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This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action. Judith Blau presents scientific evidence relevant to The Paris Agreement (COP-21): an international treaty that promises to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-21
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This book examines changes in Taiwan’s policies toward Mainland China under former Republic of China (ROC) President Ma Ying-jeou (2008-16) and considers their implications for US policy toward the Taiwan Strait. In recent years, the People’s Republic of China...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-21
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This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-20
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This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book explains that the primary reason for the low rate of female labor force participation is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-20
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This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and...
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Springer
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2017-03-20
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This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Using an original case study, private contractors that implement EU visa...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-03-18
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Der Sammelband thematisiert den demografischen Wandel als Megatrend, der Regionen sehr unterschiedlich und immer wieder neu herausfordert. Wirtschaft und Arbeit sind dabei zentrale Gestaltungsfelder. Das Buch fasst die Ergebnisse eines vom BMBF 2014-2016 geförderten...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-17
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While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature. This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2017-03-17
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J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation
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Der Sammelband widmet sich der Frage nach dem Einfluss politischer Persönlichkeiten auf weltpolitische Entscheidungen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Dazu werden zu Beginn des Bandes diskutierte Grundannahmen über die Einflussmöglichkeiten einzelner Persönlichkeiten mit...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-16
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An unprecedented number of people is currently on the move seeking refuge in Europe. Large parts of European societies respond with anxiety and mistrust to the influx of people. Nationalist, anti-migrant parties from Slovakia over Germany to the UK have gained...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-16
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Wolfgang Gründinger explores how interest groups, veto opportunities, and electoral pressure formed the German energy transition: nuclear exit, renewables, coal (CCS), and emissions trading. His findings provide evidence that logics of political competition in new...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-03-16
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Der Band versteht sich als ein soziologisch orientiertes Einführungs- und Lehrbuch zum Thema Trinkwasser, das bei zunehmender und facettenreicher werdender Relevanz sozial und sozialwissenschaftlich zunehmend fokussiert wird. Auf der Basis einer ausführlichen...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-16
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This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises.
In the 2010s, France was in a situation of systemic crisis, namely, the impossibility for political leadership to find a strategy of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises.
In the 2010s, France was in a situation of systemic crisis, namely, the impossibility for political leadership to find a strategy of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created. Focusing specifically on issues in monetary and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition. Based on a study of German elections between 1980 and 1994, it analyzes whether cleavage group members put more weight on policies that address their personal self-interest than...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-15
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This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either theoretical/prescriptive or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-15
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The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local self-government and makes the term ‘government’ in local government a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-15
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This book contributes to our understanding of the trajectories and prerogatives of female political leaders in the varying context of democratization, political institutions and cultural norms. No woman had been elected leader of a country before 1960,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-15
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This book argues that theories of European foreign policy are performative: they create the objects they analyse. In this text, Larsen outlines the performativity approach to the role of theories based on the work of Derrida and goes on to examine the performative role...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-15
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