Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
ISBN: 9780231161916 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and anthropologists examine the theory and practice of Indonesia's democratic transition and its ability to serve as a model for other Muslim countries. They compare the Indonesian example with similar scenarios in...
Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic tr...
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Political Mischief: Smear, Sabotage, and Reform in U.S. Elections
ISBN: 9780275941833 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An old pro on political mischief in the United States gives us an overview of U.S. campaign tactics and ethics from eighteenth-century pamphleteers to campaign consultants and media wizards in the 1990s. Bruce Felknor analyzes negative campaigning today within the context of the evolution of our electoral system. He offers a candid report on the media's influence on politics and shows how political reforms from the Progressive Era to Watergate have often misfired. Students of government and communications, political consultants and professional politicians, and all readers who want to vote... An old pro on political mischief in the United States gives us an overview of U.S. campaign tactics and ethics from eighteenth-century pamphleteers... |
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The 1992 Presidential Debates in Focus
ISBN: 9780275948467 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The results of a focus group research project, sponsored by the Commission of Presidential Debates and conducted during the 1992 presidential and vice presidential debates, are reported. The study involved 625 participants from 17 states who met in 60 focus groups held during the period of the debates. Focus group participants answered questions regarding what they learned from the debates, how they assessed the formats, what improvements they wanted in future debates, and how information provided by the debates compared with that from other news sources. The 14 chapters of this volume... The results of a focus group research project, sponsored by the Commission of Presidential Debates and conducted during the 1992 presidential and v... |
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The Everyday Life of the State: A State-In-Society Approach
ISBN: 9780295992556 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal rules governing human interaction to the statute books of one state or another, in reality the words in these books often have little bearing upon what is happening on the ground. Their meanings are intentionally and unintentionally misrepresented by those who are supposed to enforce them and by those who are supposed to obey them,... Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Ye... |
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The Everyday Life of the State: A State-In-Society Approach
ISBN: 9780295992563 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal rules governing human interaction to the statute books of one state or another, in reality the words in these books often have little bearing upon what is happening on the ground. Their meanings are intentionally and unintentionally misrepresented by those who are supposed to enforce them and by those who are supposed to obey them,... Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Ye... |
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144,90 zł |
Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in the American City
ISBN: 9780300103922 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of political power in American urban communities. For this new edition, Robert A. Dahl has written a new Preface in which he reflects on Who Governs? more than four decades after its publication. And in a new Foreword, Douglas W. Rae offers an assessment of Dahl's achievement in this, Dahl's greatest and most influential book. "Dahl is never dogmatic, and never imagines that the world stands still to accommodate either the democratic...
In this now-classic work, one of the most celebrated political scientists of the twentieth century offers a powerful interpretation of the location of...
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Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order
ISBN: 9780333573051 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.
This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reason...
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227,73 zł |
Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France
ISBN: 9780333609729 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absolutist state in France have challenged the orthodox vision of the interaction between the crown and elite society. Using the three examples of Provence, Brittany, and Dauphine, Bohanan illustrates the ways in which elites organized and mobilized by vertical ties were co-opted or subverted by the crown.
This book analyzes the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of th...
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170,79 zł |
The Politics of Urban Governance
ISBN: 9780333732687 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This broad-ranging new text analyses the shape of urban politics and governance in the 21st century. The author identifies 4 main 'models' of urban governance - 'management', 'corporatist'. 'pro-growth' and 'welfare' - and assesses their different implications for the major issues, interests and problems in the contemporary urban arena.
This broad-ranging new text analyses the shape of urban politics and governance in the 21st century. The author identifies 4 main 'models' of urban go...
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207,03 zł |
Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Era
ISBN: 9780333748473 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text seeks to understand the problematic relationship between liberal democracy and contemporary citizenship by tracing the links between conceptual debates about these issues and the specific social, political and historical dynamics of a host of different countries. Offering a careful blend of theoretical discussion and case study material, it provides an introduction to both sociologies of citizenship and politics of democracy and a fascinating series of overviews of particular nation states. Class, race, gender and globalization are recurring themes in the book, which addresses the...
This text seeks to understand the problematic relationship between liberal democracy and contemporary citizenship by tracing the links between concept...
