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This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or “crisis” of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author’s premise is that currently there is no objectively fair way for the public at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-18
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Auf der Basis einer Fallanalyse Spaniens entwickelt Andreas Baumer eine Systematik der Politikoptionen, die demokratischen Staaten gegenüber dem Phänomen der irregulären Migration zur Verfügung stehen. Dabei geht es auch um die Frage, in welchem Spannungsverhältnis...
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Springer VS
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2017-04-06
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This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust. To gauge trust both interpersonal and institutional in 29 Asian societies, the AsiaBarometer survey, the best—and...
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Springer
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2017-03-14
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe wall, taxes, tariffs, deportations, Obamacare, guns, military strength, schools, abortion, religion - what will the new president do? The "Godfather of Trumpmania," Michael Savage, examines the initial appointments, speeches, tweets and...
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Center Street
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2017-03-14
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The Sinews of State Power seeks to explain why rural China has been so unstable since 2000, despite numerous national reforms. Using original fieldwork, it traces the rise and demise of cohesive local states in rural China since the Maoist era. It shows that, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-10
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This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-07
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Global Issues
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This book shows how the introduction of intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-06
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Contemporary debate over the legacy of racial integration in the United States rests between two positions that are typically seen as irreconcilable. On one side are those who argue that we must pursue racial integration because it is an essential component of racial...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-01
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Sebastian Stier führt bislang isolierte Literaturen der politik- und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Internetforschung zusammen und untersucht empirisch, inwiefern Autokratien in ihrer Netzpolitik und politischen Online-Kommunikation von Demokratien abweichen. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-02-06
Collection :
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
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'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel KahnemanIn this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-01-26
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This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration. Advancing an explanation based on political parties' constitutional preferences, the volume investigates the nature and variation of parliamentary rights in European...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-19
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This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration. Advancing an explanation based on political parties' constitutional preferences, the volume investigates the nature and variation of parliamentary rights in European...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-13
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This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the action of a group of individuals called “Ambassadors of Participation” was...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-10
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This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-04
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How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front?
Democracy in the Woods addresses these question by examining land rights conflicts-and the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-02
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This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This book addresses the problem of World Regional Studies and its components: regional complexes, regional subsystems and global regions. With an increasingly complex international system and the emergence of new actors, it is clear that the conceptual framing within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state. It details their lobbying strategies and the leverage it gives them in policy-making in China's political system. Analysis is provided in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization. The author emphasizes the horizontal interactions between local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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