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Contestation and Adaptation unravels the complexities of national-identity contestation among various ethnic minority groups in China. It focuses on the interactions between domestic and international forces that inform ethnic groups' national-identity contestation,...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-23
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The European Commission is arguably the world's most powerful international administration. It plays a central role in the political system of the European Union.The Commission is a permanent presence in the life of the member states, but its influence is felt far...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-27
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The book explores the ways in which social cohesion -- measured as trust in unknown fellow citizens -- can be established and undermined. It examines the US and UK, where social cohesion declined in the latter part of the twentieth century, and Sweden and Denmark, where...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-20
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Has male dominance in political life been broken? Will gender balance in elected assemblies soon be reached? Around 100 years after women's suffrage was gained, and in spite of much effort, most countries are still at some distance from this goal. In 2013, the average...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-20
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The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural patterns that are highly typical of the 'normal' executives in national settings. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-20
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Die neuen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, wie der weltweite islamistische Terrorismus, aber auch der drohende Klimawandel und die daraus hervorgehenden Naturkatastrophen führen zu weit reichenden Veränderungen im System der Inneren Sicherheit. Standen bislang...
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Springer VS
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2013-06-14
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Representing Europeans takes a fresh and quizzical look at the problems facing the European Union. Bringing decades of experience to bear on the deep, structural problems currently facing the EU, Richard Rose spells out why it can no longer carry on with integration by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-25
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Representing Europeans takes a fresh and quizzical look at the problems facing the European Union. Bringing decades of experience to bear on the deep, structural problems currently facing the EU, Richard Rose spells out why it can no longer carry on with integration by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-25
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After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, "What comes next?" How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe?
William A. Callahan's China Dreams...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation. Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more on the promotion of labour market participation. This book investigates this transformation by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-28
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century prime ministers loom larger in the consciousness of their nations than perhaps in any previous era. But how well do we really understand the variables of prime-ministerial performance, and, specifically, why some prime...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the rules, and citizen engagement with politics can be renewed. Yet a look at the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Bad Presidents seeks to interpret the meaning of presidential 'badness' by investigating the ways in which eleven presidents were 'bad.' The author brings a unique, and often amusing perspective on the idea of the presidency, and begins a new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-19
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This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-03-12
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During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the rising demand for peacekeepers saw the United Nations (UN) operate at a historically unprecedented tempo, with increases in the number and size of missions as well as in the scope and complexity of their mandates....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining interest group influence. Understanding lobbying success should be of particular concern...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of both the concept and the practice of intra-party democracy (IPD). Acknowledging that IPD is now widely viewed, among both democratic practitioners and scholars, as a normative good, this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out all aspects of this decision in legislation...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-31
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Federal systems are praised for creating political stability, but they are also blamed for causing rigidity. They are said to balance powers, but apparently they are also threatened by instability due to drifts in power. Federalism should support democratization, but it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-31
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