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  • Convenient Criticism
    Dan Chen
    Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule. ...
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    40,86 €

  • América Latina, por una tierra para todos
    Eduardo Alberto Duhalde
    Es una paradoja absurda que por un lado haya familias que tengan que robar un pedazo de tierra para construir un proyecto de vida, mientras que por otro haya tierra de sobra en una región tan vasta como la de América Latina y Argentina en particular.El Derecho a la Vivienda se encuentra reconocido en nuestra Constitución Nacional y en diversos instrumentos internacionales de De...
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    15,59 €

  • Pete
    Si Gerson
    A small-town boy brought up on the 'wrong' side of the railroad tracks, Pete knew back-breaking toil and the agonies of the jobless. Hunger and homelessness were no strangers to him. He spent his first night in New York in a municipal flophouse but when he died he was a Communist member of the New York City Council mourned by hundreds of thousands who came to know him in the tu...
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    22,20 €

  • Viral Spiral
    Benjamin Hall
    I wanted to know. Was COVID-19 going to kill as many people as experts predicted? Were drastic government actions really what was required to flatten the curve? What should I do to keep myself and my family safe? As a statistician, I was committed to following coronavirus by the numbers. In early May 2020, I published the first edition of Viral Spiral. A year later, I now addre...
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    13,76 €

  • EXCEPTIONALLY UPSETTING
    Howard Burton
    How did America reach its present state of striking dysfunctionality, and what can be done about it? Howard Burton offers his unique perspective on the raging culture war in the United States, vividly describing how Americans are increasingly falling prey to a culture of opinionated ignorance, while suggesting that a solution is nonetheless possible: simply harnessing the abund...
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    18,98 €

  • A Political and Electoral History of Hispanics in Austin and Travis County 1948-2020
    alfredo santos
    This book, A Political and Electoral History of Hispanics in Austin and Travis County 1948 - 2020 contains the names of the over 400 Hispanics who have run for elective office in the last 72 years in Travis County. Included are the offices sought, votes received, party affiliations, and election outcome. Also contained in the book are samplings of campaign literature, interview...
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    135,71 €

  • Who Leads the State and the City? | Duties and Responsibilities of Government | America Government Grade 3 | Children’s Government Books
    Universal Politics
    Think of leaders in your government as a pyramid. The president sits at the top level while the lower levels are filled with elected officials ranging from the governors to the mayors. In this book, you will be learning about the duties and responsibilities of the government and the elected officials. You will be learning a lot from this book so make sure you get a copy. ...
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    19,40 €

  • Community Leaders
    Universal Politics
    At the end of this book, you will learn to appreciate the democratic process of choosing your local leaders. The book will start off with a brief discussion on the type of government the United States follows. It will then proceed with a lesson on the government’s role in protecting communities, where you belong. Finally, get to know the people tasked with the responsibility of...
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    19,49 €

  • Community Leaders
    Universal Politics
    At the end of this book, you will learn to appreciate the democratic process of choosing your local leaders. The book will start off with a brief discussion on the type of government the United States follows. It will then proceed with a lesson on the government’s role in protecting communities, where you belong. Finally, get to know the people tasked with the responsibility of...
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    29,55 €

  • Who Leads the State and the City? | Duties and Responsibilities of Government | America Government Grade 3 | Children’s Government Books
    Universal Politics
    Think of leaders in your government as a pyramid. The president sits at the top level while the lower levels are filled with elected officials ranging from the governors to the mayors. In this book, you will be learning about the duties and responsibilities of the government and the elected officials. You will be learning a lot from this book so make sure you get a copy. ...
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    29,45 €

  • Power, Constraint, and Policy Change
    Christine H. Roch / Robert M. Howard / Susanne Schorpp
    Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform. ...
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    127,37 €

  • Zonas Económicas Especiales en Venezuela
    Rodolfo Sanz
    Esta obra ofrece un enfoque inédito que relaciona tres conceptosfundamentales para la etapa histórica actual de Venezuela: las llamadasZonas Económicas Especiales, son instrumentos que han servido para lapromoción del crecimiento y el desarrollo en importantes países del sistema-mundo moderno así como la seguridad de la nación, abordada desdeuna perspectiva novedosa que enfatiz...
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    12,48 €

  • La mejora de la calidad normativa
    Andrés Boix Palop / Clàudia Gimeno Fernández
    La mejora de la calidad normativa y su posterior evaluación forman parte de las preocupaciones actuales de nuestro Derecho público. No obstante, hasta fechas muy recientes, principalmente por influencia de modelos anglosajones y, muy particularmente, de la Unión Europea, no se han ido introduciendo medidas en este ámbito, y su desarrollo hasta hoy tampoco ha sido demasiado sati...
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    14,50 €

