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The objective of this book is to take stock of the research Paolo Urio has conducted since 1997 on the rise of modern China, with emphasis on strategic public management.The starting point of the book is China’s will to recover world power status. This objective is of...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the ‘commodity frontier’. Applying an inductive approach rather than starting at the global level, as most meta-narratives have done, this book sheds...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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This book examines the intellectual and institutional transformations of four British think tanks in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. In the context of a crisis of expert authority, González Hernando demonstrates how these organisations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-14
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"If one wants to understand why, from its modest beginnings, the European Parliament has become a major player in EU decision-making, look no further than this book. It presents, to date, the theoretically most compelling, methodologically disciplined and empirically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-08
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This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While natural resource wealth has the potential to lift many out of poverty, sustain...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-07
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Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-06-07
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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"The best book I've read this year" Rachael, Goodreads reviewer ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Fantastic" Rachel, Goodreads reviewer ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Funny, insightful, heart-breaking" NetGalley reviewer ⭐ ⭐...
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Seven Dials
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2019-05-30
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The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, diverted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who monopolize all economic opportunities. While the Middle East has witnessed a growing nexus between business...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-23
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This volume addresses the family situation in Japan and Germany. Gender-segregated labor markets and precarious employment patterns bear detrimental consequences for the socioeconomic capacity to maintain family households and to have children. By applying a...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-22
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This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media. It offers insights into Chinese public opinion for an international readership, and to promote the media literacy and crisis coping capacity of all social sectors by integrating multiple...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-22
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Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global,...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-05-20
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This book explores how power-sharing between the president and the prime minister works in semi-presidential regimes. In contrast to much of the existing comparative work on semi-presidentialism, the book emphasizes the role of institutional coordination at the most...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-17
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Kein Präsident war zur Halbzeit seiner Präsidentschaft jemals so unpopulär wie Donald J. Trump – dabei zugleich aber ausgesprochen populär unter Republikanern. Im Urteil der Experten gehört Trump mit Andrew Johnson und James Buchanan zu den drei schlechtesten ...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-17
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During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank Stilwell provides a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-10
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Majid Montazer untersucht, wie die aktuelle Kulturpolitik im theokratischen Iran ausgeübt wird. Aus Sicht der iranischen Regierung hat die Scharia in allen gesellschaftlichen Belangen den höchsten Stellenwert; Musik steht seit der Revolution unter dem latenten Verdacht,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-05-07
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Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coerced, full-time, part-time, or zero-hours, work defines us and helps shape our behavior both on and off the job. In this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-07
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We live in a culture of credit. As wages have stagnated, we’ve seen a dramatic surge in private borrowing across the western world; increasing numbers of households are sucked into a hopeless vortex of spiralling debt, fuelled by exploitative lending. In this book...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-07
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This book discusses parliamentary oversight and its role in curbing corruption in developing countries. Over the past decade, a growing body of research at the global and regional levels has demonstrated that parliamentary oversight is an important determinant of...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-03
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This book explicitly addresses policy options in a democratic society regarding cognitive enhancement drugs and devices. The book offers an in-depth case by case analysis of existing and emerging cognitive neuroenhancement technologies and canvasses a distinct political...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-29
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Examines the governance challenges of cybersecurity through twelve, real-world case studies Through twelve detailed case studies, this superb collection provides an overview of the ways in which government officials and corporate leaders across the globe are responding...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-04-25
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