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Engineers represent the (industrial) modern age like no other profession. In the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, however, the enormous numerical expansion of the profession was contrasted by comparatively unfavorable working conditions and incomes. This was...
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Springer
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2024-01-09
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Lobbying is not only the subject of ongoing, heated debates in politics and the public sphere but has also been a focus of the social sciences for decades. This edited volume provides an overview of the current state of research on lobbying from the perspective of...
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Springer
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2024-01-09
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Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a reflection of its...
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Polity
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2024-01-09
Collection :
Polity Histories
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“Delivering juicy details with unrelenting speed and force” (Jonathan Allen), Swamp Monsters is the wild inside story of how Donald Trump made a star of Ron DeSantis and then set out to destroy him—a struggle for supremacy that has turned Florida into...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2024-01-09
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This book sheds light on the so-called ‘Moro Doctrine’, an Italian state security policy which has been portrayed in literature as an under-the-counter agreement made between Italy and Palestinian movement during the Cold War. The Moro Doctrine, or ‘Lodo Moro’ as it is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-08
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For peace advocates a corollary to Clausewitz’s dictum that “war is politics by other means” might be that other politics could prevent war. By highlighting both individual peace advocates and antiwar/peace organizations from World War I through the wars of the 21st...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-05
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At least 70% of the world’s population now lives under an autocracy. There are more openly authoritarian states than ever, democratic regimes are ‘backsliding’ into autocracy, and authoritarian values and practices are increasingly normalized. Regimes in China and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2024-01-05
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This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, it examines this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-04
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This book examines the implications of Brexit for Africa-UK relations amid a ‘new scramble’ for the continent. Engaging Nkrumah on neo-colonialism and recent scholarship on global coloniality, Langan here underscores concerns that Brexit was fuelled by an imperial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-04
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This book analyses Member States’ and EU neighbours’ national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration. In a geopolitical context in which Russia’s...
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Springer
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2024-01-04
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Kommunalwirtschaft ist integraler Bestandteil der Gesamtwirtschaft, deren Wertschöpfung in Deutschland zu fast 90 Prozent von privaten Produzenten geprägt ist. Das Wegbrechen globaler Lieferketten durch die Corona-Pandemie und auch im Kontext mit der russischen...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2024-01-04
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It's high time we realized that there is hardly a thinker who has more perceptively sketched the outlines of a future that is our present. Contrary to what is repeated by those who would like to refute Marx without having read him, the economic predictions deduced from...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-01-04
Collection :
L’inconnu
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This edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally, and economically embedded entity. The chapters analyse the fact that the sport of basketball contains alternative logics that can easily clash, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-03
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Britain’s first Labour government took office on 22 January 1924. Its centenary provides an opportunity to reassess the party's performance over the last 100 years, and with an election pending, the character and purpose of the modern party. Labour defined the dominant...
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Polity
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2024-01-03
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In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind. Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of...
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Twelve
Parution :
2024-01-02
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Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand-the land of forests-represents an important experiment in regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities in a postcolonial democracy. Over two decades, Jharkhand has experienced...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-02
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The digital has emerged as a driving force of change that is reshaping everyday life and affecting nearly every sphere of vital activity. Yet, its impact has been far from uniform.The multifaceted implications of these ongoing shifts differ markedly across the world,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-01-02
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What is data-driven campaigning? According to prevailing accounts, this idea describes the rise of increasingly sophisticated, highly targeted, and often invasive uses of data deployed to suppress votes, manipulate voter preferences, or boost a candidates' popularity....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-01-02
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There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant, positive impacts on global climate efforts.There is much debate, however, on the most effective strategy for unlocking these low-cost mitigation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-01-01
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This book is the first collection of state-of-the-art research projects analyzing water conflict and cooperation with an explicitly theoretical point of view. Its fourteen chapters offer a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on how the application of various...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-01
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