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What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing? The historical and comparative evidence suggests that the answer is social democratic capitalism - a democratic political system, a capitalist economy, good elementary and secondary...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-02
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This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-24
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'One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read...If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation' Owen JonesNow We Have Your Attention makes sense of what is happening in...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-09-19
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This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamérica. The PPP was...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-13
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'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' - Bill Gates An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalismToday,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book is designed as a timely analysis of the rise of post-modern conservatism in many Western countries across the globe. It provides a theoretical overview of post-modernism, why post-modern conservatism emerged, what distinguishes it from other variants of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-29
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In our globalized world, borders are back with a vengeance. New data shows a massive increase of walls and barriers between countries after 2001. However, at the same time, the flow of people and the growth of trade have continued at impressive rates, and arguments for...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-15
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This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean. Through a Caribbean perspective, the chapters discuss the implications of the U.S.-Cuba relationship...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-13
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Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined...
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Springer VS
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2019-08-10
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In diesem Sammelband wird die Situation der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Brasilien und Deutschland analysiert. Es wird diskutiert, welche aktuellen Herausforderungen sich für sie stellen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren fokussieren dabei verwaltungsinterne Prozesse ebenso wie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-08-09
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This book’s leading goal is to explain why some states in the Americas have been markedly more effective than others at forming stable democratic regimes. The six states analyzed are the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. The study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-22
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This book strives to answer two interrelated questions: Why have certain states in the Americas been more successful than others at creating stable democratic regimes? Why have certain states in the Americas failed to create stable democratic regimes? To answer both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-12
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This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raúl Castro’s leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel. Faced with economic challenges and a political crisis of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-11
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The European Social Model is at a crossroad. Although from the 1990s onwards, the threat of an imminent crisis shaped much of the rhetoric surrounding the future of the welfare state, disagreement within the academic community remains. What is however increasingly clear...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-07-11
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This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women’s activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin America’s mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-10
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht die Zu- und Abnahme der Demokratiequalität in den EU-Staaten. Mithilfe des Demokratie Barometers wird für die Jahre 2004 bis 2012 nachgezeichnet, dass ein Decline of Democracy keineswegs auf prominente Beispiele wie Polen und Ungarn...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-28
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Obwohl die Zahl der Publikationen über Lobbyismus und Transparenz deutlich zugenommen hat, ist über den Zusammenhang der beiden Phänomene wenig bekannt. Die Motive einer Transparenzschaffung oder Transparenzverhinderung durch Lobbyisten blieben in der wissenschaftlichen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-06-10
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Tanja Wolf entwickelt eine Typologie zur Unterscheidung rechtsextremer und rechtspopulistischer Parteien in Europa. Diese basiert auf einer systematischen Herleitung der Unterscheidungsmerkmale. Hierfür werden nicht nur die gängigsten Definitionen extremer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-07
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In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their own national...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-04
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This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics. Globalization has decisively influenced Latin American nationhood and it has also helped create a global region with global cities that are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-25
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