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This book uses various concepts of ‘age’ to examine young people’s voting behaviour in six European countries between 1981 and 2000. It addresses questions such as: what are the determinants of voting choices among young people, and to what extent are these factors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?; and when do reciprocal dynamics lead to negative, instead of positive, cycles? Answering these questions is important for both scholars and practitioners of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-29
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This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China. The authors examine three...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-29
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This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement. Community development is now a multi-billion industry in the US. Hundreds of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), located...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-29
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This book is the definitive analysis of the 2016 Irish general election and is the eighth book in the well-established How Ireland Voted series. The 2011 election in Ireland was characterised as an earthquake, but the aftershocks visible in the 2016 election were...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book studies the unprecedented decision of 23 June 2016, which saw the UK electorate vote to leave the EU, turning David Cameron’s referendum gamble into a great miscalculation. It analyzes the renegotiation that preceded the vote, before examining the campaign...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation. Since the disintegration of the communist one-party state at the end of the 1980s, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book examines the coalitions and relationships within the power centers of Shi'ite politics during the era of political feudalism in Lebanon. The author maps the Shi'ite leadership and its inter-connections, including the alliances and rivalry between prominent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Einführung in die französische Politik, die für die 5. Auflage umfassend aktualisiert wurde, steht die Darstellung der V. Republik. Der Autor beschreibt, wie sich Frankreichs Innenpolitik unter den sieben Staatspräsidenten im Laufe der Jahrzehnte...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-26
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Ina Klein untersucht, auf welche Art und Weise die Europäische Kommission Leadership ausübt. Dabei macht sie deutlich, welche Faktoren eine Rolle spielen, wenn Führung nicht auf weitreichenden rechtlichen Kompetenzen und zugewiesener Entscheidungsmacht beruht. Anhand...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-26
Collection :
Forschungen zur Europäischen Integration
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Robert Lessmann umreißt in diesem essential nach einer Darstellung der juristischen und politischen Grundlagen der internationalen Drogenkontrolle ihre Erfolge und Defizite – eine Sondergeneralversammlung der Vereinten Nationen (UNGASS) zum Thema Drogen vom April 2016...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book uncovers how US-India relations have changed and intensified during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Barack Obama. Throughout the Cold War, US-India relations were often distant and volatile as India mostly received attention at times...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book discusses the moral and legal issues relating to military drones, focusing on how these machines should be judged according to the principles of just war theory. The author analyses existing drones, like the Predator and Reaper, but also evaluates the many...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This volume traces the African ramifications of Europe’s southern border. While the Mediterranean Sea has become the main stage for the current play and tragedy between European borders and African migrants, Europe’s southern border has also been “offshored” to Africa,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
Collection :
Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies
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