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In 2000, to everyone's surprise, the opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo won the elections in Côte d'Ivoire, the showcase of “Françafrique” since the days of Houphouët-Boigny, but this historic democratic victory was not “accepted” by the former colonial power. On April...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2019-10-01
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This book explores the stagnation of democracy in the Western Balkans over the last decade. The author maps regional features of rising authoritarianism that mirror larger global trends and, in doing so, outlines the core mechanisms of authoritarian rule in the Balkans,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-30
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This edited volume investigates America’s transforming democracy as it faces the challenges and developments of the 21st century—challenges and developments that have brought deep dissatisfaction, cultural fragmentation, and economic indignation. Although...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-30
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This volume explores the complex webs of interaction between the environmental movement, socialism, and the «natural» environment in Germany, and beyond, in the twentieth century. There has long been a divide between the environmental, or «green,» movement and socialist...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-09-30
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?Wie wählten die Deutschen bei der Bundestagswahl 2017? Wie groß war der Einfluss der Programm- und Personalangebote der Parteien auf den Wahlkampf und das Wahlergebnis? Welche Konsequenzen folgen aus dem Wahlausgang für das Parteiensystem und das Regieren in...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-28
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We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-27
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Health promotion and protection for all citizens and health care for patients represent some of the most important policy challenges worldwide. Virtually every single area of life-professional productivity, cultural creativity, political and social participation, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-27
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This book critically explores the impact of national security, violence and state power on citizenship rights and experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drawing on cross-country analyses and fieldwork conducted in two “garrisons,” a middle-class community and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-26
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This book provides an original account of financialisation and outlines the creation of fictitious profits as a basis to describe the present phase of capitalist accumulation in the neoliberal era. Making innovative theoretical elaborations on Marx’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-26
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of EU-Tunisia negotiations during the last three decades to understand what ‘joint ownership’ means in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The principle of joint ownership often figures in the EU’s public discourse of the EU and other...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Susanne Merkle beschäftigt sich in einem komparativen Forschungsansatz mit dem politischen Journalismus in Deutschland und Frankreich. Vor dem Hintergrund der länderspezifischen Kontextfaktoren des Pressejournalismus untersucht sie in einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-26
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This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide. Rather than seeking separate explanations in each regime context, in The...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide. Rather than seeking separate explanations in each regime context, in The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Russian public diplomacy attracts growing attention in the current global climate of tension and competition. However, it is often not understood or is misunderstood. Although some articles and book chapters exist, there are almost no books onRussian public diplomacy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-26
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This book places the presidency of Donald Trump as well as the brewing Sino-American Cold War within the broader historical context of American hegemony in Asia, which traces its roots to Alfred Thayer Mahan’s call for a naval build up in the Pacific, the subsequent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people. Based on the author's first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-25
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This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony. It sheds light on the movement’s activism, changes and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-25
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The accidental shooting of Kathryn Steinle in July of 2015 by an undocumented immigrant ignited a firestorm of controversy around sanctuary cities, which are municipalities where officials are prohibited from inquiring into the immigration status of residents. Some...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-25
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Palmöl ist das billigste und beliebteste Fett in der Lebensmittel- und Kosmetikbranche. Indonesien liefert 90 Prozent des weltweit gehandelten Palmöls, hinter dessen Anbau aber eine ökologische und soziale Katastrophe steht. Im Zuge der Rodung des indonesischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-25
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