  • La institucionalización de la evaluación de políticas públicas
    Emilio José Doria Borrell / Fernando Ntutumu Sanchis / Oscar Barberá Aresté / Pau Sanchis Matoses
    Con la evaluación de las políticas públicas se pretende discernir en qué medida las actuaciones de las administraciones públicas cumplen con sus objetivos. Sin embargo, evaluar requiere datos, conocimientos y personal especializado, así como redes, instituciones y un cambio cultural que facilite esta tarea. Con la finalidad de estudiar el proceso de institucionalización de la e...
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    10,50 €

  • Donald Trump and the White Americans
    Tony Rose
    Donald Trump, the disgraced, former President of the United States of America, is the epitome of 'The White Man’s,' white privilege and power in America. He is a throwback to every 'White Man' who terrorized, demoralized, massacred, enslaved, raped, abused, and destroyed every African, Native American and African American in Africa and America.  The only terrorists in America h...
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    17,21 €

  • Beyond the Xs and Os
    Mark C. Poloncarz / Mark CPoloncarz
    Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo. ...
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    21,22 €

  • Victorian Noon
    Carl Dawson
    Originally published in 1979. Carl Dawson looks at the year 1850, which was an extraordinary year in English literary history, to study both the great and forgotten writers, to survey journals and novels, poems and magazines, and to ask questions about dominant influences and ideas. His primary aim is descriptive: How was Wordsworth's Prelude received by his contemporaries ...
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    60,26 €

  • The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams
    Ray Crawford / Ray Jr. Crawford / Ray JrCrawford
    This book examines the leadership of former Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. Williams’s effectiveness is analyzed using a unique model for political leadership, described as the “ideal type” of mayoral leadership (ITML). ...
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    129,01 €

  • Capacidad institucional y posacuerdos.
    Luis Trejos
    Esta obra es resultado del trabajo adelantado por los autores en las líneas de acción del Centro de Pensamiento UNCaribe y del grupo de investigación Conflictos y posconflictos desde el Caribe, ambos de la Universidad del Norte. Se enmarca en la iniciativa del Centro de Pensamiento por articular diversas investigaciones acerca de las dinámicas del conflicto armado, sus actores ...
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    12,48 €

  • Making Government Work
    Katherine Barrett / Richard Greene
    In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way-and how to avoid them. As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-bas...
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    66,96 €

  • Making Government Work
    Katherine Barrett / Richard Greene
    In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way-and how to avoid them. As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-bas...
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    33,72 €

  • El regionalismo leonés
    Rodrigo Ferrer Díez
    La Construcción de un Pueblo, El Regionalismo Leonés es una obra pensada para reflexionar sobre dos preguntas muy complejas: ¿Qué es el pueblo leonés? y ¿Cómo se forma? Las respuestas están en un proceso histórico en el que las gentes de esta región toman conciencia de un mismo pasado y de unas tradiciones propias que en su total solo se dan en ese espacio concreto. La actual c...
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    15,00 €

  • Philip Dru
    Edward Mandell House
    Col. Edward Mandell House tried to remain anonymous, but eventually his vision of America, as represented in his novel 'Philip Dru: Administrator' became known.  Why anonymous?  Perhaps because it conveyed precisely what one of his critics said, 'Suffice it to know Philip Dru is an autobiography of the colonel himself and solves the conundrum how to get rid of the Constitution....
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    20,58 €

  • 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 €

  • Locally Grown
    Jim Fini
    America’s government has become top-heavy and is starting to display stress fractures. Crushing social spending is driving massive public debt. Civil debate is replaced by shrill emotional attacks. Citizens are losing faith in a federal government with seemingly no limit on its power. Agreement on the common good is no longer agreed upon. America's problems are clear, but t...
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    14,66 €

  • John Rawls and American Pragmatism
    Daniele Botti
    Daniele Botti argues that John Rawls’s philosophy is importantly connected with classical American pragmatism and that Rawls’s intellectual trajectory did not take a “pragmatic turn” in the 1980s but possibly an “un-pragmatic” one. Both claims go against conventional wisdom, and Botti corroborates them with archival research. ...
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    128,97 €

  • The Politics of Local Government
    Barry E. Truchil / Barry ETruchil / Geoff Klock
    Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion ...
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    50,74 €

  • Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections
    Andrea Benjamin
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    36,10 €

  • Local Tax Policy
    David Brunori
    Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue. The fourth edition addresses the fundamental influences on local tax and revenue policy including interjurisdictional competition, the politics of anti-taxation, and the relationships with state and federal governments. The primary sources of revenue are discussed from a policy...
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    39,34 €

  • Local Tax Policy
    David Brunori
    Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue. The fourth edition addresses the fundamental influences on local tax and revenue policy including interjurisdictional competition, the politics of anti-taxation, and the relationships with state and federal governments. The primary sources of revenue are discussed from a policy...
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    87,79 €