Catálogo de libros: Ciencias políticas y teoría

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  • Political system of the state and its elements
    Nazira Kolsarieva
    This collection includes several articles on the political system of society. These articles characterize the political system of the state. The articles also classify political systems. The state as an element of the political system is characterized. The constitutional and legal foundations of the political system are disclosed. The author reveals the ways of increasing the e...
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    23,62 €

  • The Activist Humanist
    Caroline Levine
    An argument that humanists have the tools-and the responsibility-to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an altern...
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    33,66 €

  • On Law and Political Philosophy
    Thaís Alves Costa
    Ever since Plato wrote the Republic, questions of politics and law have become common problems for all societies. It’s no wonder that, for his discussions, different models have been suggested to account for what we consider to be just, good or right in terms of the role of the state towards its citizens. These models, whether utilitarian, liberal, egalitarian, virtue theorist ...
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    53,85 €

  • Public Health and Social Control
    Ángel Estigarribia
    The study analyzes the political possibilities of a key public health strategy: Primary Health Care and examines the specific role it plays in the system of social control, in the shaping of subjectivity and social habitus in relation to the political objectives of the State. To this effect, it describes the mechanisms for collecting information on individuals, families and gro...
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    84,48 €

  • The Race for America
    R. J. Boutelle
    As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, an...
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    44,55 €

  • The Race for America
    R. J. Boutelle
    As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, an...
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    126,87 €

  • Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy
    Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution. ...
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    44,65 €

  • Manifest Destiny
    Grover P Shaw
    Nearly two hundred years ago a prediction was made for our time: 'The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nation will say, ’Let’s divide up the lands of the United States.’ Then the nation will go to war.' With our arsenals depleted, our treasury empty, our petroleum reserves drained, and our moral basis undercut, our enemies w...
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    40,55 €

  • Hawks and Doves
    Femke E. Bakker
    On the brink of war, what influences decision makers to attack another country?Using innovative theoretical angles, Femke E. Bakker explores whether the basic assumptions of democratic peace theory are indeed correct. She stresses the microfoundations of conflict, questioning the assumptions on which democratic peace theory relies. To find out whether decision makers from liber...
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    143,99 €

  • Governmental Power Market-Ing in the VU-CHAOS World
    Kittisak Jermsittiparsert / Shayut Pavapanunkul / Srirath Gohwong
    Governmental Power Market-Ing in the VU-CHAOS World is a thought-provoking book that explores the blended concepts of state governance, marketing, and management. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the dynamics and implications of governmental power in a rapidly changing world. Delve into this text to investigate the concept of government and its significance, as w...
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    268,88 €

  • When Dissents Matter
    Amy Steigerwalt / Artemus Ward / Pamela C Corley
    The ability of US Supreme Court justices to dissent from the majority, to formally register and explain their belief that a case has been wrongly decided, represents a time-honored tradition of perhaps the most august American institution. Yet the impact of these dissents, which allow justices to engage in a dialogue over law and policy, has seldom, if ever, been the focus of d...
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    143,98 €

  • When Dissents Matter
    Amy Steigerwalt / Artemus Ward / Pamela C Corley
    The ability of US Supreme Court justices to dissent from the majority, to formally register and explain their belief that a case has been wrongly decided, represents a time-honored tradition of perhaps the most august American institution. Yet the impact of these dissents, which allow justices to engage in a dialogue over law and policy, has seldom, if ever, been the focus of d...
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    46,77 €

  • A Transformative Time in History
    Arhaan Gupta-Rastogi
    This book reflects the perspectives of a high school student on a wide range of contemporary topics from politics to science during one of the most transformative periods in modern history. The articles were first written while Arhaan was in middle school starting in 2018. He continued writing through the Covid and election transitions, and through his high school years in 2022...
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    14,23 €

  • The Tragic Destiny of Authoritarian Regimes
    Roberto Miguel Rodriguez
    In "The Tragic Destiny of Authoritarian Regimes," the author delves deep into the dramatic, often brutal ends of dictators whose iron grip over their nations culminated in their violent demises. Through a tapestry of historical investigation, and psychological analyses, this compelling book unravels the paradoxical vulnerabilities that lie at the heart of absolute power.The nar...
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    18,56 €

