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Understanding Namibia: The Trials of Independence
ISBN: 9780190241568 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation movement, SWAPO, dominates the political scene, effectively making Namibia a de facto one-party state dominated by the first 'struggle generation'.
While those in power declare their support for a free, fair, and just society, the limits to liberation are such that emancipation from foreign rule has only been partially achieved. Despite its natural resources Namibia is among the world's most unequal societies... Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 election...
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Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules
ISBN: 9781107048799 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process, combined with the factional divisions within parties, affect U.S. representatives' decisions about how to distribute power among themselves. The incorporation of the presidential, senatorial, and House factions in the analysis of House rule making marks an important departure from previous theories, which analyze the House as an institution that makes laws in isolation. This book argues that, by constitutional design, the success of the House in passing legislation is highly contingent on the actions of the...
This book examines how the constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process, combined with the factional divisions within parties, affect U.S. rep...
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Too Weak to Govern: Majority Party Power and Appropriations in the Us Senate
ISBN: 9781107063150 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Too Weak to Govern investigates the power of the majority party in the United States Senate through a study of the appropriations process over a period of nearly four decades. It uses quantitative analysis, case studies, and interviews with policy makers to show that the majority party is more likely to abandon routine procedures for passing spending bills in favor of creating massive 'omnibus' spending bills when it is small, divided, and ideologically distant from the minority. This book demonstrates that the majority party's ability to influence legislative outcomes is greater than...
Too Weak to Govern investigates the power of the majority party in the United States Senate through a study of the appropriations process over a perio...
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366,74 |
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Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security
ISBN: 9780128014783 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As concerns about human treatment of the environment and animals have increased over the years, so have decentralized and extremist groups related to these causes. Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security analyzes the international development of radical movements relating to environmental concerns and animal rights in the context of the threats they pose to national security. In addition to tracing the factors responsible for the rapid growth of these movements over the last 25 years, this text presents countermeasures that governments can deploy... As concerns about human treatment of the environment and animals have increased over the years, so have decentralized and extremist groups related ... |
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214,58 |
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The Snowden Reader
ISBN: 9780253017314 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts discuss the historical, political, legal, and ethical issues raised by the disclosures. Over forty key documents related to the case are included, with introductory notes explaining their significance: documents leaked by Snowden; responses from the NSA, the Obama administration, and Congress; statements by... When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national secur... |
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The Snowden Reader
ISBN: 9780253017376 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden's disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts discuss the historical, political, legal, and ethical issues raised by the disclosures. Over forty key documents related to the case are included, with introductory notes explaining their significance: documents leaked by Snowden; responses from the NSA, the Obama administration, and Congress; statements by... When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national secur... |
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112,14 |
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Understanding the Department of State
ISBN: 9781598887457 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History has shown that diplomacy is one of the best ways to protect the United States and the American people. The State Department uses diplomacy with other nations to successfully deal with many challenges that cross national boundaries and affect us here in the United States, including: -Terrorism; -The threat of weapons of mass destruction; -HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases; -Illegal drug trafficking and crime; -Humanitarian needs of migrants and refugees; and -Environmental degradation. Americans at home and abroad face threats to their physical and economic well-being. The State...
History has shown that diplomacy is one of the best ways to protect the United States and the American people. The State Department uses diplomacy wit...
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219,50 |
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The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789
ISBN: 9780062248688 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country,... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American histor... |
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National Policy in a Global Economy: How Government Can Improve Living Standards and Balance the Books
ISBN: 9781137473042 / Angielski / Twarda / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary citizens via a sensible and realistic understanding of governments' limited ability to manage economic performance. It provides a manifesto which political parties could immediately adopt to make life better for all.
This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary citizens via a sensible and reali...
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201,24 |
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Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power
ISBN: 9781421416595 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing president heeds the will of the people and hands the keys to power to a successor. The transition from one administration to the next sounds simple, even ceremonial. But in 2009, as President George W. Bush briefed President-elect Barack Obama about the ongoing wars and plummeting economy he'd soon inherit, the Bush team revealed that they were grappling with a late-breaking threat to the presidency: U.S. intelligence sources believed that a terror group with links to Al Qaeda planned to attack the National... It's one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing president heeds the will of the people and hands the keys to po... |
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The State as Cultural Practice
ISBN: 9780199604487 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic and historical methods, and a decentred approach that rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the idea of politics...
