Catálogo de libros: Gobierno regional

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  • Aspects of Local Government in a Sumbawan Village
    Peter R. Goethals
    Post-colonial social and political change at the village level has been a major continuing interest of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project. In the village studies it has sponsored particular attention has been given to the lodgement of power, political organization, and the processes by which decisions are made. Relatively brief surveys of two to three months by Indonesian gra...
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    37,36 €

  • The Realities of Redistricting
    Jonathan Winburn
    This book tests the effectiveness of political control and neutral rules on limiting partisan gerrymandering in state legislative redistricting. Specifically, the book examines the 2000 redistricting process in eight states_Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and Washington. ...
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    64,00 €

  • Grand Theater
    Larry E Holmes / Larry E. Holmes / Larry EHolmes
    Grand Theater examines bureaucracy not as a readily identifiable structure, which it certainly was, but rather as a process of day-to-day operation. Thus it is concerned with how agencies of both the Communist Party and the state apparatus not only implemented directives from above but also responded to perceived successes and failures, chose to produce, share, and conceal info...
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    148,32 €

  • State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism
    Kalu N. Kalu / Kalu NKalu
    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary path of Nigeria’s political development. Drawing from the historical themes that existed before and after independence, Kalu N. Kalu elucidates the challenging role of an oil-dependent economy in the struggle for control of state power in the face of political corruption, clientelism, and market failures. ...
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    66,47 €

  • Made with Words
    Philip Pettit
    Hobbes’s extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes’s political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Ro...
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    43,53 €

  • City Boy
    Mike Tedesco
    In the world of municipal politics, truth is stranger than fiction and there is no truth stranger than La Blanca Gente, Colorado. In this striking first book, the author weaves between the anecdotal and the academic to sew a grand comic farce as he unveils the curtain over the tactics employed by government employees to achieve their own ends. Tragic? Absurd? Harrowing? Indeed,...
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    16,81 €

  • Ten Things You Don’t Know about Rhode Island
    Tom Sgouros / Tom Sgourus
    Rhode Island is in Crisis!!You knew that already, didn’t you? You’ve been hearing it for years.But haven’t you wondered, since everyone knows there’s a crisis, whycan’t we just deal with it? Is it the powerful unions? Could it be ourliberal spending? Or might it be that the conventional story about whatails Rhode Island is just plain wrong?Join Tom Sgouros, independent jour...
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    23,88 €

  • Complete Book of Historic Presidential Firsts
    Michael Duvalle
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    17,94 €

  • Complete Book of Historic Presidential Firsts
    Michael Duvalle
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    32,03 €

  • Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America
    Edward Channing
    This slender volume contains the Toppan Prize Essay for 1883, which was awarded by Harvard University to Edward Channing, Instructor in History in Harvard College. Dr. Channing’s prize-winning essay was read before the Historical and Political Science Ass ...
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    12,63 €

  • Ending Racial Preferences
    Carol MAllen
    Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story provides an in-depth account of the 2006 Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, told from the perspective of Toward A Fair Michigan, a non-partisan educational organization. The book also analyzes the campaigning and impact of similar initiatives in California, Florida, Washington, and the city of Houston. ...
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    74,31 €

  • 49 at Last!
    Claus-M. Naske / Claus-MNaske
    How a prophesy was fulfilled Secretary of State William Seward, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Czarist Russia in 1867, predicted on his first visit to the northern possession that Alaska one day would become 'a state or many states.'Seward’s prediction came true in 1959 when Alaska became the 49th and largest state.Little wonder this took ninety years. At first, Ala...
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    15,71 €

  • Going Local
    Merilee S. Grindle / Merilee SGrindle
    Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In Going Local, an unprecedented study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Meri...
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    43,30 €

  • Understanding Public Opinion
    Barbara Norrander / Clyde Wilcox
    Click here to preview a sample chapter!In this highly anticipated revision, editors Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox expose students to the substance and process of public opinion research in an accessible way. Capturing the diversity of this research with 12 essays—10 new to this edition and 2 fully updated—well-respected contributors highlight the many approaches social sci...
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    152,52 €

