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This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book puts forward an original approach to Europeanization in a global context. Following the world polity approach, the author establishes the missing link between global, European and domestic realms and reveals the multiplicity of dynamics and logics driving the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book examines the evolution of national Arab media and its interplay with political change, particularly in emerging democracies in the context of the Arab uprisings. Investigated from a journalistic perspective, this research addresses the role played by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book analyses the various ways and the extent to which young people participate in politics, focusing primarily on the UK and including cross-national comparisons where relevant. It covers topics including: what is meant by political participation; youth political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book explores comparative political theory through the study of a range of places and periods with contributions from a diverse group of scholars. The volume builds on recent work in political theory, seeking to focus scholarly attention on non-Western thought in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book explores whether the co-existence of (partially) overlapping and sometimes competing layers of authority, which characterizes today's global order, undermines or rather strengthens efforts to promote the rule of law on a global scale. Heupel and Reinold argue...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This thought-provoking book, edited by Jing Huang and Alexander Korolev, redefines the complex political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region. Written by internationally recognized experts from Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, Norway and Singapore, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-08
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The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-11-08
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This book presents a vibrant study of the rise, decline, and transformation of environmental thinking. The author’s analysis moves from the proclaimed death of environmentalism toward the emerging theory and practices of postenvironmentalism in its manifold...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-07
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This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/2004. The edited volume provides a structured and comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in EU foreign...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-07
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This book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub for the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-06
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This volume examines and applies classical and contemporary concepts of rhetorical theory and criticism to the context of late capitalism. Each contributor shows how discourse, its subjects, and power relations are irrevocably transformed by neoliberalism. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisis and disorientation over political principles and policy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book examines the interface between transnational private governance and domestic politics in South America. It explores the social and political factors that condition how ‘global’ private norms, discourses, and initiatives dealing with sustainability and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity. It explores the decisions of parties of the left which have attempted to deflect criticisms of economic mismanagement and gain trust by depoliticising the budget process and financial management with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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Millions
of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West
Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats. In the
wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall
and more frequent natural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book uncovers a historical dependency on smelting activities that has trapped inhabitants of La Oroya, Peru, in a context of systemic lack of freedom. La Oroya has been named one of the most polluted places on the planet by the US Blacksmith Institute. Residents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book presents a collection of essays on institutional theory written by the German sociologist and Weber-expert M. Rainer Lepsius. Based on Weber’s work, the author develops concepts of institutional theory, which he subsequently applies to topics such as National...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-03
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The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science.
The Handbook is organized into three parts: the first part identifies foundational concepts for the French...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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