extensive research, this is an accessible and comprehensive study which throws light on many of the questions which bedevil contemporary political commentators. Hart demonstrates the inadequacy of the commonly made...
Offering the first scholarly history of the proportional representation movement, Hart explores its origins in the early nineteenth century and analyz...
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1023,41 zł |
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British By-Elections : The Volatile Electorate
ISBN: 9780198273301 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. By-elections in constituencies such as Orpington, Bermondsey, and Govan generate headline news in England and raise fundamental questions concerning why third parties manage unexpected breakthroughs, and why the government consistently loses support through the "mid-term blues." The first systematic study of British by-elections, this book addresses these questions through an analysis of postwar trends in party support. The first section addresses changes in campaigns, contrasting the stable by-elections of the postwar decade with the more volatile races characteristic of today. The second...
By-elections in constituencies such as Orpington, Bermondsey, and Govan generate headline news in England and raise fundamental questions concerning w...
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1362,10 zł |
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Electoral Systems and Party Systems : A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
ISBN: 9780198273479 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral systems are also the most practical and accessible instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies including those of Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. Using comparative and statistical analysis of these systems, Arend Lijphart demonstrates the effect of the electoral...
The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral s...
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854,07 zł |
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Electioneering : A Comparative Study of Continuity and Change
ISBN: 9780198273752 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Elections in all the world's democracies have changed radically over the past forty years. The advent of television, opinion polls, and campaign consultants has transformed them--but what some see as the "Americanization" of electioneering has happened very differently in different countries. In this book, acknowledged local experts explore how far elections have been "Americanized" in ten countries or regions, including the United States, Britain, Japan, and Latin America. Their essays shed light on the diversity of how democratic choice is made. They also discuss campaigning methods and...
Elections in all the world's democracies have changed radically over the past forty years. The advent of television, opinion polls, and campaign consu...
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1531,45 zł |
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Electoral Politics
ISBN: 9780198273813 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Elections are universal methods of political choice and decision-making. This book includes essays on key topics of voting behaviour, election rules, the media, election pacts, and the consequences of elections. The distinguished authors are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic--including Donald Stokes, Austin Ranney, Richard Rose, Anthony King, and Dennis Kavanagh. They form a tribute to the famous student of elections, David Butler.
Elections are universal methods of political choice and decision-making. This book includes essays on key topics of voting behaviour, election rules, ...
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1023,41 zł |
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Electoral Systems and Party Systems : A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
ISBN: 9780198280545 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral systems are also the most practical and accessible instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies including those of Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. Using comparative and statistical analysis of these systems, Arend Lijphart demonstrates the effect of the electoral...
The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral s...
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447,65 zł |
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The End of Class Politics? : Class Voting in Comparative Context
ISBN: 9780198280958 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. In this book, leading scholars argue that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.
The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politi...
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854,07 zł |