Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
ISBN: 9780742563162 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise real power in American politics mainly at those extraordinary moments when they rise up in anger and hope; defy the rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives; and, by doing so, disrupt the workings of the institutions in which they are enmeshed. These are the conditions that produce the democratic moments in American political development.
Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise real power in American politics mainly at those extraordinary moments when they rise up in ...
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133,61 zł |
Democratic Brazil Revisited
ISBN: 9780822960041 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the world's fifth-largest country, Brazil presents a compelling example of democracy in action. In this sequel to their landmark study "Democratic Brazil," editors Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power have assembled a distinguished group of U.S.- and Brazilian-based scholars to assess the impact of competitive politics on Brazilian government, institutions, economics, and society.
The 2002 election of Lula da Silva and his Worker's Party promised a radical shift toward progressive reform, transparency, and accountability, opposing the earlier centrist and market-oriented policies of the... As the world's fifth-largest country, Brazil presents a compelling example of democracy in action. In this sequel to their landmark study "Democratic ...
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144,30 zł |
The Fox-North Coalition: Crisis of the Constitution, 1782-4
ISBN: 9780521076678 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr Cannon studies the workings of the eighteenth-century constitution, concentrating on the years of acute crisis from 1782 to 1784. He examines the formation of the Fox-North coalition, its achievement of office in March 1783, and the manoeuvres by which it was eventually ousted. In doing so he throws light on several obscure questions, such as the reasons for Shelburne's unpopularity, the part played by William Pitt over the India Bill (based on hitherto unused manuscripts in the Bodleian Library), and the causes of Lord Temple's resignation in December 1783. Dr Cannon shows that these were...
Dr Cannon studies the workings of the eighteenth-century constitution, concentrating on the years of acute crisis from 1782 to 1784. He examines the f...
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167,50 zł |
Empire or Republic?: American Global Power and Domestic Decay
ISBN: 9780415910651 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international policies and the domestic situation. The authors contend that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home.
Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international polic...
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228,43 zł |
The New York Times Twentieth Century in Review: Political Censorship
ISBN: 9781579583200 / Angielski / Twarda / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State intervention in the public exchange of ideas remains one of the most controversial - and effective - tools of power in the modern world. Whether in totalitarian regimes or democratic societies, whether by direct action or threat of action, governments around the world set boundaries on the freedom of expression and in doing so affect the course of political development within their nations. Through a compilation of more than 500 news stories, essays, editorials, and other articles taken from The New York Times, this work chronicles government attempts to influence speech and the public...
State intervention in the public exchange of ideas remains one of the most controversial - and effective - tools of power in the modern world. Whether...
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431,52 zł |
Marketization and Democracy in China
ISBN: 9780415452229 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book questions whether China’s market reforms have created favorable social conditions for democracy, whether the emerging entrepreneurial class will serve as the democratic social base, and the role of government in the process of transition.
This book questions whether China’s market reforms have created favorable social conditions for democracy, whether the emerging entrepreneurial clas...
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710,82 zł |
The Greek City and Its Institutions
ISBN: 9780415155793 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published as part of the History of Civilization, this text was published during a period of historical discovery. The aim of the general editor was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists.
Originally published as part of the History of Civilization, this text was published during a period of historical discovery. The aim of the general e...
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1472,42 zł |
Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415926553 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues, including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire. The book points to a new kind of cultural politics and a new kind of political culture that put knowledge and practice in the service of a more realized democracy.
This study challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues, including the various attacks on cultural politics, the ...
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660,05 zł |
Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement
ISBN: 9780415459792 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the relationship between two key issues of urban governance - leadership and community involvement - and how making these two elements more complementary can lead to more effective as well as legitimate policy outcomes. The authors examine the dilemmas involved in ensuring effective governance, focusing on issues such as legitimacy, citizen participation, economic performance and social inclusion.
The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book expl...
