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The Anatomy of Thatcherism
ISBN: 9781560001065 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Anatomy of Thatcherism explains how, for the first time in British history, a prime minister's name has become an 'Ism'--a symbol of a profound social change. Letwin argues that Thatcherism promoted a moral agenda rather than an economic doctrine or a political theory in order to achieve a fundamental realignment in British politics. She introduces a new term--"the vigorous virtues"--to describe what Thatcherites have aimed to cultivate in Individual Britons and In the country as a whole. Her definition of Thatcherism is supported by a detailed analysis of the principal... The Anatomy of Thatcherism explains how, for the first time in British history, a prime minister's name has become an 'Ism'--a symbol of a... |
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693,51 zł |
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Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance & Security
ISBN: 9781606923382 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Operation Iraqi Freedom overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime, but much of Iraq remains violent because of Sunni Arab resentment and a related insurgency, compounded by Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence that, in the judgment of many, constitutes a 'civil war'.
Operation Iraqi Freedom overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime, but much of Iraq remains violent because of Sunni Arab resentment and a related insurgency,...
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272,21 zł |
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State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9781137369598 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "Arab Spring" has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the politics of identity and the historical and political processes that have shaped development. This book focuses on how these factors interact with globalization and affect state formation.
For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "Arab Spring" has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the poli...
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193,63 zł |
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Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo
ISBN: 9780521113564 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structures in the Ahafo region of Ghana since the arrival of the British. There has been much academic writing about African policies in the past but it has not on the whole been very successful in illuminating to outsiders what political conflicts in African countries are concerned with or what political actors in Africa understand themselves to be doing. This is particularly true in the case of the political actions of those who, like the great...
First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structur...
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235,44 zł |
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Democracy in Colombia: Clientelistic Politics and Guerrilla Warfare
ISBN: 9780887382291 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In what is destined to prove the definitive text for the present generation on the political, economic, and social structure of Colombia, Jorge Pablo Osterling explores the enigmatic nature of this special, even critical, anchor to the northern tier of South America. In many ways, Colombia is a huge success story: it is one of the oldest, most stable, functioning democracies; the land is blessed with rich and diversified resources and products; and its foreign debt has been kept in check as a consequence of sound economic management. But despite its positive social, cultural,... In what is destined to prove the definitive text for the present generation on the political, economic, and social structure of Colombia, Jorge Pa... |
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513,66 zł |
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David Duke and the Politics of Race in the South: Fame Across Borders
ISBN: 9780826512666 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thought-provoking examination of the constituencies and the impact of one of the most controversial political figures of our time. Journalists have thoroughly documented David Duke's rise to prominence in Louisiana politics, but until now, few intensive analyses of the Duke phenomenon have been undertaken. This new collection identifies the significant junctures of Duke's political career, from its earliest beginnings to his recent campaigns for governor, the Senate, and the Presidency. Through a variety of methods and approaches, the contributors to this work advance our understanding of...
A thought-provoking examination of the constituencies and the impact of one of the most controversial political figures of our time. Journalists have ...
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241,79 zł |
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The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 1919-1929
ISBN: 9780415553940 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a study of Fascism in its country of origin, Italy. It describes the impact of a new type of political movement on Italian government and society. The Fascist seizure of power did not begin or end with Mussolini's famous March on Rome in 1922; it was achieved rather by gradual subversion of the liberal order, which involved not only the destruction of all political opposition but also the creation of new institutions designed to control economic and cultural life. A classic work of wide-ranging scholarship, this book is here republished with a new preface by the author and will...
This volume is a study of Fascism in its country of origin, Italy. It describes the impact of a new type of political movement on Italian government a...
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277,36 zł |
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Corruption and Good Governance in Asia
ISBN: 9780415546669 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption at a national and international level. Taking a country by country approach the text explores:
The volume outlines key principles of good governance and the policies and practices... Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultim... |
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225,98 zł |
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Weapons of Mass Persuasion; Strategic Communication to Combat Violent Extremism
ISBN: 9781433101977 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the political and diplomatic environment post-9/11 this book articulates the role of human communication in the -war of ideas-. Drawing on contemporary research from a variety of disciplines, this book offers analyses and recommendations for people to make use of informed, inspired, and ethical communication to counter ideological support for terrorism and to promote more effective public diplomacy.