The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges...
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Denmark and the European Union
ISBN: 9781138898134 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an accessible, coherent and comprehensive analysis of the recent, contemporary and future challenges and possibilities facing Denmark in the European integration process. The book traces the formal as well as the informal ways of influence and adaptation in Denmark s relations with the European Union. In doing so, it also offers a contribution to our understanding of Europe as a differentiated political arena. Topics covered include:
This book offers an accessible, coherent and comprehensive analysis of the recent, contemporary and future challenges and possibilities facing Denm... |
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268,23 |
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The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
ISBN: 9781416598817 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading--and why we should be concerned: "A brisk, disturbing account" (Kirkus Reviews). Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs); there were only mercenaries. Now the PMSCs are a bona-fide industry, an indispensable part of American foreign and military policy. PMSCs, such as the former Blackwater, assist US forces in combat operations and replace them after the military withdraws from combat zones;...
The urgent truth about the privatization of America's national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's headin...
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Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America
ISBN: 9780700620890 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system," Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." It is one of the features of federalism in our day, Paul Nolette counters, that these "laboratories of democracy," under the guidance of state attorneys general, are more apt to be dictating national policy than conducting contained experiments. In Federalism on Trial, Nolette presents the first broadscale examination of...
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system," Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens c...
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Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values
ISBN: 9780190247775 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up after a fatwa issued by conservative religious scholars condemned secularism, pluralism and liberalism as un-Islamic.
With a hesitant government dominated by Indonesia's eternal political elites... Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic...
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The Affordable Care ACT: Examining the Facts
ISBN: 9781440834424 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare is one of the most controversial and politicized topics in the United States today. This timely book examines prominent claims about the legislation's drafting, debate, passage, and implementation, and discerns what is true and false about the law. Each of the text's eight chapters delves into the common beliefs, misinterpretations, and myths surrounding the act, tracing the history of the assertion and supporting or challenging its veracity through nonpartisan research and analyses. Chapters begin with an objective look at the... The Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare is one of the most controversial and politicized topics in the United States today. This timely boo... |
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Training Minds for the War of Ideas: Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the Cultural Politics of Britain, 1929-54
ISBN: 9780719086496 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left.
It is an important contribution to the political culture of Conservatism from the late 1920s to the early 1950s with a particular emphasis on the social and intellectual history of the Conservative milieu. This book modifies our understanding of the history of the Conservative party and popular Conservatism but also more generally of the history of intellectual debate in Britain. It... This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture...
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The Death of Deliberation: Partisanship and Polarization in the United States Senate
ISBN: 9781498515368 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A common observation of the Senate today is that it is paralyzed by gridlock; the Senate is currently composed of ideologically polarized members, and the majority and minority leaders exercise more influence because they lead more cohesive political parties. However, the argument that the Senate and by extension, the Congress, are undermined by rampant obstruction overlooks the fact that the contemporary Senate is still capable of overcoming the differences among its members without descending into an endless debate of ideological partisanship and irreconcilable gridlock. While current...
A common observation of the Senate today is that it is paralyzed by gridlock; the Senate is currently composed of ideologically polarized members, and...
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The Fights of My Life
ISBN: 9780522866179 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From his childhood in Rooty Hill in the western suburbs of Sydney, Greg Combet rose to the leadership of the Australian trade union movement and went on to become a senior minister in the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments. Along the way he has been a key player in numerous national struggles defending workers rights and making historic reforms. His story is not just a personal memoir; it is an insight into how power works in Australia, who holds it, how it is used, and the sometimes ruthless way in which power is obtained. It is a story of how the powerful edifice of politics, big business,...
From his childhood in Rooty Hill in the western suburbs of Sydney, Greg Combet rose to the leadership of the Australian trade union movement and went ...
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The Fathers of the Constitution
ISBN: 9781507852255 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The United States of America" It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming "among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"; and, in view of their subsequent marvelous development, they are inclined to add that it must have been before an expectant world.
"The United States of America" It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to mainta...
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