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For the Common Good?: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
ISBN: 9780195148589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. Joining clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies between the Civil and First World Wars was so prevalent that many contemporaries see it as a model for a revitalization of American civil society today. Relying on extensive analysis of city directories, club histories, and membership lists, For the Common Good? aims to dispel many of the myths about the curative powers of clubbing while bringing to light the hidden lessons therein.
The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. Joining clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies between the Ci...
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Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy
ISBN: 9780195149340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how the relationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research.
The... Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic el...
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Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy
ISBN: 9780195150919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What would our decision-making procedures look like if they were actually guided by the much-discussed concept of "deliberative democracy"? What does rule by the people for the people entail? And how can a modern government's reliance on administrative agencies be reconciled with this populist ideal? What form must democratic reasoning take in the modern administrative state?
Democratic Autonomy squarely faces these challenges to the deliberative democratic ideal. It identifies processes of reasoning that avert bureaucratic domination and bring diverse people into political... What would our decision-making procedures look like if they were actually guided by the much-discussed concept of "deliberative democracy"? What does ...
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145,74 |
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Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections
ISBN: 9780195151565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After a self-assured John F. Kennedy bested a visibly shaky Richard Nixon in their famous 1960 debates, political television, it was said, would henceforth determine elections. Today, many claim the Internet will be the latest medium to revolutionize electoral politics. Candidates invest heavily in web and email campaigns to reach prospective voters, as well as to communicate with journalists, potential donors, and political activists. Do these efforts influence voters, expand democracy, increase the coverage of political issues, or mobilize a shrinking and apathetic...
After a self-assured John F. Kennedy bested a visibly shaky Richard Nixon in their famous 1960 debates, political television, it was said, would hence...
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Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
ISBN: 9780195151855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analyzing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio illuminates Iraq's political culture and the events that these expressions have both reflected and shaped. Not only does this study add to our understanding of the "Saddam enigma;" it also offers a more universal truth: that under any regime, political culture is built on public discourse....
This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its le...
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173,63 |
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The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount
ISBN: 9780195152050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this provocative work, seasoned journalist Gershom Gorenberg portrays a deadly mix of religious extremism, violence, and Mideast politics, as expressed in the struggle for the sacred center of Jerusalem. Known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, this thirty-five-acre enclosure at the southeast corner of Jerusalem's Old City is the most contested piece of real estate on earth. Here nationalism combines with fundamentalist faith in a volatile brew. Members of the world's three major monotheistic faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--hold this...
In this provocative work, seasoned journalist Gershom Gorenberg portrays a deadly mix of religious extremism, violence, and Mideast politics, as expre...
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More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
ISBN: 9780195152630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative.
In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's... James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern Ame...
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Gun Violence: The Real Costs
ISBN: 9780195153842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms of medical costs and lost productivity. Here, economists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig widen the lens, developing a framework to calculate the full costs borne by Americans in a society where both gun violence and its ever-present threat mandate responses that touch every aspect of...
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to c...
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Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
ISBN: 9780195154702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common and not controversial in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the debates between evolutionists and creationists, those who argue that the Biblical theory of origins deserves equal treatment, have flared throughout the twentieth century--first in the 1920s, most famously in the Scopes trial; again in the 1960s, when the regional legislation banning the teaching of...
Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the pres...
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Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America
ISBN: 9780195155860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rarely does scholarship anticipate the most dramatic events of the moment. In this timely work Gary Hart does just that, arguing for the restoration of republican virtues and for homeland security as an important first step. The American democratic republic has from its founding been a paradoxical success. Simultaneously attached to state and national power, citizens' rights and citizens' duties, American democracy has uniquely turned its reliance on consent from the governed into a powerful governing of the consenting. In a remarkable political feat, America's founders combined mixed...
Rarely does scholarship anticipate the most dramatic events of the moment. In this timely work Gary Hart does just that, arguing for the restoration o...
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Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy
ISBN: 9780195156287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Americans hate and distrust their government. At the same time, Americans love and trust their government. These contradictory attitudes are resolved by Fletcher's novel interpretation of constitutional history. He argues that we have two constitutions--still living side by side--one that caters to freedom and fear, the other that satisfied our needs for security and social justice.
