American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change
ISBN: 9781032293967 / Angielski / Miękka / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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297,74 zł |
American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change
ISBN: 9781032302201 / Angielski / Twarda / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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681,40 zł |
Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance: The Curse of Corruption in Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9783030836603 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the... This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good gove... |
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582,32 zł |
Us Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations
ISBN: 9783030835767 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex issues pertaining to relations with Indigenous peoples, who occupied the land long before the Europeans arrived. The historical relationship between the US government and Native American communities reflects many of the core contradictions and difficulties the new nation faced as it tried to establish itself as a legitimate government and fend off rival European powers, including separation of powers, the role of Westward expansion and Manifest...
This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex...
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427,02 zł |
Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy
ISBN: 9780520343924 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation—from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their "grudging tolerance" approach to legal weed and to embrace "careful exuberance." In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The "grudging tolerance" approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some cases—limiting...
With full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation—from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. We...
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115,17 zł |
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
ISBN: 9783030777142 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this moment of great environmental inequality and uncertainty.The handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its reach and...
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipl...
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1164,67 zł |
Networks, Knowledge Brokers, and the Public Policymaking Process
ISBN: 9783030787578 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social network analysis provides a meaningful lens for advancing a more nuanced understanding of the communication networks and practices that bring together policy advocates and practitioners in their day-to-day efforts to broker evidence into policymaking processes.This book advances knowledge brokerage scholarship and methodology as applied to policymaking contexts, focusing on the ways in which knowledge and research are utilized, and go on to influence policy and practice decisions across domains, including communication, health and education. There is a growing recognition that...
Social network analysis provides a meaningful lens for advancing a more nuanced understanding of the communication networks and practices that bring t...
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582,32 zł |
Adaptive Urban Transformation: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China
ISBN: 9783030898274 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, however, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and urbanisation. These include an...
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast ur...
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194,08 zł |
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?: Views from the Basque Atalaia
ISBN: 9783031086076 / Angielski / Twarda / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is divided into four parts.The chapters in Part I analyze the tensions between the neoliberal vision of democracy and the voices contesting it, with projections at different levels of government. The...
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an insti...
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194,08 zł |
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?: Views from the Basque Atalaia
ISBN: 9783031086106 / Angielski / Miękka / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is divided into four parts.The chapters in Part I analyze the tensions between the neoliberal vision of democracy and the voices contesting it, with projections at different levels of government. The...
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an insti...
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155,25 zł |
The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to COVID-19: Implications for Women and Children
ISBN: 9783031099120 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores responses to the pandemic by international, regional, and local institutions, multilateral action, and crisis prevention efforts at different levels of governance, with a specific focus on the situation of women and children. The contributions in this volume address novel topics and expand the analysis to the different challenges faced by women and children, linking these to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, to create a holistic view of the...
The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores resp...
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504,67 zł |
Business, Government and the SDGs: The Role of Public-Private Engagement in Building a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9783031111952 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional realms of influence that national and local governments, and businesses at a critical juncture in terms of achieving sustainable development, faces when tackling the dual challenges of climate change and post-COVID recovery. Using the broader lens of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to assess the roles and responsibilities of each of these stakeholders and their relationships, the book offers policy, economic arguments, case studies and examples to argue that neither national or local governments, nor...
This book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional realms of influence that national and local governments, and businesses at a critic...
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174,67 zł |
Russia's 2022 War Against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, and Law
ISBN: 9783031186936 / Angielski / Twarda / 87 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an accessible and rigorous introduction to the context, diplomacy, and law of the European Union’s response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The book explores how the EU responded to the war in the initial months, and is based on research carried out on Russian and European political, diplomatic, and legal texts. Presenting a unique interdisciplinary perspective, the book delves into topics such as the EU diplomatic response, the Ukrainian application for membership of the EU, the policy and legal aspects of EU sanctions against Russia and Belarus. Additionally, the...
This book offers an accessible and rigorous introduction to the context, diplomacy, and law of the European Union’s response to Russia's 2022 invasi...
