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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...
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-10
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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...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-28
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'The best American political biography since Obama's Dreams from My Father' GuardianNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once described by the Washington...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2019-06-13
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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...
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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...
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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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In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-16
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In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-16
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Can we sidestep tedious climate policy negotiations and forge a coalition of the willing instead? Many international organizations and scholars hope to spur local climate action by orchestration, indirect and voluntary governance arrangements. Lena Bendlin looks beyond...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-13
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Wie wandlungsfähig ist gewerkschaftliches Handeln? Diese Frage steht im Zentrum der durchgeführten komparativen Analyse nationaler Gewerkschaftspolitiken in Deutschland, Österreich und Slowenien. Dort unterliegen die Gewerkschaften vergleichbaren Handlungsbedingungen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-10
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*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*‘A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks…do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?’ The TimesAmerica is in crisis. In the space of a generation the country has...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-05-02
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Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in "patronage democracies" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent, direct assistance...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-01
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Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical regions: Europe, Latin America and the United States. Based on the detailed comparison of all...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-02
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Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical regions: Europe, Latin America and the United States. Based on the detailed comparison of all...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-02
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This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-20
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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.
This book summarizes recent advances in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-14
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Nachhaltig belastet durch die Dissonanzen und Zerwürfnisse, die noch aus der Zeit der umstrittenen Präsidentschaft George W. Bushs herrühren, sehen sich die transatlantischen Akteure in den Anfangsjahren der Regierungszeit von US-Präsident Barack H. Obama überdies...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2019-02-19
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