Catálogo de libros: Política comparada

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  • Defending Eastern Europe
    This book utilises three theoretical models to analyse the defence conditions and preparedness of all the states of Eastern Europe. It considers the transition from Cold War communism to post-Cold War democracies, the stability of the East-Central European States, the precarious defence positions of the Baltic states and the uneven defence preparedness of the Balkan states. ...
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    157,42 €

  • Democracy on demand
    Matt Qvortrup
    Democracy on demand is a most comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy. It shows how democracy is vulnerable, and how it can be saved from demagogues. ...
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    145,05 €

  • Machiavelli’s 48 Rules for Survival and Success in Any Political, Social or Economic Situation
    Ph.D Mark E Wilkins
    In the illusion of living in a free society or 'world', it becomes unbearable to many of us, that feeling of having no power over people, places or events. Leading to frustration, anger and depression.None of us want to have less power, in a world where more power seems to be what the 'new norm' is all about. However, there is an ever-increasing danger as more individuals an...
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    29,97 €

  • Democracy on demand
    Matt Qvortrup
    Democracy on demand is a most comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy. It shows how democracy is vulnerable, and how it can be saved from demagogues. ...
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    35,67 €

  • The Northern Ireland peace process
    Eamonn O’Kane
    A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europe’s longest running modern conflict. ...
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    157,37 €

  • Germany’s Russia problem
    John Lough
    The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe’s most important link with the largest country on the continent. This book analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 have misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow. ...
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    34,28 €

  • Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
    Colin Coulter / Katy Hayward / Niall Gilmartin
    This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitational pull. ...
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    39,09 €

  • Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
    Colin Coulter / Katy Hayward / Niall Gilmartin
    This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitational pull. ...
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    144,78 €

  • Bounded Integration
    Aviad Rubin
    Investigates Turkey and Israel’s contrasting treatment of religion and demonstrates how this treatment has had a significant impact on these countries’ democratic performance. ...
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    41,78 €

  • The International Dimension of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
    Daniela Huber
    Analyzes the Israel-Palestinian conflict by looking at its interactions with seven regional and global powers and the way the conflict is framed at the international level. ...
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    40,88 €

  • Radical Proceduralism
    Dannica Fleuß
    Radical Proceduralism bridges the gap between political philosophy and practical institutional experimentation asking us to bring citizens back in and to engage them in a dialogue about ’the rules of the democratic game’ and proposing institutional devices that figure as ’conversation starters’ and facilitate such dialogues. ...
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    136,00 €

  • Coping with Defeat
    Jonathan Laurence
    The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research in Turkey, N...
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    141,47 €

  • 'Covenant' Model versus 'Force' Model, The Past and Outlook
    Bill Ni
    This book introduces a new theory as a response to what has been considered as the universal model of political order with which there exist three institutional elements, namely a state, the rule of law, and government accountability. The theory also echoes on the discussions regarding the forming sequence of these elements and the importance of coexistence of all the elements....
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    22,54 €

  • One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments
    Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the ...
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    133,94 €

  • 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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    36,76 €

  • Global 1968
    Global 1968 is a unique study of the similarities and differences in the 1968 cultural revolutions in Europe and Latin America.The late 1960s was a time of revolutionary ferment throughout the world. Yet so much was in flux during these years that it is often difficult to make sense of the period. In this volume, distinguished historians, filmmakers, musicologists, literary sch...
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    63,24 €

  • Global 1968
    Global 1968 is a unique study of the similarities and differences in the 1968 cultural revolutions in Europe and Latin America.The late 1960s was a time of revolutionary ferment throughout the world. Yet so much was in flux during these years that it is often difficult to make sense of the period. In this volume, distinguished historians, filmmakers, musicologists, literary sch...
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    215,21 €

  • Conversations About Politics
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Politics includes the following 5 wide-ranging Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading political scientists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Exploring Southeast ...
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    24,89 €

  • The roots of populism
    Brian Elliott
    A novel and highly engaging philosophical analysis of populism and how it represents both a challenge to and promise of renewal for liberal democracy. Elliott argues that neoliberal governance has sought to bury the legacy of working-class politics but now the reappearance of 'the people' is causing a systemic crisis in liberal democracy. ...
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    157,80 €

  • The Land beyond the Border
    Johannes Becke
    Uses an innovative theoretical framework to comparatively explore the dynamics of state expansion and contraction in Syria (1976-2005), Morocco (since 1975), and Israel (since 1967). ...
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    121,58 €

  • What about the workers?
    Andrew Taylor
    This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excluding the unions. ...
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    157,22 €

  • Reclaiming migration
    Dallal Stevens / Nina Perkowski / Vicki Squire
    Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced, emphasising the importance of demands for justice advanced by people on the move....
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    35,83 €

  • Reclaiming migration
    Dallal Stevens / Nina Perkowski / Vicki Squire
    Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced, emphasising the importance of demands for justice advanced by people on the move....
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    145,20 €

  • Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life
    Thomas J. Clarke
    'Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life' is a 1922 autobiographical account of Thomas J. Clarke. Thomas James Clarke (1858 - 1916) was a leader in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret oath-bound organisation in Ireland from 1858 to 1924. Having spent most of his life in English prisons for his beliefs, Clarke is considered to be the sole person responsible for the 1916 ...
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    16,84 €

  • The Rhode Island Legislative Black & Latino Caucus
    Tomás Alberto Ávila
    Black and Latino Public Servants history and contributions deserve to be highlighted; and celebrated. They are phenomenal servants in state and municipal institutions. The media, overall, overlooks public servants of color. Finding it to tear them down when they experience missteps in their careers and the lack of directory of such Public Servants across the state. This is the ...
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    18,50 €

  • Politics (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Aristotle
    Aristotle addresses the city in his work titled Politics, viewing the city to be a natural community. Moreover, he considers the city to precede the family which in turn precedes the individual. He also famously states that man is by nature a political animal, arguing that humanity’s defining factor among others in the animal kingdom is its rationality.In the end of the Nicomac...
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    53,52 €

  • Presidentialism, Violence, and the Prospect of Democracy
    Charles K. S. Wu / Charles KSWu / Dr. Yao-Yuan Yeh / Yao-Yuan Dr. Yeh
    This book tackles the perennial debate about whether presidentialism is associated with democratic breakdown. We find evidence that presidentialism could contribute instabilities to a democratic system, though it does not directly follow that those instabilities will trigger a democratic breakdown. ...
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    122,66 €

  • Utilitarianism (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    John Stuart Mill
    Utilitarianism is a family of consequentialist ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. The basic idea behind utilitarianism is to in some sense maximize utility, which is often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts. It has been applied to social welfare economics, the crisis of global poverty, the ...
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    54,90 €

  • The Social Contract (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    The Social Contract theorizes that the ability to coerce is not a legitimate power, and there is no rightful duty to submit to a state that enslaves its people. In this desired social contract, everyone will be free because they all forfeit the same number of rights and impose the same duties on all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues that it is absurd for a man to surrender his free...
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    53,36 €

  • The Athenian Constitution (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Aristotle
    The Athenian Constitution describes the political system of ancient Athens. The work consists of two parts. The first part, from Chapter 1 to Chapter 41, deals with the different forms of the constitution, from the trial of the Alcmaeonidae until 403 BC. The second part describes the city’s institutions, including the terms of access to citizenship, magistrates, and the courts....
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    54,19 €


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