Political structure & processes
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Political structure & processes
Hardcover. Based on evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions - such as climate, access to water transportation, and early legal systems - impacted political and judicial institutions and economic growth. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 58 line illus. 48 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; KCZ; LAZ; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136042
- ISBN
- 9780691136042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 46.18
€ 52.99
€ 46.18
Paperback. Editor(s): Bereketeab, Redie. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; HBLW; HBTR; JHM; JPHF; RGC; RGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138659735
- ISBN
- 9781138659735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.78
€ 59.78
Paperback. Explores the political games of the Moroccan democratization process in the period from independence in 1956 until 2006. This title analyzes the strategies and actions of the various political actors and evaluates the level of democracy present in the country after the adoption of new constitutions in 1962, 1970, 1972, 1980, 1992 and 1996. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 black & white tables, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPH; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415599399
- ISBN
- 9780415599399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
Paperback. Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence of democracy. This book argues the need to consider democracy as a combination of rights and virtues, and that problems of democraticization are those of balance. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780765614674
- ISBN
- 9780765614674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.33
€ 45.33
Paperback. Works about Zhou Enlai are heavily censored in China. This work offers a portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution - no thanks to ideological or personal purity - but because he was artful, crafty and politically supple. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 pp. b/w photo insert. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781586486457
- ISBN
- 9781586486457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.61
€ 24.99
€ 18.61
Hardcover. Political constitutions are compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate is Americans' faith that the constitutional system can be made "a more perfect union." Balkin argues that the American constitutional project is based in hope and a narrative of shared redemption, and its destiny is still over the horizon. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC; LAB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058743
- ISBN
- 9780674058743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 44.23
€ 48.99
€ 44.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 138 pages, 19 black & white tables, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138683556
- ISBN
- 9781138683556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.78
€ 59.78
Paperback. King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne in 1953, at the age of seventeen. He inherited a country that was riven with instability, the entire Middle East was in disarray following the 1948 war and the creation of Israel. In this biography, the author tells how Hussein managed not only to survive but to flourish in the half-century that followed. Num Pages: 464 pages, 36 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGR; HBJF1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 32. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300163957
- ISBN
- 9780300163957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.63
€ 23.63
Paperback. The dramatic contest between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; a bitterly fought election with even more surprises than Bush v. Gore; that pitted two titans of the Revolutionary era against each other and changed the course of the young nation. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780195189063
- ISBN
- 9780195189063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.49
€ 23.49
Paperback. This is the first critical edition of Hobbes's Leviathan based on a full study of the manuscript and printing history, and the first to place the English text alongside Hobbes's later Latin version of it. Both texts are fully annotated with explanatory notes. Noel Malcolm's definitive edition sets the study of Hobbes's masterwork on a new basis. Editor(s): Malcolm, Noel. Series: Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. Num Pages: 1432 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HPC; JFCX; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 77. Weight in Grams: 2148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198723967
- ISBN
- 9780198723967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 103.04
€ 103.04
Hardcover. This book will provide a comprehensive treatment of the various new tools of public action and the impplications they ahve for public management and policy design and will include original contributed essays on the various tools, their patterns of use, the management tasks they entail, and the situations for which they are most appropriate. Editor(s): Salamon, Lester M. Num Pages: 682 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPH; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 682
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195136654
- ISBN
- 9780195136654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.02
€ 56.02
Paperback. Proposes a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also pragmatic, this work creates a modern theory of republic politics. Editor(s): Crick, Bernard. Translator(s): Walker, Father Leslie J.; Richardson, Brian. Num Pages: 544 pages, notes. BIC Classification: JPA; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 374. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017620
- ISBN
- 9780140444285
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Prescient, bold and insightful this is the only book which takes you right to the heart of the Taliban regime. This is an indispensable book for our times. Num Pages: 200 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HRH; JPF; JPHL; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy with some slight shelf wear but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Pan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000432
- ISBN
- 9780330492218
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 386. Clean copy with minor shelf wear with inscription from previous owner on title page but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000797
- ISBN
- 9780878558063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.56
€ 18.56
Paperback. An appraisal of Brazilian democracy in the period since 1985, this text examines a range of issues including: economic management and business-state relations; the Catholic Church; the military; social movements; human rights and the law; and demographic change. Editor(s): Kingstone, Peter R.; Power, Timothy J. Series: Pitt Latin American Series. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JPA; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822957140
- ISBN
- 9780822957140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.85
€ 34.99
€ 32.85
Hardcover. This book explores how the position of the United States was defined under the Obama presidency and how the conduct of U.S. foreign and security policy between 2009 and 2014 both confirmed and contested a geopolitical vision of world leadership and American exceptionalism that dominates in popular culture, expert research and political rhetoric. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHL; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474419765
- ISBN
- 9781474419765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.42
€ 109.42
Hardcover. This book provides a counter-view on the conventional wisdom regarding the United States Senate. Specifically, it presents an alternative approach to the broken Congress genre with the argument that the Senate is not characterized by gridlock and that party leaders cooperate to make the institution work. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JPH; JPL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739183045
- ISBN
- 9780739183045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.56€ 14.46
€ 84.56
€ 14.46
Paperback. A major new introduction to women's political involvement and role in the liberal democratic world drawing examples from a wide range of countries. Stevens assesses women's participation and representation in government, parliaments and at the grassroots. The cental focus throughout is on the issue of whether and how gender makes a difference. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507814
- ISBN
- 9780230507814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 41.63
€ 43.99
€ 41.63
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; BGH; JPHC; LAZ; LNFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498523738
- ISBN
- 9781498523738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.62€ 18.08
€ 111.62
€ 18.08
Hardcover. Editor(s): Schaefer, David Lewis. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHC; JPHV; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 11. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739142066
- ISBN
- 9780739142066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.58€ 15.66
€ 93.58
€ 15.66