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Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country, populists are being voted into office. Populism and Patronage shows that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi win elections when the institutionalized ties between non-populist parties...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-22
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This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state. Presented in a sequence of snapshots and illustrated by examples drawn from the foreign policy of great powers, this history is represented by four key realist thinkers. It uses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies. For years, leading scholars have largely neglected religion in presidential studies. Yet, religion...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This book offers a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Discussing Colombian, Guatemalan and Mexican experiences, it fills a gap in the literature regarding Latin American public policy by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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Christina Rentzsch analysiert in ihrer Fallstudie, wie Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPOs) einerseits mit veränderten Rahmenbedingungen umgehen und inwiefern sie andererseits ihre zivilgesellschaftliche Ausrichtung bewahren können. Ausgangspunkt ist, dass sich die Umwelt...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-09-19
Collection :
Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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Diese Studie gibt einen Überblick über zentrale internationale Umwelt- und Sozialstandards, untersucht zugleich, wie wirksam sie sind und wie sie trotz aller Restriktionen erfolgreicher umgesetzt werden könnten. Dabei werden Ansätze einer Weltumweltordnung und – wenn...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-09-19
Collection :
Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-19
Collection :
Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
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This edited volume starts with an account of the submarine in naval warfare and moves on to review the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia by considering their acquisition by the small and medium navies of the region. It explores the reasons...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This edited volume reviews the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of growing tensions over the South China Sea and increasing competition between the United States and China in the region. The varying problems and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This book is based on a comparative study of regionalisms in Croatia’s regions of Dalmatia and Istria as well as Serbia’s Vojvodina. The monograph’s main focus is on regionalist political party strategies since 1990, and within that, each case study considers history...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency. Such agency generates rites of moral responsibility that serve as antidotes to violent identities and catalyze hospitable social practices. By comparing Indian and U.S....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab Uprisings of 2011, the Syria Crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in Turkey, it illustrates the dramatic fluctuations...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-18
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Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to whichEgypt currently is subjected and which are bound to intensify are already straining the ties that hold...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-09-18
Collection :
Hot Spots in Global Politics
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This book provides user studies and theories related to user-centered technology design processes for e-government projects. The book mainly discusses inherent issues of technology design implications, user experiences, and guidelines for technology appropriation....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-17
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This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-16
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This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond,This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book examines the crisis in Ukraine through the lens of “triangular diplomacy,” which focuses on the multiple interactions among the European Union, the United States and Russia. It is explicitly comparative, considering how the US and EU responded to ostensibly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the “everyday genius” to drive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context. It presents a survey of the Commonwealth Caribbean perspective and a concise case study of Guyana between 1964 and 2015.This research traces the roots of election...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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