Catálogo de libros: Gobierno regional

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  • By the Grace of God
    John Fogg
    STORIES OF SURVIVAL AND SPIRITUAL REBIRTH...By the Grace of God, chronicles the life experiences of the author which on several occasions, could have resulted in his death. He assumed his survival was as a result of luck or skill or a combination of both until the mid-1990’s, when a spiritual reality began to unfold in his life. Ultimately, his spiritual rebirth led him to the ...
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    11,56 €

  • The Municipalities of the Roman Empire
    James S. Reid / James SReid
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    48,13 €

  • The Deepening Darkness
    Carol Gilligan / David A. J. Richards / David AJRichards
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    39,17 €

  • Enough Blame to Go Around
    Richard Steier
    Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier explores the tensions between New York City’s public employee unions, their critics, and city and state politicians. ...
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    29,02 €

  • Faith-Based Policy
    John Chandler
    John Chandler’s Faith-Based Policy: A Litmus Test for Understanding Contemporary America provides insight into the faith-based policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Chandler argues that the faith-based experiment is becoming increasingly entrenched in the institutional fabric of American government and culture and that analyzing it reveals new paradigms that explode trad...
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    123,98 €

  • Power, Place, and State-Society Relations in Korea
    Jongwoo Han
    This book provides an unprecedented perspective on Korea’s simultaneous experience of rapid, economic development and substantive democratization from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. By analyzing the state-societal relations reflected in the design, architectural monumentality, and other spatial arrangements of the capital city over three central periods of Korean political ...
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    179,55 €

  • TOWNSHIP GOVERNANCE & INSTITUT IN CHINA
    SHUKAI ZHAO
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    165,36 €

  • Explaining local government
    J. A. Chandler / J. Chandler / JAChandler
    Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems of government in the Western world. ...
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    36,33 €

  • The Development of English Local Government 1689-1835
    Beatrice Webb / Sidney Webb
    This early work by Beatrice and Sidney Webb was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Development of English Local Government 1689-1835’ is a work of political history that outlines the principles and mechanisms of local government. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858....
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    26,88 €

  • Turmoil and Transition in Boston
    Lawrence S. DiCara / Lawrence SDiCara
    This book tells the personal and political story of Larry DiCara, the youngest person ever elected to the Boston City Council. In this memoir, he offers an insider’s perspective on the decade of turmoil of the 1970s surrounding the federal court order mandating busing to integrate Boston Public Schools. ...
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    43,20 €

  • The Beholden State
    While there is plenty of literature on California’s history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rate...
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    55,76 €

  • Religion and Politics in America’s Borderlands
    Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands. Upper level undergraduate students, graduate theology and social science...
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    108,53 €

  • Steps to Local Government Reform
    Allyn O. Lockner
    Does the performance of your local government leave something to be desired? Maybe you’re not satisfied with the services your government provides, or maybe the cost for these services is far too much. If so, take heart; you can do something about it.Steps to Local Government Reform is your step-by-step guide to undertaking reform on the local level. Public manager Allyn O. Loc...
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    41,06 €

  • Steps to Local Government Reform
    Allyn O. Lockner
    Does the performance of your local government leave something to be desired? Maybe you’re not satisfied with the services your government provides, or maybe the cost for these services is far too much. If so, take heart; you can do something about it.Steps to Local Government Reform is your step-by-step guide to undertaking reform on the local level. Public manager Allyn O. Loc...
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    52,30 €

  • Now What?
    Larry Tramutola
    Effective elected leaders can make a huge difference in their communities; conversely those elected who are ineffective can create significant and long term problems. The point of this book is to identify common problems that elected officials face during their service, and offer practical solutions. Since we rarely elect 'perfect leaders,' our democratic system is structured s...
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    13,54 €

  • Leading the localities
    Colin Copus
    The first major publication to assess the impact on local politics of the new office of directly-elected mayor, now finally available in paperback. ...
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    29,58 €

