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Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics, and Implications for the West
ISBN: 9780916458942 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a period of democratization and market reform extending across the East-Central European region, with one important exception: Belarus. Ironically, Belarus's fledgling attempts at democracy produced a leader who has suspended the post-Soviet constitution and its institutions and created a personal dictatorship. Located in the centre of the European continent, Belarus lies at the crossroads of an expanded NATO and the Russian near-abroad. This fact underlies the importance of Belarus to European security and to East-West relations.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a period of democratization and market reform extending across the East-Central European region, with o...
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124,10 zł |
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Party Mobilization, Class, and Ethnicity: The Case of Hawaii, 1930 to 1964
ISBN: 9780965856430 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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178,47 zł |
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The Leadership Passion
ISBN: 9780966551464 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As both organized religion and traditional political ideologies lose their force, our political, economic, and social direction has no clear sense. Leaders have lost their concern for the changes they want to make, or Leadership passion.
"The Leadership Passion" looks at historical sources of left-right motivation, theories related to ideology and classic psychological studies, as well as discussing David Loye's prediction of leadership styles in the future, in terms of psychology and ideology.
As both organized religion and traditional political ideologies lose their force, our political, economic, and social direction has no clear sense. Le...
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79,59 zł |
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Distant Voices: Canadian Politics on the Outside Looking In
ISBN: 9780968580394 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The government of the day enjoys enormous freedom to enact legislation and exert its will on the population. On the sidelines of political power are other players who struggle to make their voices heard. This book looks at three groups on the outside looking in: the media, the opposition Canadian Alliance Party and its forerunners; and women. The author examines the contribution made by each of these outsiders, the challenges they face and the limitations they encounter. He also explores the circumstances and conditions needed to increase their influence and ensure their distant voices are...
The government of the day enjoys enormous freedom to enact legislation and exert its will on the population. On the sidelines of political power are o...
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65,93 zł |
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Does Your Government Measure Up?: Basic Tools for Local Officials and Citizens
ISBN: 9780970286406 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A title for Americans who wish to improve the quality of their local government. It introduces the bare essentials for good government in areas of finance, public works, parks and recreation, police, assessment, building codes, emergency medical services, personnel, and Website development.
A title for Americans who wish to improve the quality of their local government. It introduces the bare essentials for good government in areas of fin...
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84,00 zł |
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The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
ISBN: 9780977825318 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With his trademark intelligence and humor, Curtis White argues that the American left needs a new and compelling spiritual basis for its politics, and that its seeds can be discovered in Thoreau's spiritual politics of refusal and a return to human "fundamentals" especially work, home, and food. Along the way, White offers a shrewd reading of the cult classic Office Space, a scathing critique of Bill Maher's political comedy, and other acerbic cultural commentary. The book includes provocative interviews with James Howard Kunstler, John de Graaf, and Michael Ableman.
With his trademark intelligence and humor, Curtis White argues that the American left needs a new and compelling spiritual basis for its politics, and...
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513,66 zł |
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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
ISBN: 9781400034048 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. In this timely and controversial examination of civilian-military relations in wartime democracies, Eliot A. Cohen chips away at this time-honored belief with case studies of statesmen who dared to prod, provoke, and even defy their military officers to great effect.
Using the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill,... The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a mi...
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75,60 zł |
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The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia
ISBN: 9781400064823 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I want everyone to know about the history of the United States and about important political events and issues and how they work."
-Noah McCullough, age ten, 2032 presidential hopeful Noah McCullough may just be this country's youngest presidential historian ever-and in this delightful volume he gives us hours of entertainment with an illustrated tour of America's forty-three presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. The political whiz kid famed for his appearances on "The Tonight Show" offers up brief bios and fun facts about our nation's leaders, as well as trivia... "I want everyone to know about the history of the United States and about important political events and issues and how they work."
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79,80 zł |
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Improving Democracy Through Constitutional Reform: Some Swedish Lessons
ISBN: 9781402074325 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do constitutions matter? Are constitutions simply symbols of the political times at which they were adopted, or do they systematically affect the course of public policy? Are the policy crises of failing democracies the result of bad luck or of fundamental problems associated with the major and minor constitutional reforms adopted during their recent histories? The purpose of the present study is to address these questions using a blend of theory, history, and statistical analysis. The Swedish experience provides a nearly perfect laboratory in which to study the effects of... Do constitutions matter? Are constitutions simply symbols of the political times at which they were adopted, or do they systematically affect the c... |
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386,41 zł |
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Democracy and Northern Ireland: Beyond the Liberal Paradigm?
ISBN: 9781403912480 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democracy and Northern Ireland examines the influence of liberal theories of democracy on recent developments in the Northern Irish peace process. In so doing it analyzes the applicability of theories such as political liberalism, multiculturalism and deliberative democracy to deeply divided societies. Little contends that these models need to build upon recent critiques provided by feminists and civil society theorists in the construction of a more radical interpretation of democracy that can provide a framework for democratic politics in Northern Ireland.
Democracy and Northern Ireland examines the influence of liberal theories of democracy on recent developments in the Northern Irish peace process. In ...
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193,19 zł |
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Tocqueville, Democracy and Social Reform
ISBN: 9781403915672 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Regime and the Revolution . Yet among his contemporaries he was also esteemed for his brilliant investigations on social issues such as prison reform, pauperism and the plight of abandoned children. This study explores the intellectual and social context of these neglected yet startlingly innovative writings and it reveals how they proved central to the composition of those works for which Tocqueville is best known."
Alexis de Tocqueville is best known as the author of Democracy in America and The Ancien Regime and the Revolution . Yet among his contemporaries he w...
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386,41 zł |
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The Role of Organized Interest Groups in Policy Making
ISBN: 9781403934901 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book collects ten papers which give a broad overview of the most recent economic studies in the fields of lobbying and special interest groups. This field of research has been attracting a growing interest in economic literature. The papers in this volume are both theoretical and empirical and throw new light on the role of organized interest groups in a large range of political issues including electoral competition, public debt taxation, trade policy, social security, environmental polices and public spending.
The book collects ten papers which give a broad overview of the most recent economic studies in the fields of lobbying and special interest groups. Th...
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386,41 zł |
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Political Communication and Democracy
ISBN: 9781403942548 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political Communication and Democracy provides a wide-ranging and inclusive study of political communications that uses current political events and debates to illustrate its arguments. Looking beyond the narrow view that political communication concerns only the media and spin doctors, Gary Rawnsley examines the subject in its myriad forms: political parties and pressure groups as a way by which people join together, referendums, public opinion and how communications contribute to the process of democratization around the world.
Political Communication and Democracy provides a wide-ranging and inclusive study of political communications that uses current political events and d...
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193,19 zł |
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Socializing Democratic Norms: The Role of International Organizations for the Construction of Europe
ISBN: 9781403945211 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of socialization. It seeks to understand the process of change in post-Cold War Europe from a divided continent into a community with a common identity, based on shared values and ideas. It also offers an explanation for why the process of change has occurred easily in some countries and with more difficulty or not at all in others.
This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of soci...
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386,41 zł |
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The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy
ISBN: 9781403962638 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The strategic use of referendums by leaders often confers legitimacy but it may also reflect the power struggle between leaders, groups, and institutions and in doing so not provide a democratic result for the citizenry of a country.
The strategic use of referendums by leaders often confers legitimacy but it may also reflect the power struggle between leaders, groups, and instituti...
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193,19 zł |
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Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virgina Resolutions and Their Legacy
ISBN: 9781403963031 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic viewed through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Jefferson and Madison saw the Alien and Sedition Acts as a threat to states' rights, as well as indicative of a national government that sought unlimited power. The Resolutions sought to return the nation to the tenets of the Constitution, in which rights for all were protected by checking the power of the national...
Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the Am...
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193,19 zł |
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Participatory Democracy Versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil
ISBN: 9781403963062 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Nylen begins by discussing North Americans' love-hate relationship with politics and politicians, then shows how Brazilians feel the same way (as do many citizens of democracies throughout the world). He argues that this is so because contemporary democracies have increasingly trickled up and away from so-called 'average citizens'. We now live in a world of 'Elitist Democracies' essentially constructed of, by and for moneyed, well-connected and ethically-challenged elites. Fortunately, there are alternatives, and that's where Brazil offers valuable lessons. Experiments in local-level...
William Nylen begins by discussing North Americans' love-hate relationship with politics and politicians, then shows how Brazilians feel the same way ...
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193,19 zł |
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Dilemmas of Justice in Eastern Europe's Democratic Transitions
ISBN: 9781403963895 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calhoun innovatively examines how the ideology of liberal democracy influences one of the most contentious and potentially traumatic and divisive issues facing countries transitioning from authoritarian regimes to democracy: how to confront the past violations of human rights. Competing views of liberal democracy frame debates about how to confront the past and in particular how to deal with the truth of systematic human rights violations. Democratic values may not determine the precise method of dealing with the past--whether through truth commissions, lustration, or tribunals--but the very...
Calhoun innovatively examines how the ideology of liberal democracy influences one of the most contentious and potentially traumatic and divisive issu...
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193,19 zł |
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Germany on the Road to Normalcy: Policies and Politics of the Red-Green Federal Government (1998-2002)
ISBN: 9781403964397 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many thought that the 'German question', that had shaped European history so catastrophically in the last century, had been solved for good in 1990. And the last elections seemed to confirm that Germany was on the road to 'normalcy'. However, at the beginning of the new century, many see Germany as a problem case in Europe. This raises the question about the future of Germany and the performance of the incumbent government. The book addresses these issues by examining the policies and politics of the Red-Green government and by putting recent changes and developments in this country in a...
Many thought that the 'German question', that had shaped European history so catastrophically in the last century, had been solved for good in 1990. A...
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193,19 zł |
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Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition
ISBN: 9781403964489 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume draws on the experience of those who have lived through and studied the transition and contrasts their insights with those of generalist scholars who study government accountability and democracy. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition,...
Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutio...
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193,19 zł |