stanford university press jun 2005 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The scholarship in this book is first rate. In this fascinating volume, a group of distinguished scholars test the proposition that ethnic homogeneity advances democratic development, by examining European development from the late eighteenth century to the present. Bringing both theoretical and historical evidence to bear, these essays make an important contribution to the dialogue on this topic.' --Norman Naimark, Stanford University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book reexamines the structure of Inca society on the eve of the Spanish conquest. The author argues that native Andean cosmology, which centered on the idea of divine rulership, principally organized the indigenous political economy as well as spatial and socio-kinship systems. >.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite several decades of research on Supreme Court decision-making by specialists in judicial politics, there is no good answer to a key question: if each justice's behavior on the Court were motivated solely by some kind of 'liberal' or 'conservative' ideology, what patterns should be expected in the Court's decision-making practices and in the Court's final decisions It is only when these patterns are identified in advance that political scientists will be able to empirically evaluate theories which assert that the justices' behavior is motivated by the pursuit of their personal policy preferences. >.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anticipating the future environment of business, Collaborative Entrepreneurship discusses a revolutionary new competitive strategy of continuous innovation that fulfills the need for efficient provision of a constant stream of new products, services, and markets. The book explains how firms can build a collaborative community within which they can freely share in the creation of wealth through innovation with the assurance that the wealth they create will be equitably distributed. >.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection presents the difficult challenges of the new economic era as well as a set of alternative economic policies for managing the open Latin American economies of the early twenty-first century. Ideas that were removed from the reform agenda over the past two decades are seen as critical to the improved economic and social performance that liberalization has so far failed to produce. These ideas include a role for counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies, including restrictions on capital mobility; active productive sector and technological development policies; and the need to pay greater attention not only to social policies, but also to the links between economic policies and social outcomes, in order to guarantee a desirable social performance. This collection sheds new light on issues that were largely overlooked during the reform period, and that must be faced squarely to overcome the deficiencies that Latin America has faced during its phase of liberalization and its dismal economic performance since the Asian crisis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a work of unprecedented scope, tracing the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a multitude of Hebrew and Yiddish texts, very few of which have been translated into English, and on contemporary autobiographical theory, this book provides a literary/historical explanatory paradigm for the emergence of the Jewish autobiographical voice. The book also provides the English reader with an introduction to the works of central figures in the history of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and it includes discussion of material that has never been submitted to literary critical analysis in English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an excellent and thought-provoding book, one that challenges the reader to reassess preconceptions of the nature of Inca religion, the characteristics of Inca leaders, the reason for the polity's rapid expansion, and the foundations of its economic structure.' --Noble David Cook, Florida International University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Beyond Reforms constitutes an important and timely step towards a new post-Washington Consensus paradigm for economic and social policy in Latin America. It brings to bear the thinking of an impressive group of authors on the current policy context of the region, in the form of insightful treatments of macrodynamics, external debt, fiscal policy, technological gaps, de-industrialization, and poverty, together with attention to the interaction among these variables and policy dimensions. It is thought-provoking, sometimes surprising, and always educational.' --Albert Berry, Research Director, Programme on Latin America and the Caribbean, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.