ilość książek w kategorii: 4310
Voices of Protest: Liberia on the Edge, 1974-1980
ISBN: 9781581125030 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Voices of Protest: Liberia on the Edge, 1974-1980 is a compilation of writings and speeches of Liberians who were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic change in their country during the period leading up to the military coup of 1980 that changed the course of Africa's oldest Republic. The writings and speeches show the sentiments of the people as they confronted a ruling group which had held power for over a century and was unwilling to carry out meaningful transformation that would meet the aspirations of the majority of the citizens. These writings and speeches are historical...
Voices of Protest: Liberia on the Edge, 1974-1980 is a compilation of writings and speeches of Liberians who were in the forefront of the struggle for...
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173,58 zł |
Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006
ISBN: 9781583671375 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1964, the Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 examines how contemporary social and political debate is structured, how ideas and ideologies come to inform policy making, research, education, and our conceptions of truth more generally. It also discusses the role of the state in intellectual life and the media, and the role of think-tanks, foundations, political parties and global institutions such as the World Bank in the dissemination of knowledge... Since 1964, the Socialist Register has brought together leading writers on the left to investigate aspects of a common theme. Telling the... |
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144,89 zł |
Fighting the Good Fight: History of New York Conservative Party
ISBN: 9781587312519 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of New York's feisty Conservative Party, a story that is really the saga of America's tumultuous political maturity from the time of Rockefeller up to Rudy Guiliani.
This is the story of New York's feisty Conservative Party, a story that is really the saga of America's tumultuous political maturity from the time of...
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125,58 zł |
Choices and Changes: Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
ISBN: 9781592136735 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Choices and Changes" is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on recent American electoral politics. Richly informed, theoretically and empirically, it is the first book to explain the emergence of aggressive interest-group electioneering tactics in the mid-1990s - including "soft money" contributions, issue ads, and "527s" (IRS-classified political organizations).Michael Franz argues that changing political and legal contexts have clearly influenced the behaviour of interest groups. To support his argument, he tracks in detail the evolution of campaign...
"Choices and Changes" is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on recent American electoral politics. Richly inf...
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347,53 zł |
Choices and Changes: Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
ISBN: 9781592136742 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on American electoral politics. This book explains the emergence of aggressive interest-group electioneering tactics in the mid-1990s - including "soft money" contributions, issue ads, and "527s" (IRS-classified political organizations).
Presents comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on American electoral politics. This book explains the emergence of aggres...
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119,25 zł |
Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race and the Media to Win
ISBN: 9781594512414 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lucidly written, widely informed, and uncompromisingly honest -- a valuable expose." Michael Parenti "Documents the stunning success of a network of wealthy donors and corporations in creating and sustaining a set of think tanks, legal action groups, and media strategies." Gary Orfield, Harvard University What explains the electoral success of Republicans, particularly of the ascendant neoconservatives who now dominate the Party? Based on a thorough and up-to-date examination of the New Right over twenty-five years, The Politics of Fear proposes some provocative answers, including...
"Lucidly written, widely informed, and uncompromisingly honest -- a valuable expose." Michael Parenti "Documents the stunning success of a network of ...
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269,67 zł |
Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race and the Media to Win
ISBN: 9781594512421 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lucidly written, widely informed, and uncompromisingly honest -- a valuable expose." Michael Parenti "Documents the stunning success of a network of wealthy donors and corporations in creating and sustaining a set of think tanks, legal action groups, and media strategies." Gary Orfield, Harvard University What explains the electoral success of Republicans, particularly of the ascendant neoconservatives who now dominate the Party? Based on a thorough and up-to-date examination of the New Right over twenty-five years, The Politics of Fear proposes some provocative answers, including...
"Lucidly written, widely informed, and uncompromisingly honest -- a valuable expose." Michael Parenti "Documents the stunning success of a network of ...
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134,81 zł |
The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party
ISBN: 9781595551030 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential and powerful Americans secretly stirring up disunion and disloyalty in the shifting shadows of the Democratic Party. Radical infiltrators have been quietly transforming America's societal, cultural, and political institutions for more than a generation. Now, backed by George Soros, they are ready to make their move. These -progressive- extremists have gained control over a once-respectable but now desperate and dangerous political... America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influ... |
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87,11 zł |
The Spanish Civil War and the British Left: Political Activism and the Popular Front
ISBN: 9781845112981 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was British Labour activist support for the anti-Franco cause 'the most outstanding example of international solidarity in British history'? Here Lewis Mates challenges this myth and argues that support for the anti-Franco cause was varied and multi-faceted. He analyses the 'Aid Spain movement': activities undertaken at grassroots level in support of the Spanish Republic. He explores the nature of grassroots support, its extent and depth, the motivations of activists, the institutions they operated through, and importantly, the role and impact of ideas on activism. Those within the British...
Was British Labour activist support for the anti-Franco cause 'the most outstanding example of international solidarity in British history'? Here Lewi...
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674,31 zł |
The Evolution of Green Politics: Development and Change Within European Green Parties
ISBN: 9781853837517 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement and a challenge to existing party models.
The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement and a challenge to existing p...
