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  • 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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    162,43 €

  • Upstate Down
    Alexander R. Thomas / Alexander RThomas / Polly J. Smith / Polly JSmith
    Upstate New York is in a malaise. This husband and wife team of 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. New York was built on the strengths of its strategic location and growing population to become the ’Empire ...
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    53,26 €

  • Of Khans and Kremlins
    Katherine E. Graney / Katherine EGraney
    Katherine E. Graney examines one of the most important, puzzling, and ignored developments of the post-Soviet period: the persistence of the claim to possess state sovereignty by the ethnic republic of Tatarstan, one of the constituent members of the Russian Federation. In the first book by a Western scholar in English to chronicle the efforts made by the leadership of the Russ...
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    141,64 €

  • Economics in Film and Fiction
    Aleksandra S. Bookman / Aleksandra SBookman / Milica Z. Bookman / Milica Zarkovic Bookman / Milica ZBookman
    Economics is everywhere. It’s in business. It’s in government. It’s in our personal lives. Now, this ground-breaking textbook supplement brings this reality to the classroom. The book uses both contemporary and classic film and literature to illustrate 33 fundamental concepts in introductory economics. Designed for use in introductory economics courses, the clearly organized t...
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    163,78 €

  • Collaborative Federalism
    Martin Painter
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    28,65 €

  • Celluloid Deities
    Preminda Jacob
    Towering billboards featuring photorealistic portraits of popular cinema stars and political leaders dominated the cityscape of Chennai, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Studying the manufacture and reception of these billboards-known locally as banners and cutouts-within the context of the entwined histories of the c...
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    156,49 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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, as it places more Republicans with such po...
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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 €

  • State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism
    Kalu N Kalu / Kalu N. Kalu / Kalu Ndukwe 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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    163,34 €

  • Fiscal Federalism in Nigeria
    Isawa J. Elaigwu
    Debates on Nigeria's fiscal federalism preceded the gradual evolution of Nigeria into a colonial federal state in 1954. Issues of distribution of scarce but allocatable resources have often beclouded the desires of Nigerians to generate the resources that are expected to be shared. Throughout its history, it has been evident that Nigerians have always been sensitive to the fisc...
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    73,06 €

  • When Communities Confront Corporations
    Austin Onuoha
    In April of 2005 Shell sought an injunction in a Dublin court against residents of Erris in northwestern Republic of Ireland who were obstructing the laying of pipelines across their lands. On June 29, 2005 the court convicted and jailed five people for failing to comply with the order of the High Court restraining them from interfering with Shell's project. When Communitie...
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    30,11 €

  • 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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    179,48 €

  • Politics in Place
    Ian Gray
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    43,38 €

  • Dear Senator Smith
    In the years 1967-1971, Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the only female member of the Senate and her reputation of integrity and independent thinking attracted the attention of those seeking to understand and voice their opinion on the Vietnam War experience. Dear Senator Smith is an edited collection of letters that shed light on the far-reaching and polarized tensions that e...
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    62,69 €

  • The New Politics of North Carolina
    Political scientist V. O. Key in 1949 described North Carolina as a 'progressive plutocracy.' He argued that in the areas of industrial development, public education, and race relations, North Carolina appeared progressive when compared to other southern states. Reconsidering Key’s evaluation nearly sixty years later, contributors to this volume find North Carolina losing groun...
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    47,72 €

  • Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition
    Matt Evans
    Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition explores the impacts that the end of the Cold War and increased globalization have had on government around the world. The decentralization of national governments has led to a greater role for local governments; public administration and democrative representation are the new arena of local governments the world over. Focusin...
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    67,77 €

  • Governing after Crisis
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    27,96 €

  • Governing After Crisis
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    136,05 €

  • Local People’s Congresses in China
    Young Nam Cho
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    130,66 €

  • Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy
    J. Bruce Jacobs
    Taiwan is undergoing significant change in its identity and its culture. The rapid changes of the last twenty years have seen Taiwanese culture diverge sharply from Chinese culture. Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy brings together some thirty-five years of field research in one rural Taiwanese township. The first field study took place in 1971-197...
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    53,33 €


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