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From Apec to Xanadu: Creating a Viable Community in the Post-cold War Pacific
ISBN: 9780765601629 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume analyzes the concerns that must be addressed if Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to be a viable component of the post-Cold War international order, such as what the future role of the USA who made Asia's transformation possible since 1945, is as a leader in that region.
This volume analyzes the concerns that must be addressed if Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to be a viable component of the post-Cold War ...
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Getting Prices Right: Debate Over the Consumer Price Index
ISBN: 9780765602220 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is used to index Social Security payments and many other federal programs, as well as to adjust tax brackets. Today, the accuracy of the CPI is being hotly debated, particularly in light of the Boskin Commission report that concluded in December 1996 that the CPI overstates inflation by 1.1%. If accepted and applied in the formulation of economic policy, the report would have major implications for balancing the federal budget. It would have a direct impact on the lives of Americans who are beneficiaries of government programs as well as on...
Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is used to index Social Security payments and many other federal programs, as well as to adjust ta...
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215,45 |
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Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment
ISBN: 9780765602596 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The book concludes with a discussion of the issues of accountability and policy leadership.
A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of...
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440,75 |
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Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment
ISBN: 9780765602602 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions by the leading presidency scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the ways this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government.
With contributions by the leading presidency scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the ways th...
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132,18 |
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The End of Welfare?: Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation
ISBN: 9780765604545 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the consequences of federal devolution on state budgets, this work deals with three major areas of concern: the effect of moving large numbers of welfare recipients into labour markets; the planned federal reforms in the health care field; and trends in federal aid.
Exploring the consequences of federal devolution on state budgets, this work deals with three major areas of concern: the effect of moving large numbe...
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465,23 |
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Taking the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change
ISBN: 9780765607447 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a vision for far-reaching economic change in America connected to practical grassroots steps. The "High Road" of the title refers to an economic system in which corporate success merges with the long-term welfare of the workers and the general population. The author examines the continued reality of social democracy in Europe and what lessons can be learned for the U.S. He demonstrates how progressive economic change is already being fought for by labor and community groups throughout Ameri in such efforts as the Living Wage Movement and the emerging battle against sprawl....
This book presents a vision for far-reaching economic change in America connected to practical grassroots steps. The "High Road" of the title refers t...
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857,10 |
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Taking the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change
ISBN: 9780765607454 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a vision for farreaching economic change in America connected to practical grassroots steps. It points to an economic system in which corporate success merges with the long-term welfare of the workers and the general population. The author examines the continued reality of social democracy in Europe and what lessons can be learned for the U.S. He demonstrates how progressive economic change is already being fought for by labor and community groups throughout America in such efforts as the Living Wage Movement and the emerging battle against sprawl. And he provides a wealth...
This book presents a vision for farreaching economic change in America connected to practical grassroots steps. It points to an economic system in whi...
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254,64 |
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The Chinese Economy in Crisis: State Capacity and Tax Reform
ISBN: 9780765607652 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study argues that the decentralization that has taken place in China since 1980 threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the state itself. The authors contend that reform has undermined state capacity in China, and that the state's fiscal revenues will continue to decline.
This study argues that the decentralization that has taken place in China since 1980 threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the ...
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The Chinese Economy in Crisis: State Capacity and Tax Reform
ISBN: 9780765607669 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this work argue strongly that the decentralization that has taken place in China over the past two decades threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the state itself. They contend that reform has undermined state capacity in China, and that the state's fiscal revenues, as a percentage of GNP, have declined and will continue to decline into the foreseeable future, thereby weakening China's ability to mobilize resources for modernization.
The authors of this work argue strongly that the decentralization that has taken place in China over the past two decades threatens to undermine the f...
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225,25 |
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Civil-Military Relations in Today's China: Swimming in a New Sea: Swimming in a New Sea
ISBN: 9780765616609 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of civil-military relations in China. It reflects the significant changes taking place in Chinese society and their impact on the civil-military dynamic, with particular attention to how the military will fit in with the new class of entrepreneurs. Rather than focusing exclusively on elite Party-Army relations, the book examines civil-military relations from various vantage points: at "the center" and in the provinces; between civilian leaders and military leaders; from a strictly military perspective and from a civilian perspective;...
This work provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of civil-military relations in China. It reflects the significant changes taking place in Ch...
