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  • Covenant and Constitutionalism

    The Covenant Tradition in Politics

    by Daniel Elazar ...
    Series series Covenant Traditions in Politics Series
    This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Exploring Federalism

    by Daniel J. Elazar ...
    CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOKA definitive exploration of the ideas, institutions, and principles that shape federal government.Exploring Federalism is a seminal study by political scientist Daniel J. Elazar that examines the origins, evolution, and enduring significance of federal systems of government. Widely regarded as one of the leading scholars of federalism, Elazar offers a comprehensive ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Covenant and Commonwealth

    by Daniel Elazar ...
    At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea, human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God. Politically, this pact, or covenant, involves the coming together of basically equal humans who consent with one another through a morally binding pact, setting the partners on the road to a new task. As a theological and political concept, covenant ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics

    Cities of the Prairie

    by Daniel Elazar ...
    American civilization has been shaped by four decisive forces: the frontier, migration, sectionalism and federalism. The frontier has offered abundance to those who would/could take advantage of its opportunities, stimulated technological innovation, and been the source of continuous change in social structure and economic organization; migration has been responsible for relocating cultures from ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Covenant and Civil Society

    Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy

    by Daniel Elazar ...
    Series series Covenant Traditions in Politics Series
    The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm, the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation, covenant eventually fostered the establishment of the United ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier

    Cities of the Prairie Revisited

    by Daniel Elazar ...
    The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland. During this period, the bottom dropped out of local economies and all collapsed except those upheld by massive ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier

    Cities of the Prairie

    by Daniel Elazar, Marshall DeRosa ...
    The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J. stallment in the Cities of the Prairie project. It completes an ongoing multi-generational, comparative study of ten medium-sized communities located in five Prairie and Plains states - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado. This long-term study was initiated by Daniel J. Elazar in 1959 to develop a comprehensive theory ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Balkan Jewish Communities

    Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey

    by Daniel J. Elazar ...
    Series series Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Center for Jewish Community Studies Series
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Kinship and Consent

    Jewish Political Tradition and Its Contemporary Uses

    by Daniel L. Elazar ...
    A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish people, whether through reestablishment of the State of Israel, new forms of diaspora community organization, or the common Jewish fight against anti-Semitism. Precisely because contemporary Jewry has moved increasingly toward self ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Kinship in the Admiralty Islands

    Edited by Margaret Mead, Daniel Elazar ...
    The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands is the classic and only thorough description of their complex rules of marriage and family relations. It draws on Mead's 1928-1929 field work, conducted with her second husband, New Zealander Reo Fortune, and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Courts, Social Science, and School Desegregation

    Edited by Betsy Levin, Daniel Elazar ...
    This book surveys the legal issues confronting courts as they decide school desegregation cases, and the extent to which social science research has been brought to bear on those issues. It examines the relationship between school segregation and residential segregation. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Israel at the Polls, 1996

    Edited by Daniel J. Elazar, Shmuel Sandler ...
    Series series Israeli History, Politics and Society
    The 1996 Israeli elections were the first elections by direct vote for the position of prime minister in which a newcomer - Binyamin Netanyahu - defeated the most veteran Israeli politician, Shimon Peres. The result indicated not only a transition of power from the left-centre to the right-centre, but also the decline of the major parties and the ascendance of the smaller parties. Israel at the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD