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Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy
ISBN: 9780195108309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Every fifteen minutes a child in an American city suffers a gunshot wound. Thirty million urban Americans go to bed hungry each night. Twenty percent of the bridges in metro areas are functionally obsolete, and voter turnout nationally and in metro areas has declined almost 25 percent from the 1960s to the 1990s. Since at least 1990, American cities have been forced to deal with overwhelming problems -- high levels of poverty, hunger, homelessness, crime, and low levels of funding for mass transit, infrastructure needs, and education. In short, American cities are facing a permanent crisis,...
Every fifteen minutes a child in an American city suffers a gunshot wound. Thirty million urban Americans go to bed hungry each night. Twenty percent ...
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711,41 |
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Kinship Foster Care: Policy, Practice, and Research
ISBN: 9780195109405 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As the number of children in foster care increases and the number of potential foster families declines, more than 31% of all children in state custody are now being placed with extended family members who collect payment for their care. This raises many important and controversial issues regarding the meaning of family, the role of government, and the nature of welfare. Although professional literature on the subject continues to expand, knowledge on this subject remains scarce.
Kinship Foster Care is the first text to offer a comprehensive analysis of what is considered to be... As the number of children in foster care increases and the number of potential foster families declines, more than 31% of all children in state custod...
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285,26 |
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American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage
ISBN: 9780195109665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly from premodernism to modernism and into postmodernism in little over 200 years, running from the nation's founding through the 20th century. This book tells the story of this mercurial journey of jurisprudence by showing the development of legal thought through these three intellectual periods. Feldman's narrative revolves around two broad interrelated themes: jurisprudential foundations and the idea of progress. Comprehensive and accessible, the book draws on significant cases from Supreme Court history to provide a handy one-volume...
American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly from premodernism to modernism and into postmodernism in little over 200 years, running from ...
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785,07 |
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Judgment Misguided: Intuition and Error in Public Decision Making
ISBN: 9780195111088 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. People often follow intuitive principles of decision making, ranging from group loyalty to the belief that nature is benign. But instead of using these principles as rules of thumb, we often treat them as absolutes and ignore the consequences of following them blindly.
In Judgment Misguided, Jonathan Baron explores our well-meant and deeply felt personal intuitions about what is right and wrong, and how they affect the public domain. Baron argues that when these intuitions are valued in their own right, rather than as a means to another end, they often prevent us from achieving... People often follow intuitive principles of decision making, ranging from group loyalty to the belief that nature is benign. But instead of using thes...
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368,95 |
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The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
ISBN: 9780195111316 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as every American's birthright. But to validate this revolutionary legislation, Franklin Roosevelt had to fight a ferocious battle against the opposition of the Supreme Court--which was entrenched in laissez faire orthodoxy. After many lost battles, Roosevelt won his war with the Court, launching a Constitutional revolution that went far beyond anything he envisioned.
In The Supreme Court Reborn, esteemed scholar William E.... For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as...
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120,16 |
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Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
ISBN: 9780195111354 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controversy today whenever it is proposed. A quiet rage smolders in hundreds of public school systems, where court- ordered busing plans have been in place for over twenty years. Intended to remedy the social and educational disadvantages of minorities, desegregation policy has not produced any appreciable educational gains, while its political and social costs have been considerable. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's epic decision,...
School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controvers...
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392,20 |
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American Political Cultures
ISBN: 9780195111385 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropologist Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis demonstrates that American history is best understood as a contest between five rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism, and autonomous hermitude.
This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture ...
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217,80 |
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The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
ISBN: 9780195111767 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sparked considerable interest and speculation on the part of Western observers. Less noted, though hardly less dramatic, has been the revolutionary spread of free market capitalism throughout much of Latin America during the same period. In a wide-ranging survey that illuminates both the history and present business climate of the region, Paul Roberts and Karen Araujo describe the economic transformation currently taking place in Latin America....
The political and social upheavals that have transformed the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the past ten years have sp...
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173,63 |
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How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade
ISBN: 9780195112375 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence. No one country does all tasks today -- products are designed in one country, produced in another and assembled in a third. The increased standard of living resulting from global specialization in turn has led to the growth of the modern welfare state, including an increased demand for economic security and social measures which guarantee politically-determined minimum consumption standards for...
There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely t...
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131,79 |
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Metropolitan Government and Governance: Theoretical Perspectives, Empirical Analysis, and the Future
ISBN: 9780195112986 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written by two prominent political scientists working in the field of local government theory and practice, Metropolitan Government and Governance offers a comprehensive understanding of the nature of local and metropolitan government and its relationship to the larger intergovernmental system. It examines a wide range of common governmental practices and issues relating to local government in metropolitan areas as well as local government generally in the United States. Stephens and Wikstrom define and present several theoretical and applied perspectives including the...
Written by two prominent political scientists working in the field of local government theory and practice, Metropolitan Government and Governance...
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711,41 |
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Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State
ISBN: 9780195113372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Compared to other rich Western democracies, the U.S. does less to help its citizens adapt to the uncertainties of life in a market economy. In Welfare As We Knew It, Charles Noble offers a groundbreaking explanation of why America is so different. Drawing on research in comparative politics, history, and sociology, he demonstrates that deeply-rooted political factors, not public opinion, have limited what reformers have been able to accomplish. Rich historical analysis covering the Wilson administration to the present is followed by a provocative look at future U. S. social policy....
