stanford university press jun 2011 (11 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000 with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how institutional reforms take effect.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to adulthood. Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds have witnessed changes in the nature of family life, but as this book reveals, these changes play out in very different ways for the wealthy or well off than they do for the poor.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book tests a new approach to understanding ethnic mobilization and considers the interplay of global forces, national-level variation in inequality and repression, and political mobilization of ethnicity. It advances the claim that economic and political integration among the world's states increases the influence of ethnic identity in political movements.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal-the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three major initiatives and explores why there were no viable alternatives put forward by the opposition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse 'A river flows from Eden to water the garden' (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers Conversely, how frequently do the children of doctors and lawyers fail to enter high status careers upon completion of their schooling As inequalities of wealth and income have increased in industrialized nations over the past 30 years, have patterns of between-generation mobility changed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - James Clay Moltz holds a joint faculty appointment at the Naval Postgraduate School in the Department of National Security Affairs and in the Space Systems Academic Group. He is the author of Asia's Space Race: National Motivations, Regional Rivalries, and International Risks.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates participatory budgeting--a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs--to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zhongping Chen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to adulthood. Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds have witnessed changes in the nature of family life, but as this book reveals, these changes play out in very different ways for the wealthy or well off than they do for the poor.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume provides a unique multidisciplinary perspective on the relationship between legal regimes and long-term economic development across major civilizations in Eurasia.