Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9781107005242 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic process.
Argues that protest by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought about policy changes and integrated Hungarian minorities into the democratic ...
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The Italian Renaissance State
ISBN: 9781107010123 / Angielski / Twarda / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness...
This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from acro...
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External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893 1952
ISBN: 9781107013759 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores ways in which foreign intervention and external rivalries can affect the institutionalization of governance in weak states. When sufficiently competitive, foreign rivalries in a weak state can actually foster the political centralization, territoriality, and autonomy associated with state sovereignty. This counterintuitive finding comes from studying the collective effects of foreign contestation over a weak state as informed by changes in the expected opportunity cost of intervention for outside actors. When interveners associate high opportunity costs with intervention,...
This book explores ways in which foreign intervention and external rivalries can affect the institutionalization of governance in weak states. When su...
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iPolitics
ISBN: 9781107015951 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. iPolitics provides a current analysis of new media's effect on politics. Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent political frustrations, join political groups, and organize revolutions. Political activists blog to promote candidates, solicit and coordinate financial contributions, and provide opportunities for volunteers. iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena. Most importantly, the volume emphasizes the implications...
iPolitics provides a current analysis of new media's effect on politics. Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to exercise political powe...
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374,15 zł |
Catastrophic Politics
ISBN: 9781107021129 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shocking moments in society create an extraordinary political environment that permits political and opinion changes that are unlikely during times of normal politics. Strong emotions felt by the public during catastrophes even if experienced only vicariously through media coverage are a powerful motivator of public opinion and activism. This is particularly true when emotional reactions coincide with attributing blame to governmental agencies or officials. By examining public opinion during one extraordinary event, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Lonna Rae Atkeson and Cherie D. Maestas...
Shocking moments in society create an extraordinary political environment that permits political and opinion changes that are unlikely during times of...
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Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism: Regime Survival in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam
ISBN: 9781107023888 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique comparative study examining why some communist regimes remain in power, whilst others have fallen.
A unique comparative study examining why some communist regimes remain in power, whilst others have fallen.
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550,70 zł |
Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal: Political Change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand
ISBN: 9781107025684 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded, democratic practice has contracted. This book introduces a novel framework for evaluating the rise and decline of democratic governance. Examining three mature democratic countries Britain, Australia and New Zealand the authors discuss patterns of governance from the emergence of mass democracy...
The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a min...
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550,70 zł |
Making Constitutions: Presidents, Parties, and Institutional Choice in Latin America
ISBN: 9781107026520 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs from an analytical, historical, and comparative perspective. Based on a comprehensive analysis of constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and four detailed case studies, Gabriel Negretto shows that the main determinants of constitutional choice are the past performance of constitutions in providing effective and legitimate instruments of government and the strategic interests of the actors who have influence over institutional selection. The book explains how governance problems shape...
This book provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs from an analytical, historical, and comparative perspecti...
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447,71 zł |
Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England
ISBN: 9781107028296 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides a completely new account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period. Humanism, Markku Peltonen argues, was crucial to the development of the participatory character of English politics as schoolboys were taught how to speak about taxation and foreign policy, liberty and tyranny. A series of case studies illustrates how...
Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides a completely new account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan a...
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295,67 zł |
Building Democracy in Japan
ISBN: 9781107601697 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new approach to the study of democratization that examines state society interactions as a country adjusts its existing political culture to accommodate new democratic values, institutions, and practices....
How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practice...
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158,29 zł |
Multi-Ethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns
ISBN: 9781107605435 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are politicians able to form electoral coalitions that bridge ethnic divisions in some countries and not others? This book answers this question by presenting a theory of pecuniary coalition building in multi-ethnic countries governed through patronage. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, the book explains how the relative autonomy of business from state-controlled capital affects political bargaining among opposition politicians in particular. While incumbents form coalitions by using state resources to secure cross-ethnic endorsements, opposition politicians must rely on the private...
Why are politicians able to form electoral coalitions that bridge ethnic divisions in some countries and not others? This book answers this question b...
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168,18 zł |
Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
ISBN: 9781107641150 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
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183,03 zł |
iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era
ISBN: 9781107667655 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. iPolitics provides a current analysis of new media's effect on politics. Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent political frustrations, join political groups, and organize revolutions. Political activists blog to promote candidates, solicit and coordinate financial contributions, and provide opportunities for volunteers. iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena. Most importantly, the volume emphasizes the implications...
iPolitics provides a current analysis of new media's effect on politics. Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to exercise political powe...
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123,96 zł |
Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Continuity
ISBN: 9781137274106 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the complexity of women's social status in the Middle East and North African region and fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an up-to-date and comprehensive portrait of women's status from a theoretical and socio-demographic perspective. The author debunks some common assumptions regarding the economic, cultural, and demographic transformations of the MENA region. The book highlights the social forces that have transformed the region over the past several decades. Debunking requires exploring the interrelationship of multiple factors that influence women's...
This book explores the complexity of women's social status in the Middle East and North African region and fills a gap in the existing literature by p...
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Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics
ISBN: 9781137275981 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing.
This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists ...
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Presidents, Assemblies and Policy-Making in Asia
ISBN: 9781137277268 / Angielski / Twarda / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors assess the constitutional and partisan powers of Asian presidents, and analyse how they are used in actual policy-making processes. Country case studies on Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan analyze how their constitutional and partisan powers are used in actual policy-making processes.
The authors assess the constitutional and partisan powers of Asian presidents, and analyse how they are used in actual policy-making processes. Countr...
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Occupying Political Science: The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World
ISBN: 9781137277398 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Occupying Political Science is a collection of critical essays by New York based scholars, researchers, and activists, which takes an unconventional look at the Occupy Wall Street movement through concepts found in the field of political science. Both norm
Occupying Political Science is a collection of critical essays by New York based scholars, researchers, and activists, which takes an unconventional l...
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Identity, Segregation and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland: A Social Psychological Perspective
ISBN: 9781137323170 / Angielski / Twarda / 93 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When conflict, competing identities, and segregation collide; Identity, Segregation and Peace-building in Northern Ireland explores the implications for peace-building in Northern Ireland, and across the globe.
When conflict, competing identities, and segregation collide; Identity, Segregation and Peace-building in Northern Ireland explores the implications f...
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194,08 zł |
The Struggle for Eu Legitimacy: Public Contestation, 1950-2005
ISBN: 9781137327833 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This award-winning book answers some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, it looks at what it would mean for the EU to be considered a legitimate body and where our ideas on this question come from. The Struggle for EU Legitimacy traces the history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy, in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate. Through an interpretive, non-quantitative textual analysis of an eclectic range of sources, it examines both long-term patterns in EU-official discourses and their reception in... This award-winning book answers some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, it looks at what it would mean for... |
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Border Governance and the "unruly" South: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781137345370 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though 9/11 tightened borders against hard threats, why were soft threats able to create havoc in the cracks? The studies explored by the contributors of this volume lead to the conclusion that the state is not, and should not be, the only viable actor in successful border governance.
Though 9/11 tightened borders against hard threats, why were soft threats able to create havoc in the cracks? The studies explored by the contributors...
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194,08 zł |