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In our current era of deep distrust in our politics and political institutions, there is also a pervasive sense that social problems are so overwhelmingly complex that it is virtually impossible to solve them.In Democracy Inside, Albert W. Dzur looks at recent instances...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-15
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The "gripping and inspiring" true story (Washington Examiner) of how Congressman Steve Scalise survived a political mass shooting and returned to Congress with the help of his friends, family, and faith.On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual...
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Center Street
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2018-11-13
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This book addresses what is perhaps the most salient issue in American politics today: the decline of the middle class. It is this single issue that drove the outlier presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to national prominence, and undergirded the...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-12
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Chelsea Tschoerner-Budde analyzes discourse in two cases of sustainable mobility policymaking in Munich: cycling promotion and electric mobility promotion. Both cases revealed that the formation and integration of a new, socially driven discourse on everyday mobility...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-11
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This book considers how the practical and public policy relevance of research might be increased, and academics and practitioners can better engage to define research agendas and deliver findings relevant to accounting and accountability in the public services. To do...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-11-11
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This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland. Whilst there is a substantial amount of literature on abortion in Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, there has been scant academic attention paid to the situation in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-11
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Das neu gegründete Mouvement Démocrate versuchte 2007 als Hyperzentrum die Tradition der unterschiedlichen französischen Zentrumsparteien wiederaufleben zu lassen. Durch einen Strategie- und Organisationswandel sollten die Bipolarisierung der Politik in Frankreich...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-11
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The report was written by senior scholars of international studies and Indian Ocean studies and focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many aspects of OBOR policy and South Asia.The report includes both a strategic review and major...
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Springer
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2018-11-11
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why.The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process.
Political Realignment...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-10
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There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-09
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This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-08
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In the international political economy of the last two millennia, there tends to be one state leading the world as the foremost producer of energy and new technology.In Racing to the Top, William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova argue that the US and China, like previous...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-08
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Historic Myanmar elections in November 2015 paved the way for an NLD government led by Aung San Suu Kyi to take office in March 2016, and saw the country deepen its graduated transition away from authoritarian rule. Nevertheless, military forces that for decades...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-08
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In the aftermath of major crises governments turn to public inquiries to learn lessons. Inquiries often challenge established authority, frame heroes and villains in the public spotlight and deliver courtroom-like drama to hungry journalists. As such, they can become...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-08
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The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-08
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How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations, Michelle Murray offers a new answer to this perennial question in international relations, arguing that power transitions are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-07
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In recent years, the so-called Alt-Right, a white nationalist movement, has grown at an alarming rate. Taking advantage of high levels of racial polarization, the Alt-Right seeks to normalize explicit white identity politics. Growing from a marginalized and disorganized...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-07
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The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic“An incisive history…The parallels to the present day are striking.” —New Yorker In Mortal Republic, prizewinning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2018-11-06
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