Democracy in California. Politics and Government in the Golden State, Paperback - Christina G. Villegas

A supplemental text for American government courses in California that also include a CA politics component. Exploring the nature of public opinion...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Muhammad AsadNumber of pages: 126Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): David KulczykNumber of pages: 155Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 26Cover type: Paperbac...

DescriptionDemocracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinati...

Reducere. Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West, " and in this book, Mark Arax spends four ye...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work--and how they fail. The...

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Beneath California's scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange ...

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Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives - including those of other mode...

In Citizenship after Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense pol...

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Latin America s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swept the globe, taking shape in the Occupy movement, t...

DescriptionShould Brexit or the election of Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy? Are 'the people' too ignorant or stupid to rule? Numero...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

DescriptionThe smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organize, and participate ...

Publisher: BibliogovIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 246 x 189 x 4Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. DescriptionAt last...the public hearing she was denied...These essays reveal keen powers of analysis applied to some of the most obdurate problems ...

Reducere. In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an emp...

DescriptionIn the late 2000s, the small southern California town of Bell erupted in a scandal that revealed a truly astonishing level of municipal ...

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Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has,...

Analyses the successful stability of Oman despite very real social pressures

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corpo...

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens dem...

DescriptionAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up o...

As U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, a Taliban victory in that besieged, long-suffering country and the further Talibalization of Pakistan its...

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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Jose M. MagoneNumber of pages: 295Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 23Cover type: Har...

Features a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demo...

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...

Reducere. While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small to...

Guild Socialism was a British version of French Syndicalism, which advocated that political and economic functions be united into structures called...

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Reducere. In recent years, 'Nudge Units' or 'Behavioral Insights Teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nation...

Publisher: The Merlin Press LtdAuthor(s): John S. SaulNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 228 x 170 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

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Reducere. In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait,...

Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and munic...

Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe examines the development of various political regimes in Europe from the ancien regime up through the present ...

Contributor(s): Author: Alexis de TocquevilleIntroduction by: Joseph EpsteinFrom America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist s...

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Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

Reducere. The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it re...

Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global prot...

Reducere. During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it s...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...