Reviving Regulatory Reform
ISBN: 9780844741222 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study into regulatory reform shows that technological impacts on the economic benefits and costs of regulation and a deeper understanding of the social effects of the regulatory institution are driving policymakers to question the familiar and to propose daring changes.
This study into regulatory reform shows that technological impacts on the economic benefits and costs of regulation and a deeper understanding of the ...
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Tales of the State: Narrative in Contemporary U.S. Politics and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780847685035 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to develop its own appreciation of the power of narrative to explain everything from political traditions to cyberspace. This unique collection of original essays helps further that project by surveying stories of and about all kinds of American politics-from welfare, race, and immigration; to workfare, jobs, and education; to gay rights, national security, and the American Dream in an age of economic globalization.
The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to devel...
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243,92 zł |
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
ISBN: 9780847685172 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Observing that the understanding of the Founders of the American Constitution influences the opinion of contemporary America, this book demonstrates why the Founders were indeed sincere in their belief of universal human rights and in their commitment to democracy.
Observing that the understanding of the Founders of the American Constitution influences the opinion of contemporary America, this book demonstrates w...
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106,00 zł |
Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship
ISBN: 9780847686476 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil service under the Constitution. The common concern that unites the otherwise diverse approaches of the authors is the conception of public administration as a particular form of political activity. The contributors relate administrative issues to the broader questions of political life, such as political judgment and responsibility, the Constitution and constitutionalism, and the promotion of human liberty and the common good. They aim to encourage...
In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil servi...
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281,03 zł |
Just Cause: Freedom, Identity, and Rights
ISBN: 9780847697915 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the distinguishing features of Drucilla Cornell's work is its emphasis on the significance of ideals. The essays collected here examine how the ideals of freedom and equality associated with the democratic revolutions of the West have survived the challenges of twentieth century critiques. Cornell argues that, far from threatening these ideals, feminism, race theory and other new theories have deepened their meaning and so allowed them to survive. In particular, Cornell here engages with issues surrounding representation and rights. Drawing on her experiences as a union organizer, she...
One of the distinguishing features of Drucilla Cornell's work is its emphasis on the significance of ideals. The essays collected here examine how the...
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196,19 zł |
Political Participation in the United States
ISBN: 9780871877925 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing patterns of citizen voting and political participation, Political Participation in the United States examines who the participants in our political process are, what they do, and what they hope to accomplish - whether their participation is the simple act of voting or the more demanding role of running for political office. This third edition is updated throughout both in its discussion of research on participation and its examination of participation patterns (through the 1998 elections).
Analyzing patterns of citizen voting and political participation, Political Participation in the United States examines who the participants in our po...
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272,02 zł |
Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois
ISBN: 9780875802633 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1820s, Illinois saw an early battle between slavery and abolitionism. This text explores the political and social movement to bring slavery to Illinois - a campaign that unleashed riots across the state. It reveals the paradoxes in a quest for democracy that also fostered slavery.
In the 1820s, Illinois saw an early battle between slavery and abolitionism. This text explores the political and social movement to bring slavery to ...
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216,60 zł |
Honest Numbers and Democracy: Social Policy Analysis in the White House, Congress, and the Federal Agencies
ISBN: 9780878406845 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Honest Numbers and Democracy, Walter Williams offers a revealing history of policy analysis in the federal government and a scorching critique of what's wrong with social policy analysis today. Williams, a policy insider who witnessed the birth of domestic policy analysis during the Johnson administration, contends that the increasingly partisan U.S. political environment is vitiating both "honest numbers" -- the data used to direct public policy -- and, more importantly, honest analysts, particularly in the White House. Drawing heavily on candid off-the-record interviews... In Honest Numbers and Democracy, Walter Williams offers a revealing history of policy analysis in the federal government and a scorching cri... |
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140,52 zł |
Lobbying Together: Interest Group Coalitions in Legislative Politics
ISBN: 9780878407217 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today organized interests fight most of their major battles within coalitions. Whether joining forces to address tobacco legislation or proposed air safety regulations, Washington lobbyists with seemingly little in common are combining their clout to get results. Kevin Hula here examines why coalition strategies have emerged as a dominant lobbying technique, when lobbyists use them, and how these strategies affect their activities. His is the first book to focus on the formation and use of coalitions by lobbyists, examining the broader scope of interest group coalitions and... Today organized interests fight most of their major battles within coalitions. Whether joining forces to address tobacco legislation or proposed ai... |
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186,81 zł |
Conflict Amid Consensus in American Trade Policy
ISBN: 9780878407941 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans have witnessed inconsistent and seemingly dramatic turnabouts in legislators' attitudes toward trade, with strong bipartisan support for free trade and the Uruguay Round in one instant and heated debate over participation in the World Trade Organization the next. Martha L. Gibson systematically traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. Cutting through the tangled web of congressional politics, Gibson shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how... Americans have witnessed inconsistent and seemingly dramatic turnabouts in legislators' attitudes toward trade, with strong bipartisan support for ... |
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254,52 zł |
The State of Democracy in America
ISBN: 9780878408610 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging assessment of democracy in America today, fifteen respected scholars of American politics chart the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's democratic mechanisms and outline the challenges that lie ahead. They focus not on specific policies or elections but on the quality of American political life, the representativeness of its governing institutions, and the issues of racial and economic equity. The contributors cover a broad spectrum of the American political process. Topics include the extent and nature of political participation, the relevance of political... In this wide-ranging assessment of democracy in America today, fifteen respected scholars of American politics chart the strengths and weaknesses o... |
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106,05 zł |
The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade
ISBN: 9780881323801 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress meet the economic challenges that lie ahead? This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and overall foreign policy of the United States, describes the new global environment (e.g., the rise of China as a global economic superpower and the completion of European unification) in which US policy must operate, and proposes major US initiatives on a wide range of international economic issues,...
