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The National Planning Idea in U.S. Public Policy: Five Alternative Approaches
ISBN: 9780367294243 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the eventful but largely forgotten history of national planning efforts in the United States, first identifying and comparing five alternative approaches to contemporary national planning, then using these approaches to assess the events of 1973-1976, a period when crisis pressures brought a vigorous resurgence of national planning activity and debate. Dr. Wilson concludes that two new approaches to planning— "learning-adaptive" and general systems—are increasingly being used in lieu of the long-established, and less flexible, rational and incremental approaches, and...
This book explores the eventful but largely forgotten history of national planning efforts in the United States, first identifying and comparing five ...
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What You Need to Know about Voting--And Why
ISBN: 9780062974785 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,78 |
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Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation
ISBN: 9780367315009 / Angielski / Twarda 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
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 t...
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Angry, Bored, Confused: A Citizen Handbook of American Politics
ISBN: 9780367314552 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angry, bored, and confused?three 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 politics?citizenship, power, leadership, problem solving, initiating change?through a series of s
Angry, bored, and confused?three words that aptly describe the typical American's view toward the world of politics. But it doesn't have to stay this ...
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Civil Society: The American Model and Third World Development
ISBN: 9780367315030 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 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 Worl
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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Congress and the Decline of Public Trust
ISBN: 9780367315146 / Angielski / Twarda 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 d
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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Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries
ISBN: 9780367316815 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of this nation's political life and public policy have been shaped by a handful of powerful people?the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives. Masters of the House identifies enduring patterns of House leadership, explaining the effects of such factors as party strength, White House?Congressional relations, leaders' formal prerogatives,
Much of this nation's political life and public policy have been shaped by a handful of powerful people?the leaders of the U.S. House of Representativ...
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American Government: Conflict, Compromise, and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780367314477 / Angielski / Twarda / 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, t
Woven through this text is the unifying theme that American politics represents ?conflict and compromise,? in direct opposition to the increasingly co...
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757,61 |
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Social Regulatory Policy: Moral Controversies in American Politics
ISBN: 9780367287603 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the authors propose an important variant of regulation—social regulatory policy—and explain how the six moral controversies about the policy (school prayer, pornography, crime, gun control, affirmative action, and abortion) are handled by the American political system.
In this book, the authors propose an important variant of regulation—social regulatory policy—and explain how the six moral controversies ...
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757,61 |
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Public Sector Performance: Management, Motivation, and Measurement
ISBN: 9780367317492 / Angielski / Twarda 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 Movemen
Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are ...
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684,29 |
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A Theory of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality in Contemporary Democracies
ISBN: 9780367314309 / Angielski / Twarda 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
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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Governance and the Changing American States
ISBN: 9780367316013 / Angielski / Twarda / 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
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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Public Service: Callings, Commitments and Contributions
ISBN: 9780367317508 / Angielski / Twarda 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 tur
This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motiv...
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How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative
ISBN: 9781515423775 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,09 |
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The Electoral Origins of Divided Government: Competition in U.S. House Elections, 19461988
ISBN: 9780367291662 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is divided government—a Republican president and a Democratic Congress—the product of diminished competition for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives? In this groundbreaking study, Gary C. Jacobson uses a detailed analysis of the evolution of competition in postwar House elections to argue that the problems Republicans face in seeking House seats are political rather than structural. With abundant graphic illustration, he shows that divided government is only one piece of a much broader electoral pattern that is creating new opportunities as well as new barriers to partisan change...
Is divided government—a Republican president and a Democratic Congress—the product of diminished competition for seats in the U.S. House of Repres...
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464,29 |
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How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative
ISBN: 9781515423973 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,46 |
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Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780691204093 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,20 |
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The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior
ISBN: 9781498533546 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,80 |
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Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric: How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate
ISBN: 9781498554152 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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195,46 |
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Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
ISBN: 9781498558594 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheism and freethought. Meagher demonstrates how changes in resources, opportunities, and movement identity help explain the political mobilization of atheists in America.
In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheism a...
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180,80 |