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Wie funktioniert die lokale Demokratie in Deutschland und was sind die wichtigsten Determinanten politischer Orientierungen und politischen Verhaltens der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in einer Stadt? In diesem Buch geht es um die Wahrnehmung der politischen Wirklichkeit und...
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Springer VS
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2015-02-02
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Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-12
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The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam....
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Hurst
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2015-01-12
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In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again. "The...
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Hurst
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2015-01-11
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Divided We Govern investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coalition governments. Since the 1970s, socialist, communist and regional parties in India have sought to forge a progressive...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-10
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Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of...
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Basic Books
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2015-01-06
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The international community has donated nearly one trillion dollars during the last four decades to reconstruct post-conflict countries and prevent the outbreak of more civil war. Yet reconstruction has eluded many of these countries, and 1.9 million people have been...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits. The unions defend tooth and nail the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-02
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Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? Drawing lessons from different types of party systems in six African countries, this volume shows that party systems affect democracy in Africa in ways that are unexpectedly different from the relation between party...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-02
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The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century's most radical upheavals, and although Russian governments are usually characterized by autocracy, corruption, and political decay, the central government...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-18
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In mid-2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country's civil war when in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major...
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Hurst
Parution :
2014-11-15
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Chuck Todd's gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obama's tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2014-11-11
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The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are...
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E-Penguin
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2014-11-05
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With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years. Near the end of the Second World War, the United...
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Twelve
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2014-11-04
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It is well understood that "good institutions" are essential for good governance. But even institutions that follow similar designs vary significantly with regard to performance across countries and even across regions within the same country. Following China's...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-03
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This books examines the institutional foundations of coalition government in the ten post-communist democracies of Eastern and Central Europe for the 1990-2010 period: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-30
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Nach der Wiedervereinigung der deutschen Staaten entwickelten sich die politischen Systeme in den östlichen und westlichen Bundesländern unterschiedlich. Insbesondere zeichnen sich die Ostparlamente durch den
politischen Bedeutungsverlust der Liberalen aus. Falk Illing...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-07
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This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-25
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Ökonomisches Denken greift auf immer mehr Politikbereiche über. In der theoretischen Debatte ist bereits seit einigen Jahren die Rede von einer Hegemonie des Neoliberalismus. Diese These gilt es jedoch auch empirisch zu stützen. Im vorliegenden Band geschieht dies...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-24
Collection :
Kritische Studien zur Demokratie
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Wenn die Bundeskanzlerin oder der Bundeskanzler in den Umfragen positiv bewertet werden und bei internationalen Konferenzen eine führende Rolle spielen, wird kaum jemand bestreiten, dass in Deutschland eine Kanzlerdemokratie besteht. Sobald Kanzler oder Kanzlerin auf...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-24
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