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This book provides an analysis of the various challenges and opportunities facing the Japanese broadcasting industry. It is the first book in English that explores how Japanese broadcasting, especially commercial broadcasting, fulfills its social mission under the...
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Springer
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2022-11-14
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This book explores the political economy of governance in Palestine. It makes a unique contribution to studies of governance and political economy using the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a case study, introducing and developing the concept of ‘dual rentierism’. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-14
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This book eulogises a personality that has constructed a formidable scholarly and personal legacy that future generations of legal practitioners and socio-legal scholars in Africa should look to for guidance and inspiration. Divided into three parts, the book deals with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Introducing the institutional logics perspective to street-level analysis, this book examines how street-level workers deal with the institutional logics that guide their organization – whether they follow or challenge them. While doing so, the book develops a...
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Springer
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2022-11-14
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The problem of banks being 'too big to fail' was the defining regulatory issue of the global financial crisis. However, attempts to tackle the problem by separating retail banking from higher risk trading activities - known as structural reform - proved to be highly...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-14
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Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their...
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Polity
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2022-11-14
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This book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 2000. Situated in the literatures on Europeanization, democratization, party studies, and media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-13
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This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable.To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the...
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Springer VS
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2022-11-12
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The Persian Gulf 2021-22 is the ninth in the annual Persian Gulf Series published by MEI@ND. It is a detailed analysis of India’s bilateral relations with the nine countries in the Persian Gulf region and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and focuses on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-11
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This open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network on “Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation of European Integration” since 2019. Drawing on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-10
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This book provides a concise and engaging analysis of the particularly unusual 2020 election year in the USA. The political science perspective illuminates societal tensions in the context of the Corona pandemic and elaborates election-deciding discourses. Larger...
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Springer
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2022-11-10
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This book analyzes how the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, one of the most well-known actors within the humanitarian sector, has responded to the expanding humanitarian needs. The Movement of today not only cares for the wounded and the sick on the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-10
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This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-09
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Der Widerstand gegen Hitler hatte es auch nach 1945 schwer – schließlich war deutlich geworden, dass es sehr wohl Handlungsalternativen zum Wegschauen und Mitlaufen gegeben hatte. Auch als mit Beginn des Kalten Krieges in Ostdeutschland der kommunistische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-11-09
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This book analyses why the Ukrainian state established asylum laws and policies in the thirty years since 1991, even though the number of asylum seekers was very low. International and non-governmental organisations transferred international asylum norms to Ukraine....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-08
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This book explores the foreign and security policies of Germany, France and the UK vis-à-vis China. Despite the progress made by the Lisbon Treaty and notwithstanding the first EU Global Strategy, the European Union does not have a strategy to address the rise of China....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-08
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The book examines, linking two key variables – ‘political leadership’ and ‘foreign policy’ – the role of Deng Xiaoping in China’s foreign policy shift after Mao in politico-strategic and economic domains.The book finds out that guided by his own personality, worldview,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-08
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Since 2006, more than 85,000 people have disappeared in Mexico. These disappearances remain largely unsolved: disappeared people are rarely found, and the Mexican state almost never investigates or prosecutes those responsible. Despite this, people not only continue to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-08
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The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain. In recent decades, local governments in Europe have increasingly found themselves under pressure from a multitude of new challenges, such as demographic change, climate change, fiscal austerity policies,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-08
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This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-07
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