Revolving Gridlock : Politics and Policy from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780813343204 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the early prospects for bipartisan unity on terrorism initiatives, government gridlock continues on most major issues in the wake of the 2004 elections. In this fully revised edition, political scientists David W. Brady and Craig Volden demonstrate that gridlock is not a product of divided government, party politics, or any of the usual scapegoats. It is, instead, an instrumental part of American governmentbuilt into our institutions and sustained by leaders acting rationally not only to achieve set goals but to thwart foolish inadvertencies. Looking at key legislative issues from the...
Despite the early prospects for bipartisan unity on terrorism initiatives, government gridlock continues on most major issues in the wake of the 2004 ...
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Us Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Gulliver's Travails
ISBN: 9780813343693 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian intervention, and a litany of other concerns on the foreign policy agenda pose complex dilemmas for which there are no simple answers. Through lucid, lively analysis, as well as multiple illustrations and case studies, US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century explores the difficult choices that confront the United States today in a...
The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twe...
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189,28 zł |
The Role Of The Supreme Court In American Politics : The Least Dangerous Branch?
ISBN: 9780813367538 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Supreme Court's effectively decided the presidential election of 2000, it decision illustrated a classic question in American politics: what is the appropriate role for the Supreme Court? The dilemma is between judicial activism, the Court's willingness to make significant changes in public policy, and judicial restraint, the Court's willingness to confine the use and extent of its power. While the Framers of the Constitution felt that the judiciary would be the "least dangerous branch" of government, many have come to the conclusion that courts govern America, a notion at odds with...
When the Supreme Court's effectively decided the presidential election of 2000, it decision illustrated a classic question in American politics: what ...
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219,99 zł |
Immigration In America's Future : Social Science Findings And The Policy Debate
ISBN: 9780813387406 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the United States today. In this timely and informative book, David Heer invites readers to examine the data and trends of immigration to the United States and, ultimately, make up their own minds about what our national immigration policy ought to be.
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the United States today. In this timely and informative book, David Heer invites reade...
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225,11 zł |
The Next Agenda : Blueprint For A New Progressive Movement
ISBN: 9780813398143 / Angielski / Miękka / 403 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Next Agenda, editors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America's Future have gathered essays written by some of America's most progressive thinkers and activists that lay out ideas and reforms to address the serious issues facing us today. They argue that the economic prosperity of the last decade can only be sustained if it is more widely shared. And they call for a new progressive movement to forge new rules for the global economy just as the Progressives of the last century tamed the excesses of America's national economy.Each of the fourteen essays in...
In The Next Agenda, editors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America's Future have gathered essays written by some of Ameri...
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250,69 zł |
Stepping Up to Power: The Political Journey of Women in America
ISBN: 9780813398181 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a true adventure story that mixes personal anecdote and fascinating facts to bring women's recent political history to life, concluding with guidance to inspire a new generation of women risk takers. Harriett Woods argues that it will take more than a woman president to assure women effective power in the next millennium. Stepping Up to Power looks backward in order to move women forward; Woods believes that getting more women to enter the political pipeline will take both their commitment and a knowledge of the past. The author uses her own life story to recall how women...
This volume is a true adventure story that mixes personal anecdote and fascinating facts to bring women's recent political history to life, concluding...
