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This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government.This focus sets the terms for a comparative inquiry that creates a novel perspective on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-12
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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 at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Freedom and equality are widely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-26
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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 at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Freedom and equality are widely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-26
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Federal models of government have shaped history and demonstrated how diverse people can live together and govern together in relative harmony. The Forum of Federations Handbook ofFederal Countries 2020 builds on the previous 2005 edition and offers a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-24
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What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. The main source of Putin's political influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared collective...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-01
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Trump, Wilders, Salvini, Le Pen - during the last decades, radical right-wing leaders and their parties have become important political forces in most western democracies. Their growing appeal raises an increasingly relevant question: who are the voters that support...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-01
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Trump, Wilders, Salvini, Le Pen - during the last decades, radical right-wing leaders and their parties have become important political forces in most western democracies. Their growing appeal raises an increasingly relevant question: who are the voters that support...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-01
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Moderne Demokratien stehen vor fundamentalen Herausforderungen. Dazu zählt das Phänomen der Anomie, verstanden als Zustand systematischen Normen- und Ordnungsverlusts. Die Studie dokumentiert die weite Verbreitung anomischer Potentiale in westlichen Demokratien, belegt...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-15
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In careers that spanned six decades, Padma Bhushan award winners Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph elaborated seminal insights about Indian politics. The Rudolphs’ rigorous and remarkably empathetic study of India coupled with their extensive reading of social science theory...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-09-10
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This book analyses the politics of othering in the USA and Canada from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines the basis in human behaviour for ‘disliking the unlike’, which can take the form of ethnocentrism, racism and xenophobia, and shows how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-01
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Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil War that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-18
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This book argues that revolutionary wars are generally the product not of ideological fervor but of a desire for territorial gain, encouraged either by a perception of the revolutionary state’s weakness or the chaos caused by shifting borders. However, these are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-06
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The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 was catalyst for the most precipitous economic downturn in eight decades. This book examines how the GFC and ensuing Great Recession affected electoral politics in the world's developed democracies.The initial wave of research on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-29
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The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 was catalyst for the most precipitous economic downturn in eight decades. This book examines how the GFC and ensuing Great Recession affected electoral politics in the world's developed democracies.The initial wave of research on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Energietransitionsprozesse werden weltweit nicht zuletzt durch die Überzeugungen der Akteure geprägt. Meike Löhr untersucht dieses Verständnis von Akteuren und Akteurskoalitionen der Energietransition in Dänemark, Deutschland und Frankreich, um damit die kognitive...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-05-29
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring' Dr. Jordan B. PetersonFrom host of The Rubin Report, the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube right now, a roadmap for free thinking in an increasingly...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2020-04-28
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The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-15
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The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-15
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The book explores the ways in which Latin American states are capitalizing or failing to capitalize on the initiatives of China in world affairs.The authors hypothesize that a dearth of regional agency and social construction, and a consequent institutional deficit in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-03-21
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This book argues that democracies emerging from peaceful protest last longer, achieve higher levels of democratic quality, and are more likely to see at least two peaceful handovers of power than democracies that emerged out of violent resistance or top-down...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-20
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