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Capitalism is hitting the buffers. Unable to handle the various crises that its inherent logic of growth, profit, and competition has produced, it has led the world into a state of emergency - with the authoritarian right on the rise globally and progressive forces...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-30
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This open access volume focuses on the various processes of state formation and the significant role that organization, citizens, and institutions are coming to play in forming policy in the resource-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. As rentier states, they...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-12-27
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This book explores the transformation of contemporary social welfare into what the author terms “surveillant care”—a hybrid system that merges protection with control, requiring recipients to surrender privacy and autonomy as prerequisites for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-24
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This concise and interdisciplinary open access volume explores the imperative of social policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential nature of such a reform. Its chapters study social policy changes that have been made before and during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This open access book assesses the links between decentralization and crises management in Czechia, paying particular attention to the ways in which local municipalities have dealt with turbulent problems including the Covid-19 pandemic and the migration crises caused...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book presents a fresh perspective on how bilateral relations are shaped not only by national-level diplomacy but by the interplay of various governance levels-including municipal, regional, national, and supranational actors. Through this approach, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book aims to elucidate the operational mechanisms of transfer of land development right within a public ownership system, which not only offers a distinctive and dynamic case study on TDR program to advance institutional diversity in transitional economies, but...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-14
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Major environmental problems threaten our planet and evoke within us a need to act – a need to do something, no matter how small, to slow the damage.But what kind of action? Businesses, governments and some environmental groups tell us that buying environmentally...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-13
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A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon’s runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite“A damning indictment of the conflicts of interest running rampant in the defense...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2025-11-11
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This volume seeks to apply creative and thoughtful insights about polycentric orders to the fields of interpolity relations and libertarian & classical liberal studies. Classical liberal thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, Vincent Ostrom, and F.A. Hayek have all...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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Perhaps the most extraordinary period in modern British history, the years between the Great Recession and Brexit have often been dubbed ‘the lost decade’ because of the economic and political turmoil caused by those two great events. Michael Burton outlines how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-30
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Dieses Buch setzt sich mit bürgerschaftlichem Engagement aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auseinander. So wird u.a. bürgerschaftliches Engagement als demokratisches Heilmittel, Innovationsmotor oder Gestaltungskraft für demografischen Wandel diskutiert. Was bewegt...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-05-28
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This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, human relationships are under considerable threat. Despite the 1994 commitment to an inclusive and human-rights-based democracy, human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-11
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Das Standardwerk bietet einen breiten empirischen Überblick über die Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland und die zentralen sozialen Problemlagen. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung stehen Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitslosigkeit und Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsbeziehungen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-07-10
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?In diesem Handbuch wird das grundlegende Wissen über die Europäische Union auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung präsentiert. Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten befassen sich in den rund vierzig Einzelbeiträgen mit der Entstehungsgeschichte, den Institutionen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-06
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting. Editors Daniel Williams and Thad Calabrese had previously found substantial deficiencies in public budgeting forecast literature with current...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-14
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This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so. It explores central theoretical issues addressed by the classical economists Smith and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book presents perspectives from world experts in the field of wisdom studies to propose how wisdom can provide the foundation upon which solutions to social and global problems can be grounded. The authors argue that where society has come to rely on leaders with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis. Davies frames his research within the ideological, political and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Hort der Vergangenheit oder moderner Publikumsmagnet? Das Handbuch stellt die Gedächtnisinstitution Museum in der Theorie und in ihrem Selbstverständnis vor und geht auf die Aufgaben ein: Sammeln, Dokumentieren, Konservieren, Erforschen, Ausstellen und Vermitteln. Nach...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-26
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