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  • The Twenty-Second Amendment and the Limits of Presidential Tenure
    Martin B. Gold / Martin BGold
    Ratified in 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment imposed a two-term limit on presidents, maintaining checks and balances central to the American Constitution. This book examines its enormous effect on the institution of the presidency, public policy, and national politics. ...
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    163,06 €

  • Analyzing Foreign Policy
    Derek Beach / Rasmus Brun Pedersen
    The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice. Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples, it provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis...
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    63,80 €

  • Analyzing Foreign Policy
    Derek Beach / Rasmus Brun Pedersen
    The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice. Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples, it provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis...
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    193,15 €

  • The United States Supreme Court and Politics
    Justin P. DePlato / Justin PDePlato
    While commonsense attitudes towards the United States Supreme Court have been focused on what decisions they are likely to make, this book focuses on the impacts of other politicized elements of the Court, such as the nomination process, docket selection, and judicial retirements. ...
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    108,94 €

  • SERVING SINGAPORE
    V K RAJAN
    "V K Rajan has written a personal and fascinating account of his long career in the Singapore Civil Service. He encountered and worked with many pioneer political leaders of Singapore. He interacted with numerous foreign leaders over the years in different capacities, including as Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Singapore's ambassador to several ...
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    71,69 €

  • The Perils of Posting
    James R. Harrington / James RHarrington / John Jr. McCaskill / John JrMcCaskill / John McCaskill / Paul Douglas Foote
    This book examines the rise of social media, the increase of public employees being fired for inappropriate behavior on social media, and subsequent litigation being adjudicated through the federal and state court systems. ...
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    108,85 €

  • Atheists in American Politics
    Richard J. Meagher / Richard JMeagher
    In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheism and freethought. Meagher demonstrates how changes in resources, opportunities, and movement identity help explain the political mobilization of atheists in America. ...
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    50,54 €

  • INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS OF WINE, THE
    KYM ANDERSON
    The International Economics of Wine provides a broad range of studies by Professor Kym Anderson and his co-authors of the international trade dimension of national, regional and global wine market developments over the past quarter-century. Prior to 1990, barely 10% of global wine production crossed national borders, but now that figure is 40%. In that short period, wine has sw...
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    322,28 €

  • Inside a Public Policy Black Box
    Michael J. DeLor / Michael J. DeLor / Michael JDeLor
    Public policies are not all regulated the same and they do not receive the same amount of attention from Congress. This book examines what happens at the federal level when a public policy area is defined by complexity and contention. ...
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    129,12 €

  • Crawling Behind
    Elliot Haspel
    “I’ve totally washed away the dream of having one more child.”“I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-parent, but the cost of child care turned me into one.”“We had to pull our toddler out of his program because we couldn’t afford to have two kids in high-quality care.”These are not the voices of those down on their luck, but the voices of America’s middle class. The lack of...
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    28,10 €

  • Crawling Behind
    Elliot Haspel
    “I’ve totally washed away the dream of having one more child.”“I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-parent, but the cost of child care turned me into one.”“We had to pull our toddler out of his program because we couldn’t afford to have two kids in high-quality care.”These are not the voices of those down on their luck, but the voices of America’s middle class. The lack of...
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    21,38 €

  • A Climate of the Heart
    Ian Mills
    We are coming into dire catastrophe through our turning aside from inter-relatedness. Reality is relational, but our present way of being in the world is an adversarial going against others (our politics) and a displacement of our innate desire for relatedness into a grasping for ever more things (our economics).We now know, if most continue on our present way, we humans will b...
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    15,42 €

  • CHINA-ASEAN RELATIONS (V2)
    YING LIANG & KAIXIANG ZHENG / Kaixiang Zheng
    This book is the second volume of Series on China-ASEAN Relations. This volume presents comprehensive and in-depth studies of China-ASEAN cooperation and development by Chinese scholars from the China-ASEAN Research Institute of Guangxi University and the China-ASEAN Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Development. The book is divided into six parts. Part one is the ge...
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    334,43 €

  • The Death of Deliberation
    James I. Wallner / James I. Wallner / James IWallner
    The first edition of The Death of Deliberation explained why gridlock does not happen, and this edition expands that argument to account for gridlock when it does occur. The result is the first comprehensive explanation of how the Senate actually works in practice. ...
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    129,10 €

  • Putting Government in Its Place
    David R. Riemer / David RRiemer
    Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0 tells the story of the House that FDR Built. Responding to the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal team—most prominently, Frances Perkins and Harry Hopkins—created four new clusters of domestic  policy. Those policy clusters—(1) broad-based  economic security guarantees, (2) means-tested we...
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    33,56 €

