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This book concerns EU Cohesion Policy and the economic convergence of underdeveloped regions in Italy and Spain from the first programming period to the present: it investigates the political and institutional factors that determine the success or failure of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-20
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This book explores the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity. Current policy processes often fail to adequately capture complexity, favouring ‘quick fix’ approaches to regulation and integration that result in various forms of alienation:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-19
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This book explains how transnational policy entrepreneurs have contributed to the transfer of the contested concept of ‘Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development’ (PCSD) in global policy. Tracing the processes by which the PCSD concept has been diffused in an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-16
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Sitting at the nexus of labor migration and health care work, this book examines the dynamic relationship between nurses’ cross-border movement and efforts to regulate their migration. Grounded in multi-sited qualitative research, this volume analyzes the changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-14
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This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and by applying econometric methods and regression models, it analyses various...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-05
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This book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
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Maike Heber geht der Frage nach, wie sich in Italiens Politik und Gesellschaft die dominierende Vorstellung von Demokratie und ihrer Gestaltung nach 25 Jahren Reformprozess verändert hat. Die Verfassung von 1948 ist trotz vieler Versuche, das politische System zu...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-28
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the notion that nearly everything we use, from gym shorts to streetlights, will soon be connected to the Internet; the Internet of Everything (IoE) encompasses not just objects, but the social connections, data, and processes that the IoT...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-28
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This edited volume brings together a wide range of academics to engage with inter-disciplinary research perspectives in response to the development of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which opens unparalleled opportunities to gain access to new markets in Asia, Europe...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-27
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Abualwafa Mohammed schärft in seiner Arbeit das Wissen über den Koran in seinen drei Dimensionen aus traditioneller, moderner und didaktischer Sichtweise in Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff des Dschihads. Die Berücksichtigung aller drei Perspektiven ermöglicht eine...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-22
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In this memoir about overcoming adversity in America, the U. S. Senator responsible for creating "opportunity zones" explains how hard work and community growth can drive businesses and end poverty.Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2020-04-14
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This book addresses current challenges in public administration and regional management in Russia. By taking into account socio-economic factors, as well as key ethnic, cultural and social processes in multicultural regions, it identifies the prerequisites for...
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Springer
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2020-04-10
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Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technological advances alone...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-04-09
Collection :
What is Politics
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Selected as one of The Progressive’s ‘Favourite Books of 2020’Wildness was once integral to our ancestors' lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-03
Collection :
Environmental Futures
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Albert Einstein was one of the initiators of the peace movement in Europe in the early twentieth century. He tirelessly denounced the imperfections of society due to the primitive institution of war and devoted his energies to outlawing war. After Hitler’s rise to...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Australia's public broadcaster, 'Aunty', is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble: budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals.Meanwhile audiences are deserting broadcast...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
Collection :
On Series
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What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-27
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Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-26
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Largely privately funded with relatively little public regulation, the United States healthcare system is both expensive and inefficient, providing poor care to large parts of the population. For decades, Americans have wrestled with how to fix their broken healthcare...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-03-23
Collection :
The Case For
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