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Why Elections Fail
ISBN: 9781107679023 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on electoral integrity, Pippa Norris compares structural, international, and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards. The book argues that rules preventing political actors from manipulating electoral governance are needed to secure integrity, although at the same time officials also need sufficient resources and capacities to manage elections effectively. Drawing on new...
Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy ...
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Losing Our Voice: Radio-Canada Under Siege
ISBN: 9781459733152 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inside story of decades of government interference in the work of our national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada.
Is there a quiet campaign to hamstring and silence the CBC? In Losing Our Voice Alain Saulnier, long-time head of news and public affairs at Radio-Canada, documents the decades of political interference that have jeopardized the very existence of one of Canada s most important cultural institutions. For French-speaking Canadians, with limited options in their own language, the national broadcaster is all the more important. But tensions... The inside story of decades of government interference in the work of our national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada.
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
ISBN: 9780674659988 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By ...
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93,06 |
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How To Oust A King
ISBN: 9780692500125 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that America is quickly falling to destruction and future suffering like no other time in history. Corrupt leadership in government, corporations, the workplace and other areas of authority are a primary cause that everyone is well aware of but is there really anything that can be done about it? Is there truly any hope for America or is it simply too late? HOW TO OUST A KING is an entertaining tale of everyday people like you and I choosing a leader (king) to improve their quality of life but events quickly take a turn for... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that America is quickly falling to destruction and future suffering like no other time in history. Corrup... |
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55,89 |
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The City and Sex: Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic
ISBN: 9781498518284 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time reveals the republic's deteriorating moral health. The book shows how having freedom from virtue has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement once described by Alexis de Tocqueville.
This book examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time reveals the republic's deteriorating moral h...
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Do International Corruption Metrics Matter?: The Impact of Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index
ISBN: 9781498508940 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corruption, often seen as the main hindrance to development and growth in many societies, has led to greater demand for accountability and transparency in how governments conduct their businesses. This text examines the impact of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index and whether or not the CPI and hence TI matter. It explores three areas: the world's political and economic responses and Jamaica's policy responses to the CPI. Jamaica is selected for a case study due to its high CPI rating from TI; Jamaica is a country that has strong anti-corruption laws but, nonetheless,...
Corruption, often seen as the main hindrance to development and growth in many societies, has led to greater demand for accountability and transparenc...
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Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past
ISBN: 9781107539822 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Republic of China central government. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr provides us with a worm's-eye view of an 'unknown China' - a China that cannot easily or...
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and d...
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154,78 |
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Astray: From Presidential Politics to Prison: One GOP National Delegate's Story of Faith
ISBN: 9781504341745 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. 'Astray' is his faith story of his rise to political prominence with an eye on higher office, his fall from grace as he struggled with personal demons and his salvation through faith. This book lays open with raw honesty the brutal, personal struggle between right and wrong; falling and failing, and finding redemption when all that remains is the grace and love of Jesus Christ. Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. 'Astray' is his faith story o... |
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Astray: From Presidential Politics to Prison: One GOP National Delegate's Story of Faith
ISBN: 9781504341769 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. 'Astray' is his faith story of his rise to political prominence with an eye on higher office, his fall from grace as he struggled with personal demons and his salvation through faith. This book lays open with raw honesty the brutal, personal struggle between right and wrong; falling and failing, and finding redemption when all that remains is the grace and love of Jesus Christ. Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. 'Astray' is his faith story o... |
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The State as Investment Market: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780822964131 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely criminal, but a type of market based on highly rational decisions made by the powerful individuals within, or connected to, the state.
Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely cr...
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Government Favouritism in Europe: The Anticorruption Report, Volume 3
ISBN: 9783847407959 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indicators and offers both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the linkage between political corruption and organised crime using statistics on spending, procurement contract data, and judicial data. The methodology used in the analysis of particularism of public resource distribution is applicable to any other country where procurement data can be made available and opens the door to a better understanding and control of both systemic...
This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indica...
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Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
ISBN: 9781451641103 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vividly drawn and character-driven, Blue is simultaneously a gripping drama of cops, crime, and politics, and a primer on police policy and reform. Beginning with the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and ending with the tumultuous police controversies swirling around both Ferguson, MO and New York City in 2014, Domanick's fast-paced book is filled with political intrigue, cultural and racial conflict, hard-boiled characters like intransient, warrior minded cops like LAPD chief Daryl Gates and America's most famous police reformer, William J. Bratton. As the Los Angeles Times put it,...
