Catálogo de libros: Estructura y procesos políticos

9839 Catálogo de libros: Estructura y procesos políticos

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  • The Fall and Rise of Political Leaders
    Leslie Derfler
    Olof Palme (Sweden), Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), and Indira Gandhi (India) achieved the pinnacle of political power, fell from or relinquished power, and then, after a period in the political wilderness, regained it. By placing greater emphasis than that customarily accorded by biographers on the 'interment' that followed their 'fall' and preceded their 'resurrection,' the boo...
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    64,97 €

  • Chinese Democracy and Elite Thinking
    Rey-ching Lu
    Will China become a multiparty democracy? The author posits that the more that Chinese elite thinking on China’s development and change reconciles the tension between Chinese nationalism and collectivist, family-like ethics on the one hand, and the western democratic ideals based on each self-seeking individual’s subjectivity on the other hand, the greater the chance that China...
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    65,41 €

  • State, Economy, and Society in Post-Military Nigeria
    Said Adejumobi
    The nature of the state and the ideological thrust of state policies continue to shape the character of the economy and social relations in Nigeria. This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations, social composition of power, social welfare and cohesion in post-military...
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    65,31 €

  • Nabih Berri and Lebanese Politics
    Omri Nir
    Nabih Berri has been a key figure in the Lebanese and Shi’ite politics for the last three decades. As the leader of the Shi’ite Amal movement since 1980 and as the Lebanese Speaker since 1992, Berri has played a major role in all political events and processes in Lebanon in the last thirty years. This is the first book to describe and analyze Nabih Berri’s ideology, pragmatism,...
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    65,17 €

  • Costs of Justice
    Brian K. Grodsky / Brian KGrodsky
    In The Costs of Justice, Brian K. Grodsky provides qualitative analyses of how transitional justice processes have evolved in diverse ways in postcommunist Poland, Croatia, Serbia, and Uzbekistan, by examining the decision-making processes and goals of those actors who contributed to key transitional justice policy decisions. Grodsky draws on extensive interviews with key polit...
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    42,12 €

  • Parliamentary Democracy in the Lisbon Treaty
    Sotirios Petrovas
    The Lisbon Treaty is the latest and most crucial reform to the European Union.As the successor to the much-debated and innovative Constitution, it represents the culmination of the unification process, for it aims to simultaneously enhance efficiency and cover the democratic deficit inherent in the outdated decisionmaking mechanisms of the past, as a consequence of excessive en...
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    33,30 €

  • Violent Democratization
    Leah Carroll
    In Violent Democratization, Leah Anne Carroll analyzes peasant and rural worker mobilization, as well as elite reaction, in Colombia’s war zones over a period of twenty-five years and across three regions. Due to Colombia’s long history of electoral democracy coinciding with weak state institutions, armed insurgencies, strong social movements, and violent responses from elites ...
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    63,55 €

  • Readings on the Development of the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
    O. Lawrence Jr. Burnette / OLawrence JrBurnette
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    19,61 €

  • How We Are Our Enemy--And How to Stop
    John L. Hodge
    This book is about democratic values—what they are; their ethical foundation; and their personal, social and political implications. It describes how we have failed to support democratic values and presents what we must do to implement them. It contrasts democratic values with an age-old but widespread anti-democratic mentality that, for example, opposes gay rights and abortion...
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    10,88 €

  • Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries
    Sharon L. Wolchik / Sharon LWolchik / Valerie J. Bunce / Valerie JBunce
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    46,40 €

  • New Directions in Campaigns and Elections
    Stephen K. Medvic
    New Directions in Campaigns and Elections is a focused exploration of the latest developments across a comprehensive range of topics for students eager to understand the rapidly changing political environment of the U.S. electoral process. ...
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    294,67 €

  • New Directions in Campaigns and Elections
    Stephen K. Medvic
    New Directions in Campaigns and Elections is a focused exploration of the latest developments across a comprehensive range of topics for students eager to understand the rapidly changing political environment of the U.S. electoral process. ...
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    89,08 €

