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China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly thought to have been primarily driven by economic interests, especially resources like oil. This book argues instead that...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-08-25
Collection :
China Today
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This book challenges the common perception or assumption that greater state intervention and re-centralization will result in convergence towards a more equitable and inclusive growth model in China. Instead of asking whether local agency matters, this project...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-23
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This book provides key insights into the nature of officer–recipient relationships and shows how they have non-negligible impacts on the way recipients feel and think about themselves and their lives using mixed methods and subjective and psychosocial well-being...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-21
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch thematisiert Maximilian Schiffers die Rolle von NGOs als besondere Akteure der Interessenvermittlung. Als Leitfrage untersucht er, wie verschiedene Typen von NGOs im Rahmen politischer Prozesse agieren. Mit einer explorativen und qualitativen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-08-21
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This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. This book covers topics ranging from geopolitical relations to regional integration, public health governance and even...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such as pollution and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-08-09
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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This book studies the question of e-Government development from a multi-faceted perceptive. The first introductory chapter outlines the importance of public sector digitalisation. The second chapter clarifies the used e-Government terminology and divides the concept...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-08
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This book critically explores the role of two advocacy NGOs actively involved in processes of education policymaking during the recent education reforms carried out in Chile, the country known as the first laboratory of neoliberalism around the world. Based on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-04
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COVID-19 exposed the world's failure to prepare for the worst -- can we learn to build back better?
TheCOVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-04
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The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
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A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.
The emergence of genomic science in the last...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-03
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia. It is a rare moment in politics and policy making that an idea as revolutionary, ambitious and expensive as the NDIS...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-02
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This book provides a detailed examination of public service reforms in Malta. Focusing on both the trajectory and substance of the reforms, the volume provides a holistic treatment of the public sector in the European Union’s smallest member state. The book is divided...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-30
Collection :
Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
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Digital information drives participation in politics, the economy, and society. Yet great disparities exist as to which communities have access to the internet. In 2017, only half of residents of formerly industrial Flint, Michigan, had broadband or satellite internet...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-27
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If art, and especially music, has been framed in cultural sociology as a collective production relying on a variety of actors, technicians have been mostly framed as “support personnel” marginally impacting the meaning of a cultural production. This book analyzes sound...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-23
Collection :
Musik und Gesellschaft
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Der Band lässt 30 Jahre Beschäftigung der Autorin mit der Ökonomik Sozialer Arbeit Revue passieren, die in der Entwicklung eines alternativen Ökonomiemodells mündet. Mit dem Ansatz einer Autonomie fördernden Meritorik wird ein Analyserahmen für Soziale Arbeit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-23
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As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase. Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme price...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-11
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This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. The author suggests that parents are pressured to be equal partners while also being asked to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-10
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This volume analyses the process and structure of ecotaxes in India to bring forth its rationale, application and incidence on emerging environmental problems on the backdrop of the environmental issues confronted by the Indian economy. Being at infant stage in India,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-08
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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This book explores the shift towards individual responsibility that is increasingly evident in welfare systems across the world. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, social policy, and political science, with a particular focus...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-08
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