Compared to other rich Western democracies, the U.S. does less to help its citizens adapt to the uncertainties of life in a market economy. In Wel...
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359,66 |
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The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
ISBN: 9780195113778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One episode dominates the memory of Lyndon Johnson's presidency: the Vietnam War. The war has so darkened Johnson's reputation that it is difficult for many to recall his policies in a positive light-- especially his foreign policy. Now historian H.W. Brands offers a fresh look at Johnson's handling of international relations, putting Vietnam in the context of the many crises he confronted and the outdated policies of global containment he was expected to uphold. The result is a fascinating portrait of a master politician at work, maneuvering through a series of successes that made his...
One episode dominates the memory of Lyndon Johnson's presidency: the Vietnam War. The war has so darkened Johnson's reputation that it is difficult fo...
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217,80 |
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The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
ISBN: 9780195114850 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Is the Internet destined to upset traditional political power in the United States? This book answers with an emphatic "no." Author Richard Davis shows how current political players including candidates, public officials, and the media are adapting to the Internet and assuring that this new medium benefits them in their struggle for power. In doing so he examines the current function of the Internet in democratic politics--educating citizens, conducting electoral campaigns, gauging public opinion, and achieving policy resolution-- and the roles of current political actors in those functions....
Is the Internet destined to upset traditional political power in the United States? This book answers with an emphatic "no." Author Richard Davis show...
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117,84 |
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When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures
ISBN: 9780195115406 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Until recently, the study of legislative leadership has been the study of men. Scholars have taught students that legislative leadership is transactional, a kind of competitive bargaining procedure to broker particular interests. When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures brings to light the important contributions that women as legislative leaders make to the institutions in which they operate. Cindy Simon Rosenthal shows us how (and where) women are "integrating" the ranks of the legislative hierarchy, a forum in which they have been all but absent. She also...
Until recently, the study of legislative leadership has been the study of men. Scholars have taught students that legislative leadership is transactio...
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162,00 |
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When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures
ISBN: 9780195115413 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Until recently, the study of legislative leadership has been the study of men. Scholars have taught students that legislative leadership is transactional, a kind of competitive bargaining procedure to broker particular interests. When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures brings to light the important contributions that women as legislative leaders make to the institutions in which they operate. Cindy Simon Rosenthal shows us how (and where) women are "integrating" the ranks of the legislative hierarchy, a forum in which they have been all but absent. She also...
Until recently, the study of legislative leadership has been the study of men. Scholars have taught students that legislative leadership is transactio...
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131,79 |
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The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy
ISBN: 9780195115765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these diplomats played a vital role in shaping U.S. strategy and popular attitudes toward the Soviet Union throughout its 75-year history. In The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy, David Mayers presents the most comprehensive critical examination yet of U.S. diplomats in the Soviet Union.
Mayers' vivid portrayal evokes the social and... George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in ...
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396,85 |
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The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries
ISBN: 9780195116366 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initial essay, which is animated by Perry's skepticism about the capacity of any secular morality to offer a coherent account of the idea of human rights, suggests that the first part of the idea of...
Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one ...
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494,49 |
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The Great Population Spike and After: Reflections on the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780195116915 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Midway through the eighteenth century, the rate of growth for the world's population was roughly at zero. Immediately after World War II, it was just above 2 percent. Ever since, it has fallen steadily. This new book, the latest offering from a distinguished expert on international economics, tells readers what this stagnation or fall in population will mean--economically, politically, and historically--for the nations of the world. W. W. Rostow not only traces the whole global arc of this "great population spike"--he looks far beyond it. What he sees will interest anyone curious about...
Midway through the eighteenth century, the rate of growth for the world's population was roughly at zero. Immediately after World War II, it was just ...
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452,64 |
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Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics
ISBN: 9780195117141 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The distinctive thesis of Faces of Inequality is that a state's racial and ethnic composition, as much as any other factor, shapes its political processes and policies. To understand state politics, therefore, we must consider them from the perspective of social diversity. Scholars have broadly acknowledged that racial and ethnic diversity are central to American political history, but Rodney E. Hero is the first to posit and systematically examine this diversity as essential to our understanding of contemporary American politics. In these pages, Hero regards race/ethnicity as...
The distinctive thesis of Faces of Inequality is that a state's racial and ethnic composition, as much as any other factor, shapes its politi...
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420,09 |
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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
ISBN: 9780195117394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The world has seen dramatic changes since the publication of the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World in 1993. In the post-Cold War world, globalization now offers wealth and opportunities on a broader scale, as well as greater international harmony, but threatens to reinforce the advantage gap between wealthy and poor regions and intensify environmental degradation. Conflict and squalor--expressed in brutal brushfire wars, epidemics, and chronic underdevelopment--vie with equally dramatic accounts of growth and democracy associated with a liberal political order and...
The world has seen dramatic changes since the publication of the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World in 1993. In the post-C...
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289,92 |
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