The First World Presidency: George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993
ISBN: 9781934844090 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,61 zł |
Blogging the Political: Politics and Participation in a Networked Society
ISBN: 9780415963411 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium's ubiquity, the impact of political blogging on politics and civic engagemment has not been systematically examined. In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access to the media by common citizens is limited, blogs have the power to change the political landscape. Blogging the Political catalogs the individuals engaged in political blogging, explains why they started blogging, and examines what they hope to gain from it. The larger question at... The popular blog-tracking site technorati.com reports the existance of well over one hundred million blogs. Despite the medium's ubiquity, the impa... |
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770,57 zł |
Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation
ISBN: 9780521514774 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision making process? At a time when there is growing disillusionment with the institutions of advanced industrial democracies, there is also increasing interest in new ways of involving citizens in the political decisions that affect their lives. This book draws together evidence from a variety of democratic innovations from around the world, including participatory budgeting in Brazil, Citizens' Assemblies on Electoral Reform in Canada, direct legislation in California and Switzerland and emerging...
Can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision making process? At a time when there is growing di...
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656,38 zł |
Developing a Transformation Agenda for Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9781920118785 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing a Transformation Agenda for Zimbabwe analyses the political and economic constraints on the nation's reconstruction and democratic transformation and suggests options for transformation in key sectors as well as lessons learnt from other transformations. The challenges in relation to transitional justice are analysed from an historical context as well as in light of the political dynamics in the country. The urgent need to launch a stabilisation programme is discussed, along with key issues for economic reconstruction. The book also looks at military involvement in politics in...
Developing a Transformation Agenda for Zimbabwe analyses the political and economic constraints on the nation's reconstruction and democratic transfor...
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176,37 zł |
The Unsustainable American State
ISBN: 9780195392142 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. The crisis exposed the system's manifold political and economic dysfunctionalities. Featuring a cast of leading scholars working at the intersection of political science and American history, The Unsustainable American State is a historically informed account of the American state's development from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses in particular on the...
The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis reveale...
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135,22 zł |
The Presidency and Women; Promise, Performance & Illusion
ISBN: 9781603441544 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "By identifying the parallel emergence of the women's movement and the growth in the executive branch, Martin skillfully demonstrates how our political system can accommodate the demand for change and also maintain a stable government."--"Perspectives on Political Science " "Martin's analysis provides overdue insight into the relationship between the presidency as an institution and women as a leading interest group."--"National Journal "
"By identifying the parallel emergence of the women's movement and the growth in the executive branch, Martin skillfully demonstrates how our politica...
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137,79 zł |
Renewing Goverance: Governing by Learning in the Information Age
ISBN: 9780195414257 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book outlines the work and findings of an action research program undertaken by senior Canadian government officials and private sector executives, exploring the implications for governance of a global information society. It also presents four senarios of how the information society may reshape the environment for governance as we move into the next century.
This book outlines the work and findings of an action research program undertaken by senior Canadian government officials and private sector executive...
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238,74 zł |
Skeletons in the Closet
ISBN: 9780521514453 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tackles three puzzles of pacted transitions to democracy. First, why do autocrats ever step down from power peacefully if they know that they may be held accountable for their involvement in the ancien regime? Second, when does the opposition indeed refrain from meting out punishment to the former autocrats once the transition is complete? Third, why, in some countries, does transitional justice get adopted when successors of former communists hold parliamentary majorities? Monika Nalepa argues that infiltration of the opposition with collaborators of the authoritarian regime can...
This book tackles three puzzles of pacted transitions to democracy. First, why do autocrats ever step down from power peacefully if they know that the...
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531,11 zł |
Rethinking State Politics in India: Regions Within Regions
ISBN: 9781138228863 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, India has been witness to the assertion of geographically, culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined regions that display ethnic, communal, caste and other social-political cleavages. This book examines the changing configurations of state politics in India. Focussing on identity politics and development, it explores the specificities of the regions within states -- not merely as politico-administrative constructs but also as conceived in historical, geographic, economic, sociological or cultural terms. Adopting a comparative... In recent decades, India has been witness to the assertion of geographically, culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined reg... |
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190,02 zł |
Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics: Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines
ISBN: 9780739133071 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society sector. This collection has chapters on the Freedom from Debt Coalition's campaign on debt relief, the Stop-the-New-Round Coalition's advocacy to change international trade rules and barriers, the global...
