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Religion and Democracy in the United States: Danger or Opportunity?
ISBN: 9780691147291 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues such as abortion is fueled by opposition in the Catholic Church and among conservative Protestants, candidates for the presidency are questioned about their religious beliefs, and the separation of church and state remains hotly contested. While the examination of religion's influence in politics has long been neglected, in the last decade the subject has finally garnered the attention it deserves. In Religion and Democracy in the United... The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues... |
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243,34 zł |
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Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93: Transformations and Continuities
ISBN: 9780415590471 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in the East Asia region since 1943. This fascinating work, completed and edited by Chad Mitcham, one of Ralph Smith's former students, himself a specialist and established author in this field, draws together the product of Professor Smith's research at archives in Britain, France, Japan and the United States, extensive reading and international travel from 1966 to 2000. The book also incorporates a distillation of ideas and themes explored in his...
Ralph Smith was a highly respected historian who, at the time of his death in December 2000, had nearly completed a manuscript chronicling changes in ...
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205,43 zł |
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Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco
ISBN: 9780415589482 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East. Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such a... |
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225,98 zł |
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Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Spain and Turkey
ISBN: 9780415591614 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar characteristics, has not? Spain, Italy and Turkey have shared common historical features which would have been disruptive to any new democracy; however they represent a wide array of democratization experiences. Providing a comparative case study analysis, this book offers some clues as to the reasons for successful transitions to democracy. This is done through a range of variables which include:
Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which share... |
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154,07 zł |
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Pursuits of Justice: Politics by Essay
ISBN: 9781604943917 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Justice is the act of giving back, restoring, or making something right. Everyone in politics is in the justice business in one form or another. "Pursuits of Justice" is a collection of speeches and writings completed during the course of Dave Bradley's eight-year tenure in the Arizona State House of Representatives. These writings represent Bradley's thoughts during his elective career. They are not meant to be a broad, sweeping treatise on public policy or political philosophy. Instead, Bradley hopes others may find his writings interesting and helpful in developing their own political...
Justice is the act of giving back, restoring, or making something right. Everyone in politics is in the justice business in one form or another. "Purs...
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71,37 zł |
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Ottomans Into Europeans: State and Institution-Building in South Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9781849040563 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wim Van Meurs and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi have completed the first book on the history of institutions in the Balkans, commissioning a host of experts to write on the bureaucracies, judiciaries, democratic elections, free media, and local and central governments that rule the region.
The essays in this volume examine the selection, evolution, and performance of such entities within a post-Ottoman Balkan state and account for their regional variations. At the same time, they address the commonalities and differences between individual countries in Southeastern and Western Europe, deciphering... Wim Van Meurs and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi have completed the first book on the history of institutions in the Balkans, commissioning a host of experts to...
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280,00 zł |
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Ecology of War & Peace: Counting Costs of Conflict
ISBN: 9780761817888 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are possible, non-violent solutions to the ecological- conflict dynamic? Ecology of War & Peace attempts to answer these questions in readable prose with an unapologetic bias toward non-violence.
How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are possible, non-viole...
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412,98 zł |
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Same OLE or Something New
ISBN: 9781450086882 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,38 zł |
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Same OLE or Something New
ISBN: 9781450086899 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,11 zł |
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Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism from the Clubhouse to the White House and Beyond
ISBN: 9781594515927 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political patronage - awarding discretionary favors in exchange for political support - is alive and well in 21st century America. This book examines the little understood patronage system, showing how it is used by 'pinstripe' elites to subvert the democratic process. 'Pinstripe patronage' thrives on the billions of dollars distributed by government for the privatisation of public services. Martin and Susan Tolchin introduce us to government grants specified for the use of an individual, corporation, or community and 'hybrid agencies', with high salaries for top executives and board members....
Political patronage - awarding discretionary favors in exchange for political support - is alive and well in 21st century America. This book examines ...