  • Thucydides’ Meditations on Fear
    Raymond Taras
    Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides’ fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics. ...
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    50,29 €

  • Thucydides’ Meditations on Fear
    Raymond Taras
    Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides’ fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics. ...
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    158,46 €

  • Returning to Judgment
    Ben Turner
    Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought. ...
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    42,02 €

  • Tradition and the Deliberative Turn
    Ryan R. Holston
    Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation. ...
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    42,20 €

  • Beyond the Secular
    Andrea Cassatella
    Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida’s political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism. ...
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    126,78 €

  • Critical Theory from the Margins
    Saladdin Ahmed
    Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today’s culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms. ...
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    127,00 €

  • The Origin, Formation and Realisation of the State
    Kaique Aparecido Silva
    The purpose of this monographic work is to analyse and convey a contemporary interpretation of the origin, foundation and realisation of the concept of the State developed by the idealist philosopher Hegel, in his famous philosophical system contained in Philosophy of Law - 1820/21. In order to do this, we will use Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy as a basis for the idea of...
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    55,04 €

  • Historical and Political Analysis on Power Balances and Deglobalization
    Emily Brynn Stacey
    Historical and Political Analysis on Power Balances and Deglobalization delves deeper into the author’s previous work, Contemporary Politics and Social Movements in an Isolated World, to explore the pressing issues currently faced by the international community. Through an academic lens, this book examines how these issues are reshaping the global order, encompassing supply cha...
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    202,87 €

  • Resistance from the Right
    Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
    Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education. This book explores the...
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    126,91 €

  • Looking Backward
    Edward Bellamy
    A staple of Progressive Era utopian novels, Edward Ballamy’s Looking Backward follows young Julian West after he wakes up in the future to a society founded on humanist and scientific principles. Work is efficient and fair, industry is owned by the federal government, and goods are distributed equally. Looking Backward, written in 1888 eerily predicts many modern comforts and c...
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    22,58 €

  • Analysis of the system of government in Venezuela
    Lucianny Del Valle Bastidas Solis
    The aim of this work is to analyse the system of government established in Venezuela during the period 2013-2016, seeking to specify the theoretical and institutional criteria that allow us to define whether the government is democratic or not, as well as to study the mechanisms used by the political regime to establish itself in the country. Methodologically, it is a work with...
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    56,21 €

  • Politics and the Cameroonian Constitutional Council
    Yelena Dolvie Kaptie Petengue
    The emergence of constitutional jurisdictions is seen today as a veritable legal revolution. It is fair to say that constitutional justice is one of the major developments in constitutional law over the last forty years. Its development began as an American specialty, then spread to Europe after the Second World War, and was finally conquered by other continents such as Africa ...
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    85,80 €

  • THE REPUBLIC OF MONKEYS
    Jean-François Kouadio
    'The style greatly suggests French influence; the humour, severity and even serenity are certainly French oriented, something reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert but combined! The theme is African politics at work, replete with the usual accompaniment of religious pastors and their chanting, lamb-like flocks. The author highlights the spurious, albeit utterly ...
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    60,66 €

  • THE FEAST OF HYENAS
    Jean-François Kouadio
    This novel presents an excellent synoptic view of all the dealings, shady maneuvers, and machinations that take place within the political power circles in Africa, driven by the interests of world powers. The reader realizes that Africa’s golden age is not coming anytime soon, given the internal quarrels marked by tribalism, clanism, and presidents clinging to their seats. Thes...
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    99,11 €

  • The philosopher’s role in society
    Didier Ngalebaye
    In The role of the philosopher in society, the author points out, reveals and installs the lasting advent of the philosopher’s word in the Congolese public space, where until now only the noise of ethno- partisans and other politically masked associations, wanting to catch citizens in flagrante delicto of imbecility and clouding of discernment, with regard to organized resource...
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    61,63 €

  • New Dominion
    John G Milliken
    The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of the state’s politics and shaped the political Virginia of today. Countering the common narrative that the shifting politics of Virginia is a recent phenomenon driven by population growth in the urban corridor, the contributors to this...
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    41,97 €


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