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California Legislative Scorecard 2015 (Civil Liberties)
ISBN: 9781523258901 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The California Civil Liberties Advocacy (CCLA) tallied the 2015 voting outcomes of all 120 members of the California State Legislature, plus Governor Jerry Brown. The ratings were based on a sample of eleven bills covering a range of issues, including individual privacy, due process, freedom of speech, law enforcement accountability, suspect profiling, and civil asset forfeiture. Each lawmaker was assigned a final grade (e.g. "A+," "B-," and etc.) As this scorecard illustrates, personal freedoms and liberties are at stake every legislative session. Inequality and inconsistencies in the law...
The California Civil Liberties Advocacy (CCLA) tallied the 2015 voting outcomes of all 120 members of the California State Legislature, plus Governor ...
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The Politics of Hung Authorities
ISBN: 9781349112197 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1980s there was a marked increase in the number of hung local authorities or authorities in which there was no clear majority. This book describes the different patterns of hungness and the response of local authorities to the new situation.
In the 1980s there was a marked increase in the number of hung local authorities or authorities in which there was no clear majority. This book descri...
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Strategic Changes and Organizational Reorientations in Local Government: A Cross-National Perspective
ISBN: 9781349243457 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global, national and subnational change (political, economic, social and demographic) are forcing local governments to search, reactively or proactively, for alternative organizational patterns and management styles. This book explores different approaches toward local government reorientation in selected Western countries as well as the 'reinvention' of local government in Eastern Europe. Eight national case-studies (U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Norway, Israel, the Czech Republic and Russia) provide the empirical basis. From a theoretical point of view, the book exposes three main critical...
Global, national and subnational change (political, economic, social and demographic) are forcing local governments to search, reactively or proactive...
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The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States
ISBN: 9781483350035 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the old adage that "all politics is local" is even partially true, then cities are important centers for political activity and for the delivery of public goods and services. This is a reference guide to topics in urban politics and policy in the United States.
If the old adage that "all politics is local" is even partially true, then cities are important centers for political activity and for the delivery of...
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The Destroyers: Rachel Notley and the NDP's War on Alberta
ISBN: 9780995016804 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Destroyers: Rachel Notley and the NDP's War on Alberta is essential reading for anyone trying to understand Alberta's new government. Jam-packed with original research, The Destroyers meticulously documents the radical background of key NDP ministers, MLAs and staff, painting a shocking picture of a group of fringe extremists who were accidentally swept into power in May of 2015, without proper vetting. Notley's NDP are not here to govern Alberta, or to lead it. They're here to transform it, to terminate all of the Alberta qualities that they've been railing against on picket lines and in...
The Destroyers: Rachel Notley and the NDP's War on Alberta is essential reading for anyone trying to understand Alberta's new government. Jam-packed w...
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The Islamic State: How Viable Is It?
ISBN: 9789655505726 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Islamic State burst onto the Middle East scene as an entity whose conduct and very essence challenge the existing regional order. With its military conquests in Iraq and Syria, its establishment of branches elsewhere in the Middle East and beyond, its state-like governance in the areas under its control, and the cruelty it typically exhibits, the Islamic State has become the focus of regional and international interest and concern. The articles compiled in The Islamic State: How Viable Is It? examine ways of dealing with one of the most salient military, sociopolitical, cultural, and...
The Islamic State burst onto the Middle East scene as an entity whose conduct and very essence challenge the existing regional order. With its militar...
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My Visit to a Better World
ISBN: 9783934402775 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is our today's world actually still worth living in? Isn't everything overshadowed by worries, problems and difficulties? Do you often wonder how everything is supposed to keep on going? The euro, the EU, refugees, demonstrations, terror, the economy, the environment, health, pensions, etc, etc, etc ...
Is our today's world actually still worth living in? Isn't everything overshadowed by worries, problems and difficulties? Do you often wonder how ever...
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King Trends and the Future of Public Policy
ISBN: 9781349541683 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study presents, for the first time, a synoptic picture of the future directions in which public policy in EU countries is likely to move based on using contemporary theories of policy-making to deduce the implications for public policy of major long-term technological, economic, environmental and social trends.
This study presents, for the first time, a synoptic picture of the future directions in which public policy in EU countries is likely to move based on...
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Regional Governance and Power in France: The Dynamics of Political Space
ISBN: 9781349503490 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities, highly differentiated territorial political spaces have been created, shaped by identity, decentralisation, and public policy. This book analyses regional power in France and paints a picture of a controversial central state undergoing fundamental changes.
In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities, highly differentiated territorial political spaces have ...
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Citizenship, Labour Markets and Democratization: Chile and the Modern Sequence
ISBN: 9781349422128 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a re-examination of classical issues in the relationship between different forms of democratization, civil, political and social, and examines Chile's transition to democracy during the 1990s as a typical case of the modern sequence. It highlights the lasting institutional limits to social democratization in countries that are democratizing in the context of radical market reforms and provides an account of the politics of limiting social deepening in the crucial early years of Chile's transition, including a detailed examination of the influence of local union history and...
This book presents a re-examination of classical issues in the relationship between different forms of democratization, civil, political and social, a...
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Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349315123 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs.
This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization ...
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From Religious Empires to Secular States: State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia
ISBN: 9781138696396 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the state has unfolded along different paths. Much, however, remains to be uncovered. This book provides an in-depth comparative historical analysis of state secularization in three major Eurasian...
In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But w...
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Theoretical Foundations and Discussions on the Reformation Process in Local Governments
ISBN: 9781522503170 / Angielski / Twarda / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addresses the effects of recent reforms in the political-administrative system of local governments and politics as well as future outlooks. It reviews the challenges, innovations, and lessons from local governments while providing theoretical perspectives on methods for positive reform.
Addresses the effects of recent reforms in the political-administrative system of local governments and politics as well as future outlooks. It review...
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Defining Drugs: How Government Became the Arbiter of Pharmaceutical Fact
ISBN: 9781412864275 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Defining Drugs, Richard Henry Parrish II argues that the federal government became arbiter of pharmaceutical fact because the professions of pharmacy and medicine, as well as the pharmaceutical industry, enforces these definitions and standards through police powers reserved to government. In a new introduction to this edition, Parrish argues that an amendment to the United States Constitution is needed to protect health freedom from government and industry intrusion. Parrish begins his provocative study by examining the development of the social system for regulating... In Defining Drugs, Richard Henry Parrish II argues that the federal government became arbiter of pharmaceutical fact because the professio... |
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Eurasian Integration: Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism
ISBN: 9781349337729 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Eurasian continent, which has for over a century lagged behind in global markets, is currently gaining economic and political momentum. This book investigates emerging economic linkages in the area, examining the factors shaping this integration, the benefits and risks involved, and the future of these states on the global stage.
The Eurasian continent, which has for over a century lagged behind in global markets, is currently gaining economic and political momentum. This book ...
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Administrative Districts and Field Offices of the Minnesota State Government: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780816671571 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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State Tax Policy: A Primer
ISBN: 9781442272866 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacies of state tax policy.
State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacie...
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State Tax Policy: A Primer, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9781442272873 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacies of state tax policy.
State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacie...
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Fragile States and Insecure People?: Violence, Security, and Statehood in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781349539284 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed forces, and analyses the alternative security structures that emerge in the absence of the state. This book remains open-minded as to which 'model' for security is better.
This book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed for...
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Governing Cities in a Global Era: Urban Innovation, Competition, and Democratic Reform
ISBN: 9781349536412 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice.
This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or pat...
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