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This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities. The book builds upon the work of the largest stream at...
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Springer
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2018-05-23
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In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-05-22
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This book critically interrogates three sets of distortions that emanate from the messianic core of 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be committed...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-18
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This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances. Its initial section presents concepts in law and ethics that unite practitioners, researchers, and academics in...
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Springer
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2018-05-17
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This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics. It examines how these populations are identified and constructed by policy making. The contributors apply the classic theoretical question about who gets what, when, and how, but...
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Springer
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2018-05-16
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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Martina Lizarazo López beleuchtet den Wandel von der traditionellen zur modernen Demographiepolitik in Frankreich zwischen dem Ende des Baby-Booms und dem erneuten Geburtenanstieg ab der Mitte der 1990er Jahre, als wesentliche demographische, sozio-ökonomische,...
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Springer VS
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2018-05-12
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This book presents the series of lectures on the "Belt and Road Initiatives" from the Guang Ming Forum organized by Guang Ming Daily. Co-authored by Ge Jianxiong, Hu Angang, Lin Yifu, Qiao Liang and nine other respected scholars and experts, it provides a...
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Springer
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2018-05-09
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This book provides an innovative theoretical and analytical framework for studying the role and impact of specialized research organizations and consultancies on decision making in climate politics. It includes advanced empirical analysis of the case of Germany,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-08
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Recessions are a recurring phenomenon and there are repeated debates about how to combat them when the crisis hits and after the economy begins to grow again. Laurence Seidman argues that currently we are not ready to combat the next recession.
A recession involves a...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-05-07
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This book seeks to comprehensively analyze and document U.S. foreign policy toward a strategic Cold War ally that posed a stark challenge to the traditionally-stated U.S. preference for democracy and political freedom. It details the complex ways in which the U.S....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-05
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Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continues to rise. Can...
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Polity
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2018-05-04
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Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-02
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Ökonomische Fragestellungen, Begrifflichkeiten und Konzepte gewinnen in der Praxis und im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs des Sozialwesens immer mehr an Bedeutung. Das Buch befasst sich mit aktuellen zentralen Fragen aus Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement. Es dokumentiert...
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Springer VS
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2018-05-02
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This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process. The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of energy transitions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-30
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-28
Collection :
European Administrative Governance
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This book explains the causal pathways, the mechanisms and the politics that define the quantity and quality of policy learning. A rich collection of case studies structured around a strong conceptual architecture, the volume comprises fresh, original, empirical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-28
Collection :
International Series on Public Policy
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We are living in a time of extreme inequality: America’s three richest people now own as much wealth as the bottom half of the population. Although most accept that this is grotesque, many politicians accept it as irreversible. In this book, leading US researcher and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-04-27
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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?This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors’ earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security Policymaking...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-25
Collection :
Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies
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This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style. The book highlights several trends that suggest that the British policy style has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-04-25
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Diese Open Access Buch geht den Fragen nach, wie inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit entstehen, welche Rahmenbedingungen der Staat setzen und welche Reformen er auf den Weg bringen muss und wie sich wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen auswirken. Die besten...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2018-04-24
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