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Democracy In America
ISBN: 9781857151794 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A description of American political life, which describes American society and accounts for its nature and its conflicts in an historical analysis of the nation's origins among different parties of European settlers.
A description of American political life, which describes American society and accounts for its nature and its conflicts in an historical analysis of ...
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101,83 zł |
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Devolution in the United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780192801289 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of devolution has often been one for polemic rather than reasoned analysis.This title places developments in the United Kingdom in their historical context, examining political and constitutional aspects of devolution in Britain from Gladstone's espousal of Home Rule in 1886 right up to the 1998 legislation governing the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
The issue of devolution has often been one for polemic rather than reasoned analysis.This title places developments in the United Kingdom in their his...
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102,83 zł |
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War and Peace in Mozambique
ISBN: 9780333681350 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book traces the end of hostilities and the often acrimonious, sometimes naive, but always laboured negotiations towards peace and elections in Mozambique. There is careful examination of the many international factors involved from the covert intervention of South Africa, the reaction of one African state, the role of the United Nations and that of humanitarian and religious groups. The lessons for conflict resolution and peacekeeping for Africa and beyond are discussed.
The book traces the end of hostilities and the often acrimonious, sometimes naive, but always laboured negotiations towards peace and elections in Moz...
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576,96 zł |
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Towards Illiberal Democracy
ISBN: 9780333613993 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges the view that liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of economic modernization. Focusing on the stable and prosperous societies of Pacific Asia, it argues that contemporary political arrangements are legitimised by the values of hierarchy, familism and harmony. An arrangement that clearly contrasts with a western understanding of political liberalism and the communicatory democracy it facilitates. Instead of political change resulting from a demand for autonomy by interest groups in civil society, the adoption of democratic practice in Asia ought to be viewed...
This book challenges the view that liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of economic modernization. Focusing on the stable and prosperous societ...
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384,63 zł |
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Politics in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9780521275705 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Moses Finley explores politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome and their impact on our understanding of the ancient world.
Sir Moses Finley explores politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome and their impact on our understanding of the ancient world.
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183,49 zł |
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A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt
ISBN: 9781860644429 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recent history and politics of Egypt illuminates the tortuous and often contradictory relationship between liberalization and democracy in Third World countries. Eberhard Kienle argues that the much-vaunted reform and liberalization of Egypt's economy has been partial and selective, far from benefiting everybody. The author looks at how economic reform and liberalization have failed to produce a greater degree of political democracy: notions of elective pluralism, political accountability, clean elections, a genuinely free press, and the containment of police powers, which have turned out...
The recent history and politics of Egypt illuminates the tortuous and often contradictory relationship between liberalization and democracy in Third W...
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127,38 zł |
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The Presidency of the European Commission Under Jacques Delors: The Politics of Shared Leadership
ISBN: 9780333721018 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is the first systematic study of the presidency of the European Commission. Drawing upon cases of attempted leadership by Jacques Delors, the Commission President from 1985-95, it examines the leadership capacity of the office-holder. This points to the inherently shared and contingent nature of Commission President's leadership in a Union where the leadership sources are widely dispersed. While this is essentially an empirical study, Endo addresses some of the theoretical implications of its findings and resulting issues.
This work is the first systematic study of the presidency of the European Commission. Drawing upon cases of attempted leadership by Jacques Delors, th...
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384,63 zł |
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Political Perspectives on the Muslim World
ISBN: 9780333360583 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is designed to serve as an introduction to the political situation of the Muslim World and to bridge the gap between theoretical and descriptive studies.
This study is designed to serve as an introduction to the political situation of the Muslim World and to bridge the gap between theoretical and descri...
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384,63 zł |
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The Age of Upheaval: Edwardian Politics 1899-1914
ISBN: 9780719036965 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all were under attack, while organized labour and the feminist movement displayed an unprecedented assertiveness and aggression. Drawing on a variety of sources, this work examines what made these years the most politically turbulent between the Chartist era and today. It emphasizes the long shadow cast by the South African War, and the...
A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Vi...
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107,26 zł |
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Leadership in Conflict: The Lessons of History
ISBN: 9780333651711 / Angielski / Miękka / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's sustained and violent political conflicts raise the issue of how a single leader can successfully resolve such persistent turmoil. Steven Davis uses a sample of 25 effective leaders drawn from a wide historical universe to determine that the paradigm of effective leadership consists of strong direction, acute sensitivity to followers' needs and sustained energy in pursuing this direction. Finally Mr Davis shows how this historical model is relevant for the use of today's leaders.
Today's sustained and violent political conflicts raise the issue of how a single leader can successfully resolve such persistent turmoil. Steven Davi...
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192,30 zł |
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The Middle East in Global Change: The Politics and Economics of Interdependence Versus Fragmentation
ISBN: 9780333670798 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the prospects of the Middle East region moving 'from a warfare to a welfare'? A group of leading scholars of the MIddle East and North Africa (political scientists, economists, sociologists, strategic analysts, and historians) adopt a common political economy approach to answer this much debated question.