The first constitution came into force in 1789. It stresses freedom, voluntary association, and republican elitism. The second constitution begins with the Gettysburg Address and emphasizes equality, organic... Americans hate and distrust their government. At the same time, Americans love and trust their government. These contradictory attitudes are resolved ...
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Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
ISBN: 9780195157093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark...
First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social...
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Social Work with Children and Their Families: Pragmatic Foundations
ISBN: 9780195157550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An extensively revised version of the first edition, this text focuses on the practical foundational knowledge required to practice social work effectively in the complex and fast-changing world of services to children and their families. The core organizing framework consists of eight pragmatic perspectives: combating adultcentrism, family-centered practice, the strengths perspective, respect for diversity and difference, the least restrictive alternative, ecological perspective, organization and financing, and achieving outcomes. Unlike most texts that focus either on direct practice or on...
An extensively revised version of the first edition, this text focuses on the practical foundational knowledge required to practice social work effect...
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In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
ISBN: 9780195158021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social legislation to limit the freedom and equality of women. Law and custom generally sought to protect women from exploitation, and sometimes from employment itself; but at the same time, they assigned the most important benefits to wage work. Most policy makers (even female ones) assumed from the...
In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing idea...
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The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
ISBN: 9780195158052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not... Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, o...
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Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do
ISBN: 9780195158403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is this conflict necessarily something to fear? In this provocative book, one of our leading political and legal theorists reveals how a nation's divisions of conviction and belief can be used to safeguard democracy. Confronting one explosive political issue after another, from presidential impeachment to the limits of religious liberty, from discrimination against women and gays to the...
"In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein....
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The Implosion of American Federalism
ISBN: 9780195158410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk--among politicians, academics, and jurists--of "coups d'etat," of culture wars, of confederation, of constitutional breakdown? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Nagel proposes a surprising znswer: that anxiety about national unity is caused by centralization itself. Moreover, he proposes that this anxiety has dangerous cultural consequences that are, in an implosive cycle, pushing the country toward ever greater centralization.
Carefully examining recent... At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk--among politic...
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Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention
ISBN: 9780195158489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since 1996, Bosnia & Herzegovina has been the site of a remarkable project of political engineering. A complex consortium of international agencies backed by Western governments have been transforming a devastated, ethnically partitioned, post-war territory into a multiethnic, democratic and economically viable state. Despite an enormous investment of personnel and resources, six years later BiHs post-Yugoslav future remains tenuous. Did the engineering project work? In an era when countries from Somalia to Afghanistan are confronting questions of state legitimacy amidst international...
Since 1996, Bosnia & Herzegovina has been the site of a remarkable project of political engineering. A complex consortium of international agencies ba...
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Terrorism and International Justice
ISBN: 9780195158885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since 9/11, we need to better understand the terrorism we face and reflect upon how we should best respond to it. Edited by James P. Sterba, this collection of new essays on terrorism and international justice focuses on three central questions: What is the nature and rhetoric of terrorism? Who are the terrorists and why do they hate? and What is a morally justified response to terrorism? Prominent philosophers and political thinkers--including Shannon E. French, Tomis Kapitan, Noam Chomsky, David B. Burrell, Robert L. Phillips, Zayn Kassam, Louis P. Pojman, Daniele Archibugi, Iris Marion...
Since 9/11, we need to better understand the terrorism we face and reflect upon how we should best respond to it. Edited by James P. Sterba, this coll...
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Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council
ISBN: 9780195159660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The National Security Council (NSC) is the most important formal institution in the U.S. government for the creation and implementation of foreign and defense policy. The Council's four principal members--the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense--are responsible for incredibly far-reaching decisions regarding war and peace, diplomacy, international trade, and covert operations. Despite its obvious importance, the NSC has been subject to relatively little scholarly scrutiny, and therefore remains misunderstood by most international relations students....
The National Security Council (NSC) is the most important formal institution in the U.S. government for the creation and implementation of foreign and...
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