  • The Political Marketing Game
    J. Lees-Marshment
    The Political Marketing Game identifies what works in political marketing, drawing on 100 interviews with practitioners. It also shows that authenticity, values and vision are as much a part of a winning strategy as market-savvy pragmatism. ...
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    66,56 €

  • Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy
    Sophia Moestrup
    Explores the effect of semi-presidentialism on newly-democratising countries. In recent years semi-presidentialism - the situation where a constitution makes provision for both a directly elected president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature - has become the regime type of choice for many countries. ...
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    133,82 €

  • Democratic Governance and Non-State Actors
    Anne-Marie Gardner
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    65,34 €

  • Liberal Peace In Question
    This book examines the politics of crafting liberal peace in contemporary intrastate conflicts using Sri Lanka’s failed attempt to negotiate peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. ...
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    142,38 €

  • Rhetorics for Community Action
    Phyllis Mentzell Ryder / Phyllis Ryder
    Offering both theoretical analysis and classroom advice, Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics, by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, is a guide to studying and teaching public writing. The book shows how public groups embed competing democratic ideals into the rhetorical structures of their texts, how they work with and against traditional media to spread tho...
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    166,09 €

  • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
    Joseph Alois Schumpeter
    2011 Reprint of 1947 Second Edition. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was an Austrian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term 'creative destruction' in economics. Schumpeter’s most popular book in English is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. This book opens with a treatment of Karl Marx. While he is sympathetic to Marx’s theory that...
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    17,16 €

  • Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace
    Robert a Saunders / Robert A. Saunders / Robert ASaunders / Robert Saunders
    Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of ...
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    141,65 €

  • Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics
    Brian Kaylor / Brian T. Kaylor / Brian TKaylor
    Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in the Age of Confessional Politics analyzes religious rhetoric in presidential campaigns from 1976-2008, proposing a confessional political style successful candidates must employ that differs sharply from earlier ideals of civic piety. Brian T. Kaylor also considers changes in American society that helped create this confessional political syste...
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    148,39 €

  • Peoples of the Earth
    Martin Edwin Andersen
    This book explores the culture of indigenous peoples in Latin America, the fundamental challenges they offer to traditional Euro-American notions of democracy, citizenship and develop the interface of these topics. It also explores the relevant themes on human rights and the environment, with questions of security and the risks implicit in the adoption of ethnonationalist dogma...
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    67,89 €

  • War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens
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    198,08 €

  • Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics
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    54,09 €

  • The Next Generation
    John R. D. Celock
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    206,66 €

  • Germany After the Grand Coalition
    This work represents the first systematic study of Armenia’s foreign policy during the post-independence period, between 1991 and 2005. It explores four sets of relationships with Armenia’s major historical ’partners’: Russia, Iran, Turkey and the West (Europe and the United States). Each relationship reveals a complex reality of a continuous negotiation between ideas of histor...
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    65,12 €

  • Political Culture in Panama
    Orlando J. Perez
    Twenty years have passed since the 1989 U.S. invasion that toppled Panama’s military regime and initiated a period of democratization. This book represents the most comprehensive and empirically grounded analysis of the institutional and attitudinal facto ...
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    65,34 €

  • Governance and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria
    Said Adejumobi
    Democratic governance constitutes an enduring challenge for Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria. The book reflects on the form, trajectory and content of democratic governance in post-military Nigeria from 1999. Nigeria’s democracy remains fragile, co ...
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    65,06 €

  • Ruling Myanmar
    November 2010 sees the first elections in Myanmar/Burma since 1990, to be held as the culmination of the military regime’s ’Road Map for Democracy’ The conditions under which the elections are being held are far from favourable, although the laws and procedures under which they will be conducted have been in place for seven months and quite widely publicized. Political controls...
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    47,79 €

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship
    Brian Danoff / LHebert
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for ’a new political science’ that could address the problems and possibilities of a ’world itself quite new.’ For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science, but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, editors Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. have brought together a diver...
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    166,04 €

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship
    Brian Danoff / LHebert
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for ’a new political science’ that could address the problems and possibilities of a ’world itself quite new.’ For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science, but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, editors Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. have brought together a diver...
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    65,00 €