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Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico, accompanied by music from Grammy-winning musician Arturo O'Farrill and special guests, an extended foreword from historian Douglas...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2018-09-25
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Around the world, we see a 'participatory turn' in the pursuit of gender equality, exemplified by the adoption of gender quotas in national legislatures to promote women's role as decision-makers. We also see a 'pluralism turn', with increasing legal recognition given...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-25
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This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena.
Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-24
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Laurence Ndong reveals to us the hidden ways of Gabonese politics. She describes the political misery she actually witnessed, a misery so deep that it threatens her hopes regarding the future of her country. Most of all, she writes in order to share with every Gabonese...
Editeur :
Atramenta
Parution :
2018-09-24
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The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-24
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This open access book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy perspective to investigate the political and institutional factors driving the use of evidence to inform health policy in low, middle, and high income...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-24
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This book examines why the U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed and presents a solution for future counterinsurgency campaigns that was developed and tested in Afghanistan in the hope that it will spark a conversation that will...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-22
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This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
Collection :
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, welche Rolle Massenmedien in der politischen Transformation im Irak nach 2003 gespielt haben. Dabei diskutiert Anja Wollenberg zunächst, ob und in welcher Weise politischer Wettbewerb, Partizipation, Kritik und Kontrolle von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-09-22
Collection :
Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications
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Dieses Lexikon legt die Begrifflichkeiten des Themenfeldes "Direkte Demokratie in Deutschland" in einzelnen Beiträgen konzise dar und ergänzt es durch weitere Grundlagenartikel, in denen einzelne Begriffe und Konzepte ausführlicher behandelt werden. Denn wer sich...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
Collection :
New Perspectives on South-East Europe
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This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection. The author also...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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“This is a must-read book for anyone searching for insight into the peace process of the divided Korean peninsula. As a peace researcher and activist, the author highlights the role of civil society in making peacebuilding possible and sustainable on the Korean...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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Central to the thought of C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) are his critique of the culture of ‘possessive individualism’ and his defence of liberal-democratic socialism. Resurgence of interest in his works is in reaction to the rise of neoliberalism and efforts to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book discusses the latest developments in the field of open data. The opening of data by public organizations has the potential to improve the public sector, inspire business innovation, and establish transparency. With this potential comes unique challenges; these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This edited collection draws on case studies from around the world to shed light on the sometimes contentious topic of populism. Examining diverse contexts including North America, Latin America, Europe, New Zealand, and Russia, the authors employ different approaches...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This edited collection details and analyses the dramatic changes that the international political economy of energy has undergone in the past decade.This change began with the increasing assertiveness of Russia when the oil price rose above the $100 mark in 2008. This,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book provides a global overview of populist actors and strategies around the globe from a comparative perspective. By presenting six country studies on the United States, France, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines and Argentina, the contributors analyze how parties...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-20
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This book explores the normative foundations of ASEAN and the EU. It revives the history of the two organizations in an in-depth narrative of the protracted arguments surrounding their establishment, legal integration and enlargement. While political actors used...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-20
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This book focuses on the constant tension between democracy and conspiratorial behavior in the new global order. It addresses the prevalence of conspiracy theories in the phenomenon of Donald Trump and Trumpism, and the paranoid style of American politics that existed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-20
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