Analisa a situação política brasileira contemporânea, examinando a relativa debilidade dos partidos políticos brasileiros. Identifica a presença de elementos que prejudicam a constituição dos partidos, a consolidação de suas bases sociais e de sua própria identidade, a sua capac…
Unmasking administrative evil
by Adams, Guy B., Balfour, Danny L.
fromAdvances in public administration
With 'Unmasking Administrative Evil', Guy Adams and Danny Balfour maintain that administrative evil, or destructiveness, is inherent in modern public administration.
Unmasking administrative evil
by Adams, Guy B., Balfour, Danny L.
fromAdvances in public administration
The Roman market economy
by Temin, Peter
fromThe Princeton economic history of the western world
The Roman market economy
by Temin, Peter
fromPrinceton economic history of the Western world
"The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, an…
The Roman market economy
by Temin, Peter
fromPrinceton economic history of the Western world
The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and…
The Roman market economy
by Temin, Peter
fromPrinceton economic history of the Western world
"The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, an…
In 2010, Willem Assies, an astute and prolific Latin Americanist and political anthropologist, died unexpectedly, at the age of 55. This book brings together some of his writings. Assies would always gave central stage to the collective and multi-layered actor and not the system…
Examining the concept of the quality of life, this book looks at its relevance to social policy, especially in relation to class, gender, health and cultural diversity.
"Preventing acts of terrorism remains one of the major tasks of domestic governments and regional and international organisations. Terrorism transcends borders, so anti-terrorism law must cross the boundaries of domestic, regional and international law. It also crosses tradition…
The Rights of Children in the United States provides discussion on: the historical and contextual perspective on the rights of children; the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the differing views on children's rights and competencies.
From the publisher. Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa co…