Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lane jan erik

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  • CULTURE AND POLITICS
    LANE JAN-ERIK / SVANTE ERSSON
    This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science, this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society. ...

    $999.00

  • RELIGION AND POLITICS
    JAN-ERIK LANE / HAMADI REDISSI
    Muslim societies are struggling under the need for modernization and the drift towards Islamic fundamentalism. The balance between these two forces is struck differently in the various Muslim societies depending upon the constellation of groups as historical legacies. However, the tension is real. In this work, Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi look at the underlying social cons...

    $339.00

  • CULTURE AND POLITICS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH
    LANE JAN-ERIK / SVANTE O. ERSSON
    This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science, this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society. ...

    $1,299.00

  • GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICS
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    Globalization and Politics brings together vision and imaginative insight to the analysis of the evolution of inter-state politics to produce a clear, comprehensive and coherent sense of how globalization works and how it might work better. The study looks upon globalization as a distinct set of phenomena - energy, economy, environment and politics - all of which interact. Pres...

    $899.00

  • THE SWISS LABYRINTH
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    It can be argued that Switzerland has a peculiar set of political institutions, for example decentralized federalism, active referendum democracy, and La formule magique (grand coalition). This volume focuses upon the political and social outcomes of these institutions in the 1990s. ...

    $739.00

  • CULTURE AND POLITICS
    JAN-ERIK LANE / UWE WAGSCHAL
    This concise, accessible text presents an overview of the relevance of culture for politics. Culture figures prominently in the theories of the great classics such as Marx, Durkheim and Weber. Recently, the cultural approach to politics has developed quickly, and the concept of political culture has played a role in these developments, particularly given the emergence of large-...

    $1,179.00

  • STATE MANAGEMENT
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incor...

    $999.00

  • COMPARATIVE POLITICS
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their princip...

    $1,179.00

  • PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer resources – employees, money and laws – into policy outputs and outcomes. In well-ordered ...

    $1,439.00

  • NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisatio...

    $1,279.00

  • THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    The Third Edition of this successful textbook introduces students to the major concepts, models, and approaches surrounding the public sector. Now fully updated to include coverage of the New Public Management (NPM), The Public Sector is the most comprehensive textbook on theories of public policy and public administration. The Public Sector is introduced within a three-part fr...

    $1,319.81

  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN WESTERN EUROPE
    JAN-ERIK LANE / SVANTE ERSSON
    Politics and Society in Western Europe is a comprehensive introduction for students of West European politics and of comparative politics. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to meet with the new needs of undergraduate students as they come to terms with a changing social and political landscape in Europe. This textbook provides a full analysis of the poli...

    $1,319.81

  • EUROPEAN POLITICS
    JAN-ERIK LANE / SVANTE ERSSON
    This comprehensive textbook is the first to go beyond a West European perspective and provide a clear overview of the whole of European politics. Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson address the similarities of key political features among states in Western, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Europe and look forward to political developments at the turn of the century. Traditio...

    $1,319.81

  • THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS
    SVANTE ERSSON / JAN-ERIK LANE
    The New Institutional Politics is a comparative study of the impact of political institutions upon outcomes, and covers some of the major themes in the new institutionalism. It looks at how various democratic institutions like Konkordanzdemokratie or corporatism promote better outcomes than Westminster institutions. The evaluation of the performance of political institutions co...

    $1,399.00

  • COMPARING PARTY SYSTEM CHANGE
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    This volume examines the recent changes which have occurred in party systems across Europe. It concludes that parties in many countries are no longer bare reflections of traditional social groups. Rather, the structure in which parties compete is increasingly open and flexible, and subject to on-going change. The combination of comparative and individual case-studies provides s...

    $1,059.00

  • DEMOCRACY
    SVANTE ERSSON / JAN-ERIK LANE
    What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy? This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world. It starts with definitions of democracy and then divides the concept into three dimensions, which provide a framework for the study of democracy in all its forms. Thes...

    $1,259.00

  • GLOBALIZATION – THE JUGGERNAUT OF THE 21ST CENTURY
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    While some people debate whether globalization really exists, it proceeds apace, affecting all societies. It presents us with unknown challenges and, as governments start to discuss what to do about these challenges, it is becoming obvious that globalization is not manageable. With globalization the juggernaut of the 21st century, all countries of the world become interdependen...

    $1,299.00

  • GLOBALIZATION
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual nations still have specific interests that present obstacles to globalization. While some challenges inspired by the need to coordinate are viewed as inevitable by many, they are less optimistic about prospects for success. Jan-Erik...

    $1,139.00

  • CULTURE AND POLITICS
    JAN-ERIK LANE / SVANTE ERSSON
    Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. Combining a substantial theoretical overview with intricate comparative empirical research, it assesses the complex interplay of ethnicity, religion, history and values on macro- and micro-level outcomes. Striking a judicious bala...

    $1,299.00

  • GLOBALIZATION
    JAN-ERIK LANE
    Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual nations still have specific interests that present obstacles to globalization. While some challenges inspired by the need to coordinate are viewed as inevitable by many, they are less optimistic about prospects for success. Jan-Erik...

    $1,139.00