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Daniela Strüngmann entwickelt ein integratives Legitimitätsmodell, mit dem sie die Akzeptanz öffentlicher Verwaltung bei den Bürgern erklärt. Anhand eines Mehrmethodenansatzes gewinnt sie aus der Empirie eine Typologie von Akzeptanztypen und untersucht Einflussfaktoren...
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Springer VS
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2019-10-25
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The book discusses the socio-cultural-historical, occupational, educational, employment and discriminatory status of one of the most neglected and marginalised communities: the de-notified tribes or ex-criminal tribes of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Based on primary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-24
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This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning...
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Springer
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2019-10-22
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This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-21
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Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
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This book presents an innovative democratic framework that ensures public participation, based on applying principles of good governance to facilitate urban transport decision-making in an integrated and structured manner. While – given the need for mobility in cities –...
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Springer
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2019-10-21
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This book analyses and discusses the multiple dimensions of social exclusion/inclusion seen in South Asia. It not only captures how ‘social exclusion’ is intrinsic to deprivation or deprivation in itself, but also the processes of political engagement and social...
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Springer
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2019-10-19
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This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings. Critical infrastructure is defined as essential services that underpin and support the backbone of a...
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Springer
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2019-10-18
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What is a buffer? Is it a control zone? Or is it rather a transition space, a blurred boundary? Since "buffer zones" were introduced in the late 1970s as a complementary protection layer to World Heritage sites, the dimensions of heritage have changed significantly;...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2019-10-16
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This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin American countries and offers an explanation based on its many drivers,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-10-14
Collection :
Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, despite being the cause of debate...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-10-14
Collection :
What is Political Economy?
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'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Palmöl ist das billigste und beliebteste Fett in der Lebensmittel- und Kosmetikbranche. Indonesien liefert 90 Prozent des weltweit gehandelten Palmöls, hinter dessen Anbau aber eine ökologische und soziale Katastrophe steht. Im Zuge der Rodung des indonesischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-25
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Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-24
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Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual well-being, how...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-23
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Klaudia Köhn untersucht, welche Rolle die Tschechische Republik im Irak-Konflikt 2003 spielte und erläutert, was das Švejk’sche Rätsel ist: Wenn einerseits eine ABC-Waffen-Abwehreinheit in Kuwait, Überflugrechte für US-amerikanische B-52-Bomber und ein Feldlazarett im...
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Springer VS
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2019-09-18
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Die aktuellen Debatten zeigen, wie schwierig es ist, Grenzen zu ziehen und Grenzwerte festzulegen. Ohne Grenzen jedoch, fehlen uns Orientierung und Positionierung. Viele Grenzen unseres alltäglichen Lebens sind nicht von Natur aus vorgegeben, sie unterliegen vielmehr...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-09-17
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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The period since the Global Financial Crisis and numerous scandals have exposed some areas of serious illegal and unethical conduct within western banking systems. Despite extensive reforms it is increasingly apparent however that there is a persistent problem with the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-12
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This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers’ willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-10
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No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" – that the seeds of the bust are sown in the boom. This financial instability hypothesis received...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-09-06
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