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Strategic rivalries are contests between states that view one another as threatening competitors and treat each other as enemies. A disproportionate amount of interstate conflict is generated by a relatively small number of these pairs of states engaged in rivalries...
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Springer
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2021-11-20
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This book analyzes changes to campaigning and voting in the United States in 2020. The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 upended traditional campaign strategies, posed unprecedented challenges to candidates, and possessed the potential to fundamentally alter how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-20
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Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-20
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Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-20
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This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates. They...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-20
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Das Buch nimmt die südafrikanische Transformation vom Apartheitregime zur Demokratie als Rahmen für die Analyse der Verhältnisse von Geschlecht und Politik von 1987 bis 2014. Ausgangsthese ist, dass in Zeiten politischer Transformation sich neue Gelegenheitsfenster für...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-19
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A detailed story of how social science contributed to gay rights gains in the courts.
For most of American history, public opinion was strongly opposed to gay rights. Marriage equality had negligible public support throughout the 1970s-1980s. Yet, starting in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-19
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In der öffentlichen Diskussion stellt Populismus vor allem im europäischen Raum einen negativ konnotierten Begriff dar. Meist werden populistische Parteien als Gefahr für die liberale Demokratie, ihre Institutionen und Garantien betrachtet. Die Forschung schreibt ihnen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-18
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We all strive for personal happiness in one way or another, but what about public happiness? What does public happiness mean and what role can governments and public policies play? The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of old governance...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-18
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Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
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This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation. It shines a light on some key P/CVE...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-18
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This book examines mass shootings and attempted shootings that occurred across 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, known as post-communist states.This region of the world has been described by social scientists as possessing specific social, cultural, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-17
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This book presents a number of specific proposals that, if translated into political reality, could contribute to nurturing a Europeanisation of national public spheres. Having left Brexit behind, intellectuals and policy-makers throughout Europe are now passionately...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-17
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This book is concerned with the role that communication - understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts - can play in post-civil war peacebuilding. It engages with questions of how a society can move from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-17
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This book considers contested responsibilities between the public and private sectors over the use of online data, detailing exactly how digital human rights evolved in specific European states and gradually became a part of the European Union framework of legal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-17
Collection :
Information Technology and Global Governance
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The rise of authoritarian populism and declining popular confidence in democratic institutions has, of late, prompted many declarations that democracy is in crisis. Nevertheless, democracy still enjoys its supremacy in contemporary political discourse, with limited...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-17
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This book explores the issues caused by climate change and environmental degradation, alongside the economic policies that can help secure an environmentally sustainable future. Through examining sustainability and resilience, the neoliberal globalised trading system...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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Moving from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day, this book traces the trajectory of the six East Central European former satellites of the Soviet Union (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria) that have joined the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This book provides a detailed look at the constitutional, historical, and political arguments concerning presidential immunity from prosecution, as well as the opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel that provided the justification for the decision not to prosecute...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This study takes the work of transforming violence and conflict online and offers insight into the practice of dialogue in virtual settings for peacebuilding purposes. In the field of peace and conflict studies and peacebuilding practices, a significant amount of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-16
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