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A key component of democratic accountability is that citizens understand 'who is to blame'. Nonetheless, little is known about how citizens attribute responsibility in the European Union or how those perceptions of responsibility matter. This book presents the first...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-13
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Calls by political leaders, social activists, and international policy and aid actors for accountability reforms to improve governance have never been more widespread. For some analysts, the unprecedented scale of these pressures reflects the functional imperatives and...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-13
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Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global competitiveness. Its economy is as dysfunctional as its political system is corrupt; both rely heavily on international aid for...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-02
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The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and political research. It is thus vital that their quality is established.The purpose of this book is to review methodological issues that have got in the way of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-28
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This book addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments choose some public policies but not others? Political executives focus on a range of policy issues, such as the economy, social policy, and foreign policy, but they shift...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-28
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Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory under successive waves of modernization, yet it continually re-emerges as a key principle of social, economic, and political organization. Rather than a de-territorialization we are witnessing a rescaling...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-28
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Recently in the Dominican Republic, a pro-municipal social alliance pressed for decentralization and politicians yielded, seeking power in three-party competition. This study examines how electoral, financial, and administrative power has been dispersed and suggests...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-11-21
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Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-17
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New Parties in Old Party Systems addresses a pertinent yet neglected issue in comparative party research: why are some new parties that enter national parliament able to defend a niche on the national level, while other fail to do so? Unlike most existing studies, which...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. This book develops guidelines for policymakers, practitioners and policy analysts to understand what drives policy success and to transfer innovations from a...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-09-27
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Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association
Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-02
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In the past twenty years, over 25 million refugees have returned 'home'. These refugee repatriations are considered by the international community to be the only real means of solving mass refugee crises. Yet despite the importance placed on repatriation--both in...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-29
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„Wutbürger“ wurde von der Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache zum „Wort des Jahres 2010“ gewählt. Offenkundig gibt es in Deutschland ungewohnten und scheinbar parteiübergreifenden Bürgerprotest. Dieser Band betrachtet das Thema „Parteien in der Gesellschaft“ und deren...
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Springer VS
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2013-08-28
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For three decades multiculturalism has been the focus of fierce debates. At the same time Europeans have worried, at the national level and at that of the European Union, about how to relate to a world in which their influence has been steadily reducing. But the two...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-22
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This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-08-20
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„Religion und Politik“ wurde spätestens mit den jüngsten Revolutionen im arabischen Raum ein zentrales Thema für die Demokratisierungsforschung. Wie beeinflussen religiöse Akteure Demokratisierung? Welche Faktoren bedingen ihre Einflussnahme? Der vorliegende Band bietet...
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Springer VS
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2013-08-13
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Politik und Religion
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Dictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering away. Today, most dictators organize multiparty elections. The Politics of Uncertainty presents an analytical framework and empirical data that allow us to understand the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-02
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Americans and Europeans perceive threat differently.Americans remain more religious than Europeans and generally still believe their nation is providentially blessed. American security culture is relatively stable and includes the deeply held belief that existential...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-31
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The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has become an increasingly urgent issue. In searching for a way out, academics, EU institutions, and political forces advocate the involvement of civil society.The Commission's new governance approach and the Lisbon Treaty...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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