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'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it...as we move into an age where work and leisure become blurred, and work dissociated from incomes, Standing's analysis is vital' Paul MasonShouldn't everyone receive a...
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Pelican
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2017-05-04
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Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-05-02
Collection :
Development and Change Special Issues
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It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-04-28
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This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-24
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This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises.
In the 2010s, France was in a situation of systemic crisis, namely, the impossibility for political leadership to find a strategy of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises.
In the 2010s, France was in a situation of systemic crisis, namely, the impossibility for political leadership to find a strategy of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This book examines the alterglobalist activists in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork and numerous in-depth interviews with key figures of the movement, it covers mobilizations and actions between 1998 and 2011 and analyzes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-01
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In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological framework of the political and social history of the country and the post-colonial understanding of the place of men and women are based on the inter-subjective discourses of power, place, identity and belongingness. Through...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-24
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Now in its 152nd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-07
Collection :
The Statesman's Yearbook
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This book is a response to the need for scientific research on one of the components of quality of democracy, id est accountability. The author analyses thoroughly in cross-section the accountability mechanisms in Poland and Spain.This approach required that each of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-06
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This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-01
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Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-04
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This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions. The author explores how our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-25
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Die 15. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen, die Südwind Salzburg in Kooperation mit der Universität Salzburg durchführte, nahmen das «Europäische Jahr für Entwicklung» (2015) zum Anlass, die Herausforderung «Entwicklung» aufzugreifen und einer interdisziplinären...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Since 1991, Kyrgyzstan’s leaders have pursued a post-Soviet national identity. Their concepts failed to consolidate the country’s multi-ethnic society, and continuously antagonize civic values and ethnic myth. The author applies international relations theory to frame...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-14
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Der Autor zeigt anhand des Finanzsystems auf, warum es notwendig ist, die ökonomische Bildung in eine sozialwissenschaftliche Bildung zu überführen. Dabei entwickelt er ein Schema zur Darstellung des Finanzsystems und führt aus, warum die Märkte des Finanzsystems immer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-08
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While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-05-16
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Schon seit der Entdeckung von «Gamsons Law» 1961 konzentriert sich die Koalitionsforschung auf die Verteilung von Ämtern zwischen Regierungsparteien. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die bisher wenig beachtete Verteilung von politischen Inhalten. Die Autorin misst Policy...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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Das Staatenlexikon Afrika bietet Hintergrundinformationen zur Geschichte und Gegenwart der unabhängigen afrikanischen Staatenwelt. Detaillierte Länderdarstellungen zeigen, welche Institutionen, Personen und Vorstellungen im Wechselspiel der Kräfte die Realität Afrikas...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-19
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By combining insights from Europeanization, globalization, varieties of capitalism, and policy transfer literature, this book reconceptualizes the dynamics taking place during the EU enlargement process and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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