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Women's Empowerment in India
ISBN: 9781032124995 / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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705,83 zł |
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Wonderland: Sadr's Response to the Critics
ISBN: 9781985192485 / Arabski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,31 zł |
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Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works
ISBN: 9780226077970 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can ordinary people really gather together and make laws that are binding on themselves and their communities? Frank M. Bryan discusses this with particular reference to the New England town meeting which provides a model of such a pure form of democracy.
Can ordinary people really gather together and make laws that are binding on themselves and their communities? Frank M. Bryan discusses this with part...
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122,98 zł |
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Public Law Within Government: Sustaining the Art of the Possible
ISBN: 9780230553026 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on rich source material - one local authority's involvement in the epic central/local confrontation over local government spending in 1980s England - this book develops a multifaceted and widely applicable analysis of public law within government as a process of 'sustaining the art of the possible'.
Drawing on rich source material - one local authority's involvement in the epic central/local confrontation over local government spending in 1980s En...
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201,72 zł |
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Political Change in the Metropolis
ISBN: 9780321202284 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This popular text has been thoroughly updated and revised to sharpen the focus on its 'bias and change' theme, include the latest data/studies informing the field, and cover important new topics (e.g., flood disaster in New Orleans). Political Change in the Metropolis, Eighth Edition, continues to focus on the political changes that have taken place in American cities and the reactions of urban scholars to them. In addition to offering scholarly perspectives, the text offers students a theoretical framework for interpreting these changing events for themselves. This... This popular text has been thoroughly updated and revised to sharpen the focus on its 'bias and change' theme, include the latest data/studies info... |
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632,81 zł |
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Place Identity, Participation and Planning
ISBN: 9780415262415 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can regional identities create a more sustainable alternative to the increasingly standardised environments in which we live? Is bottom-up rather than top-down planning possible? Why is the development of housing in the countryside so controversial in Britain, but accepted in Norway and Sweden? What does the Dutch way of managing landscapes demonstrate? How is the EU promoting a new relationship between cities and countryside, and moulding the identity of new D uro-regions D ? This book tackles these questions by looking at the contested identities of areas facing industrial and agricultural...
Can regional identities create a more sustainable alternative to the increasingly standardised environments in which we live? Is bottom-up rather than...
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924,88 zł |
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Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership
ISBN: 9780761828952 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big city mayors rank among the most powerful and colorful politicians in America. Yet few books focus on the leadership challenges the occupants of the office face. Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership examines twelve case studies of mayoral leadership in seven cities, from the New Deal era to the beginning of the 21st century. The prospects for mayoral success or failure are driven by how mayors manage the fit between political commitments and the broader patterns of political competition. City Hall powerhouses like Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1954-76), David Lawrence of Pittsburgh...
Big city mayors rank among the most powerful and colorful politicians in America. Yet few books focus on the leadership challenges the occupants of th...
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319,54 zł |
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Cities, Counties, Kids, and Families: The Essential Role of Local Government
ISBN: 9780761830948 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities, Counties, Kids, and Families outlines a model for developing strategic policy for responding to children and family issues in local governments.
Cities, Counties, Kids, and Families outlines a model for developing strategic policy for responding to children and family issues in local government...
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338,91 zł |
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Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
ISBN: 9780765609434 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consolidation as a way of achieving efficiencies of scale in response to citizen demands for services. Yet the vast majority of consolidation efforts fail, either during the process of drafting a charter or once they reach the ballot - only five have passed since 1990; only thirty-two have been successfully implemented since the first, when the city of New Orleans merged with Orleans Parish in 1805. What accounts for the high failure rate and what...
Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consol...
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705,83 zł |
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Forms of Local Government: A Handbook on City, County and Regional Options
ISBN: 9780786431007 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various forms of government below the state level now in use in the United States of America. It sorts through the traditional commission, mayor-council, strong mayor, and council-manager models for counties, cities, townships and school districts. The book also treats those entities that transcend the traditional boundaries of cities and counties, including the evolving residential community associations and regional government structures. Further examination is given to sub-metropolitan districts such as municipalities and boroughs. A...
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various forms of government below the state level now in use in the United States of America. I...