  • Upstate Down
    Alexander R. Thomas / Alexander RThomas / Polly J. Smith / Polly JSmith
    Upstate New York is in a malaise and sociologists Alexander Thomas and Polly Smith wanted to know why. They take the reader on a tour of New York in order to diagnose the problems affecting the state and what can be done to address the issues. ...
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    53,26 €

  • Of Khans and Kremlins
    Katherine E. Graney / Katherine EGraney
    Of Khans and Kremlins is the first scholarly book in English to fully examine the effort made by the leadership of the Russian republic of Tatarstan to build and retain state sovereignty in the post-Soviet period. Katherine E. Graney provides new insight into inter-ethnic relations, the politics of cultural pluralism, and federalism in Russia and beyond. ...
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    141,64 €

  • Economics in Film and Fiction
    Aleksandra S. Bookman / Aleksandra SBookman / Milica Z. Bookman / Milica Zarkovic Bookman / Milica ZBookman
    The book uses both contemporary and classic film and literature to illustrate 33 fundamental concepts in introductory economics. Films include: Jaws, Legally Blonde, Casablanca, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, and The Da Vinci Code. ...
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    163,78 €

  • Collaborative Federalism
    Martin Painter
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    28,65 €

  • Celluloid Deities
    Preminda Jacob
    This book focuses attention on an aspect of India’s dynamic and vibrant street art: billboard size advertisements, hand-painted for the entertainment cinema industry and local political parties, that unfurl mural-like across the urban landscape of Chennai, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. The making and consuming of this public art engenders a space for relay...
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    156,49 €

  • Vol. 2 AMERICA CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
    Cruz
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    20,39 €

  • Vol. 2 America Can’t Handle the Truth!
    Cruz
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    36,83 €

  • Vol. 1 AMERICA CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
    Sevim Cruz
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    20,39 €

  • Vol. 1 America Can’t Handle the Truth!
    Sevim Cruz
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    36,83 €

  • Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
    Pierre F. Landry / Pierre FLandry
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    136,34 €

  • Developing Leadership
    Susan R Madsen / Susan R. Madsen / Susan RMadsen
    This book focuses on the lifetime development of ten strong, competent, and fascinating women governors. It details the commonalities and perspectives of ten women on their own personal journeys in developing leadership throughout childhood, youth, young adulthood, and adulthood. These women reflect a journey shared, in part, by all leaders. ...
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    87,20 €

  • 7 Steps to End War & Save the Planet
    Steve Ratzlaff
    A pacifist’s timely and passionate manifesto addressing the issue of global warming. Utopia, as Ratzlaff explains, is not some unattainable oasis but rather a world without war and with a balanced global habitat that can sustain future generations. '[R]ank and file Americans need to be able to comprehend what global warming is all about,' the author writes, 'in order to grasp w...
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    18,25 €

  • 7 Steps to End War & Save the Planet
    Steve Ratzlaff
    A pacifist’s timely and passionate manifesto addressing the issue of global warming. Utopia, as Ratzlaff explains, is not some unattainable oasis but rather a world without war and with a balanced global habitat that can sustain future generations. '[R]ank and file Americans need to be able to comprehend what global warming is all about,' the author writes, 'in order to grasp w...
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    32,34 €

  • Invisible Partisanship
    Chang-Ho C Ji / Chang-Ho C. Ji / Chang-Ho CJi
    In 1890-1930, the election system in American cities introduced nonpartisan ballots into the cities. Invisible Partnership evaluates this election scheme and how it disproportionately helps Republicans win local legislative contests and shapes city councils and school boards to produce conservative and pro-developmental local policies. ...
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    102,02 €

  • What a Mighty Power We Can Be
    Ariane Liazos / Marshall Ganz / Theda Skocpol
    From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service. Even more than whites did, African Americans embraced this type of association; indeed, fraternal lodges rivaled chur...
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    45,81 €

  • Designing Deliberative Democracy
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    102,16 €


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