This is the first book to apply human... Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the...
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283,35 zł |
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Non Dimenticare Capo Di Tutti Capi
ISBN: 9781436399210 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,38 zł |
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Dispersed Democratic Leadership: Origins, Dynamics, and Implications
ISBN: 9780199562992 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dispersed Democratic Leadership examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a topic that has been relatively neglected by a political science literature dominated by studies of executive power. Individual chapters investigate the many loci of leadership found in modern democracies, some ancient and some newly emergent, some institutionalized and some ad-hoc, some self-consciously political and some avowedly a-political. In assessing the effects of leadership dispersal, the book argues that understanding how policies are...
Dispersed Democratic Leadership examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a t...
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210,65 zł |
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Russian Bureaucracy and the State: Officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin
ISBN: 9780230228849 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russian Bureaucracy and the State provides a rich and innovative assessment of Russian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the work assesses the organization, personnel, and practices of officialdom across three different Russian regimes tsarist, Soviet and postcommunist."
Russian Bureaucracy and the State provides a rich and innovative assessment of Russian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. From a variety of discipl...
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193,63 zł |
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Democracy Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780739124802 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies. Led by the provocative observations of Lawler, a member of President...
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler...
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589,42 zł |
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Democracy Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780739124819 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies.
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler...
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243,34 zł |
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Communication of Politics : Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing: 8th Inte
ISBN: 9780789021595 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helps you learn how political marketing and public relations affect the electoral process. This book examines how communication and marketing experts influence politics. It reviews the advances in political communication management and marketing through a cross-cultural integration of research and theoretical approaches.
Helps you learn how political marketing and public relations affect the electoral process. This book examines how communication and marketing experts ...
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205,43 zł |
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Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East: The Cases of Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq
ISBN: 9780230600409 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. Hybrid sovereignty is used as an analytical tool to explain the survival of traditional patterns and forms of authority within the formal modern statehood. The author looks at various issue areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral engineering, the failure of central rule, tribalism, and the lack of impersonal bureaucratic mechanism. He concludes that based on the problems at state-society level boundaries of statehood, the Arab state...
This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. Hybrid sovereignty is use...
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193,63 zł |
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The United States: An Experiment in Democracy
ISBN: 9780765806376 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American classic is an engaging, gracefully rendered piece of historical literature as well as a non-ideological meditation on the "meaning of... According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they wou... |
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225,98 zł |
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Force and Ideas: The Early Writings
ISBN: 9780765806208 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The acclaim for Lippmann the political thinker has at times obscured the equally impressive accomplishments of Lippmann the journalist. His output was prodigious, his influence on journalism significant. According to James Reston: -He has given a generation of newspapermen a wider vision of their duty.- Early Writings provides a unique opportunity to rediscover this journalistic Lippmann and to observe the formative years of a brilliant mind. In 1913, just three years out of Harvard, Lippmann was asked by Herbert Croly to help plan and edit a new -weekly of ideas, - the... The acclaim for Lippmann the political thinker has at times obscured the equally impressive accomplishments of Lippmann the journalist. His output... |
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220,85 zł |
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What Are Campaigns For? the Role of Persuasion in Electoral Law and Politics
ISBN: 9780195392616 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Election campaigns ought to be serious occasions in the life of a democratic polity. For citizens of a democracy, an election is a time to take stock-to reexamine our beliefs; to review our understanding of our own interests; to ponder the place of those interests in the larger social order; and to contemplate, and if necessary to revise, our understanding of how our commitments are best translated into governmental policy-or so we profess to believe. Americans, however, are haunted by the fear that our election campaigns fall far short of the ideal to which we aspire. The typical modern...
Election campaigns ought to be serious occasions in the life of a democratic polity. For citizens of a democracy, an election is a time to take stock-...
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303,18 zł |
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State Building & Democracy in Africa: A Comparative & Developmental Approach
ISBN: 9781607413714 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The central concern of this study is power and influence and how African countries can obtain and use them properly for the common good of the people. It aims to open new vistas to students and the reading public who are beginning to learn about state-building, democracy and development in countries other than their own.
The central concern of this study is power and influence and how African countries can obtain and use them properly for the common good of the people....
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503,39 zł |