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Altered States: International Relations, Domestic Politics, and Institutional Change
ISBN: 9780739106068 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging dominant assumptions in international relations, Altered States demonstrates that national political institutions change more frequently--and less dramatically--than is commonly thought and with important consequences for the political landscape. Combining theory with solid empirical research--including archival evidence and interviews--the contributors explore the causes and consequences of institutional transformation in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Republics, and Cuba. Altered States highlights the dynamic and interactive...
Challenging dominant assumptions in international relations, Altered States demonstrates that national political institutions change more frequently--...
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Comparative Bureaucratic Systems
ISBN: 9780739106273 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's politically and economically complex and interdependent world, scholars, professional administrators, and laypersons alike increasingly recognize the importance of bureaucracies. In this timely volume, contributors with demonstrated expertise in a range of geographical areas advance our understanding of public administration worldwide through extensive research and incisive analysis. Covering the public sector both in more- and less-developed nations, this book sheds new light on the means by which the 'fourth branch of government' can be made both effective and well-suited to the...
In today's politically and economically complex and interdependent world, scholars, professional administrators, and laypersons alike increasingly rec...
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612,21 |
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Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780739115718 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition explores the impacts that the end of the Cold War and increased globalization have had on government around the world.
Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition explores the impacts that the end of the Cold War and increased globalization have had on governme...
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553,44 |
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Scandinavia in World Politics
ISBN: 9780742509665 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This clear and engaging text offers a sustained appraisal of Scandinavia's foreign policy and role in the global economy in the post-Cold War period. In an era when good citizenship in the global community has become a diplomatic priority for many states, Christine Ingebritsen argues that Scandinavia has both the legitimacy and the domestic political attributes to be an important international player. She examines how social innovators such as Sweden and Finland seek to influence European integration and how Norway has cultivated a unique and innovative niche in its foreign relations....
This clear and engaging text offers a sustained appraisal of Scandinavia's foreign policy and role in the global economy in the post-Cold War period. ...
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186,11 |
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Making and Breaking Democratic Transitions: The Comparative Politics of Russia's Regions
ISBN: 9780742525610 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the vastly different outcomes of post-Soviet regime transitions, this study explores why some societies have become more democratic and some have not. Based on in-depth comparative analyses, the book assesses political developments in six of Russia's regions (Saratov, Nizhnii Novgorod, Volgograd, Ryazan', Ul'yanovsk, and Tver' oblasts) since 1988.
Focusing on the vastly different outcomes of post-Soviet regime transitions, this study explores why some societies have become more democratic and so...
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235,10 |
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Global Electioneering: Campaign Consulting, Communications, and Corporate Financing
ISBN: 9780742526921 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalizing Politics explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communication and technology. Sussman challenges the common belief that American influence abroad is due strictly to the professionalization of politics and is instead affected by economics, industry, and the organizational power of new communication technology.
Globalizing Politics explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communica...
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205,71 |
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The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture
ISBN: 9780742527195 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers a political analysis of Chinese culture that includes all genres of art. Surveying the evolution of China's cultural politics between 1979 and 2003, this book explores the complex relationship between money and art as exemplified by declining state arts patronage, changing standards for painting nudity, censorship, and the professionalization of...
Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liber...
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602,42 |
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Comparative Politics: Approaches and Issues
ISBN: 9780742530355 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in the field. Leading scholar Howard J. Wiarda explores its main approaches, including political development, political culture, dependency theory, corporatism, indigenous theories of change, state-society relations, rational choice, and the new institutionalism. Wiarda addresses many hot issues in the field: Can democracy and human rights be transplanted from one culture to another? Is civil society exportable? What works in the effort to develop...
Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in th...
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Comparative Politics: Approaches and Issues
ISBN: 9780742530362 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in the field. Leading scholar Howard J. Wiarda explores its main approaches, including political development, political culture, dependency theory, corporatism, indigenous theories of change, state-society relations, rational choice, and the new institutionalism. Wiarda addresses many hot issues in the field: Can democracy and human rights be transplanted from one culture to another? Is civil society exportable? What works in the effort to develop...
Beginning with an introduction to the field of comparative politics, this clear and complete text moves on to explore new, innovative directions in th...
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200,80 |
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Crafting Constitutional Democracies: The Politics of Institutional Design
ISBN: 9780742530737 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By examining the institutions of government through the lens of constitution-making, Crafting Constitutional Democracies provides a broad and insightful introduction to comparative politics. Drawn from a series of lectures given in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the drafting of the U.S. constitution, the book illustrates the problems faced by generations of founders, through numerous historic and contemporary examples. Both Indonesia in 1999 and the United States in 1789 faced the same basic issue: how to construct a central government for a large and diverse nation that allowed the majority of the...
