Political structure & processes
Results 1461 - 1480 of 4296
Political structure & processes
Paperback. Wissam S. Yafi argues that there are four dynamics leading to inevitable change in the Arab region: geopolitical, geoeconomic, geosocial, and technological. Yafi comes to the conclusion that no system will be able to support the dynamics in place except for democracy. Num Pages: 225 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008497
- ISBN
- 9781137008497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. Citizens' participation, especially participatory budgeting, has spread out in both continents, even if the context is very different. This book offers an overview of the latest developments in democratic innovation, presenting contributions from scholars and practitioners of each continent who are highly recognised as experts in their fields. Editor(s): Sintomer, Yves; Zhang, Junhua. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; GTB; JPHV; JPRB; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009142
- ISBN
- 9781137009142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with campaign managers to provide a comprehensive analysis of direct-democratic campaigning. Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011336
- ISBN
- 9781137011336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. An exploration of the development of FDR's views in the years before he became president. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 217 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014535
- ISBN
- 9781137014535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. America and Rogue States narrates and analyzes the US relationship with the main nuclear-threatening, terrorist-sponsoring outcast states during the last two decades. Series: American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019998
- ISBN
- 9781137019998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. Through an analysis of the general principles of Obama's foreign policy, Zaidi shows how Obama has charted a realist course in the Middle East, in Europe, in diplomacy, and in war. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137020857
- ISBN
- 9781137020857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Marina Kolb traces the relationship between the EU and the Council of Europe in the field of human rights. Applying an implementation literature and management studies-perspective, it argues that the biggest threat to interorganizational cooperation is organizational self-interest, despite a shared policy interest. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPH; JPP; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023629
- ISBN
- 9781137023629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Derfler explores the patterns in the lives of three twentieth-century heads of state who fell from power, then rose again: Charles de Gaulle, Juan Peron, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGH; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027856
- ISBN
- 9781137027856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Shining a light on how Iraqi Kurds used the aftermath of the 1991 Kurdish uprising to hold elections and form a parliament, and on how Kurdish officials later consolidated their regional government following the 2003 Iraq War, this book considers the political and economic shortfalls of the government and the obstacles facing Iraqi Kurds. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; JPHV; JPS; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034076
- ISBN
- 9781137034076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Do NGOs strengthen Turkey's efforts at Europeanization and democratization or do they use EU funding to serve other interests?This book offers a critical investigation of the relationship between Turkish NGOs and the European Union (EU) and a nuanced assessment of the opportunities and limitations to fashioning social change by funding NGOs. Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 graphs, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JPH; JPQ; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034519
- ISBN
- 9781137034519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated. Num Pages: 235 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFFA; JPH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263025
- ISBN
- 9781137263025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Dahlin takes an analytical approach to existing Constitutional scholarship and presents a limited number of landmark Supreme Court decisions in a way that makes this important material accessible to an undergraduate academic audience. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263056
- ISBN
- 9781137263056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. The first book to explore the remarkable political alliance and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270320
- ISBN
- 9781137270320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. This volume describes and analyzes the proliferation of new mechanisms for participation in Latin American democracies and considers the relationship between direct participation and the consolidation of representative institutions based on more traditional electoral conceptions of democracy. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JM; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270573
- ISBN
- 9781137270573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This book is the first full-length study into the Reagan presidency with the tools of narratology. It expands the understudied field of research into political narratives as concrete policy tools and provides a new means of understanding the continuing popularity of Reagan as a President. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272997
- ISBN
- 9781137272997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state, focusing on three European national parliaments, namely the French Senate, the Italian Chamber of Representatives and Senate, and the Croatian unicameral parliament. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFN; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280596
- ISBN
- 9781137280596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. What if Clinton/Gore lost in 1992? Or won in 1992 and lost in 1996? This book is a look back at the importance of all the right moves made by Bill Clinton from the New Hampshire primary to the selection of Al Gore as his running mate to his handling of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994-95. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281364
- ISBN
- 9781137281364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World. Num Pages: 297 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282040
- ISBN
- 9781137282040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The Politics of the American Dream analyzes the role of the 'American Dream' in contemporary American political culture. Utilizing analytic political theory, Ghosh creates a unique picture of Dream Politics, and shows the effect on the landscape of American politics. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSC; JPA; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289049
- ISBN
- 9781137289049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Hardcover. Huw Macartney considers the politics of depoliticisation in response to the Euro-zone debt crisis, and the limits to depoliticisation as indicated by recent resistance movements. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV; JPS; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298003
- ISBN
- 9781137298003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84