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Most members of Congress begin their careers through regularly scheduled elections, but terms may be cut short due to death, scandal, or different career opportunities. In these cases, special elections are held to fill vacancies. In fact, a number of prominent...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-29
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To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital energy paradigm--and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change.
The climate and energy...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-29
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This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-29
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Presents various challenges faced by security policy makers and risk analysts, and mathematical approaches that inform homeland security policy development and decision support Compiled by a group of highly qualified editors, this book provides a clear connection...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-01-29
Collection :
Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science
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Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. PresidentialElection elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-29
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This book shows the growing phenomenon and the broad impact of socio-environmental conflicts in the grassroots communities—farmers, fishermen and urban poor—in Indonesia, as the effects of government’s development strategies based on neoliberal and New Public Management...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-29
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This book discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications in digital government and the public sector. With its robust infrastructure and append-only record system, blockchain technology is being increasingly employed in the public sector, specifically...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-28
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This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico. Union density, which reflects the representation of labor unions in the employed labor force, is one of the main...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-28
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This book aims to examine the multiple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on China-Southeast Asia relations from both Chinese and Southeast Asian perspectives. It invites many officials and scholars from the leading think-tanks and famous universities in China and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families,...
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Polity
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2021-01-28
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Austerity has dominated the policy agenda in the past decade. Although it appeared to end with the COVID-19 pandemic, a return to harsh cutbacks in the future cannot be ruled out. In this incisive analysis, Diane Perrons shows that while austerity policies have...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-01-28
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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"This, Too, is Liberia"
The above quote of the late Tom Kamara is emblematic for his writings and a characterization of the social, economic, and political landscape of his motherland. He fearlessly and objectively fought to expose the ills of the Liberian society. Tom...
Editeur :
Odyssee Reisgidsen
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Populism and globalization are shorthand for the temper of our times.Populism is usually cast as globalization’s nemesis, a backlash against worldwide connectivity, while globalization is often said to be in retreat or even demise.
This book takes issue with both...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-01-27
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This book provides a new analytical perspective on the strategies, membership and communication management of political parties in Poland. The authors address why some political parties have managed to strengthen and survive while others have failed to do the same. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
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This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques. Case studies from Sweden and Germany are presented, investigating how the gender and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-27
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Migrants fleeing economic hardship or violence are entitled to a range of protections and rights under domestic and international law, yet they are often denied such protections in practice. In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses, migrant acceptance is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-26
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This book provides empirical evidence to show how democratic experiments are harnessed to achieve control and support authoritarianism, through the lens of participatory pricing, which is one of the most important forms of deliberative democracy in China. The crucial...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-01-25
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With the pace of trade and investment picking up, coupled with closer international cooperation with Beijing through the G20, FOCAC and BRICS grouping, South Africa-China ties are assuming a significant position in continental and even global affairs. At the same time,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-23
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