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Balk proposes an applied theory of public agency democracy designed to liberate the potential of its highly trained experts.

The book begins by discussing professionals as power intermediaries and their necessary tensions with authority around matters of reform.

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This analysis of US and Japanese negotiating tactics constitutes a guide to effective political management and consensus-building within each country. The study also accounts for the ways in which issues arise, the channels through which they are negotiated, and the effect of actions in one system on decisionmaking in the other.

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Providing guidelines for designing collections and services that best serve 21st-century needs in school and public libraries, this book helps librarians to understand today's children and the ways they interact with information and recreational materials.

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This book presents various examples of successful collaboration and partnership for inspiration and presents a theoretical typology among such closely related concepts as integration, partnership, coooperation, coordination, and association.

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Ethnic conflict in Africa is reaching critical levels. Governments are being toppled. National economies are collapsing. And the potential for civil unrest--even violent encounters--throughout the continent threatens to engulf not only Africa, but much of the world.

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This book takes a look at the institutional framework established in the 1990s to manage the political and economic relations of the EU and the US. It focuses on the many different actors who influence transatlantic policy making at different stages of the policy process. -- .

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This book provides an authoritative account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance. It reveals the impacts of ideas and knowledge on policy change in two of the major labour importing countries in the EU: the UK and Spain. -- .

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In this study the author challenges the theoretical underpinnings of Cuban studies - the elite/mass perspective. He offers a major reinterpretation of the revolutionary process which focuses on the rise and fall of different types of social actors at the intermediate level of Cuban society.

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A surprising, thought-provoking, powerful collection, the best essays from Warren Bennis, the world's preeminent writer on leadership.

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The belief that US presidents' legislative policy formation has centralized over time, shifting inexorably out of the executive departments and into the White House, is shared by many who have studied the American presidency. Andrew Rudalevige argues that such a linear trend is neither at all certain nor necessary for policy promotion.

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Special rules have altered members' political calculations and strategies, changed the ways committees can protect themselves from attack on the floor, and presented the minority party with new constraints on proposing legislative alternatives. Stanley Bach and Steven Smith examine these dramatic changes in the character of special rules and their use to shape debate and decisions in the House.

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Volunteers are the backbone of many an organization. This practical, hands-on guide, filled with useful tips and everyday examples, will help those responsible for volunteers successfully recruit and manage this invaluable resource.

Since the end of the Cold War, United Nations peace operations have become an established and prominent feature of world politics. This book uncovers the political and socio-economic import of such 'peace' activities for subject societies, and raises important questions about the functioning and dynamics of the global political order.

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It provides the means necessary to analyze political commercials, and by presenting the motives behind advertising strategies and tactics used in contemporary politics, the authors seek to free their readers from the inherent manipulation in political advertising.

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This timely set of solutions based on a new theory of economics shows how America can reverse its inexorable economic decline and stop the bleeding of its middle class by rebuilding its manufacturing sector on a green basis.

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Ellen Schrecker gives us a post-Cold War account of McCarthyism.

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Alexander surveys the most important dissident movement within International Communism in the developed world since World War II.

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This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity.

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Taking stock of the exhaustion of the concept of democracy limited to rights and identity, this book explores the work of French political philosopher Marcel Gauchet to interpret the contemporary crisis of European politics and the role played by imaginary constructs of Islam in the risk of ideological co-radicalization.