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1) La collaboration interorganisationnelle: Conditions, retombées et perspectives en contexte public
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Cet ouvrage se consacre à des expériences de collaboration interorganisationnelle dans les administrations publiques québécoise et fédérale canadienne. Au nom de la diversité, il explore les efforts déployés par les organismes publics et leurs partenaires pour répondre à des enjeux aussi complexes qu'importants : la lutte anticorruption, la mutualisation des données géomatiques, la défense de l'intégrité des programmes publics, la...
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Beyond Politics as Usual: Paths for Engaging College Students in Politics sheds light on the political learning, thinking, and acting of college students today. The book, edited by Kettering program officers Ileana Marin and Ray Minor, endeavors to reveal the current practices and approaches that faculty and staff at institutions of higher learning and other nonprofits employ to instill democratic concepts, values, and skills in students.
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A lo largo del siglo xx, los fascismos asolaron Europa y las dictaduras se multiplicaron en buena parte de América Latina. Hoy, en pleno siglo xxi, aquella bestia que creímos desterrada para siempre no solo ha resurgido, sino que, saltando fronteras, acecha esta vez el mundo entero.
Se ha nutrido de las desigualdades traídas por una crisis interminable, ha crecido cada vez que los poderosos se han sentido fuertes y se han desligado de toda atadura...
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"¿Qué sentido tiene dedicar tiempo a escribir un libro sobre Juego de tronos? ¿No es acaso una tarea ociosa? ¿No hay asuntos más importantes a los que prestar atención ante el drama social y político en el que estamos inmersos? Para responder a estas preguntas, conviene antes preguntarse por las razones del éxito tanto de los libros como de las distintas temporadas de la serie. En principio, podría parecer que la clave del éxito es simplemente...
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Many papers included in this volume express skepticism regarding both the diagnosis of the American health system as fundamentally ailing and the prescription of greater public intervention in the financing and delivery of medical services as the remedy and sure path to recovery.
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Les soulèvements populaires en Tunisie et en Égypte, avec la chute de Ben Ali et de Moubarak, ont produit un effet de démonstration des défauts de la cuirasse de régimes apparemment forts. Leurs succès ont favorisé une propension à l'action dans d'autres pays arabes, au sein de sociétés dont les revendications et les régimes ne sont pas forcément identiques. Ils ont ainsi ouvert un cycle de mobilisations qui, pour l'heure, n'est pas clos.
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Kriegs-Chronik aus der Ukraine: Episoden des dementierten Russland-NATO-Kriegs
In der Ukraine sind die drei aktiven Kriegsparteien mit der zielstrebigen Eskalation des kriegerischen Tötens und Verwüstens befasst; alle nach der Maxime, den Feind darin immer wieder zu überbieten, bis der nicht mehr mitgehen will oder kann – und auf keinen Fall derjenige zu sein, der irgendwann einlenkt. Dabei machen Russland und die USA mit ihren wechselseitigen...
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Exposición minuciosa de las fallas económicas, financieras y democráticas de las instituciones europeas, "Bajo el yugo neoliberal" rebate sin piedad los enfoques interesados que pretenden "echar la culpa a las víctimas". La agenda renovadora, tanto de la democracia como de la economía política, comienza con este libro y sus prometedores autores.
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Este libro, resultado de una investigación con estudiantes de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sensibiliza sobre escenarios posibles en el Sistema Integral para la Paz (antes SIVJRNR) que dan cuenta de testimonios de violencias sufridas, hoy con vocación de perdón y con base en experiencias en territorio de constructores de paz desde la institucionalidad (CEV y CNMH) y visibiliza oportunidades de ajuste sistémico...
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Have you ever had a person talk out of turn, raise their hand at a bad time or even ignore you when you ask them to stand up? Why so uncultured and brash? It is because they did not understand parliamentary procedures. These rules help to keep a meeting on time, on agenda, and safe from rouge individuals who wish to derail the meeting with foolish antics. A guidebook can help your organization stand out by providing a baseline framework for things...
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When Sarah Palin says it, all of America hears it. In the few years since Americans met Sarah Palin, her every word has been chronicled, analyzed, celebrated, and yes, infamously disparaged. Regardless of your party affiliation, it's impossible to deny her influence on American politics and the dialogue her ideas have generated. Author Matt Lewis has gathered some of Palin's most memorable remarks, reminding us that whether you consider her a rogue...
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Saving California is focused on policy changes that could help restore some of California's lost luster - regardless of what politician runs our massive state government apparatus. The authors are all current or former Californians, people with deep expertise in their respective policy areas. Although their chapters include a fair share of criticism of current policy directions - how could they not? - they each propose real-world policy changes that...
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The diversity of our citizens, coupled with our Constitution and Bill of Rights, has evolved us into a glorious nation. We truly are the sum of our parts: Caucasian, Negro, Hispanic, Indian, Asian, and Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, and every other diverse group imaginable. Our prime problems are not education, healthcare, poverty, etc., it is a corrupt government. Unless we do something now the government will become more corrupt...
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Balance electoral de Colombia 2011 utiliza la misma metodología de trabajo de la edición 2010 y pretende mostrar que en los comicios regionalesanalizados en esta nueva versión, existen unas dinámicas nacionales comparables a través de losgrandes agregados que representan el voto de los partidos políticos. En estesentido, se retoma la principal apuesta de Balance 2010 de poner a estosactores en el centro del análisis.
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As clich as it may sound, teenagers are the future of America and with the youth voting block gaining so much attention in recent elections, now more than ever, it is important that American teenagers have a solid understanding of the American political landscape. As such it is necessary to educate Americas teenagers upon the political issues of our time. This book is a compilation of essays that sum up the major issues of our day and advocate for...
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This book examines the questions that divide conservatives today and reveals the variety of answers put forward by classical conservatives, libertarians, and neoconservatives. The contributors-drawn from varied professional backgrounds-each bring a distinctive voice to bear, reinforcing the book's basic notion that conservatism in America represents a family of opinions and ideas rather than a rigid doctrine or set creed.
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On 8 May 2018, the International Karl Polanyi Society was founded in Vienna. This marked the beginning of a new phase of engagement with a thinker who had already come to be regarded as a centennial figure in the Anglo-Saxon world.
This book serves as an introduction to The Great Transformation, Polanyi's magnum opus and one of the most important works of the 20th century. It helps us to understand the background to Karl Polanyi's intellectual career,...
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La autonomía y la participación en la dirección de los asuntos públicos son elementos fundamentales para la preservación de la identidad y los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. No se trata solamente de una cuestión de ética política, sino que también desde un punto de vista meramente instrumental la autonomía se convierte en un ingrediente esencial para que los pueblos indígenas puedan acceder de una manera efectiva al conjunto de derechos...
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Perry Anderson, Edward Palmer Thompson, David Harvey, Moishe Postone, Derek Sayer, Simon Clarke, Robert Brenner, Ellen Meiksins Wood et David McNally : neuf penseurs importants dont l'influence grandissante marque un renouveau de l'apport de l'œuvre de Marx et de ses successeurs au champ des sciences sociales. Chaque chapitre décrit le parcours intellectuel de l'une de ces figures.
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