What are the prospects of the Middle East region moving 'from a warfare to a welfare'? A group of leading scholars of the MIddle East and North Africa...
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384,63 zł |
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Living with the European Union: The Northern Ireland Experience
ISBN: 9780333753804 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The experience of one region over 25 years within the European Union forms the basis of an examination of how the EU impacts on a region's economy, on its society and on its particular problems. In the case of Northern Ireland, inclusion in the European Union has coincided with the most sustained campaign of political terrorism in western Europe.
The experience of one region over 25 years within the European Union forms the basis of an examination of how the EU impacts on a region's economy, on...
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384,63 zł |
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Lights, Camera, Campaign!: Media, Politics, and Political Advertising
ISBN: 9780820468310 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television sets the tone for American political advertising through paid advertisements, the nightly news, and even late-night talk shows. This anthology explores the reality of political advertising in the media the impact of negative ads, what constitutes a good ad, new strategies, ads for specific audiences (different ethnic groups) and campaigns (such as that of Arnold Schwarzenegger in California), advertising for ballot initiatives and examines the role of the news in political campaigns as well as that of politics as entertainment on late-night television. This book will be useful in...
Television sets the tone for American political advertising through paid advertisements, the nightly news, and even late-night talk shows. This anthol...
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253,16 zł |
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European Portugal
ISBN: 9780333654156 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the Europeanization of the Portuguese political system in the context of globalization and the so-called Third Wave of Democratization. It pursues the thesis that democratization and Europeanization are two intertwined processes in the case of Portugal. Integration into the European Union has changed considerably the rationalities within the political structures of the Portuguese political system. Furthermore, the author stresses the necessity to encourage greater political participation of the population and to evolve towards a project of sustainable democracy.
This book analyses the Europeanization of the Portuguese political system in the context of globalization and the so-called Third Wave of Democratizat...
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384,63 zł |
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European Political Facts, 1848-1918
ISBN: 9780333151006 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In compiling this volume the editors have aimed to gather together, in one volume, as many of the important political facts as possible for a critical period of European history.
In compiling this volume the editors have aimed to gather together, in one volume, as many of the important political facts as possible for a critical...
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384,63 zł |
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Designer Politics: How Elections Are Won
ISBN: 9780333586716 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to offer a serious examination of the phenomenon of political marketing in Britain. It presents an analysis of the increasingly influential role of the image-makers and casts a critical eye over the debate concerning the impact of marketing on political conduct and governance. Its primary focus is party and government communications in the Thatcher era and beyond, up to and including the 1992 general election. It argues that Thatcher, despite her image as the resolute politician, pioneered marketing techniques and concepts which have since become standard practice....
This is the first book to offer a serious examination of the phenomenon of political marketing in Britain. It presents an analysis of the increasingly...
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384,63 zł |
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Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia
ISBN: 9780333644911 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Socio-economic and political issues are dealt with selectively within a chronological historical framework, covering the dramatic colonial impact of 1940-60 until the present day. The state is examined from the point of view of social class as well as communalism, to explain the dominance of the ruling coalition over the 37 years since independence. The author argues that authoritarian-populism is the concept that best fits the apparent paradox of an enduring regime via the ballot box, and the extensive restrictions on the scope of democracy, particularly through the repressive apparatus of...
Socio-economic and political issues are dealt with selectively within a chronological historical framework, covering the dramatic colonial impact of 1...
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384,63 zł |
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The African State in Transition
ISBN: 9780333415665 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conducive to self-sustained development. What are the reasons for this sorry state of affairs? What can be done to reverse that unfortunate trend? These are the two overarching questions with which this book attempts to grapple.
In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conduciv...
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576,96 zł |
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Asad in Search of Legitimacy
ISBN: 9781902210742 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Syrian regime, ruled by the Ba th socialist party and headed by presidents from the Alawi minority, faces problems of legitimacy vis-a-vis its people, which it tackles through powerful security organizations and the state media. The government media machine exists to express the regime s viewpoint in both local and external spheres, and to promote acceptance of the legitimacy of Asad s presidency and government. The media also attempts to mobilize the masses to act in the service of the state by disseminating information which reflects Asad s position on current issues. The organs of the...
The Syrian regime, ruled by the Ba th socialist party and headed by presidents from the Alawi minority, faces problems of legitimacy vis-a-vis its peo...
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536,55 zł |
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New Governance - New Democracy? : Post-devolution Wales
ISBN: 9780708316788 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The creation of the National Assembly for Wales and Scottish Parliament has altered the democratic landscape of the UK. In assuming many policy and adminstraitve responsiblities previously held by the central government, the Welsh assembly promises innovation in governance and there are high expectations that devolution will bring about significant changes in Welsh life. New Governance - New Democracy? questions whether these expectations are likely to be fulfiled. Drawing on interviews with many of the people who have influenced the devolution experiment, from poltitions to ordinary...
The creation of the National Assembly for Wales and Scottish Parliament has altered the democratic landscape of the UK. In assuming many policy and ad...
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120,13 zł |