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During his presidency, FDR led the American public to believe that the US government could set policy that would transform the economy. This book argues that this assumption, which ultimately became embedded into the general American psyche, has impacted our economy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations, from the creation of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book argues that ethical reasoning should be adopted into policy processes in order to improve environmental regulations. It considers how public administrators and civil servants play key roles in policy making and implementation, and demonstrates how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-21
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The second edition of this book (updated to February 24, 2024) presents a comprehensive evaluation of the strategy implemented by China to manage its modernization process.The author evaluates to what extent the economy has been developed, whether the imbalances due to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-19
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This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particularly from non-western contexts. It examines characteristics and profiles of vulnerable populations, intervention...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-18
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Democratic political systems are often thought to be preferable to all others for supporting liberty. Around the world, nations that are more democratic tend to be freer across various aspects of life and human experience. This book undertakes a social scientific...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-17
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
After more than a decade of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-16
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In diesem Buch werden im Rahmen einer interviewbasierten Multistakeholder-Analyse die Perspektiven unterschiedlicher Stakeholder der textilen Kreislaufwirtschaft untersucht. Dabei wird analysiert, wie die Wertschöpfung aus dem Rohstoff Alttextil ökonomisch, sozial und...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2024-10-15
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book describes and offers cases in the assessment of Ecological Footprint (EF) in different industrial spaces and processes. Ecological Footprint is a useful metric that measures the level of resources from the environment that are required to support a specific...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-15
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This book provides a collection of chapters that critically explore the making and development of Africa’s independence constitutions through the different phases in their full generality. Since independence, various constitutions from African countries have undergone a...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-09
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The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence of the rich world has a right to a minimum income enabling social participation, be it frugally and soberly, holds as a fundamental matter of social justice to most people. But how can we make sure that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-03
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The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence of the rich world has a right to a minimum income enabling social participation, be it frugally and soberly, holds as a fundamental matter of social justice to most people. But how can we make sure that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-03
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
After more than a decade of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-01
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The book aims at outlining key political, functional, administrative and financial features of Germany’s local government system and at placing them in a (European) comparative perspective. In pursuing an “institutionalist” approach it focuses on discussing whether, how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-30
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Jonathan Seim der Frage, wer an Bürger*innenbeteiligungsverfahren beteiligt werden sollte. Ob jene Konsultationsverfahren tatsächlich zu einer Stärkung der Demokratie beitragen können, hängt auch von der Beantwortung dieser bisher...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-09-30
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This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and green recovery. The on the ground perspective from case studies across the global south ensures a culturally...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-27
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This edited collection proposes a wide range of approaches to address the legal issues pertaining to the end of the fossil fuel era. While the fossil fuel era is coming to an end both because of the inherent limits of its resources and because of the need to prevent to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-24
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The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-23
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Die Gerichtsentscheidungen im Fall Ramstein zeigen, dass deutsche Gericht oftmals zögern, außenpolitische Sachverhalte am Maßstab des Völkerrechts zu messen. In den Verfahren vertrat die Bundesregierung die Auffassung, dass Kampfdrohneneinsätze der USA im Jemen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-17
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The integration project of the European Union has not progressed much beyond its economic successes, and the original idea of a political union has drifted far away following the crises of the past decade. With Russia's aggression against Ukraine, a crisis has emerged...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-15
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