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“An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the process The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t...
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Bold Type Books
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2017-03-07
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This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities. The authors observe a trend from a compensatory paradigm towards supply oriented social policy, and investigate how this phenomenon is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-07
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Das 1968 in Kraft getretene Landesverwaltungsgesetz Schleswig-Holstein bildete die erste Kodifikation des Verwaltungsverfahrensrechts und wesentlicher Teile des materiellen Verwaltungsrechts in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und war der Vorreiter des erst 1977 in Kraft...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-07
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This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-07
Collection :
Global Issues
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This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the most important environmental challenges in recent years.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-07
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This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems. Conceived in an international comparative context and primarily from within the discipline of political studies, it also incorporates...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-03-06
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This book uses role theory to analyze the judicial decisions made by state supreme court judges. Grounded in the fields of anthropology, business management, psychology, and sociology, role theory holds that, for each position an individual occupies in society, he or...
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Springer
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2017-03-06
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This book explores the extent to which the varied political status of Latinos is changing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States. It brings together broad theoretical considerations of citizenship with discussions of historical and contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit rechtlichen Aspekten des Whistleblowings in der Öffentlichkeit. Die Anzeige von Missständen in Unternehmen und Behörden sowie die Weitergabe von Steuerdaten haben darüber jüngst eine gesellschaftlich kontrovers geführte Debatte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-06
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From the award-winning team behind the International Encyclopaedia of Political Science... Moving beyond mainstream "traditional" approaches to bring you a new advanced-level introduction to political science. A perfect introduction for postgraduates who are new...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-03-06
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This book shows how the introduction of intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
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This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
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This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-03
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The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale military...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-03
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This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016. The individual case studies investigate how political and social goals...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-02
Collection :
Societies and Political Orders in Transition
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Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-02
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Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-02
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Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-02
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**NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER **THE BOOK TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRACY IS FAILING IN 2025‘The most coherent manifesto on confronting Trump’ New StatesmanIn the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-03-02
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This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-02
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