  • School System Reform
    John Merrifield
    This book identifies root causes of persistently disappointing classroom outcomes, identifies the policy root causes of the classroom causes of Nation at Risk, persistently low school system performance, and then lays out a strategy for identifying the key elements of a high-performing school system, and then achieving their implementation. A discussion forum for each chapter i...
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    15,71 €

  • School System Reform
    John Merrifield
    This book identifies root causes of persistently disappointing classroom outcomes, identifies the policy root causes of the classroom causes of Nation at Risk, persistently low school system performance, and then lays out a strategy for identifying the key elements of a high-performing school system, and then achieving their implementation. A discussion forum for each chapter i...
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    22,41 €

  • The Third Face of Coins
    Martin Kari
    How many faces do coins have? If you answered two, then this book is for you. In it, the author explores the "third face" of coins--that extra aspect that often goes unnoticed. Here are twelve topics social, political, and philosophical--that have that third side to them.Join the author as he explores a colorful diversity of facts interspersed with his personal philosophies. Ev...
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    8,38 €

  • The Third Face of Coins
    Martin Kari
    How many faces do coins have? If you answered two, then this book is for you. In it, the author explores the "third face" of coins--that extra aspect that often goes unnoticed. Here are twelve topics social, political, and philosophical--that have that third side to them.Join the author as he explores a colorful diversity of facts interspersed with his personal philosophies. Ev...
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    15,26 €

  • Cultural Backlash
    Pippa Norris / Ronald Inglehart
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    125,54 €

  • Governmental Financial Resilience
    This volume provides a unique insight into the ways local governments have maintained financial resilience in light of the significant challenges posed by the era of austerity. Taking an international perspective, it provides a practical analysis of the different capacities and responses that local governments deploy to cope with financial shocks. ...
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    65,23 €

  • The Experience of Democracy and Bureaucracy in South Korea
    Evan Berman
    This title explores ways in which bureaucracy may not only be compatible with democracy but, more ambitiously, the conditions under which it can enhance it, examining the systems and institutions of the Korean bureaucracy: the National Election Commission, the police force, local government, the ceiling recruitment strategy, and procurement policy. ...
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    65,04 €

  • Corruption, Accountability and Discretion
    This timely and insightful book provides the key elements needed to understand the nature and prevalence of corruption in public governance, as well as the devastating public policy consequences. ...
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    65,08 €

  • Craig Lee’s Kentucky Hemp Story
    Joe Domino
    While many people are important to the progress on this issue, since the prohibition of hemp in the 30s, Craig Lee stands with Jack Herer, Gatewood Galbraith, and a dozen or so other true pioneers of the revival of hemp. Without them and their relentless involvement, what is happening today would not have been possible. I stood on their shoulders and I could not have been more ...
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    21,90 €

  • The Ultimate Guide to the 2020 Election
    Margaret White / No Labels / Ryan Clancy
    From the NO LABELS political organization, this book presents an unbiased education for voters on all the key issues America faces and how we can overcome them. ...
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    16,45 €

  • The Resilient Voter
    Shauna Reilly / Stacy G. Ulbig / Stacy GUlbig
    Authors Reilly and Ulbig explore the ways in which stressful polling place conditions cause voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Using an experimental approach, they find that even though voters generally withstand such conditions, certain segments of the electorate can still be adversely affected. ...
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    50,30 €

  • Poor Participation
    Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera / Thomas A. Bryer / Thomas ABryer
    This book presents a philosophy of and strategies for a war on poverty and impoverished citizenship for the twenty-first century. It focuses on the United States, with comparison to some international experiences, and considers poverty in all its forms—subsistence, agency, and status. ...
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    50,46 €

  • Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric
    This work examines how political rhetoric and communication shaped the contours, characteristics, and outcomes of the 2016 presidential election. The contributors demonstrate that voters were primed for an outsider candidate and how various rhetorical and communication strategies ultimately influenced the outcome of the election. ...
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    54,39 €

  • Race Neutrality
    Inhyuck Ha / Samuel L. Myers / Samuel LMyers
    Using illustrations from research on racial inequality in varied domains from public procurement and contracting to mortgage lending to child maltreatment to competitive swimming, Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality argues that race neutrality—while desirable on its face—often fails to do what it is intended to do. ...
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    54,49 €

  • Introduction à l’économie moderne
    Georges Sorel
    Dans son Introduction à l’économie moderne, édité pour la première fois en 1903, Georges Sorel s’arrête sur différentes thèses et présente les penseurs et précurseurs de la science économique. Il s’interroge sur les interactions entre le droit et la propriété, de ces dernières avec la liberté, la constitution de la famille ou l’héritage. Ces questions fondamentales s’articulent...
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    14,03 €


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