Catálogo de libros: Política y gobierno

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  • Eduardo Chibás
    Ilan Ehrlich
    While Cuba’s 1940 constitution was among the most progressive in the western hemisphere, few knew its details until political leader Chibás, whose suicide in 1951 precipitated the Cuban Revolution, read it on his radio program. This work explores Chibás’s life in order to explain the nature of Cuban politics from the mid-twentieth century to today. ...
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    132,88 €

  • Reagan and Pinochet
    Chris McGillion / Morris Morley
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    86,80 €

  • Political Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    Jonathan Fine
    This analysis of the evolution of religious political violence outlines the differences between secular and religious political violence, on ideological, strategic, and tactical levels before comparing the concept of Holy War in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Lastly, it shows how modern radical monotheistic religious groups interpret and manipulate their religious sources an...
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    133,14 €

  • Dostoevsky’s Political Thought
    This bookexplores Dostoevsky as a political thinker from his religious and philosophical foundation to nineteenth-century European politics and how themes that he had examined are still relevant for us today. ...
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    62,42 €

  • Imagining Iran
    Majid Sharifi
    The thematic focus of this book is the tragic yet inevitable effects of subaltern nationalism. The book covers the systemic challenges that all modern Iranian regimes have faced in establishing a sovereign, developed, democratic, and constitutional nation-state. ...
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    68,81 €

  • Global China
    After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state — the People's Republic of China — does not only manage to stay intact, but has also emerged as the second largest economy in the world. Moreover, its political, diplomatic, military and cultural reaches have been extended to various parts of the world. Ther...
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    191,03 €

  • JOHN STUART MILL
    Samuel Hollander
    John Stuart Mill: Political Economist is a revised version of the part of Samuel Hollander's The Economics of John Stuart Mill (1985) treating the theory of economic policy. In this book, Professor Hollander offers a critical yet sympathetic analysis of Mill's quest to accomplish thorough reform of capitalism in the interest of distributive justice while protecting the ...
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    261,46 €

  • Bulls, Bears and Golden Calves
    John E Stapleford / John E. Stapleford
    John Stapleford interacts with seven standard introductory economics texts to show how ethics are inextricably intertwined with economic life and analysis. This revised and expanded edition includes discussions of entitlements, global poverty, government debt, healthcare reform and immigration reform. ...
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    35,57 €

  • Social Policy in the European Union
    Karen Anderson
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    226,08 €

  • The Relevance of Political Science
    B. Guy Peters / Gerry Stoker / Jon Pierre
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    225,92 €

  • The Foundations of the British Conservative Party
    This book provides a range of essays on aspects of the British Conservative Party from the late 19th century to the present day. It offers fresh perspectives on Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; Britain and Europe; UK policy towards Ireland; Conservatism and reform, and the conservative ideology, to name only a few of the key issues explored. An accessible and concise overview...
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    64,10 €

  • Global Health and International Community
    Global health arguably represents the most pressing issues facing humanity. Trends in international migration and transnational commerce render state boundaries increasingly porous. Human activity in one part of the world can lead to health impacts elsewhere. Animals, viruses and bacteria as well as pandemics and environmental disasters do not recognize or respect political bor...
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    63,80 €

  • New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research
    Now that the ’Varieties of Capitalism’ hype has passed, students of capitalist diversity are searching for new directions. This book presents the first sustained dialogue between institutionalist ’post-VoC’ and more critical, global approaches, thus contributing to the development of a new generation of Comparative Capitalisms scholarship. ...
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    48,02 €

  • Latin American Democracy
    The second edition of Latin American Democracy maintains the mix of practitioners and academic that composed the first edition. Contributors from both North and Latin America explore and assess the state of democratic consolidation in Latin America by focusing on the specific issues and challenges confronting democratic governance in the region. ...
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    85,10 €

  • The Politics of Extreme Austerity
    This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe. ...
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    64,70 €

  • Social Movements in Egypt and Iran
    Tara Povey
    The contemporary movements seen on the streets of the Middle East today have their roots in a rich history of social and political struggle in the region. Since the 1990s, large-scale social movements have mobilised millions in opposition to authoritarian regimes often backed by the West. In Egypt, diverse movements opposed the Mubarak regime and its dependence on the US, and h...
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    65,12 €