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94,90 zł |
Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire
ISBN: 9780813917221 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this valuable study, Lex Renda uses retrospective voting theory--a quantitative political science model for assessing political allegiances--to explore the connections between voters' judgments and public policy in New Hampshire before, during, and after the Civil War. According to this theory, voters base their judgements and party loyalty not on proposals for future policy initiatives but on their assessment of a candidate or party's past performance. Running on the Record calls into question the work of historians who have argued that voters unversed in the technicalities of... In this valuable study, Lex Renda uses retrospective voting theory--a quantitative political science model for assessing political allegiances--to ... |
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Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States
ISBN: 9780813925455 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today. This wave of new Americans comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia, a pattern that is likely to continue in this century. In Transforming Politics, Transforming America, editors Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramirez bring together the newest work of prominent scholars in the field of immigrant political incorporation to provide the first comprehensive look at the political... Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 mill... |
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White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community
ISBN: 9780814330203 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rise of the Conservative movement in the United States over the last two decades is evident in current public policy, including the passage of the Welfare Reform Act, the weakening of affirmative action, and the approval of educational vouchers for private schooling. At the same time, new rules on congressional redistricting prohibit legislators from constructing majority black congressional districts, and blacks continue to suffer disproportionate rates of incarceration and death-penalty sentencing. In this significant new study, the distinguished political scientist Ronald W. Walters... The rise of the Conservative movement in the United States over the last two decades is evident in current public policy, including the passage of ... |
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157,28 zł |
Community-Based Organizations: The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context in Contemporary Urban Society
ISBN: 9780814331576 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society studies the close relationship that social capital shares with local context, social organization, and institutional structure. The book's timely analysis illuminates the institutional barriers currently affecting the mobilization of social capital and establishes a foundation for social and political reform in the future. All components of capital formation-including human, financial, and cultural... In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based O... |
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The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America
ISBN: 9780814706800 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of -diversity- and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the aggressive conservative assault on liberal racial reform generally, and on black well-being, in particular. Yet appeals to fairness and justice, no matter how heartfelt, are bound to fail, Marcellus Andrews argues, since the economic foundations of the Civil Rights movement have been destroyed by the combined forces of globalization, technology, and tight government budgets. The Political Economy of Hope and Fear fills an... Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of -diversity- and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the... |
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The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities ACT
ISBN: 9780814716458 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress and analyzes the first decade of judicial decisions under the act. She assesses the success and failure of the first ten years of litigation under the ADA, focusing on its three major titles: employment, public entities, and public accommodations. The... Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began t... |
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388,91 zł |
The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act
ISBN: 9780814716809 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress and analyzes the first decade of judicial decisions under the act. She assesses the success and failure of the first ten years of litigation under the ADA, focusing on its three major titles: employment, public entities, and public accommodations. The Disability... Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began t... |
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Taxing America
ISBN: 9780814726617 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1996, Steve Forbes--publisher, heir, and presidential candidate--captured the American imagination with his proposal for a flat tax. But while Mr. Forbes claimed that such a tax would level the economic playing field by eliminating countless loopholes and miles of red tape, his actual proposal betrayed such claims to fairness by overtaxing workers and undertaxing financial capital. In the face of recent proposals for dramatic and far-reaching tax reform, Taxing America takes a critical look at the way the federal government collects its revenue and exposes... In the winter of 1996, Steve Forbes--publisher, heir, and presidential candidate--captured the American imagination with his proposal for a flat ta... |
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153,47 zł |
Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice
ISBN: 9780814727041 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice? Feminist theory and political activism need not--indeed cannot--be distinct and alienated from one another. To reconcile the gulf between word and deed, scholar-activists from a broad range of disciplines have come together here to explore the ways in which practice and theory intersect and... What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all p... |
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409,37 zł |
Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice
ISBN: 9780814727058 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice? Feminist theory and political activism need not--indeed cannot--be distinct and alienated from one another. To reconcile the gulf between word and deed, scholar-activists from a broad range of disciplines have come together here to explore the ways in which practice and theory intersect and... What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all p... |
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132,99 zł |
To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation
ISBN: 9780814730898 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott Douglas Gerber here argues that the Constitution of the United States should be interpreted in light of the natural rights political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that the Supreme Court is the institution of American government that should be primarily responsible for identifying and applying that philosophy in American life. Importantly, the theory advanced in this book--what Gerber calls liberal originalism--is neither consistently... To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott Douglas Gerber here a... |
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132,99 zł |
Understanding the 2000 Election: A Guide to the Legal Battles That Decided the Presidency
ISBN: 9780814731482 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the legal clashes that enveloped the country from election night to the Gore concession. It was instant history, and will be studied by historians, lawyers, political scientists, media critics and others for years to come. Even for those who followed the events most closely, the legal twists and turns of the post-election struggles seemed at times bewildering. We witnessed manual recounts of... Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential electi... |
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409,37 zł |
Understanding the 2000 Election: A Guide to the Legal Battles That Decided the Presidency
ISBN: 9780814731734 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the legal clashes that enveloped the country from election night to the Gore concession. It was instant history, and will be studied by historians, lawyers, political scientists, media critics and others for years to come. Even for those who followed the events most closely, the legal twists and turns of the post-election struggles seemed at times bewildering. We witnessed manual recounts of election ballots,... Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For fi... |
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118,45 zł |
Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations
ISBN: 9780814736920 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since the unfulfilled promise of "forty acres and a mule," America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come. Martin Luther King, Jr., remarked in his "I Have a Dream" speech that America has given Black citizens a "bad check" marked "insufficient funds." Yet apart from a few Black nationalists, the call for reparations has been... Ever since the unfulfilled promise of "forty acres and a mule," America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Explorin... |
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409,37 zł |