The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalizat...
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243,34 zł |
Gender and Political Communication in America: Rhetoric, Representation, and Display
ISBN: 9780739131084 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender and Political Communication in America is a comprehensive anthology of work that investigates, from a rhetorical and critical standpoint, the intersection and mutual influences of gender and political communication. Building on existing theory and research, the contributors update and interrogate contemporary issues of gendered politics applicable to the 21st century, including the historic 2008 election.
Gender and Political Communication in America is a comprehensive anthology of work that investigates, from a rhetorical and critical standpoint, the i...
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270,38 zł |
Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
ISBN: 9780472114504 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences." "This delightfully written and accessible book is the best available account of the changes in culture, society, and politics that have given us Barack Obama's America." "From one of the nation's foremost experts on how values shape our politics, a clear and... "White's Barack Obama's America eloquently captures both the important nuances of the current political scene and its long-term consequences... |
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324,45 zł |
Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
ISBN: 9780472033911 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. States that Barack Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts. This book tells about contemporary politics, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and about the changes happening in America, the ones that we live day in and day out as part of our personal lives.
States that Barack Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts. This book...
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140,32 zł |
Governing Subjects: An Introduction to the Study of Politics
ISBN: 9780415998895 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to the study of politics this book examines governance wherever it occurs, whether informal institutions, markets, social interactions, workplaces, or cultural, ecological, and even psychological settings. Balbus highlights the ideas of key thinkers in politics across every major component of the discipline.
An introduction to the study of politics this book examines governance wherever it occurs, whether informal institutions, markets, social interactions...
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Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments
ISBN: 9780253221698 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments examines the life and work of women who have reached positions of political power after the end of communism in Europe. It explores the roles they have adopted, the relationships they have cultivated, and the agendas they have pursued. Much of the literature on women in post-Communist states has focused on one or two countries. This volume treats the issues comparatively, in six countries the Czech Republic, Germany (with a focus on the former GDR), Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Russia. It also includes interviews with and written statements... Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments examines the life and work of women who have reached positions of political power after the end of com... |
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112,97 zł |
Who Decides, and How?: Preferences, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice in the European Parliament
ISBN: 9780199572557 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do individual legislators in the European Parliament (EP) make decisions on the wide variety of policy proposals they routinely confront? Despite a flourishing literature on the European Union's only directly elected institution, we know surprisingly little about the micro-foundations of EP politics. Who Decides, and How? seeks to address this shortcoming by examining how individual legislators make policy choices, how these choices are aggregated, and what role parties and committees play in this process. It argues that members of the EP lack adequate resources to make equally informed...
How do individual legislators in the European Parliament (EP) make decisions on the wide variety of policy proposals they routinely confront? Despite ...
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578,14 zł |
Presidential Transitions: Backgrounds & Issues
ISBN: 9781607411246 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The constitutional transfer of power and authority from an incumbent American President to a successor is a momentous occasion in American government. This book presents issues dealing with major aspects of these critical transitions.
The constitutional transfer of power and authority from an incumbent American President to a successor is a momentous occasion in American government....
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436,60 zł |
Challenges of Administrative Political & Developmental Renewal in Africa: Emerging Issues
ISBN: 9781607412656 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributes to the debate on Democratisation, Governance and Development since the collapse of the Communist System and Africa's Lost Decades of the 1980s. This book deals with a variety of issues that could be categorised under the context of nationalism,
Contributes to the debate on Democratisation, Governance and Development since the collapse of the Communist System and Africa's Lost Decades of the 1...
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436,60 zł |
Challenges of Administrative Political & Developmental Renewal in Africa: Essays on Rethinking Government & Reorganization
ISBN: 9781607412663 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These series seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on democratisation, governance and development since the collapse of the communist system and Africa's lost decades of the 1980s.
These series seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on democratisation, governance and development since the collapse of the communist system and A...
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344,14 zł |
Identity in Northern Ireland: Communities, Politics and Change
ISBN: 9780333740187 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By focusing on the possibilities for change created by the dynamics of European integration and the Anglo-Irish political process, this book provides a refreshing account of communal identity in Northern Ireland. The book argues that such a shift in conditions has major implications for Northern Irish Nationalist and Ulster Unionist identities.
By focusing on the possibilities for change created by the dynamics of European integration and the Anglo-Irish political process, this book provides ...
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387,30 zł |