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In many recent democracies, candidates compete for office using illegal strategies to influence voters.In Hungary and Romania, local actors including mayors and bureaucrats offer access to social policy benefits to voters who offer to support their preferred candidates,...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-17
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Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments. But the show has a global reach as well, with more than thirty...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-17
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What is a buffer? Is it a control zone? Or is it rather a transition space, a blurred boundary? Since "buffer zones" were introduced in the late 1970s as a complementary protection layer to World Heritage sites, the dimensions of heritage have changed significantly;...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2019-10-16
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The book presents a detailed biography of Alexander Dubcek, the icon of the “Czecho-Slovak Spring” in 1968. It aims to explain his decisions and intellectual development in the context of the turbulent development of the 20th century Central Europe. Dubck’s importance...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-16
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the British Press provides an extensive empirical analysis of how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been constructed in British national newspapers since 1948. It traces the evolution of representations of the conflict by placing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-15
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This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years. Focusing on the shift from propaganda to political marketing, and from manipulation to persuasion,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-15
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This book analyses the changes to the regulation of everyday life that have taken place as a result of datafication, the ever-growing analytical, predictive, and structuring role of algorithms, and the prominence of the platform economy.This new form of regulation –...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-10-15
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Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Kim Strassel argues that the all-out "Resistance" has become dangerously reckless in its obstruction of President Trump.Among the most consistent and aggressive criticisms of Donald Trump is that he is...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2019-10-15
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Besides becoming more complex, destructive, and coercive, military cyber threats are now ubiquitous, and it is difficult to imagine a future conflict that would not have a cyber dimension.
This book presents the proceedings of CYDEF2018, a collaborative workshop...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-10-15
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Künstlerresidenzen gelten sowohl als Aushängeschild einer zeitgemäßen dialogisierenden Auswärtigen Kulturpolitik als auch als Bausteine einer modernen individuellen Künstlerförderung. Johannes Crückeberg stellt die unterschiedlichen Aspekte des kulturpolitischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-14
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This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin American countries and offers an explanation based on its many drivers,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-14
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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, despite being the cause of debate...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-14
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What is Political Economy?
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Auch im Ruhrgebiet verstärkt sich der Eindruck, Politik, Gesellschaft und Medien hätten sich voneinander entfremdet. Wie gestaltet sich aber die Gesprächsgrundlage politischer Öffentlichkeit im Ruhrgebiet? Das vorliegende essential widmet sich dieser Frage und zeigt,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-13
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While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-11
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This book examines China’s political, economic, and diplomatic engagement in Africa. The rapid increase of China’s economic and political involvement in Africa is the most momentous development on the continent of Africa since the beginning of the twenty-first century....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-11
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This book explores the meaning of peace according to (some of) the people who make it. Based on some 200 interviews, it empirically studies the visions of peace that professional peaceworkers from the Netherlands, Lebanon and Mindanao (Philippines) are working on. As...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-11
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Given the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement, Anja Zenker examines the potential of free trade benefits as an incentive mechanism for an effective and stable climate change cooperation of states. She addresses the question of how the specific policy design affects the...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Diplomatic Investigations is a classic work in the field of International Relations. It is one of the
few books in the field of International Relations (IR) that can be called iconic. Edited by Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight, it brings together twelve papers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-10
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Diplomatic Investigations is a classic work in the field of International Relations. It is one of the
few books in the field of International Relations (IR) that can be called iconic. Edited by Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight, it brings together twelve papers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-10
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The book offers a processual and discursive perspective on how individuals exit the Muslim Brotherhood.The framework is based on an interaction of ‘micro’ psychological and emotional factors, ‘meso’ organizational factors and ‘macro’ political developments linked to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-09
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