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This edited volume discusses critically discursive claims about the theological foundations connecting Islam to certain manifestations of violent extremism. Such claims and associated debates become even more polarizing when images of violent acts of terrorism performed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-29
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This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector. Government inspectors have a crucial role in enforcing rules and standards. The role of inspectors has changed. Their task is no longer to merely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Mihályi and Szelényi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-29
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This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations. The book is based on the idea that planning is only one option in orienting the functioning of public organisations and applies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-29
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This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations. Developing a theory of scapegoating related to narrative closure, as well as an integrated, genealogical method of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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?This edited collection presents an innovative approach to global security regimes. Employing both conceptual and empirical studies, the volume examines three empirically-oriented sets of cases: weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian disarmament and unconventional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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This book uses the political economy approach to examine the relative failure of federalism in Nigeria. It shows the nexus between the political and the economic aspects of the country’s federalism. The central feature of Nigeria’s political economy is the relationship...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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In this two-volume set, Larry D. Barnett delves into the macrosociological sources of law concerned with society-important social activities in a structurally complex, democratically governed nation. Barnett explores why, when, and where particular proscriptions and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-28
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This book examines modalities for the recognition and political participation of minorities in plurinational states in theory and in practice, with a specific reference to the Republic of Turkey and the resolution of the Kurdish question. Drawing on the experience of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Locke’s Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-28
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Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit dem neuen Bereich der Verbindung zwischen Fluchtbewegungen, Geflüchteten und Religion. Dies impliziert Fragen, ob Religion eine Integrationsressource in den Aufnahmegesellschaften darstellt oder sich als Hemmnis für eine erfolgreiche...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Die Forschungsergebnisse in diesem Buch belegen den Wandel von einer kontinuierlichen zu einer periodischen, themenspezifischen Bürgerbeteiligung. Im Detail modifiziert eine individuelle Kombination aus konventionellen und unkonventionellen Partizipationsformen den...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
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Pierre Bourdieus Praxeologie ist eine Theorie der politischen Praxis. Sie lässt sich vielseitig für umfassende Untersuchungen der Implementation, des Erhalts und des Umsturzes politischer und sozialer Ordnungen einsetzen. Gemeinhin als der wichtigste Soziologe der...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-28
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How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice? This book discusses these questions by analyzing the political logic of a basic income and its controversial political and scientific implications. The author studies the institutions,...
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Springer
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2018-12-28
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The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such a world, the spread of computers and connectivity, and the arrival of new digital sense-making tools, are widely celebrated...
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Polity
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2018-12-28
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This book analyzes the development and evolution of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a multinational aircraft endeavor involving the U.S. and many of its allies. The author provides a historical overview of jet fighter aircraft, discussing the different generations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-27
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This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-27
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Au sommaire de ce numéro spécial : Cartographie spatio-temporelle des attaques de Boko Haram (Gigla Garakcheme et Baska Toussia Daniel Valérie); Réponse militaire et mesures anti-kamikazes : modalités, effets et contraintes (Mbarkoutou Mahamat Henri); La prise en charge...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2018-12-27
Collection :
Harmattan Cameroun
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Likening fiscal federalism to a game between the Union and the States, and among the States themselves, Indian Fiscal Federalism lays bare the complex rules of play. It examines the pivotal role of Finance Commissions and assesses momentous events since 2014, such as...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-12-27
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United States Attorneys (USAs), the chief federal prosecutors in each judicial district, are key in determining how the federal government uses coercive force against its citizens. How much control do national political actors exert over the prosecutorial decisions of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-26
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