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This book explores the work of the European Ombudsman and her or his contribution to holding the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to account, through examination of complaints on maladministration, own-initiative inquiries and other proactive efforts. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-01
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The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747.The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by frequent episodes of ethnic cleansing, mass...
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Hurst
Parution :
2017-10-01
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This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah, since the early 1990s. Linking the group's narratives to the process of Islamization in Pakistan and divergent views on the country's...
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Hurst
Parution :
2017-10-01
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This book analyzes both local and national House and Senate campaigns in the 2016 election to reveal how distinctive campaign dynamics have a collective national impact. Featuring detailed case studies of ten competitive House races and twelve high-profile U.S. Senate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-30
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This book investigates the emergence and working of governance networks in contemporary Russia. Drawing on a case study design, it provides a novel comparison of seven policy issues each investigated across various Russian regions or over time. Its authors reveal that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-29
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This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions. While PMSCs provide security for...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-29
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This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-29
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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 :
2017-09-29
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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 :
2017-09-29
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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
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2017-09-29
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SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'A provocative take on the UK's new tribal divisions ... a book whose timing is pitch-perfect' Andrew MarrMany Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-09-28
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This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration. Focusing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-28
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This book of a renowned political scientist and specialist in political theory fundamentally challenges the new fashion of post-democracy by offering an outlook on ‘neo-democracy’. The political periods are similar to epochs in modern art, where ‘neo’ succeeded...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
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This book presents pioneering work on a range of innovative practices, experiments, and ideas that are becoming an integral part of urban climate change governance in the 21st century. Theoretically, the book builds on nearly two decades of scholarships identifying the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
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The Urban Book Series
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This book addresses the paradox of uneven electricity in one of the fastest growing and now petro rich economies, Ghana, by addressing the question of why one of the most hydro rich countries in sub-Saharan Africa produces irregular access for all but ‘swing’ voter...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-26
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From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he...
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PublicAffairs
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2017-09-26
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Provide detailed and accessible guidance on a wide range of everyday English and Welsh law in this bestselling and fully updated edition, produced in association with the Citizenship Foundation. - Offers a unique resource that is up-to-date with English and Welsh law...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-09-25
Collection :
Young Citizen's Passport
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Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: PoliticsFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2018Build your students' knowledge of the ideas, tensions and key thinkers within the core ideologies of conservatism, liberalism and socialism, plus the...
Editeur :
Philip Allan
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2017-09-25
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It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational.It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013...
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Polity
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2017-09-25
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This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-22
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