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539,40 zł |
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Cheese Factories on the Moon: Why Earmarks Are Good for American Democracy
ISBN: 9781594517303 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has become part of US political convention to attack 'earmarks' - legislative provisions that direct funds to specific projects - as wasteful and corrupt. In this provocative book Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q. Kelly argue that in fact earmarks are good for American democracy. Using extensive interviews with Washington insiders and detailed examples they illustrate how earmark projects that were pilloried in fact responded to the legitimate needs of local communities, needs that would otherwise have gone unmet. They also demonstrate that media coverage of earmarks tends to be superficial and...
It has become part of US political convention to attack 'earmarks' - legislative provisions that direct funds to specific projects - as wasteful and c...
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796,26 zł |
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China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion and Collective Identities
ISBN: 9780415600163 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors analyse aspects of today's China, including economic changes, the search for a social compact in urban China, the identification of new social conflicts that coexist with the dialectics of control & cohesion, & the problem of nation building and collective identities.
The authors analyse aspects of today's China, including economic changes, the search for a social compact in urban China, the identification of new so...
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225,98 zł |
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Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand
ISBN: 9780415600040 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of 'class factors', this title brings workers back from the margins, demonstrating that the state has been entangled in processes that determine the forms of their struggles.
Argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusio...
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225,98 zł |
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Leadership in International Relations: The Balance of Power and the Origins of World War II
ISBN: 9780230106901 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a stable international system, is a deliberate act of policy and that leaders play a determinative role in building an effective balance.
Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a ...
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387,30 zł |
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Transitions from Authoritarianism: The Role of the Bureaucracy
ISBN: 9780275964580 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baker and his colleagues provide a blend of the theoretical and the empirical evidence in an examination of the nature of bureaucracy under non-democratic, authoritarian forms of government, whether on the right, as in Portugal, or the left, as in Bulgaria. In all these instances, the bureaucracy was constructed to serve the distorted interests of centralized, unaccountable power. Following the remarkable spread of democracy in the seventies in Iberia, the eighties in much of Latin America, parts of Asia and Africa, and the nineties in the former USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries, the... Baker and his colleagues provide a blend of the theoretical and the empirical evidence in an examination of the nature of bureaucracy under non-dem... |
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566,30 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Political Communication in the United States
ISBN: 9780313295454 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries of political communication in this country. The intent is to highlight those events and ideas that still have significance today--thus from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the threshold of the 21st century. The history of political communication and how that history has repeated itself is examined in this volume. Entries arranged from A to Z, deal with freedom of the press and the major threats to freedom of the press;... Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries... |
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265,67 zł |
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Popular Leadership in the Presidency: Origins and Practice
ISBN: 9780739144190 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While most research on the public presidency focuses on modern presidents, this book demonstrates how the structure of the executive encourages a connection with the public for all presidents. An examination of the first four presidents in Popular Leadership in the Presidency reveals their methods of public persuasion as well as the influence of their structural position.
While most research on the public presidency focuses on modern presidents, this book demonstrates how the structure of the executive encourages a conn...
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497,49 zł |
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Popular Leadership in the Presidency: Origins and Practice
ISBN: 9780739144206 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While most research on the public presidency focuses on modern presidents, this book demonstrates how the structure of the executive encourages a connection with the public for all presidents. An examination of the first four presidents in Popular Leadership in the Presidency reveals their methods of public persuasion as well as the influence of their structural position.
While most research on the public presidency focuses on modern presidents, this book demonstrates how the structure of the executive encourages a conn...
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243,34 zł |
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Mapping Value Orientations in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9789004185623 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working of democracy, the public support for, legitimacy and efficacy of democracy and the free market economy, a
This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working ...
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619,07 zł |
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Francogallia
ISBN: 9780521153188 / Angielski / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For at least two centuries after its first appearance in 1573 Hotman's Francogallia influenced the way in which men regarded the European past and appraised the validity of political institutions. The intricate collation of the variorum Latin readings by Professor Giesey here demonstrates that nearly half the complete work consists of material added by Hotman to later editions in such a manner as substantially to modify the argument and balance of the original Francogallia. This definitive Latin edition contains a facing English translation by Professor Salmon, and a joint introduction in...
For at least two centuries after its first appearance in 1573 Hotman's Francogallia influenced the way in which men regarded the European past and app...
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315,61 zł |