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The Political Context of Collective Action - Power, argumentation and democracy (Hardcover): Ricca Edmondson The Political Context of Collective Action - Power, argumentation and democracy (Hardcover)
Ricca Edmondson; Foreword by Hans Keman
R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume looks at informal political action which arises when conventional frameworks, such as those provided by welfare states, are in crisis or decline. At such times the usual expectations about political action may not apply, so what actually goes on? A specific emphasis on context - in particular the link between power and knowledge and public argumentation in a given setting - is used to trace the development of collective action. Key issues are addressed, such as how informal political collectives come to define their aims, what communication processes take place within them, how far their action responds to that of other political bodies, and how far these processes affect the results of what they do. Discussion is based around a range of empirical case studies, and we are shown that informal collective action is more widespread and significant than many realize, and that it often occurs in fields which appear to be non-political, such as in Swiss neighbourhoods.

Emergency Lending by the Federal Reserve - Background & Policy Issues (Paperback): Felicia Estrada Emergency Lending by the Federal Reserve - Background & Policy Issues (Paperback)
Felicia Estrada
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The deepening of the financial crisis in 2008 led the Federal Reserve (Fed) to revive an obscure provision found in Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 344) to extend credit to nonbank financial firms for the first time since the 1930s. Section 13(3) provides the Fed with greater flexibility than its normal lending authority. Using this authority, the Fed created six broadly based facilities (of which only five were used) to provide liquidity to primary dealers (certain large investment firms) and to revive demand for commercial paper and asset-backed securities. More controversially, the Fed provided special, tailored assistance exclusively to four firms that the Fed considered too big to fail -- AIG, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, and Bank of America. This book provides a review of the history of Section 13(3), including its use in 2008. It discusses the Feds authority under Section 13(3) before and after the Dodd-Frank Act. It then discusses policy issues and legislation to amend Section 13(3), including H.R. 3189, which passed the House on November 19, 2015.

Presidents as Candidates - Inside the White House for the Presidential Campaign (Hardcover): Kathryn D. Tenpas Presidents as Candidates - Inside the White House for the Presidential Campaign (Hardcover)
Kathryn D. Tenpas
R4,355 Discovery Miles 43 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new, multidisciplinary series will present works devoted to the indigenous peoples of North America -- the First Nations, Native Hawaiians, Native Americans, and the Indians of Mexico. Topics will range from the social sciences to education, law, criminology, health, the environment, religion, architecture, linguistics, and agriculture, including innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Books featuring Native voices and issues of particular current significance to Native peoples will be featured.

During the presidential election campaign, the chief executive takes on the dual role of president and candidate. But how do presidents prepare for the forthcoming election, manage a nationwide campaign, and fulfill presidential duties? Presidents as Candidates offers a truly unique treatment of the White House role in the re-election efforts of contemporary presidents since 1956, as it examines eight re-election efforts (from Eisenhower through Clinton). The author considers the differences and similarities of each White House-led effort, analyzing the political, institutional, and policy factors that affect the strategies and decisions. From this, she develops a typology of three standard types of campaigns: "victorious", "defeated", and "takeover", offering observations and insights that are invaluable for understanding presidential re-election efforts.

Attlee (Hardcover): Robert Pearce Attlee (Hardcover)
Robert Pearce
R2,588 Discovery Miles 25 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Attlee is undoubtedly one of the key figures in modern British history. An important figure in Churchill's War Cabinet, and premier of the first majority Labour Government, he created the Welfare State, nationalised a substantial part of industry and secured the independence of India. Yet his political stature remains unresolved. Was he Churchill's "modest man with much to be modest about" who squandered the fruits of victory, or, as many now claim, one of the truly great prime ministers? Robert Pearce's lucid and drily amusing study goes behind the stern exterior to find ambition and indecision, and a uniquely moral vision.

