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This handbook constitutes a single collection of well researched articles and essays on African politics, governance and development from the pre-colonial through colonial to the post-colonial eras. Over the course of these interconnected periods, African politics have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-10
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This book focuses on the methodology of research on historical memory and contributes to theoretical discussions concerning the use of historical memory as a variable to explain political action and social movement. The chapters of the book conceptualize the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-10
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This book explains the 2016 presidential election through a strategic focus. In the primaries both parties faced challenges from insurgent outsiders riding waves of populist fervor in the electorate, but only the Democrats were able to steer the nomination into the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-10
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In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan. While this should be relatively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2017-10-10
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This edited collection explores how East Asia’s painful history continues to haunt the relationships between its countries and peoples. Through a largely social-psychological and constructivist lens, the authors examine the ways in which historical memory and unmet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-10
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Karsten Schmitz untersucht systematisch die Mehrheitsbildung im Europäischen Parlament in der sechsten Legislaturperiode im Mitentscheidungsverfahren, dem heutigen ordentlichen Gesetzgebungsverfahren. Daraus ergeben sich neue Erkenntnisse für die Koalitionstheorie...
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Springer VS
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2017-10-09
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This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare. The author demonstrates that, despite the widespread uniformity of economic policy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book reflects on the research and career of political theorist Russell Hardin from scholars of Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Law, among other disciplines. Contributions address core issues of political theory as perceived by Hardin,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media. Despite significant career progress made by women leaders in these professions, many British newspapers continue to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-07
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This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions. Land acquisition is one of the most important issues besetting India’s political economy today. There have been many conflicts surrounding acquisitions; but there have been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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In the early 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive international club, the BRICS. Although not extreme revisionists, the BRICS recognize an ongoing global power shift and contest the West's pretensions to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-06
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The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around eighty percent of the world's mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years. The growing importance of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people. This book argues that through the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth centuries, thousands of domestic colonies were proposed and/or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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?Der Band widmet sich der Vermittlung von Kompetenzen und Wissen zu den Themen Korruption und Korruptionsbekämpfung in unterschiedlichen Bildungseinrichtungen und Wissenschaftsdisziplinen. Es werden übergreifende methodische, empirische und theoretische Themen ebenso...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide. While some of the extremist parties are being imitated in response, established parties can also choose to systematically rule...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-05
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The term coup d'état--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own hands as dictators. We assume all coups look the same, smell the same,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-05
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