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In an age of rising authoritarianism, political polarization, and democratic backsliding, Democracy in Ten Questions offers a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the enduring debates over the value of democracy. This concise yet comprehensive book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-23
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This book offers a timely exploration of how authoritarian states communicate with foreign publics, blending strategies of attraction, persuasion, manipulation, and control. As authoritarian regimes grow more sophisticated in projecting influence beyond their borders,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-23
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This edited volume is the fifth in the Japan Decides series and the premier venue for scholarly research on the 2024 general election for the Japanese House of Representatives. The 2024 election was historic, with Japan's long-ruling LDP...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-22
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Taking Japan as a heuristic example, this book explores the significance of neatly kept and classified records and archives to maintain a democratic society. Japan adopted constitutional monarchy as a state system in the nineteenth century and then amended it to become...
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Springer
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2025-11-22
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Drawing on unmined archives and original interviews, Rebecca Lubot tells the story of how US lawmakers grappled with issues over presidential succession and inability and vice-presidential vacancy and ultimately ratified the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. She argues that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-21
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The book examines how well UNHCR’s internal culture has remained aligned with its protection mandate's core values and principles amidst a rapidly evolving external environment and how this alignment—or lack thereof—impacts its external performance in refugee...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-21
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This book offers the first critical examination of Australian State and Territory politics in over 20 years. It presents a major updating of the field, with deep analysis of key political, electoral and policy developments in all the States and both Territories over the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-20
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Since the American Revolution, scholars and citizens have often assumed that dispassionate rationality, reciprocity, and nonviolent tolerance are necessary conditions for the sustained development of democracy. Accordingly, they reject oppositional parties that spurn...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This book provides an overview of discrimination and structural injustice in assisted dying. It differentiates between direct and indirect discrimination at both the individual and organizational levels, and it pays particular attention to indirect discrimination due to...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This edited volume studies nuclear negotiations and diplomacy from a negotiation perspective.This book reviews the current state of knowledge regarding multilateral negotiations and seeks to provide key research insights on the conditions under which nuclear...
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Springer
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2025-11-19
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Complexity and Community in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book addresses the critical transition from traditional development strategies to sustainable development practices. It provides a detailed examination of theories of development administration and explores how sustainable development has redefined global goals....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This edited collection offers new engagement with important case studies and contexts that have been neglected in the field of vernacular security research. With cutting edge scholarship from fieldwork and primary research in Georgia, Tunisia, Bangladesh, the Pacific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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Why have Latin American countries developed sharply divergent financial systems—and how do these systems shape national growth strategies? While Chile built large capital markets and Brazil expanded long-term credit for firms, Argentina lags behind in both. What...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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In 1999, the European People's Party (EPP) emerged as the largest political group in the European Parliament, maintaining its dominance for more than 25 years and influencing the direction of the EU through five consecutive Presidencies of the European Commission.
In...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This open access book analyses the relationship between language proficiency and political participation from abroad among Italians living in Australia, focusing specifically on second- and third-generation Italians. It evaluates how confident second- and...
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Springer
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2025-11-16
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This book defends constructivism as a leading approach to formulating the moral basis of political authority. It addresses a central tension in constructivist theory: how principles can be both dependent on human deliberation and normatively objective. Moving beyond the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-16
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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,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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Dieses essential diskutiert den vielschichtigen Begriff der Sicherheit, untersucht die Verantwortung für die Schaffung von Sicherheit und hinterfragt, ob es umfassende Sicherheit überhaupt geben kann. Sicherheit ist ein Grundbedürfnis des Menschen –...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2025-11-15
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This Open-Access-book focuses on the legacies of post-Fukushima activism, which are linked to significant changes in Japan’s civil society. Thirteen years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Japanese government tries to convey the impression that...
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Springer VS
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2025-11-15
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