Catálogo de libros: Estructura y procesos políticos

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  • Leadership and Governance for Sustainability
    Neeta Baporikar
    Although the study of governance is not new, it has only been recognized in the last two decades as being a crucial factor for organizational success. Successful implementation and the practice of governance in the public sector improves organizational performance through increased efficiency, productivity, quality, and innovation to support sustainability. Leadership and Gover...
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    248,96 €

  • The European Union in the Twenty-First Century
    The European Union in the Twenty-First Century: Major Political, Economic and Security Policy Trends unpacks some of the most prominent issues faced by the EU over the last two decades and considers how they may shape its future, as well as the future of international politics. ...
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    149,44 €

  • Wise & Reasoned
    Paul Reborn
    Both the Democratic and Republican parties are dysfunctional and no longer serve the American people adequately or fairly. Congress has an approval rating of less than 20 percent for a reason. With a few bright exceptions, Congress is a morass of self-serving, hypocritical elected officials.  Wise & Reasoned addresses topics of deep concern-inequality, health care, the economy,...
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    21,46 €

  • Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy
    Rodney Wallace Kennedy
    Democracy faces threats from an emerging right-wing movement in democratic governments around the world. This may be even more prevalent in the United States because there is an evil that uses rhetorical tropes to undermine the anchor institutions of democracy: press, courts, universities, and Congress. This evil has a personification--former President Donald Trump. All the rhe...
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    40,13 €

  • Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy
    Rodney Wallace Kennedy
    Democracy faces threats from an emerging right-wing movement in democratic governments around the world. This may be even more prevalent in the United States because there is an evil that uses rhetorical tropes to undermine the anchor institutions of democracy: press, courts, universities, and Congress. This evil has a personification--former President Donald Trump. All the rhe...
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    26,23 €

  • What is Fascism
    Giovanni Gentile / Richard Robinson
    What is Fascism is a collection of essays, newspaper articles and interviews, discourses and polemics on the subject of fascism by Giovanni Gentile (AD 1875-1944), the 'philosopher of Fascism.' The collection was written (or spoken and later transcribed) over the course of several years prior to its publication in book format, in 1925, under the Italian title of Che cosa è il f...
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    32,64 €

  • Years of Rage
    Tom O’Lincoln
    It’s 1975, and the Liberal Party’s Malcolm Fraser makes a ruthless grab for power. Workers resist, opening up seven years of bitter class conflict. Years of Rage analyses the crisis into which Australia plunged under Whitlam. It outlines the actions of politicians, capitalists, oppressed people and above all the organized working class. From the upheavals of the Constitutional ...
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    32,32 €

  • BEYOND THE RHETORIC
    William Gairdner
    William Gairdner, PhD, is a former Olympic athlete, businessman, and author living near Toronto. He began publishing serious essays and books on political and moral philosophy in mid-life, and among his many bestsellers -- books that have profoundly enriched national dialogue and discussion -- are The Trouble With Canada, The War Against the Family, Canada’s Founding Debates, T...
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    14,12 €

  • Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary
    Christopher Holman
    A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes’s political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life. ...
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    40,47 €

  • From Socialism to Capitalism
    Janos Kornai
    Eight essays connected by various common strands. The most important one is the community of the main subject-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them.One of the Leitmotifs is the 'capitalism/socialism' pa...
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    35,36 €

  • Literature and Politics
    Klaus Amann / Robert Musil / Genese Grill
    Literature and Politics presents Robert Musil’s writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness during the Age of Totalitarianism. In essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on contemporary events, Musil charts the increasing dangers to artists and ethical thinker...
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    27,34 €

  • Better to Win
    Bill Wong
    Better To Win offers readers a unique, proven perspective on the craft and power of politics. It examines the mindset and machinery involved in the use of power and the sacrifices necessary to affect meaningful change for those who don’t (yet) have a voice in the halls of power.Bill Wong, a renowned strategist to a bevy of iconic California politicians, provides candid and occa...
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    12,81 €

  • Socialist republic
    Daisy Payling
    This book explores how Sheffield City Council set out to renew left-wing politics in 1980s Britain. Drawing on archival research and oral history interviews, it details the struggle to build a broad-based politics that united class and identity politics and demonstrates how social democracy persisted at a local level under Thatcherism. ...
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    157,40 €

  • Erosion of Democracy
    J. Dhopte
    This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of ne...
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    22,35 €

  • The Open Society Playbook
    Scott Howard
    In his newest book, Scott Howard, author of The Transgender Industrial Complex, exposes the persons and actors financing the push for globalization and dissolution of national borders. Howard, in his own words, commits the 'thoroughly postmodern crime of telling the truth using the words of the actors committing the acts themselves as evidence.' Just as well-sourced and meticul...
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    39,09 €

