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In order for transparency measures to fight corruption, they must be paired with enforcement.
Levels of corruption vary greatly around the world, with certain regions suffering from it more than others. Why is it pervasive in some countries, how does it weaken critical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-19
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Latin America is a region made up of multiple states and societies with a diversity of races, ethnicities, and cultures. These states share historical legacies, cultural backgrounds and institutional frameworks, as well as political and socioeconomic challenges--but can...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-19
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The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars. While some propose that populism is inherently harmful for democracy because it is anti-pluralist and confrontational, others argue that populism can reinvigorate worn-out democracies in need...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-19
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'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three' Guardian 'Cruel, unforgiving, muckracking, scandalous . . . Michael Wolff concludes his Trump trilogy - with the best book' Telegraph 'Wolff is the...
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The Bridge Street Press
Parution :
2021-07-13
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Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming injustices, paralyses, and divides How, in a few decades, did the United States transform from a broadly prosperous...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-07-01
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A novel analysis that combines traditional theories on anti-Semitism with evidence from 76 nations to explain the determinants that drive discrimination against Jews.
Why Do People Discriminate against Jews? provides a data-rich analysis of the causes of discrimination...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-17
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'Nobody writes better prose than Renata Adler' John Leonard, Harper's For decades Renata Adler - acclaimed author of Speedboat and Pitch Dark - has pursued a single urgent question: What is really going on here? As a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1963 to 2001,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-06-10
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W&N Essentials
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Populisten wie Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán oder Jair Bolsonaro verändern die Weltpolitik und stellen etablierte institutionelle Verfahrensweisen in Frage. Der Sammelband betrachtet die Regierungsführung populistischer Akteure und gibt einen Einblick in politische...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-01
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Financial Crises and the Limits of Bank Reform examines the responses that were implemented in France and Germany, two comparable European economies, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis from 2007/2008 with respect to the future economic role of the banks....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-28
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Financial Crises and the Limits of Bank Reform examines the responses that were implemented in France and Germany, two comparable European economies, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis from 2007/2008 with respect to the future economic role of the banks....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-28
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Party System Closure maps trends in interparty relations in Europe from 1848 until 2019. It investigates how the length of democratic experience, the institutionalization of individual parties, the fragmentation of parliaments, and the support for anti-establishment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-09
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Party System Closure maps trends in interparty relations in Europe from 1848 until 2019. It investigates how the length of democratic experience, the institutionalization of individual parties, the fragmentation of parliaments, and the support for anti-establishment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-09
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This book shows that constitutional courts exercise direct and indirect power on political branches through decision-making. The first face of judicial power is characterized by courts directing political actors to implement judicial decisions in specific ways. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-17
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The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which the key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.
Except in the mid-twentieth century, its territorial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-08
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The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which the key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.
Except in the mid-twentieth century, its territorial...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-08
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Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies. This development is best understood as the emergence of technopopulism—a new political logic that is being superimposed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-20
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Technocratic appeals to expertise and populist invocations of 'the people' have become mainstays of political competition in established democracies. This development is best understood as the emergence of technopopulism—a new political logic that is being superimposed...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-20
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This book examines the role of scientific expertise in minimum wage policy making in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It finds that scientific research is an important part of the public discourse on minimum wages in all three countries. Newspapers...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-01
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The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of federalism.The best federal studies either evade it or dismiss it in a few lines. However, the issue of secession has been present throughout the history of federations. This book is one...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2021-02-25
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A data-driven explanation of when successful religious parties reduce the civil liberties of their citizens in Muslim-majority countries and when they don't.
Religious parties are increasingly common across the world. More and more, they participate in elections, win...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-12
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