The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
ISBN: 9781781685815 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.
With a foreword by the best-selling author of "The Dispossessed, " Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Next Revolution" brings together Bookchin s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us... From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For...
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90,80 zł |
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9781781686201 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical democracies. The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically...
This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and ...
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90,80 zł |
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9781781686218 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical democracies. The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically...
This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and ...
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374,12 zł |
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition
ISBN: 9781138809659 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title examines the case law of the European Court of Human Rights with particular reference to democratic transitions in Europe and the consequent enlargement of the European Convention system. It analyses how the Court has responded to the difficult circumstances presented by the new contracting parties.
This title examines the case law of the European Court of Human Rights with particular reference to democratic transitions in Europe and the consequen...
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187,81 zł |
James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780813060996 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Provides scholars with a fresh and thoughtful examination of the first administration that had to deal with Southern secession."--Jonathan M. Atkins, author of Politics, Parties, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861 As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first president could make good on his promise to calm sectional tensions. "Provides scholars with a fresh and thoughtful examination of the first administration that had to deal with Southern secession."--Jonathan M. Atki... |
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156,30 zł |
After the Arab Uprisings: Between Democratization, Counter-Revolution and State Failure
ISBN: 9781138502512 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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228,43 zł |
Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and Presidential Leadership: The Constrained Effects of Rhetoric
ISBN: 9780739187838 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is considerable disagreement about whether the U.S. president has a direct and measurable influence over the economy. The analysis presented in Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and Presidential Leadership: The Constrained Effects of Rhetoric suggests that while presidents have increased their rhetoric regarding the economy, they have not had much success in shaping it. Considering this research, Arthur argues that the president's decision to address the economy so often must stem from a symbolic placation or institutional necessity that is intended to comfort constituencies or...
There is considerable disagreement about whether the U.S. president has a direct and measurable influence over the economy. The analysis presented in ...
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470,32 zł |
Discourse, Dictators and Democrats: Russia's Place in a Global Process
ISBN: 9781409467083 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Voting hides a familiar puzzle. Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. The right to vote has commonly been won by protesters who risked death or injury even though any one protester could have stayed home without lessening the protest's chance of success. Could people vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? If what they hear or read affects political...
Voting hides a familiar puzzle. Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russian...
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660,05 zł |
Fighting Corporate Abuse: Beyond Predatory Capitalism
ISBN: 9780745335162 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fighting Corporate Abuse" demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses in the corporate sector that have been revealed in recent years. It highlights the more general contribution of company law and practice to the current crisis in capitalism. "Fighting Corporate Abuse" demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses ... |
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90,80 zł |
Revolution to Devolution: Reflections on Welsh Democracy
ISBN: 9781783160877 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the Scottish vote on independence, questions of sovereignty, devolution, and local control have perhaps never been more salient. This book explores the evolution of the idea of national identity in modern Britain as it affected Wales. It ranges historically from the French Revolution and its aftershocks to the wide-ranging effects of World War I and on to present debates over decentralization and ties with Europe, while also offering close looks at key personalities, like Lloyd George, the first (and thus far only) Welsh prime minister. Drawing on both his extensive experience...
In the wake of the Scottish vote on independence, questions of sovereignty, devolution, and local control have perhaps never been more salient. This b...
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77,75 zł |
The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
ISBN: 9780393350753 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What's wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.
Yes, there's gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It's a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship. Rules have replaced leadership in America. Bureaucracy, regulation, and outmoded law tie our hands and confine policy choices. Nobody asks, "What's the right thing to do here?" Instead, they wonder, "What does the rule book say?" There's a fatal flaw in America's... What's wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.
Yes, there's gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigg... |
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102,86 zł |
Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics
ISBN: 9780700620227 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a "lawless" administration. Stephen Knott, however, contends that Bush has been treated unfairly, especially by presidential historians and the media. He argues that from the beginning scholars abandoned any pretense at objectivity in their critiques and seemed unwilling to place Bush's actions into a broader historical context. In this provocative book, Knott offers a measured critique of the professoriate for its misuse of scholarship for partisan...