The Political Kingdom in Uganda - A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism (Paperback, Revised): David E. Apter The Political Kingdom in Uganda - A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism (Paperback, Revised)
David E. Apter
R1,494 R1,289 Discovery Miles 12 890 Save R205 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over time. Here David E Apter does that and more. In a lengthy new introductory chapter to this classic study of bureaucratic nationalism, he reviews the efficacy of the concepts in his original study of Uganda of almost a century ago, including some, such as consociationalism', which have entered into the mainstream of comparative politics.

The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency - Diversity and Responsiveness... The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency - Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency (Hardcover)
Sally Coleman Selden
R3,617 Discovery Miles 36 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This prize-winning study examines the impact of the employment of women and ethnic and racial minorities in public organizations on the implementation of government programs by those agencies. Driving the study is the question of whether the concept of "representative government" applies also to the "permanent government" -- the bureaucracy.

This study, which won the Leonard D. White award, is the most systematic test to date of the concept of representative bureaucracy. Selden tests the relationship between the demographic representativeness of district office staffs and lending decisions in the Farmers Home Administration's Rural Housing Loans Program. In fleshing out the implications of representative bureaucracy, the book makes an important contribution to the debates on bureaucratic power and illuminates the tensions underlying the assumptions of bureaucratic neutrality and affirmative action.

Guide to Government Ministers - The Major Powers and Western Europe 1900-1071 (Paperback): R. L. Bidwell Guide to Government Ministers - The Major Powers and Western Europe 1900-1071 (Paperback)
R. L. Bidwell
R1,367 Discovery Miles 13 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1973. This is Volume I of a listing of government ministers, that concentrates on major powers in Western Europe from the 1900 to 1971. It includes listings of Head of State, Head of Government, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, War, the Interior and Finance.

Beyond Beijing - Liberalization and the Regions in China (Hardcover, New): Dali L. Yang Beyond Beijing - Liberalization and the Regions in China (Hardcover, New)
Dali L. Yang
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There are wide disparities of wealth between the different regions of China. The result has been increased tension between ethnic groups and serious divisions between China's provinces. This book offers a balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in post-Mao China. The author argues that increasing decentralisation has unleashed much competition and emulation among local governments. He discusses also the impact on regional disparities and cleavages, and government efforts to address regional disparities. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that will remain highly visible on China's political agenda for the foreseeable future.

The Rise of Big Government (Hardcover): Harold G. Vatter, John F. Walker The Rise of Big Government (Hardcover)
Harold G. Vatter, John F. Walker
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Rise of Big Government chronicles the phenomenal growth of local, state, and federal government over the last 100 years. The authors explain this growth by arguing that public and social acceptance of government intervention has allowed government to maintain a presence at all levels of the economy. The authors take issue with the opposing argument that government has grown by itself and by the bureaucracy's constant push for its own expansion.

Presidential Power in Russia (Hardcover): Eugene Huskey Presidential Power in Russia (Hardcover)
Eugene Huskey
R3,637 Discovery Miles 36 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition form communist rule. Huskey analyzes the establishment and functioning of the Russian presidency as an institution and in relation to the other leading institutions of state: the government, parliament, courts, and regional authorities. Although this is not a biography of the first president, Boris Yeltsin, his allies and his rivals loom large in the study of a critical phase in the creation of a new Russian political system.

Presidential Power in Russia (Paperback): Eugene Huskey Presidential Power in Russia (Paperback)
Eugene Huskey
R1,278 Discovery Miles 12 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presidential Power in Russia inaugurates a new library of volumes on each of the major institutions of the new Russian political system. It is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition from communist rule. Eugene Huskey presents a nuanced evaluation of the presidency as a political institution and in relation to the other leading institutions of state. Although this is not a biography of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president and his allies and rivals loom large in the story of this critical phase in the creation of a new Russian political system.

New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (Hardcover): Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich New Perspectives on State Socialism in China (Hardcover)
Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich
R5,090 Discovery Miles 50 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New perspectives are presented on an essential issue in CCP historiography: Why when things were working reasonably well by 1956 did the Chinese Communist Party alienate its supporters with radical policies? Placing CCP history firmly in the realm of social history and comparative politics, these enlightening critiques study the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the remarkable tenacity of the CCP. New insights, surfacing from case studies from the 1990s and recently available documents, address the following: Why is state socialism in China neither the wonder that some hope for nor a total failure? Why has the CCP remained China's only party, while the CPSU in the former Soviet Union -- and particularly the Eastern European socialist regimes that were the same age as China's -- collapsed so quickly? Are there any clues to the CCP's current longevity and radical reforms under party leadership to be found in the formative period of this one-party state?