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174,67 zł |
Dynamics of Eu Renewable Energy Policy Integration
ISBN: 9783031205927 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive account of EU's renewable energy policy development as it traces the agenda-shaping, policy formulation and decision-making phases of the EU's secondary legislation on renewable energy – that is the three successive directives of 2001 (RES-E), 2009 (RED), and 2018 (RED II). It also explores the EU's energy policymaking dynamics and assess integration outcomes of these three policymaking instances in the renewable energy field from a comparative perspective. Enriched with elite interviews with the Brussels policy community, and drawing on European...
This book provides a comprehensive account of EU's renewable energy policy development as it traces the agenda-shaping, policy formulation and decisi...
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504,67 zł |
Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters
ISBN: 9783031209383 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book entertains a multitude of perspectives on crisis information management systems (CIMS)-based disaster response and recovery management. The use of information technology in disaster management has become the central means for collecting, vetting, and distributing information. It also serves as the backbone for coordination and collaboration between response and recovery units as well as resource management tool. This edited volume aims at covering the whole range of application and uses of CIMS in disaster response and recovery. It showcases coordination and collaboration...
This edited book entertains a multitude of perspectives on crisis information management systems (CIMS)-based disaster response and recovery managemen...
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504,67 zł |
The Independent Variable Problem: Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept
ISBN: 9783658394219 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable.To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some important problems. These problems essentially relate to one point: while there are a large number of contributions dealing with the measurement of differences between welfare states per se and as a dependent...
This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable.To study how welfare states affect soci...
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155,25 zł |
Die Politischen Systeme Ostasiens: Eine Einführung
ISBN: 9783658394844 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieses Lehrbuch präsentiert auch in der erweiterten und aktualisierten 4. Auflage einen umfassenden Überblick über die politischen Systeme Ostasiens. Die Leser*innen finden Kapitel zur Volksrepublik China, zu Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan sowie Süd- und Nordkorea. Die Einführung stellt den institutionellen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel der einzelnen Systeme in das Zentrum der Betrachtung, orientiert sich dabei an sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorien und unternimmt auch eine vergleichende Analyse. Das Buch ist somit ein unerlässlicher Band für ein tiefgehendes Verständnis der...
Dieses Lehrbuch präsentiert auch in der erweiterten und aktualisierten 4. Auflage einen umfassenden Überblick über die politischen Systeme Ostasien...
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145,09 zł |
The Classical Liberal Case for Israel
ISBN: 9789811639555 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique perspective on the State of Israel based on classical liberalism, both on a historical and theoretical level. Specifically, it makes a classical liberal and libertarian analysis based upon homesteading and private property rights to defend the State of Israel.As such, this work explores the history of the Jewish State, both to provide a positive case for its right to exist, and to clarify the myths surrounding its origin and development. At the same time, it deals with other relevant related subjects, such as the complex situation between Israel and the Palestinian...
This book offers a unique perspective on the State of Israel based on classical liberalism, both on a historical and theoretical level. Specifically, ...
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388,20 zł |
General Theory of Social Governance in China
ISBN: 9789811657177 / Angielski / Miękka / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong’s social governance thought, and social governance thought in socialism with Chinese characteristics, especially in Xi Jinping’s New Era. Together, these components constitute the basic theory of social governance in China. Moreover, the book clarifies ancient and modern social governance thought in China and analyzes institutional innovations, practices, and experiences of Chinese social governance. It depicts the evolution and reform of...
This book discusses the connotation and function of social governance and elaborates on social governance thought in classical Marxism, Mao Zedong’s...
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543,49 zł |
Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India: Understanding Power, Sociality and Trust
ISBN: 9789811951091 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State. It explores the interrelationship between state, governance and community and demonstrates the performativity aspects of both political actors and citizens in various elections in India. It also highlights the need to understand the dynamics of governance in a multi-ethnic society and democracy like India both at the micro and macro levels. Offering detailed explanations of formal and informal governance in people’s everyday lives, it...
This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the St...
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465,84 zł |