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This volume identifies and compares 'fiscal squeezes' (major efforts to cut public spending and/or raise taxes) in the UK over a century from 1900 to 2015. The authors examine how different the politics of fiscal squeeze and austerity is today from what it was a century...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-19
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When, why, and how are democratic institutions reformed? This is the broad question guiding this research, rooted in a context of crises of representative democracy. Core democratic rules can be understood as the formal political rules regulating the direct relationship...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-19
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Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-19
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?Sechzehn renommierte Forscherinnen und Forscher der deutschen Politikwissenschaft ehren mit ihren Beiträgen Jubilar Oskar Niedermayer. Die Beiträge kreisen um Niedermayers Forschungsgebiete Partizipation, Parteien, Wahlen und politische Orientierungen. Der Sammelband...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-18
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The relationships between narrative and leadership,
between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucial
to party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians and
scholars. This study analyses the ‘performance of leadership’ in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-18
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This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be...
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Springer
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2017-05-18
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This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or “crisis” of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author’s premise is that currently there is no objectively fair way for the public at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-18
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In seiner systematischen Analyse und Kritik der systemtheoretischen Medientheorien Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmanns und Jürgen Habermas schließt Ulrich Bachmann eine Lücke. Denn obwohl bei allen drei Klassikern die Medientheorie das zentrale begriffliche Scharnier zur...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-17
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This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details alcohol’s status as a psychoactive drug; he notes, however, that in contrast to other psychoactive drugs, alcohol has been widely culturally...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-16
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This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things...
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Springer
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2017-05-16
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Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War--a book that is often considered too philosophical and impenetrably...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-05-15
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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to involving patients in health technology assessment (HTA). Defining patient involvement as patient participation in the HTA process and research into patient aspects, this book includes detailed explanations of...
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Adis
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2017-05-15
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From the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Nuit Debout in Paris, contemporary protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory brand of populism which appeals to ordinary citizens outraged at the arrogance...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-05-15
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China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or like something altogether different, hence changing...
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Polity
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2017-05-15
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President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'. The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet such targeted killings have been widely...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-05-15
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One of the most pressing challenges in the fight against terror is the way in which terrorist organizations have developed uniquely effective recruitment tools. Terrorist groups such as ISIS have successfully indoctrinated followers from all over the world, expanding...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-05-15
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The term ‘foreign fighters’ describes nationals of one state who – for whatever variety of reasons and motives – travel abroad to take part in a conflict in another state without the promise of financial reward.The majority of attention has so far been focused on the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-05-15
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At the time of its adoption in October 2000, United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) was hailed as a turning point for women involved in conflicts, peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction. Resolution 1325...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-05-15
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Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been...
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Ebury Digital
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2017-05-11
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The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes. Its major contributions are two-fold: theoretically, it advances the conceptualisation of middle class migration; empirically, it analyses...
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Springer
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2017-05-11
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