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The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective
ISBN: 9780802094643 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim in this work is to demonstrate the interrelationship of the two chambers and the constraints this relationship poses for Senate reform. He analyses past literature on the Senate and current proposals for reform - such as a Triple-E Senate - and compares Canada's upper chamber with those of Australia, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, noting a... The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first analysis o... |
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146,88 |
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Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design: Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997
ISBN: 9780804745888 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy mandates of Congress, the president, and courts are translated into real public policy in the bureaucracy. As the role of the national government has expanded, the national legislature and executive have increasingly delegated authority to administrative agencies to make fundamental policy decisions. How this administrative state is designed, its coherence, its responsiveness, and its efficacy determine, in Robert Dahl's phrase, -who gets what, when, and how.- This...
The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy mandates of Congress...
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528,96 |
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Common Ground: Committee Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives
ISBN: 9780804754163 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When do committees that share jurisdiction over an issue choose to seek agreement rather than engage in a turf war? Overlapping and ambiguous turf has become endemic in Congress over the last three decades, especially on issues at the top of the national agenda like health care reform and homeland security. A common view is that this produces gridlock and conflict, and impairs not just Congress's ability to legislate, but government agencies' ability to function, as well. In Common Ground, John Baughman argues that this problem is overstated and shows that committees can and often do...
When do committees that share jurisdiction over an issue choose to seek agreement rather than engage in a turf war? Overlapping and ambiguous turf has...
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308,55 |
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Henry Clay and the American System
ISBN: 9780813191126 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System -- a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government and constitutional aspects of what was perhaps Clay's greatest contribution to national policy, a contribution that has received surprisingly little study until now. During the first half of the nineteenth century the new United States experienced rapid material growth, transforming a largely agrarian, pre-modern economy into a diversified, industrializing one. As Speaker of the House in the years following the War of 1812, and later as founder of the... This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System -- a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government and constitu... |
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132,24 |
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Theories Of Comparative Politics: The Search For A Paradigm Reconsidered, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780813310176 / Angielski / Miękka / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extensively revised and updated, this classic text revisits the central problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms to guide us in comparative political inquiry. Building upon the first edition's comprehensive and systematic overview of frameworks, ideologies, and theories, the second edition highlights new directions and developments over the past decade, including the continuation of an ideological political science; methodological innovations such as rational-choice, historical, and postbehavioral approaches; new emphases on and links between political culture and...
Extensively revised and updated, this classic text revisits the central problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms to guide us in c...
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293,81 |
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Governance And The Changing American States
ISBN: 9780813331942 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America has rediscovered its states and their governments. After decades of dominance by the federal government, the balance of power is returning, often dramatically, to state governments. A devolution of authority began during the Reagan years, but recent Republican victories in Washington and in the states promise to accelerate the rate at which state governments assume greater responsibility for governing the nation. Inherent in that development is the sense that state governments, long perceived as the weakest link in American politics, are now perhaps the strongest.Here, David Hedge...
America has rediscovered its states and their governments. After decades of dominance by the federal government, the balance of power is returning, of...
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225,25 |
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The New Hampshire Primary And The American Electoral Process
ISBN: 9780813337777 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Hampshire is the subject of Palmer's book precisely because it serves as the first presidential primary every four years. Many critics of the New Hampshire primary fault it for being too arcane, too unrepresentative, and too quixotic to use as a gatekeeper of who becomes President. Palmer went to new Hampshire expecting to gather research that argued against New Hampshire as first primary. As he finished he realized his findings pointed out the opposite, that in fact and deed, New Hampshire was as good a place to start the primary races as any other. No single state is representative. The...
New Hampshire is the subject of Palmer's book precisely because it serves as the first presidential primary every four years. Many critics of the New ...
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154,61 |
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The Insider's Guide to Political Internships: What to Do Once You're in the Door
ISBN: 9780813340166 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, thousands of college students invade Washington, D.C. and the fifty state capitals to volunteer as political interns. Unfortunately, they are rarely able to hit the ground running, lacking the tools to help them do so. The Insider's Guide to Political Internships provides those tools. This volume contains practical, concise essays written by political professionals and scholars with extensive experience supervising internships, as well as advice from many former interns. The book highlights internships on Capitol Hill, at the White House, in the executive branch, at the...
Every year, thousands of college students invade Washington, D.C. and the fifty state capitals to volunteer as political interns. Unfortunately, they ...
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87,59 |
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Civil Society : The American Model And Third World Development
ISBN: 9780813340777 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and including such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Egypt, Civil Society focuses on the processes and politics of dismantling "corporate" (state directed) economies and political systems in the Third World in order to move toward civil societies of free associability and democracy and the limits and pitfalls in this approach.
Using case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and including such critical countries as South Africa, Sout...
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225,25 |
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Click On Democracy : The Internet's Power To Change Political Apathy Into Civic Action
ISBN: 9780813341835 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Click on Democracy examines the first national election in which the Internet played a major role. The contributors argue that the Internet's most profound political impact on Election 2000 has largely been missed or underestimated. The reason: the difference it made was more social than electoral, more about building political communities than about generating votes and money.Voter turnout has dwindled over the past forty years, and fewer Americans are involved in civic activities. The real story of the Internet is its emergence as a community builder - under the radar of most...
Click on Democracy examines the first national election in which the Internet played a major role. The contributors argue that the Internet's m...
