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State Marijuana Legalization Initiatives: Implications for Federal Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9781512391909 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales
ISBN: 9781472460509 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a paradoxical state of affairs in contemporary thought: the domain of local-global interactions has not yet been identified as an object of analysis in its own right, despite engaging a large, multi-disciplinary research community with strong potential for cross-fertilization. Bringing together internationally renowned as well as emerging scholars, this book presents concrete case studies framed by theoretical concern with the issue of scale. It...
Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a pa...
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Changing Government Relations in Europe: From Localism to Intergovernmentalism
ISBN: 9781138970120 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe. There have been significant changes in local government, and the European Union has come to play an increasing role in relation to municipal government. This book offers a comparative analysis of recent developments in intergovernmental relations in twelve countries across Europe. Using the framework for analysis from Page and Goldsmith's 1987 Central and Local Government Relations, each chapter examines changes in central-local relations in their respective country over the past 20 years.... The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe. There have been significant changes in local government, and the Europea... |
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Local Government Reorganisation: The Review and its Aftermath
ISBN: 9781138995505 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Local Government Review raised issues of political process and decision-making theories. The interest lies in the insights provided by academic analysis, and the highlighting of the lessons to be learned. This volume attempts to respond to both these perspectives.
The Local Government Review raised issues of political process and decision-making theories. The interest lies in the insights provided by academic an...
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Blackout Wars: State Initiatives To Achieve Preparedness Against An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Catastrophe
ISBN: 9781517621391 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. Most Americans have experienced temporary blackouts, and regard them as merely an inconvenience. Some Americans have experienced more protracted local and regional blackouts, as in the aftermaths of Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, and may be better able to imagine the consequences of a nationwide blackout lasting months or years, that plunges the entire United States into the dark. In such a nightmare blackout, the entire population of the United States...
Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. Most Ameri...
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Guide to California Government
ISBN: 9780963246523 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,78 |
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Urban Politics: A Reader
ISBN: 9781506311197 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the evolving structure of political power in American cities revealing how changes in society relate to the global and national economy, immigration and internal migration, racial and ethnic transition, and how technological advances affect city politics.
This book examines the evolving structure of political power in American cities revealing how changes in society relate to the global and national eco...
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651,40 |
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Undermining Local Democracy: Parallel Governance in Contemporary South India
ISBN: 9781138662773 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on Karnataka in India, this study examines the implications of the model of development sought to be introduced in the entire country through the governance reforms of the post-1991 period - a model that bypasses Panchayat Raj institutions (PRIs), resulting in a majority of the population being left outside the purview of development. These changes in governance resulted in, among other things, the prolific growth of NGOs in the country, particularly in Karnataka. Explaining how community-based organizations (CBOs) set up by these NGOs have made their way into rural... Focusing on Karnataka in India, this study examines the implications of the model of development sought to be introduced in the entire country thro... |
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FY 2015 Police and Youth Engagement: Supporting the Role of Law Enforcement in Juvenile Justice Reform
ISBN: 9781523223978 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. To fulfill this mission, OJJDP collaborates with professionals from diverse disciplines to improve juvenile justice practices and policies. Recent events have focused national attention on the need for enhanced trust between local law enforcement and the communities that they serve. OJJDP seeks to help inform law enforcement executives of key juvenile justice issues that jurisdictions face in improving...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to ...
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Optimization of Influenza Antiviral Response in Texas
ISBN: 9781523265374 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Influenza pandemics pose a serious threat to the global population. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 2014, the Spanish flu of 1918 killed almost 100 million people worldwide and Simonsen, Spreeuwenberg, and Lustig in 2013 estimated that the Swine flu more recently killed approximately 180,000 people. Government agencies, from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention down to state and local regions, are prepared to respond to potential influenza pandemics with antiviral, vaccine, and social interventions. Mathematical models can...
Influenza pandemics pose a serious threat to the global population. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in 2014, th...
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Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition
ISBN: 9781523275144 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On January 16, 2015, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13688, "Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition" (EO), to identify actions that can improve Federal support for the appropriate use, acquisition, and transfer of controlled equipment by State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies (LEAs). The EO established a Federal interagency Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group, which consulted with stakeholders and deliberated to develop the recommendations described in this report.
On January 16, 2015, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13688, "Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition" (EO), to i...
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Partnerships in Urban Governance: European and American Experiences
ISBN: 9781349144105 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays explore the utility of thinking about public-private partnerships for local economic development. A theoretical examination of theories of governance, institutions and policy instruments is supplemented by empirical analysis and comparisons of their operation in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States in the context of debates about the 'limits of politics' and dependence on the institutions of civil society.
These essays explore the utility of thinking about public-private partnerships for local economic development. A theoretical examination of theories o...
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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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