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This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-23
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This book emerges from a three-year Australian Research Council-funded study that asks how the formation and (d)evolution of leadership has impacted on public environmental debate. To do this, it draws on extensive news text analysis and public opinion survey data, as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-23
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This is the first thorough and systematic interrogation of Republican Party oratory and rhetoric that examines a series of leading figures in American conservative politics. It asks: How do leading Republican Party figures communicate with and influence their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-22
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Dieser Sammelband diskutiert die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Polizei im digitalen Raum. Die Beiträge beleuchten das Gebiet digitale Polizeiarbeit in vier Themenbereichen: Kommunikation und Interaktion mit Bürgern, Kriminalitätsbekämpfung und -prävention, rechtliche...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-22
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This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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Jacopo Maria Pepe examines the rapid development of non-energy transport infrastructure in the broader Eurasian space. By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-22
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Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-11-22
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This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes—historical, relational, and transnational. The book argues that: first, taxation should be understood as a relational concept...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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This book, part of the Stanford Law School research project on the future of the legal profession, thoroughly examines the future of “big law,” defined as the large and mid-size multiservice highly specialized law firms that provide sophisticated, complex and generally...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
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This book is among the first to systematically analyze and discuss the Chinese government's“One Belt, One Road” initiative to promote infrastructure investment and economic development, bringing together a diverse range of scholars from China, Russia, and Eastern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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Der Sammelband umfasst zentrale Expertisen und Beiträge für eine zukunftsorientierte Engagementpolitik und bietet vielfältige Impulse für die aktuelle Debatte um Zivilgesellschaft, Demokratie und Engagement. Er beinhaltet eine detaillierte Analyse und Aufbereitung der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This book explores how the multiplicity of nationalist parties across the European Union have embraced or refused the process of European integration and made it a platform for transnational coordination in the European arena. The author analyzes how opposing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the ‘national’...
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OUP India
Parution :
2017-11-21
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Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die theoretischen Grundlagen und die praktischen Instrumente rund um zentrale Themen der öffentlichen Verwaltungen – den demographischen Wandel und knappe Haushaltsbudgets. Da durch die finanziellen Einschränkungen...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2017-11-21
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Self-interest is an important human motive and this book explores its evolution in the United States and its consequences for politics, business, and personal relationships. In the postwar era American understandings of self-interest have moved away from Alexis de...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-20
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This edited volume explores the context in which the Spanish party Podemos operates as both an agent and product of political cycles. It provides an account of the party’s genealogy, ideological environment and relation to other political initiatives in Latin America...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several important...
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Springer
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2017-11-17
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This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape. The book is unique because it links different aspects of the planning/policy-making...
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Springer
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2017-11-17
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One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s. Fifty years after her death, she continues to deeply...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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