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This volume brings together experts from different world regions. It presents various experiences with building indicator systems for monitoring the implementation of regional economic integration policies such as preferential trade areas, common markets or economic and...
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Springer
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2017-05-02
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Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-05-02
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Development and Change Special Issues
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From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy. This fundamental change took place under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has been ideologically and politically predisposed to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-01
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What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era?
In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing audience for identity-based politics. Under...
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Hurst
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2017-05-01
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This volume explores the effects of transitional justice measures on trust-building and democratization across twelve countries in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of the Former Soviet Union over the period 19892012.
The author argues that transitional justice...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-28
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It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-04-28
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This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context. It discusses the complexity of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-28
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Der Lebensraum der Bürgerinnen und Bürger wird von der Kommunalpolitik maßgeblich mitgestaltet. Unser Wissen über die lokalen Entscheidungsträger vor Ort ist allerdings begrenzt. Dies gilt besonders für Unterschiede in den Einstellungen, die sich aus den jeweiligen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-27
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Parties, governments and elites are at the core of the study of democracy. The traditional view is that parties as collective actors play a paramount role in the democratic process. However, this classical perspective has been challenged by political actors, observers...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-26
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Das Buch führt in die politik- und verwaltungswissenschaftliche Analyse der Ausführung von Gesetzen ein. Die AutorInnen erläutern, wie Strukturen und interne Prozesse in der Verwaltung sowie die Macht- und Interessenlagen der beteiligten Akteure die Wirkung von...
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Springer VS
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2017-04-26
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“Roger Kanet, a respected expert on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia, has assembled a stellar team of scholars, from Russia and the West, to examine Russia’s policy toward Europe. The individual chapters offer well-researched, provocative, and contrasting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-24
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This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states. Each chapter tackles a unique angle on violent organizations on the continent with the view of highlighting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-24
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A diverse body of research exists to explain why eligible voters don't go to the polls on election day. Theories span from the psychological (nonvoters have limited emotional engagement with politics and therefore lack motivation), to the social (politics is inherently...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-24
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Eberhard von Einem geht in diesem essential der Frage nach, wie es Politik und Zivilgesellschaft schaffen können, alle Flüchtlinge, die sich nach Deutschland retten konnten, nicht nur in Notunterkünften, sondern in bezahlbaren Wohnungen des ‚normalen‘ Wohnungsmarktes...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-24
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This book examines the role of bureaucracy in modern technologically advanced societies, the traditional models of governance, and the potential of information technology to fundamentally change and improve governance. In the area of public-domain governance,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-22
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This book argues that the existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict has so far failed to take into account the role of socio-cultural disparities among belligerents. In order to remedy this deficiency, this study conceptualizes socio-cultural asymmetry under the term...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-21
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Petra Hemmelmann zeichnet die inhaltlichen Leitlinien der Partei CDU seit ihrer Gründung bis in die Gegenwart nach. Erstmals wird eine flächendeckende Inhaltsanalyse aller Wahl- und Grundsatzprogramme vorgelegt, die zudem die unvermeidliche Spannung von Programmatik und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-21
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'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-04-20
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This book explores the contested notion of compassionate migration in its discourse and practice. In the context of today's migration patterns within the Americas, compassionate migration can play a fundamental role in responding to the hardships that many migrants...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-20
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It is 1988 and Florida-based FBI agent Joe Navarro divides his time between SWAT assignments, flying air reconnaissance, and working counter-intelligence. A body-language expert with an uncanny ability to “read” those he interrogates, Navarro is known as super-intense –...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2017-04-20
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