  • Suburban Crossroads
    Thomas J. Vicino / Thomas JVicino
    In fear of becoming havens for illegal immigrants, numerous local communities adopted and implemented their own immigration laws during the 2000s. Suburban Crossroads chronicles the debates and policy responses that emerged over laws like the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, and then evaluates the future prospects for suburban growth and decline. ...
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    131,97 €

  • Italian Signs, American Politics
    Ottorino Cappelli
    This book analyzes intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of American politicians of Italian descent who ran against each other in the State of New York. This kind of race splits the ethnic group vote and neutralizes the ethnic appeal of both contenders, for neither one can use ancestry as an argument to draw votes away from the opponent. The first par...
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    18,82 €

  • Governing New York State, Sixth Edition
    Comprehensive overview of New York State’s politics, political institutions, and major public policies. ...
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    48,21 €

  • The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago
    Bradley WRasch
    From Sharach Bond, who served as the first governor of Illinois beginning in 1818, to William Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, many powerful men and women have played vital roles in the political life and climate of both Chicago and Illinois. The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago provides biographies for the state's most important power brokers. In this study, autho...
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    14,99 €

  • The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago
    Bradley WRasch
    From Sharach Bond, who served as the first governor of Illinois beginning in 1818, to William Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, many powerful men and women have played vital roles in the political life and climate of both Chicago and Illinois. The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago provides biographies for the state's most important power brokers. In this study, autho...
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    24,84 €

  • An Education in Politics
    Dave Mulder / Jr. Frank B. Wood
    Dave Mulder comes from an academic background, and his experience in the world of politics has been insightful. He has many timely observations as to how to strengthen the political system.Tom Osborne,Athletic Director, University of Nebraska, LincolnIt’s refreshing to see two Legislators from two opposite parties, both of great character and high moral values, who can work and...
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    13,17 €

  • Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
    Pierre F. Landry / Pierre FLandry
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    39,32 €

  • Arizona Firestorm
    Santa Ana
    Arizona Firestorm brings together well respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the media’s role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and elsewhere. ...
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    149,54 €

  • States in Crisis
    James Reichley
    This is a report on political conditions in ten widely differing states judged, for one reason or another, to be crucial, typical, or otherwise important. Part one is composed of case histories of state politics; part two reviews some general characteristics of the political structure; the epilogue applies this material to the question of the future.Originally published in 1964...
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    64,24 €

  • Local democracy, civic engagement and community
    Hugh Atkinson
    Focuses on local democratic politics in Britain over the last decade and a half from the election of the New Labour Government right up to the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government. ...
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    157,64 €

  • Tea Party on Safari
    Greg Fettig
    In June 2010, Greg Fettig began a battle that would ultimately change the course of his life. Already involved in the Tea Party movement in Indiana, he started a campaign to target an icon of Washington elitism, six-term US Senator Richard Lugar, and ultimately oust him from power. He had no idea that the eighteen-month journey ahead would be fraught with twists and turns, brib...
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    18,12 €

  • Tea Party on Safari
    Greg Fettig
    In June 2010, Greg Fettig began a battle that would ultimately change the course of his life. Already involved in the Tea Party movement in Indiana, he started a campaign to target an icon of Washington elitism, six-term US Senator Richard Lugar, and ultimately oust him from power. He had no idea that the eighteen-month journey ahead would be fraught with twists and turns, brib...
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    10,57 €

  • Staten Island
    Daniel C. Kramer / Daniel CKramer / Richard M. Flanagan / Richard MFlanagan
    This book chronicles how the “forgotten borough” has grappled with its uneasy relationship with the rest of the City of New York since the 1920s. The authors analyze the politics behind events that have shaped Staten Island. ...
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    55,74 €

  • Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots
    Anna L. Ahlers / Anna LAhlers / Gunter Schubert
    This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China’s political system. By critically assessing the recent literature on village elections and drawing on qualitative fieldwork data gathered in six villages of two provinces and one urban district, it contributes to our understanding of the nexus between political participatio...
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    141,56 €


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