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244,84 |
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Central Asia: Views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing: Views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing
ISBN: 9780765619945 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 rapidly and irrevocably transformed Central Asia's political landscape. This region of five sovereign states with a population of some fifty million people quickly became a major focus of interest and influence for competing poles of power. The eminent contributors to this volume offer a four-part analysis of the region's new importance in world affairs. Rajan Menon examines the place of Central Asia in a global perspective. Eugene Rumer considers the perspective of the post-9/11 United States. Dimitri Trenin looks at the region from the...
The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 rapidly and irrevocably transformed Central Asia's political landscape. This region of five sovereign s...
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881,59 |
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Understanding Policy Fiascoes
ISBN: 9780765804518 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A crisis of governance is widespread in western societies. Public administration is caught in a web of personal and organizational inter-dependencies that require continuous awareness and readjustment on the part of its practitioners. Understanding Policy Fiascoes applies policy analysis to come to terms with policy fiascoes, with a full appreciation of its limits. Despite the fact that policy failures may seem universal, they are in fact better understood as social, political and academic constructions. Bovens and 'tHart trace how and why certain episodes of public policymaking... A crisis of governance is widespread in western societies. Public administration is caught in a web of personal and organizational inter-dependenci... |
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Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation: Functions and Integration in Seven Governments
ISBN: 9780765807243 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition. As governments the world over work to sustain public policy and develop much needed policy initiatives, there is an increasing need for better budgetary management and sound evaluation of both past and prospective policies. Budgeting, Auditing, Evaluating presents in-depth, comparative examinations of budgetary processes in seven major Western governments. The contributors focus specifically on the important links between budgeting, auditing, and policy evaluation. These are... The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition. As governments the world over work to sustain public... |
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The Fiscal Crisis of the State
ISBN: 9780765808608 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiscal Crisis of the State refers to the tendency of government expenditures to outpace revenues in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but its relevance to other countries of the period and also in today's global economy is evident. When government expenditure constitutes a larger and larger share of total economy theorists who ignore the impact of the state budget do so at their own (and capitalism's) peril. This volume examines how changes in tax rates and tax structure used to regulate private economic activity. O'Connor theorizes that particular expenditures and... Fiscal Crisis of the State refers to the tendency of government expenditures to outpace revenues in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1... |
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The Fate of the Nation State
ISBN: 9780773526853 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model Reflects upon the nation building policies, politics of recognition and issues related to globalization Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state...
Examines the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model Reflects upon the nation building policies, poli...
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489,77 |
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The Fate of the Nation State
ISBN: 9780773526860 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model Reflects upon the nation building policies, politics of recognition and issues related to globalization Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state...
Examines the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model Reflects upon the nation building policies, poli...
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132,18 |
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Manitoba's French-Language Crisis: A Cautionary Tale
ISBN: 9780773527089 / Angielski / Twarda / 677 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Hebert analyses Manitoba's French-language crisis in detail and considers its local and national implications. For nine months in 1983 and early 1984, beginning with a protest by French-speaking Manitobans, who had received parking tickets written only in English and ending with a legal compromise that made Manitoba all but officially bilingual, Manitoba endured charged demonstrations, grimly fought plebiscites, and legislative filibustering. Towards the end of the crisis, legislative paralysis set in and the government itself ground to a halt. Hebert argues that, far from being a...
Raymond Hebert analyses Manitoba's French-language crisis in detail and considers its local and national implications. For nine months in 1983 and ear...
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489,77 |
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Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future
ISBN: 9780773527492 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Reclaiming Democracy: The Social Justice and the Political Economy of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt
ISBN: 9780773528703 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building on the ideas of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt, whose contributions as public intellectuals committed to social justice span almost five decades, "Reclaiming Democracy" features discussions by eminent scholars about social ethics, political economy, and democracy. "Reclaiming Democracy" traces their influence on critical social thought. The essays, which focus in part on the Caribbean, provide an intellectual perspective to ground the growing opposition to dominant institutions by social movements struggling against injustice around the world.Contributors include Samir Amin...
Building on the ideas of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt, whose contributions as public intellectuals committed to social justice span almost fiv...
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489,77 |
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Debating the Global Financial Architecture
ISBN: 9780791454503 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debating the Global Financial Architecture opens up the contemporary debate surrounding the reform of the "global financial architecture." Economists and political scientists explore the economic and technical content of alternative global financial regimes as well as the political processes through which such changes are negotiated. The contributors, though diverse, jointly fear that rapid removal of the remaining controls on private international financial transactions risks systematic crisis. By initiating a cross-disciplinary discussion, they hope to see the politics of global financial...
Debating the Global Financial Architecture opens up the contemporary debate surrounding the reform of the "global financial architecture." Economists ...
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