  • The Transition of Global Order
    Maximilian Terhalle
    This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted. ...
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    65,00 €

  • Death of Deliberation
    James I. Wallner / James I. Wallner / James IWallner
    This book provides a counter-view on the conventional wisdom regarding the United States Senate. Specifically, it presents an alternative approach to the broken Congress genre with the argument that the Senate is not characterized by gridlock and that party leaders cooperate to make the institution work. ...
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    62,90 €

  • Feminism and Power
    Mary Caputi
    This book offers a critique of power feminism using the critical theories of Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida. It counters a triumphalist reading of female empowerment using the negative, parergonal philosophies of these two authors and advocates listening to the sufferer rather than celebrating the triumphalism of the reigning neoliberal order. ...
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    64,02 €

  • Perfecting the Constitution
    Darren Patrick Guerra
    This book provides a brief intellectual and constitutional history of the Article V amending process from the Imperial Crisis until the present and shows Article V to be a vital part of the Constitutional architecture. ...
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    64,00 €

  • The Servile State
    Hilaire Belloc
    This book is written to maintain and prove the following truth:That our free modern society, in which the means of production are owned by a few being necessarily in unstable equilibrium, it is tending to reach a condition of stable equilibrium BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPULSORY LABOUR LEGALLY ENFORCIBLE UPON THOSE WHO DO NOT OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION FOR THE ADVANTAGE OF THO...
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    18,72 €

  • Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community
    David G Haglund / David G. Haglund / David GHaglund
    Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-U.S. Security Community focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the U.S., and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both countries. ...
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    137,29 €

  • Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions
    Denis Wu / Renita Coleman
    This book was designed to make a contribution to our understanding of how and why people make the decisions they do at the polls. Coleman and Wu analyze a decade of research to examine how the media’s image presentation of political candidates influences voting at both the aggregate and individual level. ...
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    141,55 €

  • Oil Supply Crises
    Vessela Chakarova
    Chakarova offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of consumer countries’ policies and reactions to oil supply shortages. In addition to being a valuable source of information on oil market dynamics, it provides a deep theoretical understanding of one of the most critical issues in international relations: inter-state cooperation. ...
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    64,39 €

  • Political Battle over Congressional Redistricting
    In this volume, scholars discuss the most recent wave of redistricting Congress. Emphasizing the state-level factors and processes, the volume ultimately shows how national requirements and state requirements come together to permit states to be largely self-responsible for what they do in terms of drawing districts. ...
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    78,37 €

  • Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God
    Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impacton the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness,and depth of that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the Americanfounding period with an interest in the influence of Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion,they have often...
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    63,76 €

  • From Lenin to Castro, 1917-1959
    Mervyn J. Bain / Mervyn JBain
    This book utilizes a number of previously unused sources to examine the relationship between Moscow and Havana in the period between the Russian and Cuban Revolutions. It provides a number of important conclusions including that prior to the January 1959, Moscow took considerable interest in the island as a multifaceted relationship existed. ...
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    62,87 €

  • Martin Heidegger and the First World War
    William H. F. Altman / William HFAltman / xxWilliam H. F. Altmanxx
    In a new approach to a vexing problem in modern philosophy, William H. F. Altman shows that Heidegger’s decision to join the Nazis in 1933 can only be understood in the context of his complicated relationship with the Great War. ...
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    70,29 €

  • Politics in Socrates’ Alcibiades
    Andre Archie
    This volume provides the first full, political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades Major. The book argues that Alcibiades Major accomplishes its goal, which is to redirect Alcibiades’ political ambitions, not by arguing for specific propositions based on specific premises. The dialogue accomplishes its goal by generalizing the notion of argument ...
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    66,91 €

  • Assessing Social Impact of Social Enterprises
    Cecilia Grieco
    This book explores the diversity of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) models and outlines a self-assessment on models to support social entrepreneurs. The chapters trace the concept and origins of social entrepreneurship and elicits current implementation of SIA models by social enterprises. The comprehensive review of over seventy five SIA models will be especially useful for soc...
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    85,53 €