George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a "lawle...
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160,07 zł |
Power-Sharing Executives: Governing in Bosnia, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9780812246513 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To achieve peaceful interethnic relations and a stable democracy in the aftermath of violent conflict, institutional designers may task political elites representing previously warring sides with governing a nation together. In Power-Sharing Executives, Joanne McEvoy asks whether certain institutional rules can promote cooperation between political parties representing the contending groups in a deeply divided place. Examining the different experiences of postconflict power sharing in Bosnia, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland, she finds that with certain incentives and norms in place,... To achieve peaceful interethnic relations and a stable democracy in the aftermath of violent conflict, institutional designers may task political e... |
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431,57 zł |
The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9781138815766 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development. This book looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent to which competitive tendencies contained within them economic, political, social and cultural are resolved according to open, rule-based processes. The book explores which economic conditions allow for increased levels of political competition, and it tests the hypothesis that the nature... Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of poli... |
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248,73 zł |
Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan
ISBN: 9781138821880 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron-client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The monograph highlights the persistence of debt-bondage, and illustrates how electoral politics provides assertive landlord politicians with opportunities to further consolidate their power and wealth at the expense of subordinate classes. It also critically examines the relationship between local forms of Islam and landed power. ...This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how... |
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812,36 zł |
The American Democracy (Works of Harold J. Laski): A Commentary and an Interpretation
ISBN: 9781138822269 / Angielski / Twarda / 794 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is Laski s most important book after "A Grammar of Politics." It discusses, on a grand scale, every aspect of American public life. Laski surveys American traditions and the American spirit, political institutions, the entire educational, religious, economic and social scene, America as a world power, and Americanism as a principle of civilisation. Laski s unsurpassed knowledge of American constitutional, social and cultural history is set in the perspective of his deep study of comparative constitutional history and political theory. He was one of very few people to see U.S. politics... This is Laski s most important book after "A Grammar of Politics." It discusses, on a grand scale, every aspect of American public life. Laski surv... |
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421,37 zł |
The Terror Authorization: The History and Politics of the 2001 Aumf
ISBN: 9781137398628 / Angielski / Twarda / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the September 11th terrorist attacks, Congress authorized "war" against al Qaeda in the statute known as the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for the Use of Military Force). Meant to be a temporary grant of powers to allow the President to retaliate against the perpetrators of the attack, two administrations have used the 2001 AUMF to justify controversial policies such as the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, domestic surveillance without a warrant by the National Security Agency, and the lethal targeting of terrorist suspects using...
In response to the September 11th terrorist attacks, Congress authorized "war" against al Qaeda in the statute known as the 2001 AUMF (Authorization f...
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194,52 zł |
Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International
ISBN: 9780745335261 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960 s, most famously in Paris in May 68. They took on their shoulders the history of the workers struggle, saw that it had been corrupted by authoritarianism and transformed it, with influences incorporating the avant-garde via Dada and Surrealism. They were not Marxologists, defenders of the faith. Marxism came back to life in their raging analyses, the use of the spectacle and at the heart of the project... The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally... |
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133,56 zł |
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology
ISBN: 9781137291172 / Angielski / Twarda / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking collection recalibrates the study of political psychology by providing a detailed and much needed analysis of the discipline's most important and hotly contested issues. Advancing our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that drive political phenomena, this study showcases a range of approaches in the study of these phenomena in Europe and the world and underscores the valuable contribution political psychology has made in generating answers to timely research questions. Individual chapters from the world's top experts in the field explores the ways in...
This ground-breaking collection recalibrates the study of political psychology by providing a detailed and much needed analysis of the discipline's mo...
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583,65 zł |
Private Power and Centralization in France: The Notaires and the State
ISBN: 9780691605425 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while... By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the sta... |
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348,41 zł |