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218,27 zł |
Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia
ISBN: 9780415438933 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1998 the fall of Suharto marked the beginning of a difficult and multi-layered transition process. It was accompanied by intensified conflict in the political arena, a dramatic increase of ethnic and religious violence and the danger of national disintegration. Ten years after the collapse of the New Order, Indonesia has made significant progress, however the quality of democracy is still low. Theoretically innovative and empirically sound, this book is an in-depth analysis of the Indonesian reform process since 1998. Marco Bunte and Andreas Ufen bring together a... In May 1998 the fall of Suharto marked the beginning of a difficult and multi-layered transition process. It was accompanied by intensified conflic... |
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710,82 zł |
Politics of Modern Japan Set
ISBN: 9780415439558 / Angielski / Twarda / 1792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owing to the changing nature of Japan and its role within the world, more needs to be known of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This timely set brings together key articles on the most crucial issues facing Japanese politics today, and the relationship between Japanese politics and the main institutions including big business, the bureaucracy and the media. This is an area that has been studied by leading academics for a number of decades, but whose work has yet to be given sufficient notice or credit. With more and more students enrolling at universities to study Japan, there is a... Owing to the changing nature of Japan and its role within the world, more needs to be known of the dynamics of Japanese politics. This timely set b... |
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3046,37 zł |
The State in India After Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415775533 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and economic wealth but also generated spectacular new forms of inequality between social groups, regions, and sectors. Through a detailed examination of the Indian state, the contributors - all experts in their respective fields - explore questions such as:
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization... |
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710,82 zł |
Politics in the Pews: The Political Mobilization of Black Churches
ISBN: 9780472050468 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the factors underlying the political mobilization of Black churches. Probing the dynamics of churches as social groups, this title presents fresh perspectives on civil rights history and the evangelical politics of the twenty-first century.
Examines the factors underlying the political mobilization of Black churches. Probing the dynamics of churches as social groups, this title presents f...
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133,35 zł |
Socialist China, Capitalist China: Social Tension and Political Adaptation Under Economic Globalization
ISBN: 9780415482264 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is currently encountering increasing social problems, together with the rise of mass discontent and public protest, despite having achieved enormous economic growth after nearly thirty years of market socialism and embracing globalization. The future of China thus depends not only on the economic progress the nation has achieved - and will achieve - but also on how the government addresses growing social tensions. Focusing on why social tensions have arisen despite economic prosperity and how the state is responding, this book presents rich, original data about many of the social... China is currently encountering increasing social problems, together with the rise of mass discontent and public protest, despite having achieved e... |
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710,82 zł |
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
ISBN: 9780226877914 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions.
Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such... The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but ...
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128,27 zł |
On Becoming a Servant Leader: The Private Writings of Robert K. Greenleaf
ISBN: 9780470422007 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness
Delve into the personal writings of the grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership. In this collection of previously unpublished works, eminent writer, consultant, and lecturer Robert Greenleaf shares his personal and professional philosophy, which postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of fifty years, these essays and lectures touch on such key issues as power, ethics, management, organizations, and servanthood. And they offer the reader a wealth of... Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness
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171,02 zł |
Joining Political Organisations: Institutions, Mobilisation and Participation in Western Democracies
ISBN: 9780955248894 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From political parties to environmental organisations, citizens join a host of associations in order to influence policymaking and political agendas. Yet why in some western democracies do citizens join political organisations much more than in others? Drawing on a large number of cross-national surveys and data sets, Morales shows that huge cross-national variations in political membership are not so much related to social or attitudinal differences between these countries' citizens, but are explained to a great extent by the structure of the political system of each nation.
From political parties to environmental organisations, citizens join a host of associations in order to influence policymaking and political agendas. ...
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255,92 zł |
The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens
ISBN: 9780521088800 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study investigates the independent prerogative which Mary I and Elizabeth I exercised through royal proclamations. These public documents were announced throughout England, informing men and arguing the Queen's positions, commanding local officials to perform specific actions, and on occasion creating new but temporary law that was designed to meet crisis situation when no delay could be tolerated. The theoretical relationship between this prerogative power and the existing statutory law has been the subject of much debate. This study adds an element previously neglected, the...
This study investigates the independent prerogative which Mary I and Elizabeth I exercised through royal proclamations. These public documents were an...
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126,88 zł |
Oman - The Islamic Democratic Tradition
ISBN: 9780415481328 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, the imama (imamate), and has a special place in the Arab Islamic world. From the eighth century and for more than a thousand years, the story of Oman was essentially a story of an original, minority, movement: the Ibadi. This long period was marked by the search for a just imama through the Ibadi model of the Islamic State. Hussein Ghubash's well-researched book takes the reader on an historical voyage through geography, politics, and culture of the region, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Oman has long-standing... Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, the imama (imamate), and has a special place in the Arab Islamic world. From the eighth cent... |
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263,97 zł |
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities
ISBN: 9781845455156 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a global justice movement, often resulting in the... Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have b... |
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502,65 zł |