  • Institutions and Popular Will in Africa’s Search for Democracy, Development and Peace
    This Festschrift celebrates the life of the late Nigerian political scientist, Oyeleye Oyediran, a highly-respected scholar, who skilfully combined theory with praxis in the quest for Nigerian democracy. The essays in this volume are written by his former students, colleagues and associates, including foremost thinkers and analysts, reflecting on his contributions to scholarshi...
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    61,74 €

  • 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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    121,91 €

  • 254 Days to Impeachment
    J.P. Prag
    For the first time since George Washington, an Independent has been elected President of the United States of America.But the new President may only have 254 days to make a point: that the world can be completely changed with a different approach. That short amount of time is all the President has between the inauguration and when the next budget must be approved. Should the Pr...
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    47,13 €

  • 254 Days to Impeachment
    J.P. Prag
    For the first time since George Washington, an Independent has been elected President of the United States of America.But the new President may only have 254 days to make a point: that the world can be completely changed with a different approach. That short amount of time is all the President has between the inauguration and when the next budget must be approved. Should the Pr...
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    14,19 €

  • Media and Power in Modern Iran
    Emily L. Blout
    Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic-skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting themselves on Facebook. How does a regime that originally derived its hegemony from th...
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    147,84 €

  • Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State
    Jason Knirck
    Analysis of the conflict between multiparty democratic norms and sweeping monolithic nationalist movements in the aftermath of the Irish revolution. ...
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    157,31 €

  • The Trouble With Canada ... STILL!
    William D. Gairdner
    BACK IN PRINT!In 1990 William Gairdner published The Trouble with Canada and it sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation.In 1910 he completely this update, The Trouble with Canada ... Still! Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that Canada suffered a disturbing regime change in the last quarter of the twentieth century and is now caught between two irreconcilabl...
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    28,77 €

  • Witness
    Lance Carden
    This book begins in 1917 at the beginning of World War I and ends with a discussion of urban renewal, which took place in Boston’s black community in the 1950s and 1960s. It is based on twenty-three long, taped interviews with prominent black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989. It is thus a narrative about black politics taken from the memories of black Boston...
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    14,19 €

  • Witness
    Lance Carden
    This book begins in 1917 at the beginning of World War I and ends with a discussion of urban renewal, which took place in Boston’s black community in the 1950s and 1960s. It is based on twenty-three long, taped interviews with prominent black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989. It is thus a narrative about black politics taken from the memories of black Boston...
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    31,43 €

  • Big Data and Decision-Making
    Big data and its accompanying technological ecosystems have had a dramatic impact on business, politics and society. At the same time, the very nature of big data, a term that originates from computer science discourse, often remains opaque to research communities in other disciplines as well as to practitioners. Considering the pervasive impact of big data across a number of i...
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    149,74 €

  • I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It
    Norman Finkelstein
    Norman Finkelstein first made his name while still in graduate school when he exposed an acclaimed national bestseller as a hoax. He went on in subsequent decades to subject Israel’s apologists as well as Holocaust hucksters to withering scrutiny.In his new book, Finkelstein focuses his keen forensic eye on the canonical texts of identity politics. After methodically parsing th...
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    23,68 €

  • The Voice of Hope
    Alan E. Clements / Fergus Harlow
    Burma’s nonviolent 'revolution of the spirit' remains one of the most inspiring and significant movements ever. A conclusion to 43 years of investigative research and unique personal involvement by Alan Clements, this urgent book presents not only a compelling case for the release of Burma’s Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners but a meticulous expl...
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    25,32 €

  • The Voice of Hope
    Alan E Clements / Fergus Harlow
    Burma’s nonviolent 'revolution of the spirit' remains one of the most inspiring and significant movements ever. A conclusion to 43 years of investigative research and personal involvement by Alan Clements, this book presents not only a compelling case for the release of Burma’s Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners but an explanation for the (corpora...
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    25,93 €

  • Political Parties
    Robert Michels / Eden Paul
    This work, first published in German in 1911 introduced the concept of iron law of oligarchy. It is considered one of the classics of social sciences, in particular sociology and political science. This work analyzes the power structures of organizations such as political parties and trade unions. Michels’ main argument is that all organizations, even those in theory most egali...
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    12,73 €

  • Kashmir
    Satish Verma
    India’s attainment of Freedom in 1947 was historic. This event marked the birth of Pakistan, and the creation of the conflict on Kashmir as the centre of the debate. In the last six decades, Kashmir has faced political and terrorist activities that are separate from the rest of India and the topic of curiosity.Many national and international writers have written on various aspe...
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    24,18 €


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