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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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995,01 |
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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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201,24 |
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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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Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America
ISBN: 9781349534548 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. The result is an original, fascinating contribution to an increasingly important field of study.
This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and t...
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State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?
ISBN: 9781349369805 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.
Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authori...
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Latinos and Local Representation: Changing Realities, Emerging Theories
ISBN: 9781138979444 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Politics in Georgia
ISBN: 9780820352893 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect developments in Georgia politics and government since 2007 - a decade that has seen three presidential election cycles, two midterm elections, and a census. Updates reflect not only changes in how Georgia is governed but also the economic and social trends helping to drive those changes.
This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect developments in Georgia politics and government since 2007 - a decade that has seen three pre...
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Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750 1940
ISBN: 9781138274051 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a detailed examination of the relationship between urban elites and the exercise of 'power', bringing together economic, social and cultural history with the political history of power resources and...
The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well ...
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Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment
ISBN: 9781138658240 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Attaining the benefits of (especially fiscal) decentralization in government remains an enduring challenge, in part because, the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government has often been carried out poorly. This book aims at providing a firmer conceptual basis for the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government. In doing so, it also offers practical advice for policy makers from developing and emerging countries and development cooperation practitioners engaged in such activity. Combining a theoretical approach for inter-governmental... Attaining the benefits of (especially fiscal) decentralization in government remains an enduring challenge, in part because, the re-arrangement of ... |
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Innovative Congressional Minimum Standards Preemption Statutes
ISBN: 9781438460987 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Congress possesses broad regulatory powers, including the power of complete or partial preemption of state and local regulatory powers. Congress rarely enacted preemption statutes before the twentieth century, but since the 1960s such interventions have grown significantly in number, now totaling over seven hundred, and have transformed the nature of the American federal system. In Innovative Congressional Minimum Standards Preemption Statutes, Joseph F. Zimmerman provides the background and history of this critical transformation, classifying the forms these federal interventions have...
Congress possesses broad regulatory powers, including the power of complete or partial preemption of state and local regulatory powers. Congress rarel...
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Local Government in Liberal Democracies: An Introductory Survey
ISBN: 9781138176133 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quality and nature of local government varies widely between countries. This introductory text looks at the workings of local government in England and Wales, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Canada and the USA. The chapters have a similar format so the student has a framework for systematic comparisons of the different case studies and a comprehensive conclusion summarises major differences and relationships between the structures studied.
The quality and nature of local government varies widely between countries. This introductory text looks at the workings of local government in Englan...
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