Vividly drawn and character-driven, Blue is simultaneously a gripping drama of cops, crime, and politics, and a primer on police policy and ref...
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Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder
ISBN: 9781250106537 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themselves violated the law. Whether by covering up their corrupt dealings, by the falsification or manufacture of evidence, or by the outright murder of civilians, those individuals charged with upholding the law too often break it. The police and prosecutors won't charge or convict themselves, so the crimes of the criminal justice system are swept under the rug. Nothing changes. Police State narrates the shocking account of the Madrid train... In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themselves violat... |
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Corruption and Human Rights
ISBN: 9788184247510 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book establishes the link between human rights and corruption. The contributors of this book are well known academicians, civil servants, judges, lawyers and social activists. Corruption is so pervasive in India that it has turned public service for many into a kind of criminal enterprise. The human rights based approach with its main elements of linkage to rights, accountability, empowerment and attention to disadvantaged groups, has been developed specifically to address these inequalities and to ensure that the poor and disadvantaged are also equal partners in development.
This book establishes the link between human rights and corruption. The contributors of this book are well known academicians, civil servants, judges,...
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Political Straight Talk: A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government
ISBN: 9781491787748 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis.
What they wrote was the political map that future representatives would need to follow to conduct the people's business in an efficient and effective manner. As long as they faithfully carried out the people's will, our democracy and republic would function in a way congruent with our forebears' wishes. What in the world happened? H. John Lyke, a board-certified psychologist and professor emeritus at Metropolitan State College of... In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis.<...
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Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers
ISBN: 9781501115950 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The #1 New York Times bestselling author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on the corrupt businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists flooding our borders and selling out America's best and brightest workers. In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding and abetting massive layoffs of highly skilled American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor. Malkin and Miano will explode some of the most commonly told myths spread in the media like these: Lie...
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on the corrupt businessmen, politic...
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Fortress of Deceit: The Story of a 9/11 Whistleblower
ISBN: 9781535033138 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gonzo book about whistleblowing is long overdue. Bogdan Dzakovic's story overflows with experiences that make a reader want to laugh, cry and yes scream at the same time. This is the professional autobiography of an everyman trying to serve the public in the too often insane world of government national security bureaucracies. It is as darkly entertaining as it is educationally insightful. While reading and rereading it, I could not help but flash back to Kafka's THE TRIAL, Monty Python's movie BRAZIL, and all of Hunter Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING. Tom Devine Legal Director Government...
A gonzo book about whistleblowing is long overdue. Bogdan Dzakovic's story overflows with experiences that make a reader want to laugh, cry and yes sc...
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Soft Corruption: How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What to Do about It
ISBN: 9780813586175 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to buy government results. Such unethical behavior is known as "soft corruption," and former New Jersey legislator William E. Schluter has been fighting it for the past fifty years.
In this searing personal narrative, the former state senator recounts his fight to expose and reform these acts of government... New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists,...
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195,91 |
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Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History
ISBN: 9781783609291 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The LIBOR affair has been described as the biggest banking scandal in history, a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension funds and ordinary people. But was this just the tip of the iceberg? Was the scandal the work of a few bad apples or an inevitable result of a financial system rotten to its core? Labelled -one of the world's most infamous rogue traders- in the wake of a mis-marking scandal, Alexis Stenfors went on to rebuild his life and now guides us through the shadowy world of modern banking, providing an insider's account of the secret practices--including the...
The LIBOR affair has been described as the biggest banking scandal in history, a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension fun...
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438,22 |
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Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History
ISBN: 9781783609284 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The LIBOR affair has been described as the biggest banking scandal in history, a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension funds and ordinary people. But was this just the tip of the iceberg? Was the scandal the work of a few bad apples or an inevitable result of a financial system rotten to its core? Labelled -one of the world's most infamous rogue traders- in the wake of a mis-marking scandal, Alexis Stenfors went on to rebuild his life and now guides us through the shadowy world of modern banking, providing an insider's account of the secret practices--including the...
The LIBOR affair has been described as the biggest banking scandal in history, a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension fun...
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68,52 |