Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: daniel elazar

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  • ISRAEL AT THE POLLS 1999
    DANIEL J. ELAZAR / M. BEN MOLLOV
    The 1999 Israeli elections focused on the character of the main political contenders for prime minister - Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. Along with Barak's victory, the Israeli public made important statements concerning the shape and direction of Israeli political culture with a hope of a centrist vision. Leading Israeli political scientists discuss the revival of the Isra...

    $1,420.00

  • THE METROPOLITAN FRONTIER AND AMERICAN POLITICS
    DANIEL ELAZAR
    American civilization has been shaped by four decisive forces: the frontier, migration, sectionalism and federalism. The frontier has offered abundance to those who would/could take advantage of its opportunities, stimulated technological innovation, and been the source of continuous change in social structure and economic organization; migration has been responsible for reloca...

    $1,340.00

  • KINSHIP AND CONSENT
    DANIEL L. ELAZAR
    A major dimension of modern Jewish life has been the revival of conscious political activity on the part of the Jewish people, whether through reestablishment of the State of Israel, new forms of diaspora community organization, or the common Jewish fight against anti-Semitism. Precisely because contemporary Jewry has moved increasingly toward self ...

    $1,320.00

  • COVENANT AND POLITY IN BIBLICAL ISRAEL
    DANIEL ELAZAR
    In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it, Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture....

    $1,360.00

  • THE OPENING OF THE CYBERNETIC FRONTIER
    MARSHALL DEROSA / DANIEL ELAZAR
    The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J. stallment in the Cities of the Prairie project. It completes an ongoing multi-generational, comparative study of ten medium-sized communities located in five Prairie and Plains states - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado. This long-term study was initiated by Daniel J. Elazar in 1959 to develop a comprehe...

    $1,160.00

  • COVENANT AND COMMONWEALTH
    DANIEL ELAZAR
    At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea, human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God. Politically, this pact, or covenant, involves the coming together of basically equal humans who consent with one another through a morally binding pact, setting the partners on the road to a new task. As a theological and politic...

    $1,600.00

  • COVENANT AND CONSTITUTIONALISM
    DANIEL ELAZAR
    This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement. ...

    $1,560.00

  • COVENANT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
    DANIEL ELAZAR
    The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm, the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation, covenant eventually fostered the establis...

    $1,560.00

  • THE CLOSING OF THE METROPOLITAN FRONTIER
    DANIEL ELAZAR
    The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland. During this period, the bottom dropped out of local economies and all collapsed except those u...

    $1,280.00