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“Why does my congressional district look like a salamander?” Politically engaged citizens have been asking this question for far too long. This volume collects perspectives from a wide cross-section of disciplines to explain what drives gerrymandering, why it can be...
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Birkhäuser
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2022-04-01
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
A compelling examination of China's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-01
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This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security. Nontraditional security goes beyond military security and focuses primarily on socioeconomic security. Its major concern is human beings rather than border or territory of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-01
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The invocation of fifth columns in the political arena -- whether contrived or based on real fears -- has recurred periodically throughout history and is experiencing an upsurge in our era of democratic erosion and geopolitical uncertainty. Fifth columns accusations can...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-01
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In this engaging book, Maria Chiara D’Argenio delineates a turn in recent Latin American filmmaking towards inter/cultural feature films made by non-Indigenous directors. Aimed at a global audience, but played by Indigenous actors, these films tell Indigenous stories in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-31
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The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians. This book...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-03-31
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In this book, ten substantive chapters examine how collisions between technological developments (globalizing forces) and thickening populist pressures (localizing dynamics) constantly keep reinventing the state in unforeseen and unpredictable ways. We learn of how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-31
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Global Political Transitions
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Pandemics have quickly become one of the most important subjects of the twenty-first century. This edited volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which pandemics are theorized and studied across several disciplines. A Multidisciplinary Approach to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-31
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In der Kommunikation setzen und verhandeln wir Themen für uns selbst und für unser Gegenüber.In der Kommunikation auf Medienplattformen können sowohl journalistische und politische Akteure als auch die Nutzer*innen einzelne Themen spezifisch setzen. Jede*r könnte und...
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Springer VS
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2022-03-30
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In der vorliegenden Studie wird ein Messinstrument zur Erfassung einer politikdidaktischen Planungskompetenz bei angehenden Politiklehrer*innen entwickelt und validiert. Der Fokus liegt auf dem Aspekt der Planung und Entwicklung kompetenzorientierter politischer...
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Springer VS
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2022-03-30
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Democracy thrives on vigorous competition between political parties. However, in several established democracies one party manages to dominate national politics for decades at a time, seemingly creating a democratic one-party unnatural democracy. This book examines five...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-30
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Democracy thrives on vigorous competition between political parties. However, in several established democracies one party manages to dominate national politics for decades at a time, seemingly creating a democratic one-party unnatural democracy. This book examines five...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-30
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“This book provides the first book-lengthy study focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics, in line with China’s open ambition of becoming an AI superpower by 2030. China’s unique domestic politics has developed distinct characteristics for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-29
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In recent years, calls for reparations and restorative justice, alongside the rise of populist grievance politics, have demonstrated the stubborn resilience of traumatic memory. From the transnational Black Lives Matter movement's calls for reckoning with the legacy of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-03-29
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“Riveting and intimate. It is hard to imagine a more humanizing portrait of the American labor movement. A remarkable debut.” —Francisco Cantú, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Becomes a River On the...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2022-03-29
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Trade unions in Europe face a range of cross-cutting challenges. This includes the near-universal contraction in union membership; the related decline of traditionally highly unionised blue-collar industries; and the rise of automation, microprocessing, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-28
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This book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States. Using what he terms an Institutional Marxist framework, Maher argues that, far from passively responding to interest group pressures, the state has been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-28
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed or fragile states. This worldview has dominated international interventions over the past 30 years as enormous resources...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-28
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The purpose of the book is to elaborate a planning theory which departs from the plethora of theories which reflect the conditions of developed countries of the North-West.The empirical material of this effort is derived from a country, Greece, which sits on the edge...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-28
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This book aims to seek for the truth which connects public value and social development as basis to build a harmony community for individuals as well as society. The book tries to bridge science, technology, economics, politics, history, ethics, and environment under...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-26
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