Egypt's Incomplete Revolution - Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser's Socialism in the 1960s (Hardcover, annotated edition):... Egypt's Incomplete Revolution - Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser's Socialism in the 1960s (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Rami Ginat
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The importance of Lutfi al-Khuli and the intellectual circle associated with the Nasserist regime is examined here. Rami Ginat looks at al-Khuli's contribution to the short-lived yet formidable success of Arab socialism. Using primary sources, such as essays and articles by al-Khuli as well as personal interviews, he sheds light on Egypt's socialist experience in the 1960s. Declassified archival material and literature in Arabic and other languages are used in order to elucidate the Egyptian context and the ideological structure of Nasser's Arab socialism.

British Regionalism and Devolution - The Challenges of State Reform and European Integration (Paperback, Revised): Jonathan... British Regionalism and Devolution - The Challenges of State Reform and European Integration (Paperback, Revised)
Jonathan Bradbury, John Mawson
R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s. Using case material, the contributors examine: the effects of state reform and European integration on British regionalism and the devolution debate; and the nature of recent central responses to the re-emergence of regional and devolution issues, with a particular focus on the recent policies of the Major governments and the policies of the Opposition parties.
They also present some evidence which suggests that state reform and EC/EU developments have determined and accentuated important new trends in British regionalism, and underpin the plausibility of far-reaching regional and devolution reforms.

Attlee (Paperback): Robert Pearce Attlee (Paperback)
Robert Pearce
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Attlee is undoubtedly one of the key figures in modern British history. An important figure in Churchill's War Cabinet, and premier of the first majority Labour Government, he created the Welfare State, nationalised a substantial part of industry and secured the independence of India. Yet his political stature remains unresolved. Was he Churchill's "modest man with much to be modest about" who squandered the fruits of victory, or, as many now claim, one of the truly great prime ministers? Robert Pearce's lucid and drily amusing study goes behind the stern exterior to find ambition and indecision, and a uniquely moral vision.

Profiles in Character - Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1996 (Paperback, illustrated edition): Joseph Martin Hernon Profiles in Character - Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1996 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Joseph Martin Hernon
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A take-off of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, which argues that the best-known US senators don't deserve their renown as much as some lesser-known ones. Over the course of ten biographical chapters, this book tells the story of 16 men's lives in the Senate in relation to each other.

Profiles in Character - Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1996 (Hardcover, New): Joseph Martin Hernon Profiles in Character - Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1996 (Hardcover, New)
Joseph Martin Hernon
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hernon's title is a deliberate take-off of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Unlike Kennedy's patriotic portrayal of various Senators, Hernon takes the position that the best-known U.S. Senators throughout history don't deserve their renown as much as some lesser-known (or completely unknown) ones who served at the same time. Each chapter of his book pairs a famous Senator with his lesser-known counterpart.

Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book (Hardcover): Matthew Cain Ormondroyd Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book (Hardcover)
Matthew Cain Ormondroyd
R5,387 Discovery Miles 53 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book is a concise, practical guide to the legal and practical issues surrounding non-domestic rates and council tax. An essential tool for busy tax collection practitioners in local authorities and private practice, it will also be suitable for a range of non-specialist property professionals who may have to deal with rates and council tax matters as part of their practice. This handy pocket guide is accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike, covering everything from key concepts through to liability, exemptions, procedure and completion notices. The book encompasses both English and Welsh law, and includes all the relevant statutory provisions. With detailed discussion of key cases, this is a book that no one with an interest in rating and council tax should be without.

The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia (Paperback, Revised): David Brown The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia (Paperback, Revised)
David Brown
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in:
* Burma
* Singapore
* Indonesia
* Malaysia
* Thailand
The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'managing' their ethnic politics than others.

