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Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian. However, as our economies are transformed and welfare states feel the strain, it has become a hotly debated...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-20
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The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way? In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to...
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Polity
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2019-07-20
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?Das Buch versammelt konstruktivistische Perspektiven auf das Konzept „Biopolitik“. Dadurch werden die Analysepotentiale für aktuelle Phänomene, die den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Leben und dem Lebendigen und der Regierbarmachung betreffen, ausgelotet. Im Fokus stehen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-19
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As the American election administration landscape changes as a result of major court cases, national and state legislation, changes in professionalism, and the evolution of equipment and security, so must the work of on-the-ground practitioners change. This Open Access...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-19
Collection :
Elections, Voting, Technology
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?This book discusses the issues of citizen rights, governance and political crisis in Brazil. The project has a focus on “citizenship in times of crisis,” i.e., seeking to understand how citizenship rights have changed since the Brazilian political and economic crisis...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-19
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This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-19
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The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naïve user. While providing introduction to the concept, it shows the status of E-Governance in India through various measures, and its progress through different case studies.The historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-19
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Adopting a political constitutionalist view of the British constitution, this book critically explores the history of legal and political thought on parliamentary sovereignty in the UK. It argues that EU membership strongly unsettled the historical precedents...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-17
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Das Buch behandelt Akteure, Prozesse und Strukturen des politischen Systems Griechenlands. Es vermittelt so Informationen, die für eine vertiefende Auseinandersetzung mit dem Land unabdingbar sind. Damit ist eine Auseinandersetzung gemeint, die über tagespolitische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-17
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Janine Romero Valenzuela analyses the Bolivian lithium program in the largest empirical study to date with a focus on local perspectives and governance, identifying grievances and conflict dimensions. The case study shows that it is particularly an altered governance...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-17
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'Very funny' Spectator Book of the Year'Robust and entertaining' Sunday Times Book of the Year'Betcha we don't leave.' I wrote that on the evening of 24 June 2016, once the euphoria had passed. A lot of us leavers, despite being elderly and thick, knew. The...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-07-16
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This edited volume is a collection of twenty-three autobiographical narratives by successful teachers of global politics and international relations. The diverse contributors (from a variety of institutional contexts, sub-disciplines, and countries) describe their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-16
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Iran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power.Iran projects its influence throughout the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Moreover, Iranian diplomacy is active on the world stage, with long-term...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-07-15
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Almost thirty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national Resistance to have ever defeated Tel-Aviv's troops, a patriotic and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-15
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This book explores the new Greek exoticism by examining political and cultural mechanisms that contribute to Greece’s image and self-image construction. The contributions shed light on the subject from different perspectives, including political science, history of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-13
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This book explores how the European Union has changed the French Parliament since 1992. It supports the view that the institutional adaptation of both assemblies to European affairs is largely superficial as it lacks a genuine involvement from members of parliament....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-12
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This book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-12
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This book is committed to provide a holistic view of corruption in the public construction sector, a sector that has been perceived as the most corrupt in the world. Relying on the new findings achieved from a series of qualitative and quantitative studies, this book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-12
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This book strives to answer two interrelated questions: Why have certain states in the Americas been more successful than others at creating stable democratic regimes? Why have certain states in the Americas failed to create stable democratic regimes? To answer both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-12
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Dirk Baehr untersucht anhand der in sieben Gerichtsverfahren gesammelten und ausgewerteten empirischen Daten die Radikalisierungsursachen von neun dschihadistischen Straftätern. Bei den Angeklagten handelt es sich um Extremisten, die entweder wegen der Werbung und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-12
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