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217,38 zł |
Dynamics of Democratization : Elites, Civil Society and the Transition Process
ISBN: 9780333801970 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give way to democratic ones. The book takes issue with the predominantly elite-centred focus of much of the literature, and illustrates how an understanding of democratization can be gained only if the role of civil society is taken into account.
The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give way to democratic ones. The book tak...
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Politics and the Media in Britain
ISBN: 9780333926901 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new text provides an up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between politics and the media in Britain, from ownership and globalization to pressure groups and the role of the media in elections.
This important new text provides an up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between politics and the media in Britain, from ownership and ...
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Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance
ISBN: 9780333987254 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Graham Harrison investigates contemporary African politics by privileging the dynamics of political struggle and resistance. Through the analysis of peasant politics, debt and structural adjustment, democratization and identity politics, the author shows the importance of resistance and agency. Detailed studies of Mozambique, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso demonstrate how political organization and resistance have been closely ingrained in particular post-colonial trajectories. An original and refreshing approach to the study of African politics, this will be a useful textbook for upper level...
Graham Harrison investigates contemporary African politics by privileging the dynamics of political struggle and resistance. Through the analysis of p...
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194,08 zł |
Government and Politics of France
ISBN: 9780333994412 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated throughout to cover the period of Chirac/Jospin cohabitation and the implications of Chirac's success in the dramatic 2002 presidential and parliamentary elections, the third edition of this popular and widely-used text provides a clear and comprehensive account of the contemporary French political system.
Updated throughout to cover the period of Chirac/Jospin cohabitation and the implications of Chirac's success in the dramatic 2002 presidential and pa...
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Understanding Governance
ISBN: 9780335197279 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rhodes examines what has changed in British government over the past two decades, why so many government policies fail, and what the shift from government to governance means for the practice and study of British government.
Rhodes examines what has changed in British government over the past two decades, why so many government policies fail, and what the shift from govern...
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222,61 zł |
Populism
ISBN: 9780335200450 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Populism is a widely used concept but it is rarely fully understood. For a term which appears so frequently in both popular and specialist writing, the social sciences have given it remarkably little attention. In this study, the author surveys the field and concludes that populism has suffered from being considered usually in relation to particular contexts and has therefore become a rather fractured and elusive concept in general terms. To remedy this, the author introduces several themes which illuminates populism across different historical and contemporary cases. he provides a new...
Populism is a widely used concept but it is rarely fully understood. For a term which appears so frequently in both popular and specialist writing, th...
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Ethical Leadership
ISBN: 9780335216994 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the place of ethics in organizational culture? What constitutes good leadership? How do different cultures define ethical leadership? "Ethical Leadership" is the first book to rigorously explore the value of ethics in a business climate overwhelmingly driven by the need to generate profits and cut costs. Drawing on both authors' extensive experience in teaching and research, this book provides a clear, systemic model from which practical strategies can be derived for sound and effective leadership.
The authors argue convincingly for the need for ethical leadership within... What is the place of ethics in organizational culture? What constitutes good leadership? How do different cultures define ethical leadership? "Ethical...
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204,27 zł |
Packaging Politics: Political Communications in Britain's Media Democracy
ISBN: 9780340761946 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the various ways in which politicians, spin doctors and special advisors, in political parties, in central and local government and in Parliament have become increasingly enthusiatic and effective in using mass media to present and promote themselves and their policies to the public. This thorougly revised, updated, and authoritative study of political communications in Britain draws on interviews with journalists and politicians and recent academic studies, and government reports to show how the use of media to inform, shape and manage public discourse has become a...
This book examines the various ways in which politicians, spin doctors and special advisors, in political parties, in central and local government and...
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165,62 zł |
State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
ISBN: 9780415297141 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the latest developments in the Middle East. This book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this fascinating region. This third edition continues to explore the emergence of individual Middle Eastern states since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War and the key themes that have characterized the region since then. Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the latest developments in the Middle East. This book continue... |
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258,80 zł |
The Government and Politics of France
ISBN: 9780415357326 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, now in its 5th edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This updated edition includes a new chapter on France and Europe.
This book, now in its 5th edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics ...
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248,44 zł |