Catálogo de libros: Política comparada

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  • Leadership, Power, and Politics
    Sigalit Ronen
    Leadership, Power, and Politics gathers articles written by renowned leadership scholars that immerse students in theories and research on leading and influencing others. The anthology helps readers gain thorough knowledge and understanding they can put to practical use as they develop their own leadership practice. Part 1 of the collection introduces the topic of leadership ef...
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    112,89 €

  • How to Defend Australia
    Hugh White
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    27,52 €

  • Change and the politics of certainty
    Jenny Edkins
    The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope. ...
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    145,05 €

  • English nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere
    Ben Wellings
    This book analyses the elite project behind Brexit, and considers its framework within the political traditions of English nationalism. Far from being ’Little Englanders’, Brexiteers sought to lessen the rupture of leaving the European Union by suggesting a return to alliances with true friends and traditional allies in the Anglosphere. ...
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    145,24 €

  • Foreign policy as public policy?
    This book explores how ’domestic’ public policy approaches and concepts can enrich the study of foreign policy. It has chapters by leading experts on arguably the most important approaches in public policy. ...
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    169,60 €

  • The Spanish Frustration
    Josep M Colomer / Josep M. Colomer
    Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy. 'The Spanish Frustration' prov...
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    180,37 €

  • Neoliberal lives
    Ian Hudson / Mark Hudson / Robert Chernomas
    What are neoliberal lives? This trans-disciplinary book investigates the forty-year war by the American business class to restore its power and profits, revealing the devastating implications for human development and dignity. ...
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    157,55 €

  • US politics today
    Edward Ashbee
    US politics today introduces the key features of contemporary American politics but also considers the strengths and weaknesses of a system that is now faced by serious divisions and gripped by tensions. The Trump presidency has placed a question mark against policies and institutions that were once seen as unassailable. ...
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    32,05 €

  • Habermas and European integration
    Shivdeep Grewal
    This concise yet comprehensive book delineates German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s conception of the European Union. ...
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    36,16 €

  • Global Politics Reader
    Ali R. Abootalebi / Ali RAbootalebi
    Global Politics Reader: Themes, Actors, and Issues is a timely and enlightening anthology that addresses major challenges facing global governance. Students are challenged to analyze sources of peace and conflict within the complex web of interactions among contending global actors. The central role of international institutions and law in global governance is emphasized. The a...
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    87,13 €

  • Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Sabrina P Ramet / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they ...
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    141,39 €

  • Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Sabrina P Ramet / Sabrina P. Ramet
    Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they ...
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    51,23 €

  • MARX200
    John McDonnell / Vijay Prashad
    Marx200 examines the significance of Marxism for today’s world. Leading scholars and activists from different countries – including Cuba, India and the UK – show that  Marx’s ideas continue to provide us with the analysis we need to understand our world today in order to change it. The relevance of Marx’s contribution to political economy is discussed, as is Marxism and the ong...
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    24,75 €

  • Ancient Legal Thought
    Larry May
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    173,43 €

  • English nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere
    Ben Wellings
    This book analyses the elite project behind Brexit, and considers its framework within the political traditions of English nationalism. Far from being ’Little Englanders’, Brexiteers sought to lessen the rupture of leaving the European Union by suggesting a return to alliances with true friends and traditional allies in the Anglosphere. ...
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    35,86 €

  • The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland
    Bernadette Connaughton
    This book explores the response of Ireland’s political-administrative system to the implementation of environmental directives in the cases of waste management, water and biodiversity. ...
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    157,33 €

  • Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution, 1909-23
    Marnie Hay
    This book examines the early history of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Éireann and its notable contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909-23. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Change and the politics of certainty
    Jenny Edkins
    The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope. ...
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    39,35 €

  • Rules for Deplorables
    Cathi Chamberlain
    THIS BOOK WILL MAKE A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE 2020 ELECTIONS! (America is on the brink of being fundamentally transformed to socialism)Newly-elected radical Dems are making headlines across our country. Will America become a communist country? Rules for Deplorables: A Primer for Fighting Radical Socialism heavily references Saul Alinsky’s 1971 blockbuster book, Rules for Radicals, ...
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    16,18 €

  • Comrades in conflict
    Peter Dorey
    This book examines the 1969 attempt by Harold Wilson’s Labour Government to bring about legislation to reform industrial relations, with the objective of establishing a clear legal framework for Britain's trade unions, as well as curbing unofficial strikes. Published in the 50th anniversary of this ill-fated episode, this scholarly study makes extensive use of primary sourc...
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    157,42 €

  • Migration and Xenophobia
    Kyle Farmbry
    Building upon cases of the United States, South Africa, and Malta, this book examines issues of migration in the early twenty-first century. It explores dynamics of opposition to and acceptance of migrants and refugees as nations continue to experience cycles of human movement. ...
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    129,15 €

  • Far Right Parties and Euroscepticism
    Sofia Vasilopoulou
    Why do parties that belong to the same party family address the EU question differently? This book addresses this question through a systematic analysis of the EU positions of far right parties in Europe. Starting from the assumption that far right parties are rational actors, the book argues that the way in which they may interpret structural incentives depends on their relati...
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    56,69 €

  • Post America
    Don Durrett
    If America falters and states secede, what kind of constitution would they use? My belief is that people will want to create a new constitution that attempts to solve all of our problems. That is what I have done. I completely started from scratch. I wrote it from an idealistic perspective that believed anything is possible.I have attempted to create a society that is as close ...
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    9,34 €

  • After Victory
    G. John Ikenberry
    The end of the Cold War was a 'big bang' reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the world wars in 1919 and 1945. But what do states that win wars do with their newfound power, and how do they use it to build order? In After Victory, John Ikenberry examines postwar settlements in modern history, arguing that...
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    30,43 €

  • Labor's Forgotten People
    Michael Thompson
    In this book, Michael Thompson argues that the influence of identity politics on modern Labor's political agenda – assisted by a political class whose sole concern is power – poses an 'existential' threat to Labor. The warning signs are clear. Popular disaffection with the political class is increasing, and the Party's embrace of left-wing, progressive issues is sidelin...
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    24,72 €

  • Politics of waiting
    Liene Ozolina
    This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control. ...
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    157,79 €

  • Making Peace with Referendums
    Joana Amaral
    Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes. As such, understanding the ways in which referendum outcomes are shaped by peace negotiations is vital. Drawing upon two case studies, Amaral presents an empirically rich comparative analysis of the Annan Plan in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement in Nor...
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    78,19 €

  • WANTED MAN
    Gary Cartwright
    With the tenth anniversary of his flight from the authorities in his homeland of Kazakhstan fast approaching, the raft of transnational court cases involving fugitive embezzler Mukhtar Ablyazov show no sign of abating. In a global saga which stretches from an institutional aversion to tackling kleptocracy in the United Kingdom to United States President Donald Trump’s shady bus...
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    16,47 €

  • Classic Political Philosophy for the Modern Man
    Andrew Lynn
    ‘Just as in the parable of the boiling frog who does not perceive the gradual increase in the temperature of the water and is boiled alive, so we have by steady increments lost much of our liberty without realizing it. The works in this book cannot give that back; what they can do is to raise our consciousness of the many alternative paths we could have taken—and perhaps, if we...
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    10,64 €

  • My Answer
    Oswald Mosley
    'My Answer' was Oswald Mosley's first book after his long wartime imprisonment by the British Government without charge, without trial and without right to judicial appeal, for the crime of being opposed to the Second World War which was to cost 60 million lives and mark the decline of Great Britain as a world power.Mosley's advice when challenged was always to ...
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    37,15 €