What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress me...
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116,66 zł |
Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States : The Attack on "Leviathan"
ISBN: 9780887383724 / Angielski / Miękka / 393 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently have come to be appreciated. "Leviathan is the idea of the Great Society, organized under a single, complex, but strong and highly centralized national government, motivated ultimately by men's desire for economic welfare of a specific kind rather than their desire for personal liberty. " Originally published as The Attack on Leviathan, this eloquent volume is an attack on state centralism...
A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnip...
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231,67 zł |
The Future of the Safety Net: Social Insurance and Employee Benefits
ISBN: 9780913447819 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social insurance and employee benefits are key elements of society's safety net for workers. Social Security, although popular and successful, is under attack by critics who advocate privatization and benefit cuts. In health care, the United States...
Social insurance and employee benefits are key elements of society's safety net for workers. Social Security, although popular and successful, is unde...
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244,37 zł |
Government and Environmental Politics: Essays on Historical Developments Since World War Two
ISBN: 9780943875156 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Editor of Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life and The Truman Presidency, Lacey details the emergence of the new social values that gave rise to the environmental movement and examines the Federal government's response to the changing ideas and needs of the American people.
Editor of Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life and The Truman Presidency, Lacey details the emergence of the new social values th...
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60,98 zł |
Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11
ISBN: 9780945999560 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical pieces lambasts the highest officials in the executive branch for incompetence and moral blindness. Analyses of both wars and the crisis following 9/11 portray the conflicts as opportunities for special interests to entrench themselves in the U.S. government at the expense of U.S. citizens civil liberties and tax dollars, and the lives of numerous Afghan and Iraqi non-combatants. Pulling no punches, this work holds George W. Bush and members of...
Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical...
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The People's Choice: From Washington to Harding a Study in Democracy
ISBN: 9780966573404 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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What Does Mr. Greenspan Really Think?
ISBN: 9780971038042 / Angielski / Miękka / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analysis and commentary on statements by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dealing with financial collapse, wealth transfer, and the gold standard.
Analysis and commentary on statements by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dealing with financial collapse, wealth transfer, and the gold standa...
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84,35 zł |
How the Left Lost Teen Spirit: (And How They're Getting It Back!)
ISBN: 9780971920682 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Danny Goldberg's new book is a stirring, brilliant, last-chance plea to Democrats that if they are unwilling to do their job--be a voice for working people, young people, women, the elderly, the poor and people of color, (in other words, for the MAJORITY of the country)--then their days as a party are numbered. Years from now, if the Democrats have long faded from American memory, anthropologists and historians will ask, 'Didn't any of them read this book by Danny Goldberg?'"--Michael Moore "Danny Goldberg has written with pinpoint accuracy an important memoir filled with fascinating...
"Danny Goldberg's new book is a stirring, brilliant, last-chance plea to Democrats that if they are unwilling to do their job--be a voice for working ...
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68,67 zł |
Neocon Middle East Policy: The Clean Break Plan Damage Assessment
ISBN: 9780976443735 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Neocon Middle East Policy" reviews strategies and consequences of the "Clean Break" plan authored by Richard Perle, David Wurmser, and Douglas Feith in 1996. A must-read for anyone concerned about the convergence of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy in the Middle East.
"Neocon Middle East Policy" reviews strategies and consequences of the "Clean Break" plan authored by Richard Perle, David Wurmser, and Douglas Feith ...
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42,84 zł |