Catálogo de libros: Gobierno central

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  • We the Elites
    Robert Ovetz
    An adroit collection of essays exposing the constitution for what it really is - a rulebook to protect capitalism for the elites. Written by 55 of the richest white men of early America, and signed by only 39 of them, the constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth, and misinformation - many Americans have opin...
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    127,05 €

  • Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis
    The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers take this opportunity to study the changes that have o...
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    281,81 €

  • Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis
    The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers take this opportunity to study the changes that have o...
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    215,96 €

  • Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond
    Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these problems, helping to revitalize rural areas. ...
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    39,19 €

  • Politics and Technology in the Post-Truth Era
    This book examines the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and politics in a global perspective. ...
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    48,33 €

  • Earth for All
    Jayati Ghosh / Owen Gaffney / Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
    The economic system keeps crashing. It’s time to install a new operating system. Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries while widespread inequality is causing deep ...
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    22,07 €

  • The Machine Stops
    E. M. Forster
    In our modern era, we like to congratulate ourselves for our sophistication, knowing that we have doubtless created a world that our feckless ancestors could never have imagined. Actually reading the works of those ancestors would disabuse us of any such notion, and E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops is a case in point. Not only does it seem that Forster has contemplated the ubi...
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    18,68 €

  • The Irish parliament, 1613-89
    Coleman A. Dennehy
    This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative machinery both inside and outside the kingdom. ...
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    35,67 €

  • The Revival of Political Imagination
    Teppo Eskelinen
    The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the function of utopias, to develop utopias as methodology and to show how instrumental utopian modes of thought can be in such diver...
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    51,39 €

  • Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2022
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides updated statistics on a comprehensive set of economic, financial, social, and environmental measures as well as select indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report covers the 49 regional members of ADB. It discusses trends in development progress and the challenges to achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth across Asi...
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    85,71 €

  • Economics 101 for Senators and Representatives
    Wallace Hoffman
    The mission of this book is to inform all American citizens how their senators and representatives vote in Washington. Do your senators and your representative fulfill the responsibilities of government in the Constitution and vote in your favor? If that is true, they are your friends. Or do your senators and your representatives violate the Constitution and vote against your b...
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    36,48 €

  • Economics 101 for Senators and Representatives
    Wallace Hoffman
    The mission of this book is to inform all American citizens how their senators and representatives vote in Washington. Do your senators and your representative fulfill the responsibilities of government in the Constitution and vote in your favor? If that is true, they are your friends. Or do your senators and your representatives violate the Constitution and vote against your b...
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    45,28 €

  • Public Value Co-Creation
    Alessandro Sancino
    Public Value Co-Creation: A Multi-Actor & Multi-Sector Perspective addresses a fundamental gap in the scholarly field of Public Management relating to the advice and resources available on what public managers can and/or should do to co-create public value. ...
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    88,04 €

  • Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021
    Robert Cameron
    Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management. ...
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    136,04 €

  • How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
    Cynthia Burack
    Traces the Trump administration’s surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump’s indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites. ...
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    121,75 €

  • COVID-19’S ECONOMIC IMPACT AND COUNTERMEASURES IN CHINA
    ZHIQING LI BIYU WU KARL ST SHIYI CHEN / Biyu Wu
    The book studies the impact of COVID-19 on the Chinese economy and the country’s response to policies. It examines various aspects of national macroeconomic operations, industrial shocks, changes in financial markets, regional economic order, public governance challenges. It also analyzes changes in the world economy while integrating economic, financial, industrial, and enviro...
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    190,54 €

  • Practical Responses to Real Problems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents eight case studies of recent ADB projects that highlight innovative interventions and effective approaches to reduce poverty.The case studies include projects in Bangladesh, the Cook Islands, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and the People’s Republic of China. Together they focus on four themes: ensuring equality and inclusion, caring for the ...
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    28,02 €

  • Laboratories against Democracy
    Jacob M. Grumbach
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly f...
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    50,43 €

  • The Development of Open Government Data
    Deborah Richards / Di Wang
    Providing a unique and enhanced theoretical and practical understanding of OGD and its usage, as well as proposing directions for OGD portals’ future development in order to encourage citizens’ OGD utilization, this is a must-read for researchers and policymakers examining the impact and possibilities of OGD. ...
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    150,50 €

  • Africa 2.0
    Russell Southwood
    Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be in place in order for these technologies to be built. ...
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    144,82 €

  • Africa 2.0
    Russell Southwood
    Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies - mobile calling and internet - were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be in place in order for these technologies to be built. ...
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    44,05 €

  • All Health Politics Is Local
    Merlin Chowkwanyun
    Health is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments—all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In All Health Politics Is Local, Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places—New York City, Los Angeles...
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    121,39 €

  • FDR’s Budgeteer and Manager-in-Chief
    Mordecai Lee
    First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director from 1939 to 1945. ...
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    42,69 €

  • Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State
    Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures. ...
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    42,99 €

  • Capitalism for All
    John Mikler / Neil E. Harrison
    Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation. ...
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    42,10 €

  • Steal the Street
    Mark Mussman
    Steal the Street is a collection of short articles focused on gentrification, public space, and community voice. The articles were written for Streetvibes, a street paper in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 2015 through 2019. The focus of Streetvibes is homelessness, so each article focuses on different aspects of homelessness and inequity in Cincinnati, much of it centered around the ra...
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    34,44 €

  • The Moneywasting Machine
    Dušan Pavlović
    For five months in 2013-2014, Dušan Pavlović took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia’s Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to make a penetrating diagnosis of the economic activity of the postcommunist government. He found that a coterie of tycoons and politicians live off the wealth of the majority of citizens and smaller ent...
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    69,83 €

  • A Future for Economics
    Christopher Maule
    Economics is a discipline fundamentally concerned with effective coordination. In that way, its main concerns are very close to those of governance. Economics, like governance, has evolved considerably over the last half century. This book is a very modest attempt at gauging the relative importance of this tsunami and the way in which it might indicate what will be its future. ...
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    19,09 €

  • The Cost of Congress
    Karen Kunz / Stavros Atsas
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    107,97 €

  • African Policy Innovation and the Political Economy of Public-Private Policy Partnerships
    Fred Olayele
    A core political economy issue in the growth literature is how to structure the relationship between the public and private sectors to ensure optimal outcomes. While conventional arguments on the ability of the private sector to intrinsically generate efficiency gains remain valid, governments’ traditional role of providing an enabling environment to foster private risk taking ...
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    281,96 €


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