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This book examines the paradoxical relationship between the religious and political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals, who exhibit nearly identical religious canon and practice, but sharply divergent political beliefs and action. Relying on interviews with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships. Through a detailed look at the Chilean and Romanian dictatorships, it compares the different ways in which political regimes convey their view of the world through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk to the Hilton International Hotel, the shopping center to the café and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book addresses how the progress of the Russian aluminium industry, which has developed into an important global actor, has been influenced by the interaction of global market forces and the evolution of the Russian political system. After the collapse of the Soviet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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This book investigates how modern French foreign policy is practiced. France finds its traditional power status challenged by internal as well as external developments. Internally, it faces societal challenges related to unemployment, integration, social exclusion,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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The book reveals how the ‘social value of art’ may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist – and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to consider effects in the short, but also the long run. Furthermore, it does not...
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Springer
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2017-07-17
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A concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Individual and societies teaching and learning.- Approaches each chapter with statements of inquiry framed by key and related concepts, set in a global context- Supports every aspect of assessment using tasks designed...
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Hodder Education
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2017-07-17
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Sebastian H. Schneider untersucht anhand von Individual- und Aggregatdaten, welche individuellen und kontextuellen Faktoren die Beteiligung von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern an der kommunalen Haushaltsplanung („Bürgerhaushalte“) beeinflussen. Der Autor leistet einen Beitrag...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-15
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Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dominates literary, cinematic and scholarly representations and discussions of this great metropolis.
By commenting in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-15
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Political Islam in Tunisia uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Ennahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-11 and the overthrow of Ben Ali's dictatorship, Ennahda has until now been...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-15
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There is a long history of state governments providing support to nonstate armed groups fighting battles in other countries. Examples include Syria's aid to Hamas, Ecuador's support for FARC, and Libya's donation of arms to the IRA. What motivates states to do this? And...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-15
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A stable and reliable energy supply is of critical importance and enhances resilience against political and economic pressures. As was noted during the NATO Warsaw Summit in 2016, energy developments could have significant political and security implications for the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-07-15
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Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself. Yet, representative democracy still exists, and the empirical evidence for a secular decline of political support in established democracies is limited, questionable, or...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-14
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?Die in der vorliegenden Festschrift zu Ehren von Georg Weißeno versammelten Beiträge beleuchten die Kompetenzorientierung in der Politischen Bildung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Georg Weißeno hat der Politikdidaktik immer wieder neue und richtungsweisende...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-13
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Combining a study of American Think Tanks and a study of American diplomatic policy on China following the Cold War, this book explores in detail the policy-making process, procedures and mechanisms, as well as the roles of various interest groups in the policy-making...
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Springer
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2017-07-13
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'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien LewisPlayboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief.Traitors.John Amery is a drunk and a fanatic, an exiled playboy whose frail body is riven by...
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John Murray
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2017-07-13
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Since its publication in 1993, John Rawls's Political Liberalism has been central to debates concerning political legitimacy, democratic theory, toleration, and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory. Yet, despite the immense body of literature which has...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-13
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This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land. From the late-nineteenth century onward, the site's significance became...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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