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After the Terror
ISBN: 9780748616671 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "To be on an airliner and look around and see the people and be able to stick to the plan of flying it into a skyscraper is to be hideous, and to persist if they come to know the plan is to be monstrous.
"For the 3,000 deaths there are lines of responsibility into the past, as real as chains of command, containing earlier and later perpetrators. We in our democracies are in them, and in particular those of us who have got themselves into our governments." --Extract from After The Terror This philosophical and moral reflection describes two worlds - ours of good lives and another of... "To be on an airliner and look around and see the people and be able to stick to the plan of flying it into a skyscraper is to be hideous, and to pers...
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562,49 |
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America Through the Looking Glass: An Outsider's Look at American Society
ISBN: 9780759619401 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a work in which the author seeks to relay a treatise of his observations of life in the United States from the point of view of a first-generation immigrant. The text explores his observations on such facets of American life as politics, welfare reforms, family values, labor practices, education and other issues in the civil society.
This book offers a work in which the author seeks to relay a treatise of his observations of life in the United States from the point of view of a fir...
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99,40 |
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The Federal Election Commission: Policy, Politics, and Administration
ISBN: 9780761834564 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Federal Election Commission: Politics, Policy, and Administration is an engaging and accessible analysis of the nature and impact of the contextual relationship between the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and legislative, executive, and judicial institutions of government. This work offers a historical and theoretical explanation of why campaign finance regulation and its administration fails to satisfy politicians, pundits, and the public and might ultimately threaten democratic government.
The Federal Election Commission: Politics, Policy, and Administration is an engaging and accessible analysis of the nature and impact of the contextua...
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184,60 |
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Government at Work: Best Practices and Model Programs
ISBN: 9780761902416 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. Clearly, some services should come under government control: public safety, highways, armed and emergency service, water, sewage, parks, schools. Others, however, are operating in answer to problems that society fails to solve. The public sector requires complex problem-solving processes - never simple solutions - and, despite the negative image imprinted on the public consciousness, Government at Work shows how so-called bureaucrats do a difficult job well. Marc Holzer and Kathe Callahan...
This book presents persuasive arguments in support of public service and those who work within it. Clearly, some services should come under government...
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553,79 |
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Politics as Usual: The Cyberspace `Revolution′
ISBN: 9780761913306 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the effects of the Internet on American politics, this book reveals its potential as a tool for empowering people to challenge existing power structures. However, the authors show how the American political system tends to normalize political activity, and thus the Internet's vast subversive potential could be lost, rendering it just another purveyor of ignored information. Examining the effects of the Internet on American politics, this book reveals its potential as a tool for empowering people to challenge existing p... |
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646,09 |
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Politics as Usual: The Cyberspace `Revolution′
ISBN: 9780761913313 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the effects of the Internet on American politics, this book reveals its potential as a tool for empowering people to challenge existing power structures. However, the authors show how the American political system tends to normalize political activity, and thus the Internet's vast subversive potential could be lost, rendering it just another purveyor of ignored information. Examining the effects of the Internet on American politics, this book reveals its potential as a tool for empowering people to challenge existing p... |
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408,06 |
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Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter
ISBN: 9780761916246 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roderick P Hart's Revised Edition of Seducing America is a revealing examination of how television's format of presenting politics has changed the way viewers act, vote and feel about politics in the United States. With a rigorous blend o
Roderick P Hart's Revised Edition of Seducing America is a revealing examination of how television's format of presenting politics ha... |
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646,09 |
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Unions in America
ISBN: 9780761930341 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unions in America provides a concise and current introduction to what America's labor unions do and why they do it. In this engaging text, author Gary Chaison portrays America's unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to regain their lost membership, bargaining power, and political influence. This accessible textbook offers an impartial overview of American unions that ranges from the struggle for recognition from employers in their earliest years to their present-day difficulties.
Unions in America provides a concise and current introduction to what America's labor unions do and why they do it. In this engaging text, author Gary...
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408,06 |
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American Government and Politics: A Concise Introduction
ISBN: 9780761940944 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Government and Politics is a completely new introductory textbook designed and written for all students of politics coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a lively and accessible introduction and guide to all the main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex contemporary political systems in the world.
From the impeachment of Bill Clinton, to the controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election, and the Bush administration's responses to September 11, students will gain a balanced and critical understanding of... American Government and Politics is a completely new introductory textbook designed and written for all students of politics coming to the subj...
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208,83 |
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Executive Governance: Presidential Administrations and Policy Change in the Federal Bureaucracy
ISBN: 9780765600486 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the difficulties of translating presidential policy initiatives into ground-level policy implementation by the permanent government. Drawing on organization theory, it focuses on the ways that bureaucratic behaviours shape an agency's responsiveness to directives.
