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This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices. Based on a case study of Switzerland, it analyses how cleavages divide voters into voting blocs and how this influences Swiss voting behaviour and the Swiss party system. The first part examines the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-23
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Europe is in crisis and the EU project risks disintegration. The refugee and Brexit issues, as well as recent events in Turkey, demonstrate how serious matters really are. In a EurActiv interview, in February 2016, Edgar Morin, the French sociologist and philosopher,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book analyzes the effects of economic, social, and political disruptions that have come with integration into the global economy for countries in five different regions and the developing world as a whole. One consequence of such disruptions is increased levels...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book presents a theory of economic integration in developing regions, where the level of intraregional economic interdependence is low and the dependence on extra-regional economic relations is high. It argues that the success or failure of regional integration in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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The new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author ofThe World is Flat - this is an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century.'As a guide for perplexed Westerners, this book is very hard to beat . . . Thank...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-22
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The book addresses the topic of EU legitimacy by exploring the forms, origins and effects of citizens' support to EU institutions. Through examining the wide-ranging levels of support, the authors show how these multi-faceted attitudes cast shade on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-22
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The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy“No one else has even come close to balancing Bloom’s fidelity to Greek with intelligible English prose.”—National Review Long...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This book examines the politics of policing in Greater China, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. As the author shows, police ideological indoctrination is strongest in mainland China, followed by Hong Kong, and Taiwan, where the police is under...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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In this book, Jin Kai provides an alternative perspective on the power interactions between a rising China and a "relatively" declining U.S. in the changing world situation. Grounded in previous scholarship, Jin argues that China's rise is historically, culturally, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book takes a close look at macroeconomic imbalances within the Eurozone and explores the profound consequences the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had on Euro area countries. Particular attention is given to balance of payments deficits and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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Was ist eigentlich der Sinn und Zweck des Wählens? Warum gelten Wahlen seit dem 20. Jahrhundert für nahezu alle Staaten als unverzichtbar? Um die Erfolgsgeschichte und die variierenden Bedeutungen von Wahlen zu verstehen, gilt es, die historische Dimension zu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-18
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This book explains how the Greens went from obscurity to England’s third largest party in just one year, quadrupling their vote share and securing their place in Britain’s refigured party system on the way. Sophisticated quantitative analyses of the Greens’ voters and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-18
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the recent Eurozone "double crisis" and its related economic policies. The authors present empirical evidence which sheds new light on the growing economic and political debate on the future of the Euro, the Eurozone and the EU....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris Ð the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow. Does this extreme violence committed in the name of Islam point to a fundamental enmity between the Muslim faith...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-17
Collection :
Global Futures
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This edited volume offers different theories useful for understanding and explaining European Union cooperation on internal security matters. Cooperation on such matters has not only flourished over the past two decades, but - more recently - has also become one of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book analyses how China overcame its meagre reputation in the early 1990s to become an aggressively growing military power and rising threat to the international system. The author focuses on China’s new multilateral foreign policy approach, ambitious military...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This important new book offers an intellectual history of the ‘arts council’ policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and wealthy aesthetes in its establishment in the mid-twentieth century....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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