The Uses of Social Research (Routledge Revivals) - Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making (Paperback): Martin Bulmer The Uses of Social Research (Routledge Revivals) - Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making (Paperback)
Martin Bulmer
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The growth and health of the social sciences owe a good deal to the generally held belief that they are socially useful, but is this really so? Do they deliver the goods they promise? In The Uses of Social Research, first published in 1982, Martin Bulmer answers these and other questions concerning the uses of empirical social science in the policy-making process, and provides an extended analysis of the main issues. This title provides a valuable introduction to the patterns of influence exercised by the social sciences on government. It shows how the results of social research feed into the political system and what models of the relationship between research and policy are most convincing. This book will be of interest to students of the social sciences.

The Heath Government 1970-74 - A Reappraisal (Paperback): Stuart Ball, A. Seldon The Heath Government 1970-74 - A Reappraisal (Paperback)
Stuart Ball, A. Seldon
R1,615 Discovery Miles 16 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Only now is it possible to see Edward Heath's controversial administration (1970-1974) in balanced historical perspective - and increasingly it seems a turning-point for postwar Britain. This timely volume explores the agenda of the Heath government in all its aspects (including economy, industrial relations, social policy, immigration, Northern Ireland, British entry into Europe, and foreign relations), assesses how far it achieved its aims, and examines the response to them. The book is based upon much new research, including the archives of the Conservative Party and the TUC, and interviews with many of those involved at the heart of government. The result will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern British history, politics and government.

Contributors include PAUL ARTHUR, LEWIS BASTON, VERNON BOGDANOR, ALEC CAIRNCROSS, CHRISTOPHER HILL, DENNIS KAVANAGH, ZIG LAYTON-HENRY, CHRISTOPHER LORD, RODNEY LOWE, JOHN RAMSDEN, ROBERT TAYLOR, KEVIN THEAKSTON, JOHN YOUNG.

Government and Labour in Kenya 1895-1963 (Paperback): Anthony Clayton, Donald Cockfield Savage Government and Labour in Kenya 1895-1963 (Paperback)
Anthony Clayton, Donald Cockfield Savage
R1,395 Discovery Miles 13 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Published in the year 1974, Government and Labour in Kenya is a valuable contribution to the field of History.

Attlee's Labour Governments 1945-51 (Hardcover): Robert Pearce Attlee's Labour Governments 1945-51 (Hardcover)
Robert Pearce
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Labour governments of 1945-51 are among the most important and controversial in modern British history, and have been the focus of extensive research over the last fifteen years. In this study, Robert Pearce makes the results of this research available in a concise and accessible form, whilst encouraging students to formulate their own interpretations. He looks at the main political personalities of the period, sets their work in the context of Labour history since 1900, and examines their domestic, foreign and imperial achievements.

Anwar Sadat - Visionary Who Dared (Paperback): Joseph Finklestone, Joseph Finklestone Obe Anwar Sadat - Visionary Who Dared (Paperback)
Joseph Finklestone, Joseph Finklestone Obe
R1,479 Discovery Miles 14 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book by a prize-winning foreign affairs correspondent, tells the story of a life shaped by Egypt's national struggle and dominated by the conflict between the Arab world and Israel. It charts Sadat's progress from fanatical nationalist to Nasser's successor as President of Egypt, and from world statesman to tragic hero, who gave his life in the cause of peace. As a highly readable study of one of the major figures in the struggle for peace in the Middle East, it is of particular interest in the light of the ongoing peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
The author's relationship with Sadat, and the help he has received from his widow since Sadat's death, has added a personal dimension to this warm and compassionate political biography.

National Parliaments and the European Union (Hardcover, annotated edition): Philip Norton the Lord Norton of Louth National Parliaments and the European Union (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Philip Norton the Lord Norton of Louth
R4,345 Discovery Miles 43 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This guide is intended for busy legal practitioners and all other professionals who are involved in the criminal justice system and who require quick reference to the provisions of the 1994 Act.

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