By examining the institutions of government through the lens of constitution-making, Crafting Constitutional Democracies provides a broad and insightf...
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519,16 |
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Crafting Constitutional Democracies: The Politics of Institutional Design
ISBN: 9780742530744 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By examining the institutions of government through the lens of constitution-making, Crafting Constitutional Democracies provides a broad and insightful introduction to comparative politics. Drawn from a series of lectures given in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the drafting of the U.S. constitution, the book illustrates the problems faced by generations of founders, through numerous historic and contemporary examples. Both Indonesia in 1999 and the United States in 1789 faced the same basic issue: how to construct a central government for a large and diverse nation that allowed the majority of the...
By examining the institutions of government through the lens of constitution-making, Crafting Constitutional Democracies provides a broad and insightf...
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186,11 |
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Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World
ISBN: 9780742541511 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lives at Risk identifies 20 myths about health care as delivered in countries that have national health insurance. These myths have gained the status of fact in both the United States and abroad, even though the evidence shows a far different reality. The authors also explore the political and economic climate of the health care system and offer alternatives to the current health care public policies.
Lives at Risk identifies 20 myths about health care as delivered in countries that have national health insurance. These myths have gained the status ...
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509,37 |
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Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World
ISBN: 9780742541528 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lives at Risk identifies 20 myths about health care as delivered in countries that have national health insurance. These myths have gained the status of fact in both the United States and abroad, even though the evidence shows a far different reality. The authors also explore the political and economic climate of the health care system and offer alternatives to the current health care public policies.
Lives at Risk identifies 20 myths about health care as delivered in countries that have national health insurance. These myths have gained the status ...
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186,11 |
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Countries at the Crossroads 2006: A Survey of Democratic Governance
ISBN: 9780742558007 / Angielski / Twarda / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future. Crossroads provides a unique comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of accountability and public voice, civil liberties, rule of law, and anticorruption and transparency. The countries evaluated in Crossroads represent a range of governments: traditional or constitutional monarchies, one-party states or outright dictatorships, failed states, states where reforms have stalled or lagged...
Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determini...
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Countries at the Crossroads 2006: A Survey of Democratic Governance
ISBN: 9780742558014 / Angielski / Miękka / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future. Crossroads provides a unique comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of accountability and public voice, civil liberties, rule of law, and anticorruption and transparency. The countries evaluated in Crossroads represent a range of governments: traditional or constitutional monarchies, one-party states or outright dictatorships, failed states, states where reforms have stalled or lagged...
Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determini...
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288,97 |
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Postwar British Politics in Perspective: Critical Dialogues
ISBN: 9780745620299 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies.
This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies...
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309,33 |
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Postwar British Politics in Perspective
ISBN: 9780745620305 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies.
This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies...
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97,90 |
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Introduction to British Politics
ISBN: 9780745620954 / Angielski / Twarda / 824 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the long-awaited third edition of Dearlove and Saunders' highly acclaimed, best-selling, textbook on British politics. The book has been completely rewritten, reorganized and updated, while retaining the distinctive style and approach of the earlier editions. At root, this book is about political power - how it is organized formally within the State and how it is exercised and influenced informally from outside. Written in lively and provocative prose, the volume presents the most systematic and penetrating analysis of who really runs Britain, to what end, and to whose advantage. This is the long-awaited third edition of Dearlove and Saunders' highly acclaimed, best-selling, textbook on British politics. The book has been compl...
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335,11 |
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Governing Latin America
ISBN: 9780745623719 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governing Latin America is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the contemporary politics of the region. Focusing on the enduring difficulties of achieving democratic stability, it explores the conduct of government through classic concepts like authority, accountability, and participation.
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309,33 |
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Scottish Local Government
ISBN: 9780748620043 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book fills an important gap in our understanding of Scottish local government in the dynamic new context of the Scottish Parliament. It provides academics, students, practitioners, journalists and others with a broad-ranging yet detailed account, not just of how local government actually works, but also the main political issues and debates surrounding its multi-faceted roles in contemporary Scotland.It covers issues such as* The nature and purpose of Scottish local government* The strengths and weaknesses of unitary authorities* Modernisation of political management arrangements* Roles...
This book fills an important gap in our understanding of Scottish local government in the dynamic new context of the Scottish Parliament. It provides ...
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