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  • ESTADO TOTALITARIO Y DESPRECIO A LA LEY. La desconstitucionalización, desjuridificación, desjudicialización y desdemocratización de Venezuela
    Allan R BREWER-CARIAS
    Este libro del profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías trata del proceso de implantación de un Estado totalitario en Venezuela, impuesto a los venezolanos sin que nadie haya votado por su ello, que ha sido el resultado de quince años de un régimen autoritario que ha tenido como misión fundamental la sistemática demolición y desmantelamiento del Estado democrático y social de derecho y...
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    39,33 €

  • A Nation Decides
    Mark Barnes
    Relive the Scottish Referendum for Independence with stunning photos and artwork from the campaigns, rallies and social media... On the 18th September, 2014, the world watched as Scotland became the only nation in history to reject Independence. As the day arrived, there was a surprising surge for people wanting independence, which caught the other side of the campaign off gua...
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    24,81 €

  • National Integration in Uganda 1962-2013
    Apolo Robin Nsibambi
    National Integration in Uganda 1962-2013 delves into the problems that have beset Uganda on the path to national integration and explores the prospects for consolidating this integration. The book reviews the process of incorporating three regions - Buganda, Karamoja and the Northern Region - into present-day Uganda, and examines the effects of this process. Besides ethno-cultu...
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    61,74 €

  • Why Are You Here?
    Franklin L. Kury / Franklin LKury
    Why Are You Here? A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens is a challenge to America’s 7,382 state legislators and their constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate action to improve it. This is a handbook telling how legislatures came to be, how they function, and discussing how they have fallen in public esteem. The book provides an anal...
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    39,61 €

  • Pennsylvania Elections, Revised Edition
    John J. Kennedy / John JKennedy
    Pennsylvania Elections provides a systematic and thorough analysis of every statewide election in Pennsylvania since 1950. The five chapters are divided between U.S. Senate elections, gubernatorial contests, statewide row offices, and presidential campaigns. Each of the 106 elections that have taken place since 1950 is analyzed within the context of the 67 counties in the Commo...
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    55,79 €

  • Congress and Crime
    Joseph F. Zimmerman / Joseph FZimmerman
    Congress in the latter part of the nineteenth century decided to enact a series of statutes facilitating state enforcement of their respective criminal laws. Subsequently, Congress enacted statutes federalizing what had been solely state crimes, thereby establishing federal court and state court concurrent jurisdiction over these crimes.Federalization of state crimes has been c...
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    132,16 €

  • The Politics of Regional Policy in Japan
    Richard J. Samuels / Richard JSamuels
    This is the first major study of politics and public administration in Japan to balance the prevailing view of the regional policy process from above' with a view 'from below.' Developing a comparative framework for understanding the place of localities in policy making, he demonstrates that relations among localities in Japan are much more important than previously supposed.Or...
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    73,84 €

  • From Poverty to History Maker
    Holmes / Robert A. Holmes / Robert AHolmes
    From Poverty to History Maker is the story of how Robert 'Bob' Holmes, a former juvenile delinquent, rose from humble beginnings to become an influential voice in academics and politics. A striking testament to the power of commitment, perseverance, and hard work, this book also provides an insightful analysis of four decades of Atlanta and Georgia legislative politics from the...
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    58,39 €

  • Cities and Social Change
    A multi-disciplinary overview of key contemporary issues surrounding the excitement, contradictions, conflicts, and tensions arising from the social experience of the city and the emergent trends linked to resolving its problems. A student-focused text, it reviews the theoretical literature, examines policy implications and provides comparative case study material throughout. ...
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    71,24 €

  • Suburban Crossroads
    Thomas J. Vicino / Thomas JVicino
    The political debate over comprehensive immigration reform in the United States reached a pinnacle in 2006. When Congress failed to implement federal immigration reform, this spurred numerous local and state governments to confront immigration policy in their own jurisdictions. In fear of becoming sanctuaries for immigrants, numerous local communities confronted and implemented...
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    66,76 €

  • Summer in the City
    Joseph P Viteritti
    The history, policies, and legacy of John Lindsay, mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973.Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society Program. Providing an even-handed reassessment of Lindsay’s legacy and the policies of the period, the ...
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    44,56 €

  • Marion Butler and American Populism
    James L. Hunt / James LHunt
    Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics. The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform. By age twenty-eight he led the Farmers’ Alliance of North Carolina; two years later ...
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    57,39 €

  • Imperialism and Social Classes
    Joseph Alois Schumpeter
    2014 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining many historical ...
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    20,00 €

  • 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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    19,43 €

  • 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
    No book has addressed the simultaneous phenomena of Korea’s rapid economic development and its vibrant democratization in a single coherent paradigm. The late developmentalist approach emphasizes the strong role of Korea’s state and bureaucratic efficiency but does not explain how political development was concurrent with the economic miracles in the Han River; modernization an...
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    179,55 €

  • Township Governance and Institutionalization 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
    California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic opportunity. City Journal has for years been cataloging the political and ec...
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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. These authors demonstrate the groundbreaking claim that the borderlands are ...
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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 €


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