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221,24 zł |
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Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada: First-Hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics
ISBN: 9780802091253 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the far greater imbalance that occurs outside of large cities. This deficit arises not from rural voter bias, but from low numbers of female candidates running for winnable seats. The question of why there are so few female candidates has been difficult to answer, largely because we know so little about the pool of potential candidates. Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada presents results from a regional field-based study,... Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few appreciate the ... |
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223,92 zł |
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Race, Religion, and Economic Change in the Republican South : A Study of a Southern City
ISBN: 9780813031606 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once known as a Democratic stronghold, the "Solid South" is now politically dominated by the Republican Party. With frank and provocative analysis, Matthew Corrigan explores how the interaction of race relations, economic isolation, and religion create a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the majority party in the American South.Corrigan uses an intensive case study of Jacksonville, Florida, to examine the attitudes of southern voters more broadly. As an urban southern city that now votes solidly Republican, it reflects the political changes that have taken place across the...
Once known as a Democratic stronghold, the "Solid South" is now politically dominated by the Republican Party. With frank and provocative analysis, Ma...
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223,92 zł |
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This Is the City: Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780816641918 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rather than presenting a comprehensive history of Los Angeles, Schmidt (political science, U. of Southern Maine) traces attempts to script the city of angels with an idealistic civic identity. He illuminates three defining influences in influencing the city's urban culture: Los Angeles Times' publisher Harrison Gray Otis in the 1880s, Hollywood i
Rather than presenting a comprehensive history of Los Angeles, Schmidt (political science, U. of Southern Maine) traces attempts to script the city of...
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102,18 zł |
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British Local Government Into the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781403918727 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the current state of local government in Britain and where is it going? Edited by two leading experts and with an all-star cast of contributors, British Local Government into the 21st Century brings together a set of specially-commissioned and tightly-edited chapters to provide a comprehensive assessment of the issues and challenges facing local authorities as they search for a new role in a new century.
What is the current state of local government in Britain and where is it going? Edited by two leading experts and with an all-star cast of contributor...
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768,60 zł |
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Electing America's Governors: The Politics of Executive Elections
ISBN: 9781403975287 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book studies the election of American state governors, 'an increasingly important group of political leaders', and makes comparisons with Senate and presidential elections.
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks...
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201,72 zł |
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Financing Local Government
ISBN: 9780850928532 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decentralization is now taking place in the public administrations of most countries of the world. A critical determinant of the effective performance of local governments is finance their ability to both mobilize financial resources and to use those resources effectively and efficiently. This book explores the variety of methods used to ensure that fiscal decentralization takes place alongside administrative decentralization. It considers the range of revenue sources available, the design systems of intergovernmental transfers between central and local government, and the kinds of rules and...
Decentralization is now taking place in the public administrations of most countries of the world. A critical determinant of the effective performance...
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146,03 zł |
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Strategic Planning for Local Government: A Handbook for Officials and Citizens
ISBN: 9780786438730 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Timely [and] accessible for readers interested in local government--Booklist/RBB. Youd think strategic planning would be obvious. These 24 articles examine sound (proven) public sector strategic planning theories. They demonstrate the different kinds of planning used in 16 successful governments, and provide assessments of the future of this important tool.
Timely [and] accessible for readers interested in local government--Booklist/RBB. Youd think strategic planning would be obvious. These 24 articles ex...
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221,24 zł |
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County Governments in Florida: First in a Series on Local Government
ISBN: 9780595481606 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,67 zł |
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Localised or Localising Democracy. Gender and the Politics of Decentralisation in Contemporary Uganda
ISBN: 9789970026913 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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238,62 zł |
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Local Government Budgeting
ISBN: 9789639419438 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an essential guide to the budgeting process in eight eastern countries and is the result of a two-year regional project initiated by LGI. This survey attempts to meet the needs of experts, administrators, academics, legislators and professionals who would benefit from a comparative analysis of the region's sometimes-woeful approach to budgeting. Part I brings together scholars in three introductory chapters to discuss the theory, reform and current state of local government budgeting. Part II (on the CD attached in the back of this book) introduces domestic budgetary...
This book provides an essential guide to the budgeting process in eight eastern countries and is the result of a two-year regional project initiated b...
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87,06 zł |
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