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  • Pilot Studies for a New Penang
    Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented at the Penang Outlook Forum 2009, held on 1-2 June 2009 at the E&O Hotel in Penang. A few others have been added to complement those at the conference.At present, comprehensive and authoritative studies on Penang’s current economic conditions are a rarity. This book is thus an effort to correct that lack. Evidence does su...
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    32,47 €

  • Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia
    Ronald Walters
    This book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional congressional relationship with the city and the way in which this establishes and ...
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    156,58 €

  • Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia
    Ronald Walters
    This volume conveys a critique of the mayors of Washington, D.C since 1968 and an analysis of public policies that have confronted D.C. since congress granted limited Home Rule. This analysis of public policy problems and assessment of contemporary mayors should be of interest across disciplines-political science, urban studies and public policy. ...
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    63,86 €

  • Reforming China’s Government
    Charles F. Bingman
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    23,11 €

  • REFORMING CHINA’S GOVERNMENT
    Charles F. Bingman
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    31,51 €

  • Wake Up America
    Robert Anthony
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    18,14 €

  • America’s Uneven Democracy
    Zoltan L. Hajnal / Zoltan LHajnal
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    96,03 €

  • America’s Uneven Democracy
    Zoltan Hajnal
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    24,82 €

  • Dynamics of Local Governance in China During the Reform Era
    Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitions domestically bring about substantial influence on the whole world. Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform t...
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    166,13 €

  • Jeb Bush
    Robert E. Jr. Crew / Robert EJrCrew
    Jeb Bush: Aggressive Conservatism in Florida describes the rise of John Ellis (Jeb) Bush, the second son of former President George H.W. Bush, to political power in Florida. It examines the conservative theory that guided his behavior when he was elected and the aggressive manner in which he used the Office of Governor to pursue his goals. The book offers insight into his motiv...
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    64,07 €

  • Jefferson’s Louisiana
    George Dargo
    The Purchase of all of Louisiana in 1803 brought the new American nation into contact with the French Creole population of the Lower Mississippi Basin. The Spanish called it Baja Luisiana. While the settlement in and around the city of New Orleans (the capital of the province when it was ruled by Spain) was not large, it had well established governmental and legal institutions....
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    62,89 €

  • Jefferson’s Louisiana
    George Dargo
    The Purchase of all of Louisiana in 1803 brought the new American nation into contact with the French Creole population of the Lower Mississippi Basin. The Spanish called it Baja Luisiana. While the settlement in and around the city of New Orleans (the capital of the province when it was ruled by Spain) was not large, it had well established governmental and legal institutions....
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    50,72 €

  • Jeb Bush
    Robert E. Jr. Crew / Robert EJrCrew
    Jeb Bush: Aggressive Conservatism in Florida describes the rise of John Ellis (Jeb) Bush, the second son of former President George H.W. Bush, to political power in Florida. It examines the conservative theory that guided his behavior when he was elected and the aggressive manner in which he used the Office of Governor to pursue his goals. The book offers insight into his motiv...
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    123,60 €

  • I.C.E.
    Emmanuel Perotti
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    18,46 €

  • I.C.E.
    Emmanuel Perotti
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    32,55 €

  • La Verdad Social
    Oscar David ?Vila Casta?eda / Oscar David Avila Castaneda / Oscar David Vila Castaeda
    Ante la amenaza de la delincuencia, corrupción y otros tantos vicios que nos encadenan al tercer mundo, LA VERDAD SOCIAL nos presenta una nueva visión del mensaje de Jesús, en la cual es posible concebir su Proyecto para el Desarrollo Social. En este proyecto, Jesús nos propone asumir un adecuado esquema mental basado en los verdaderos principios y valores humanos. Concebir la ...
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    18,39 €

  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 2
    Naomi Mitchison
    The writing career of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) stretched over some seventy years, encompassing at least seventy works of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry and plays. Almost unknown, however, is the mass of shorter prose pieces - journalism, essays, polemics, reminiscences - which Mitchison produced during her long career. There are many hundreds of these pieces, coverin...
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    32,80 €

  • Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia
    In 1999, Indonesia embarked on a reform of regional governance that brings self-governance to rural districts and municipalities, i.e., the administrative and democratic capacity needed to apply basic services like healthcare, national legislation and environment policies. This edited volume is the first book, which not only deals with the 1999 legislation but also shows how th...
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    98,25 €

  • 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
    Allowing legislators to pick the voters that make up their districts is a fundamental conflict of interest and central concern for the popular sovereignty of American elections. In The Realities of Redistricting, Jonathan Winburn examines the extent of this potential problem by focusing on both the incentives and the constraints facing state legislators during the redistricting...
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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 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 information, and reacted when...
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    148,32 €

  • State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism
    Kalu N. Kalu / Kalu NKalu
    This book shows how specific historical events and societal forces within Nigeria transcend the choices its political leaders have made to influence the course of the state’s political development. Kalu N. Kalu describes a variety of factors that have contributed to the challenges facing state-building and political institutions in Nigeria. Chief among them are the nature of in...
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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
    In 2006, Michigan voters banned affirmative action preferences in public contracting, education, and employment. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) vote was preceded by years of campaigning, legal maneuvers, media coverage, and public debate. Ending Racial Preferences: The Michigan Story relates what happened from the vantage point of Toward A Fair Michigan (TAFM), a n...
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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 €


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