This study explores the difficulties of translating presidential policy initiatives into ground-level policy implementation by the permanent governmen...
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777,25 |
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Downsizing the Federal Government: Management of Public Sector Workforce Reductions
ISBN: 9780765601193 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a federal civilian workforce reduction of 12 percent by the year 2000.
This pioneering study looks at the management of workforce reductions in the public sector both in theory and in practice. Three case studies -- of the Defense Logistics Agency, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Food and Drug Administration -- illustrate the organizational, managerial, and human dimensions of attempting to improve performance with reduced resources. The author... The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a fed...
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242,84 |
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Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-69
ISBN: 9780765603814 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text covers integration of the State Department after 1945 and the subsequent appointments of Black ambassadors to Third World and African nations. Other topics include: the setbacks during the Eisenhower years and the gains achieved during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
This text covers integration of the State Department after 1945 and the subsequent appointments of Black ambassadors to Third World and African nation...
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194,26 |
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Pensions, Politics and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society
ISBN: 9780765605184 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an historical exploration of the US pensioner movements of the late 1920s through to the early 1950s, and the insights they offer policy analysts and researchers on how the forthcoming retirement of the Baby-Boom generation could proceed.
This is an historical exploration of the US pensioner movements of the late 1920s through to the early 1950s, and the insights they offer policy analy...
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874,41 |
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City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
ISBN: 9780765609410 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary efforts to consolidate governments and develops a theoretical approach to understanding both the motivations for pursuing consolidation and the way the rules guiding the process shape the outcome. Individual chapters consider the push for city-county consolidation and the current context in which such decisions are debated, along with several alternatives to city-county consolidation. The transaction costs of...
City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some importa...
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777,25 |
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On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future
ISBN: 9780765805751 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget. They are regarded as sacrosanct by lawmakers, yet many people see them as one of the greatest threats to the American Dream. This volume argues that by sacrifi cing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions, entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers
Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget. They are regarded as sacrosanct by lawmakers, yet many p...
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223,41 |
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Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics
ISBN: 9780765809285 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The government of the United States is a living system. As such, it is subject to subtle change and modifi cation over time, but still maintains a constancy via its central nervous system-a congressional form of rule. Woodrow Wilson saw congressional government as "Committee" government. It is administered by semi-independent executive agents who obey the dictates of a legislature, though the agents themselves are not of ultimate authority or accountability. Written by Wilson when he was a twenty-eight-year-old graduate student, this is an astounding examination of the American legislative...
The government of the United States is a living system. As such, it is subject to subtle change and modifi cation over time, but still maintains a con...
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223,41 |
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Toward a Canada-Quebec Union
ISBN: 9780773508651 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when Canada's constitutional arrangement is in utter turmoil, Philip Resnick has come up with a bold and brilliant proposal for a new configuration of Canada's two founding nations. Going beyond the political and social insights of Letters to a Quebecois Friend (Resnick and Latouche: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990), Resnick is no longer simply observing the English-Canadian/Quebecois situation and appealing to reason: he is attempting to lay the foundations for a Canada that will, at last, work.
At a time when Canada's constitutional arrangement is in utter turmoil, Philip Resnick has come up with a bold and brilliant proposal for a new config...
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155,45 |
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Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism
ISBN: 9780773511101 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taylor is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on Hegel and brings to his reflections on nationalism and federalism the fruits of a more universal philosophical discourse rooted in the Enlightenment and before. Its hallmarks are terms such as recognition, self-determination, atomism, and modernity. Notwithstanding his long involvement in philosophical reflections, Taylor has avoided the role of the disengaged intellectual, always remaining close to political action and debate in Canada. To his philosophical discourse, therefore, is added a sensitive knowledge of Quebec society from the...
Taylor is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on Hegel and brings to his reflections on nationalism and federalism the fruits of a more universal p...
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170,03 |
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Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream
ISBN: 9780773513228 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream Guy Laforest argues that Trudeau's constitutional reforms destroyed the dualistic vision of the Canadian federation developed in Quebec throughout the twentieth century.
In Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream Guy Laforest argues that Trudeau's constitutional reforms destroyed the dualistic vision of the Canadian fe...
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150,59 |
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Do Conventions Matter?: Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada
ISBN: 9780773513587 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, including the selection of Stanfield, Trudeau, Broadbent, Clark, Mulroney, Turner, McLaughlin, Chretien, Campbell, and Manning. Courtney compares leadership selection practices in Canada with those in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and shows that Canadian conventions remain a distinctive means of choosing party leaders. Focusing on modern developments in the convention process, Courtney highlights changes in representation over the...
Do Conventions Matter? provides a complete overview of national party conventions in Canada, from 1919, when the first convention was held, to 1993, i...
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155,45 |
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