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254,64 |
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Essentials of American Politics
ISBN: 9780813367552 / Angielski / Miękka / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essentials of American Politics is an undergraduate text with a novel analytical and comparative focus. It takes as a central theme the increasing tension in American politics between a general philosophy of limited government and particular public demands for more and better government programs and services. While this has always been a feature of the American polity, recent events have brought it into sharp focus. Both a Republican Congress and Democratic president extol the virtues of less government but continue to grapple with demands for improved education, health care,...
Essentials of American Politics is an undergraduate text with a novel analytical and comparative focus. It takes as a central theme the increas...
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279,12 |
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Citizen Participation In Resource Allocation
ISBN: 9780813368245 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not all citizens seek to extract a free lunch' from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of an representative and informed citizenry in sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explores the means to obtaining informed insight from citizens in ways that can aid decision-makers who seek to understand the preferences of the public as a whole not just from its most vocal critics. Simonsen and Robbins present a description and analysis of several specific participation...
Not all citizens seek to extract a free lunch' from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to g...
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205,65 |
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Public Service : Callings, Commitments And Contributions
ISBN: 9780813368269 / Angielski / Miękka / 435 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motivations to enter the public service, positive and negative images of public servants and of government, conflicts between loyalty to the organization and loyalty to the public, morale, burnout, and turnover. The volume also includes cross-national analyses of the public service in other systems, proposals for rethinking public service systems, and questions as to the future of the public service. It recaptures a long, continuing debate as to the...
This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motiv...
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279,12 |
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Public Sector Performance : Management, Motivation, And Measurement
ISBN: 9780813368283 / Angielski / Miękka / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance. Their quest is not new, rather, the concern with improving the performance of government organizations has existed since the Scientific Management Movement. Public Sector Performance brings together in a single volume the classic, enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of public sector performance, as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Taken as a...
Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are ...
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279,12 |
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Congress and the Decline of Public Trust
ISBN: 9780813368382 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the time of Watergate and Vietnam, trust in government has fallen precipitously. This can easily be sensed in the apathy and divisiveness that now characterize American politics, but it is perhaps most clearly revealed in poll data. The great majority of Americans do not trust the government to do what's right all or most of the time . Nor do they believe that government is run for the benefit of all rather than for a few big interests . The nine essays in this volume detail the present character of distrust, analyze its causes, assess the dangers it poses for the future of...
Since the time of Watergate and Vietnam, trust in government has fallen precipitously. This can easily be sensed in the apathy and divisiveness that n...
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225,25 |
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A Theory Of Citizenship : Organizing Plurality In Contemporary Democracies
ISBN: 9780813368634 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? Or is it the ability to organize our differences, that allows people to live together as citizens in a republic? Whereas liberal, republican, and communitarian theories of citizenship analyzed the conditions of citizenship, the central message of this book is that the practical exercise of citizenship, under conditions that are far from ideal, is the main source of its vitality. Instead of arguing for more participation, it focuses on the citizenship of those who, for whatever reason, are already active in the public sphere. Herman van Gunsteren...
Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? Or is it the ability to organize our differences, that allows people to live together as citizens in a...
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225,25 |
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Remote and Controlled: Media Politics in a Cynical Age, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780813368696 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given how the media portray the political system, how can we educate ourselves about politics without feeling alienated? The amount of information now available to the public about government is without precedent, and contemporary media bring the political action closer than ever before. But in an age when reports on the manipulative behavior and character flaws of public figures appear as frequently as coverage of policy issues, many people are tuning out.Remote and Controlled examines the issue of widespread cynicism in an era of abundant information, asking whether it is possible to...
Given how the media portray the political system, how can we educate ourselves about politics without feeling alienated? The amount of information now...
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195,86 |
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American Government: Conflict, Compromise, And Citizenship
ISBN: 9780813368719 / Angielski / Miękka / 591 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woven through this text is the unifying theme that American politics represents conflict and compromise, in direct opposition to the increasingly commonly held view that all politics are dirty and all politicians are crooks. By presenting a balance of essential factual content with a broad assessment of system dynamics and their policy effects, the authors provide an accessible yet sophisticated overview of American politics.Features: Coherent theme of conflict versus compromise in the American political system Consistent examination of American history for institutional development Emphasis...
Woven through this text is the unifying theme that American politics represents conflict and compromise, in direct opposition to the increasingly comm...
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279,12 |
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The German Question
ISBN: 9780813368788 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'German Question, ' long a subject of debate, is considered here at the close of a turbulent century, after Germany's defeat in two world wars, the Weimar failure and Nazi disaster, Cold War division, and the nation's unexpected recent reunification. This book systematically explores the issue in terms of its four central dimensions: Germany's identity, national unity, power, and role in world politics. Ambitious in conception and meticulous in execution, Dirk Verheyen's wide-ranging analysis incorporates historical and geopolitical considerations in an intellectually rigorous yet...
The 'German Question, ' long a subject of debate, is considered here at the close of a turbulent century, after Germany's defeat in two world wars, th...
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268,03 |
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Angry, Bored, Confused : A Citizen Handbook Of American Politics
ISBN: 9780813368856 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angry, bored, and confusedthree words that aptly describe the typical American's view toward the world of politics. But it doesn't have to stay this way, argues Michael Kryzanek, in Angry, Bored, Confused. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American politicscitizenship, power, leadership, problem solving, initiating changethrough a series of straightforward questions, with sometimes surprising answers. Angry, Bored, and Confused examines American politics from the perspective of an anxious consumer seeking to understand the political world, and to change it for the better."
Angry, bored, and confusedthree words that aptly describe the typical American's view toward the world of politics. But it doesn't have to stay this w...
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225,25 |
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