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  • Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy

    by David Altman ...
    Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative democratization and to an important strand in normative democratic theory. Analyzing the relationship between direct democracy and representative government, this book is organized around three main sections: the origins of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Direct Democracy Worldwide

    by David Altman ...
    Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative democracy are necessarily at odds, Direct Democracy Worldwide demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings and uncovers the conditions that allow them to coexist in a mutually reinforcing manner. Whereas citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Discovering the Leader in You

    How to realize Your Leadership Potential

    by Sara N. King, David Altman, Robert J. Lee ...
    Series Book 139 - J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)
    From the Center for Creative Leadership's most popular and best known leadership program Leadership Development Program comes a book for anyone who wants to have a competitive edge in today's complex marketplace. Discovering the Leader in You shows what it looks like to fit in a leadership role and provides a system of self-discovery that allows for exploration into the roles within an ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Six Years Later

    by David Altman ...
    Oxford professor Joseph Giant doesnt believe in being politically correct when something is wrong. In Giants opinion, the outspoken Muslim community is threatening to take over every facet of British life. Regardless of political correctness, Giant sees it as a threat that church bells are no longer allowed on Sunday and that the day of rest has been moved to Fridayall to keep a small but powerful ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Varieties of Democracy

    Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change

    by Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell ...
    Varieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy. This book is ambitious in scope: more than a reference guide, it raises standards for causal ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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    The Hidden Driver of Excellence

    by Daniel Goleman ...
    New York Times Bestseller“A powerful guide for taking control of our attention.” —Tony Schwartz, author of The Power of Full Engagement and CEO of The Energy ProjectFrom the author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, comes a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.For more than two decades, psychologist ... Read more

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  • NLT Study Bible

    by Tyndale ...
    The product of over forty Bible scholars and seven years’ work, The NLT Study Bible is the most comprehensive study Bible ever created. The notes focus on bringing out the full meaning of the text, allowing the reader to understand the Bible more deeply than ever. Features include 25,900 study notes (over 820,000 words), maps, charts, illustrations, a word-study system, and much more.Feature ... Read more

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  • Paradigms and Sand Castles

    Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics

    by Barbara Geddes ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of research through interesting and carefully selected examples from the field of comparative development studies.Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers

    How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior

    by David J. Samuels, Matthew S. Shugart ...
    This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and manage government ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Lights Out

    Islam, free speech and the twilight of the west

    by Mark Steyn ...
    Roaming from America to Europe to Australia, Lights Out is a trenchant examination of the tensions between a resurgent Islam and a fainthearted west - and of the implications for liberty in the years ahead. In 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress brought three suits against Maclean's, Canada's biggest-selling newsweekly, for running an excerpt from Steyn's bestselling book America Alone, plus other ... Read more

    $9.96 USD

  • Thinking about Democracy

    Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new ... Read more

    $65.99 USD