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An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions, and challenges...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-02-25
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This innovative new handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which domestic education policy is framed and influenced by global institutions and actors. Surveys current debates about the role of education in a global polity, highlights key transnational...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-24
Collection :
Handbooks of Global Policy
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The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice...
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Springer
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2016-02-08
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The book contributes to the ongoing discussion and research on civil society in the context of democracy and democratization. It provides a theoretical analysis of civil society, participation, the public sphere and democratic consolidation in light of normative...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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Der Band bilanziert in 30 Beiträgen das wissenschaftliche Werk des geschäftsführenden Direktors des Instituts Arbeit und Qualifikation, Gerhard Bosch. Autorinnen und Autoren aus politischer Praxis und Wissenschaft kommen gleichberechtigt zu Wort. Das Buch ist in die...
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Springer VS
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2016-02-01
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In diesem Buch wird die aktuelle Problematik der weltweit niedrigen
Leitzinsen aufgegriffen und das auf John M. Keynes zurückgehende Konzept der
Liquiditätsfalle in die moderne Makroökonomik übertragen.In drei einfachen
dynamischen Modellen wird untersucht, ob die...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2016-02-01
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The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles and practice of involving volunteers, and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Almost all advanced democracies have launched significant privatization programs over the last three decades. However, while there was a global run into privatization, substantial cross-national differences in the divesture of state-owned enterprises can be observed....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-01-22
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Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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Dieses Buch kommt dem Konservativen auf die Spur. Mit Darstellungen aus Politik und Forschung wird zunächst das widersprüchliche Konservatismusverständnis aufgezeigt. Während der Konservatismus nicht selten als rückwärtsgewandt oder gar reaktionär bewertet wird, sehen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-15
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This is the first book to examine the processes of territorial federalization and decentralization of health systems in Europe drawing from an interdisciplinary economics, public policy and political science approach. It contains key theoretical and empirical features...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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As a consultant for healthcare associations working on all the healthcare laws from Medicare, the Health Manpower Act, Budget Reconciliation, Clinton healthcare efforts and the Affordable Healthcare Act, Donald Lavanty had a front-row seat from which to witness the...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-12-31
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Through the last century, Catholic fraternity alumni have served as German chancellors, presidents, federal ministers, state executives, and leading voices in Germany’s parliament. They have played leading roles in the Catholic press, in Catholic youth groups, in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-29
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Russia 2025 offers a compelling insight into Russia's future by exploring thematic scenarios ranging from politics to demographics. The widening rift between a modernizing, post-Communist society and a paternalistic government will ultimately shape developments in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-28
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