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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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This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts. Using the former Soviet Union as a starting point, it examines how 13 countries have developed, defined and evolved their system of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-16
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Kommunikationstheorien und Terrorismus – wie lässt sich hier eine Verbindung schaffen? Terrorismus ist ein in der heutigen Zeit dominantes Thema: Es bestimmt zuweilen die öffentliche politische Diskussion wie auch private Gespräche. Die Kommunikationswissenschaft kann...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-16
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If there is one thing that people agree about concerning the massive, leaderless, spontaneous protests that have spread across the globe over the past decade, it's that they were failures. The protesters, many claim, simply could not organize; nor could they formulate...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-16
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Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-16
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This book is authored by some of the renowned scholars in Africa who take on the task to understand how Kenya is governed in this century from a public policy perspective. The book’s public policy approach addresses three general and pertinent questions: (1) how are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Was the European Union ever a liberal dream? How did the common market impact the liberalization in its member states? Has the EU fostered more or less economic freedom in the Old Continent? This book explores the intellectual and political genesis of the European...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-15
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The aim of this book is to take stock of the experiences of Spain and Portugal in the adaptation to the IPSAS, showing the advantages, disadvantages and the main challenges for its implementation. In chapter one, the book analyses the IPSAS and the conceptual framework,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This book examines how film articulates countercultural flows in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The book interrogates the gap between radical politics and radical aesthetics by analyzing counterculture as a form, drawing upon Egyptian films produced between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion. Who wins and who loses? How are institutions being shaped, and by whom? Drawing from experiences since the earlier days of biofuels promotion, it explores in unprecedented detail the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule. By breaking up the causal chain into various steps, it provides a thorough and nuanced understanding of internet’s role in different stages of the mobilization...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-13
Collection :
The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
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This is the first book-length empirical study of free zones (FZs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The volume systematically illustrates the development processes behind FZs in Gulf Arab states and assesses the impact of these commercial entities on regional...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-13
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-13
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This book examines the U.S. war on drugs at home and abroad. It provides a brief history of the war on drugs. In addition, it analyzes drug trafficking and organized crime in Colombia and Mexico, and the role of the United States government in counternarcotics policies....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-12
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Political scientists have long determined that a president’s relationships with his advisors is crucial in determining an administration’s policies. Over the last several decades, scholars of the presidency have paid particular attention to the advisory structures and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-12
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In order to understand the political structure and stability in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the nature of the Islamic judicial system in the country must be analysed. This book undertakes this responsibility and is the first comprehensive study of structurally...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-12
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The agenda of the 11th CEE Forum Conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, held on 25-26 April 2019 was focused on the reassessment of the Central and Eastern European position in Europe and in the world, seeking for the specificities of this region, being often perceived as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-04-12
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This book brings together a collection of essays about the untenable political status quo in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina. Since democratization in the 1990s, Bangladeshi political life has been characterized by fierce battles over the role of religion in society,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-12
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This book deals with two areas: Global Commons and Security: inextricably melted together and more relevant than ever in a world which is ever globalized and… with an incognita looming on the horizon: the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic upon the International...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-10
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This book discusses local area planning in the Lombardy region of Italy. The book provides valuable insights about the development of local welfare systems and the territorial organization of social services through the analysis of the evolution of the Local Area Plan,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-10
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