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700,25 zł |
The Evolution of Green Politics: Development and Change Within European Green Parties
ISBN: 9781853837524 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement and a challenge to existing party models.
The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement and a challenge to existing p...
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197,05 zł |
Changing Party Systems in Western Europe
ISBN: 9781855673281 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an analysis of the changing pressures and demands placed on party systems in 11 countries in Western Europe since 1945. This book includes studies of the party system in Britain, France, Italy and Germany, as well as studies of Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Five major themes are examined in each chapter. First, the broad development of the party system is accompanied by a discussion of how different party system typologies have been applied to each country. Secondly, a detailed discussion of the historical background to party system...
This is an analysis of the changing pressures and demands placed on party systems in 11 countries in Western Europe since 1945. This book includes stu...
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409,45 zł |
Christian Democracy in Europe
ISBN: 9781855673823 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent years have witnessed the development of new Christian Democratic movements in Northern and Eastern Europe, and the
revival of those in Western Europe, which are subject to change in an increasingly secular society. The Christian Democratic parties are being required to respond to the new political challenges which address any party, such as the future of the welfare state, or the search for a new security agenda in Europe. These developments are assessed in this text, together with an analysis of the challenges the parties face, and suggestions for their future development. Recent years have witnessed the development of new Christian Democratic movements in Northern and Eastern Europe, and the
revival of those in Wes... |
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546,00 zł |
Green Liberalism: The Free And The Green Society
ISBN: 9781857288490 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an agenda-setting exploration of the relationship between green politics and liberal ideology. Ecological problems provide unique challenges for liberal democracies.
This is an agenda-setting exploration of the relationship between green politics and liberal ideology. Ecological problems provide unique challenges f...
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228,18 zł |
Faces of Labour: The Inside Stories
ISBN: 9781859840931 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated since the May 1997 election, this book gives an insight into a range of Labour politicans - including, Tony Blair, John Prescott, Peter Mandelson and Clare Short - in a series of portraits.
Updated since the May 1997 election, this book gives an insight into a range of Labour politicans - including, Tony Blair, John Prescott, Peter Mandel...
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174,08 zł |
In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present
ISBN: 9781859843468 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siecle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic "modernisation" of a political tradition dating back to the nineteenth century. The focal point of Gerassimos Moschonas's study is the emergent "new social democracy" of the twenty-first century. As Moschonas demonstrates, change has been a constant of social-democratic history: the core dominant...
Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siecle elections. Today, parties ...
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108,72 zł |
Leading Labour : From Keir Hardie to Tony Blair
ISBN: 9781860644535 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year 2000 marks the anniversary of the first hundred years of the British Labour Party, and publication of this book falls at the present New Labour government's mid-term--a time for reflection and analysis when interest will be very strong among all those interested in the political process on both sides of the Atlantic with the government and opposition parties gearing up in earnest for the next election. This is a lively collection of biographical studies by academics and journalists who are not only leading authorities on Labour history but also established biographers.
The year 2000 marks the anniversary of the first hundred years of the British Labour Party, and publication of this book falls at the present New Labo...
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311,22 zł |
Scottish Popular Politics: From Radicalism to Labour
ISBN: 9781902930114 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One hundred years ago the Labour Representation Committee was formed - this is usually taken as the founding meeting of the Labour Party. However a month before, in January 1900, the Scottish Workers' Parliamentary Election Committee was established to achieve the same things in Scotland - the election of working-class representatives to the House of Commons who would act independently of the existing political parties. This reflected the way many of the moves towards independent Labour were pioneered in Scotland. Many of the key figures in the early Labour Party were Scots - Hardie,...
One hundred years ago the Labour Representation Committee was formed - this is usually taken as the founding meeting of the Labour Party. However a mo...
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160,80 zł |
The Politics of Federalism in Nigeria
ISBN: 9781905068432 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigerians embraced federalism as a way of managing the conflicts and suspicions among the various constituent nationalities that make up the Nigerian state. These fears and suspicions had led to the emergence of aggressive political and economic competitions along ethno-regional lines. Beginning from 1954, the unitary colonial state saw itself being gradually federalized as it had to contend with powerful ethno-regional pressures in the run-up to independence in 1960. Following the military coup of 1966, which ushered in a prolonged period of military rule, the various military regimes...
Nigerians embraced federalism as a way of managing the conflicts and suspicions among the various constituent nationalities that make up the Nigerian ...
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195,22 zł |
Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate
ISBN: 9781931859301 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A valuable contribution to our thinking about that controversial and difficult subject--the role of an opposition third party.---Howard Zinn -This is an invaluable sourcebook: rich in ideas.'---Mike Davis Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, David Cobb, Sharon Smith, Norman Solomon, and other Green Party members and allies ask: Can we break the two-party stranglehold on U.S. politics? and debate strategy for how to build a challenge to the Republicans and an increasingly corporate Democratic Party. Howie Hawkins is a Teamster and Green activist in Syracuse, New York. -A valuable contribution to our thinking about that controversial and difficult subject--the role of an opposition third party.---Howard Zinn |
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92,77 zł |