Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: etzioni

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  • THE KNOWLEDGE ELITE AND THE FAILURE OF PROPHECY
    EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY
    First published in 1985, The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy presents a demystification of the role of the Knowledge Elite, or the role many intellectuals have purported to play in modern, Western, society. The author debunks their role as self-proclaimed prophets in charge of foretelling (or ‘forecasting’ as it is more fashionably called) things to come and in char...

    $860.00

  • SOCIAL CHANGE
    EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY
    First published in 1981, Social Change offers a critical review of the main classical and modern theories of social change, and a study of the processes of change in western societies since modernization. It focusses on the cardinal aspects of society, and those that have figured most prominently in various theories: the economy, the class structure, the political structure, an...

    $860.00

  • POLITICAL MANIPULATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE POWER
    EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY
    First published in 1979, Political Manipulation and Administrative Power examines in detail some of the means by which elites in western-style democracies have established and maintained themselves in power. It describes how elites have manipulated the public by methods which run counter to the spirit and the letter of democracy, yet without overtly disrupting the democratic sy...

    $860.00

  • DEMONSTRATION DEMOCRACY
    AMITAI ETZIONI
    This book, first published in 1970, examines the thesis that demonstrations are becoming an integral an integral part of the democratic way of life. It analyses the conditions under which some demonstrations become violent and explores ways in which the incidence of such violence can be greatly reduced. It discusses the necessity for governmental responsiveness to legitimate, a...

    $960.00

  • CLASSES AND ELITES IN DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION
    EVA ETZIONI HALEVY
    This collection of readings has been complied on the assumption that for an adequate explanation of the success and failure, the strengths and weaknesses, of democracy, it is necessary to resort to both class and elite theories and to strive for the future development of the extant beginnings of a synthesis between them. For this purpose, it presents the most central and intell...

    $1,800.00

  • THE NEW NORMAL
    AMITAI ETZIONI
    Amitai Etzioni argues that societies must find a way to balance individual rights and the common good. This point of balance may change as new technologies develop, the natural and international environments change, and new social forces arise. Some believe the United States may be unduly short-changing individual rights that need to be better protected. Specifically, should t...

    $1,600.00

  • THE SOCIO-ECONOMICS OF CONVERSION FROM WAR TO PEACE
    LLOYD J. DUMAS / AMITAI ETZIONI
    This text discusses the economic, social and political implications of redirecting labour and capital from a military-based to a post-Cold War economy. ...

    $780.00

  • SOCIO-ECONOMICS
    AMITAI ETZIONI / PAUL R. LAWRENCE
    This work is organized in seven sections around major themes of socio-economics. The first section outlines socio-economics in an historical perspective, drawing on the "Methodenstreit" in the German school of economics at the turn of the century. Four additional essays view economic behaviour from the perspective of psychology, sociology and values outside the realm of economi...

    $1,260.00

  • FOREIGN POLICY: THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
    AMITAI ETZIONI
    This collection of essays by renowned scholar Amitai Etzioni aims to provoke reconsiderations of basic assumptions of foreign policy by students, academics and practitioners. With chapters focusing on the Middle East, China and the EU, as well as articles with a more global focus, the book offers thought-provoking and insightful perspectives on international foreign policy whic...

    $1,160.00

  • BUREAUCRACY AND DEMOCRACY
    EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY
    Although a powerful, independent bureaucracy poses a threat to democracy, it is indispensable to its proper functioning. This book provides an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy and is essential reading for students of sociology, political science and public administration. It is designed to guide students through the maze of ...

    $1,460.00

  • HOW PATRIOTIC IS THE PATRIOT ACT?
    AMITAI ETZIONI
    In this short book, Etzioni, the well-known and respected public intellectual and communitarian thinker, charts a middle course, or third way 'between those who are committed to shore up our liberties but blind to the needs of public security, as well as those who never met a right they are not willing to curtail to give authorities an even freer hand.' This book will prove a u...

    $1,560.00

  • PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS: A HISTORIC AND SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
    ETZIONI, AMOS / OCHS, HANS D.
    Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders: A Historic and Scientific Perspective provides a complete historical context that is crucial for students and researchers concerned with primary immunodeficiency. When researchers have a poor understanding of the way we arrived where we are in research, they can miss important points about a disease, or miss out on how to approach new diseas...

    $1,271.00

  • LOS CAMBIOS SOCIALES
    ETZIONI
    Agotado

    $60.00