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This book examines the paradoxical relationship between the religious and political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals, who exhibit nearly identical religious canon and practice, but sharply divergent political beliefs and action. Relying on interviews with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships. Through a detailed look at the Chilean and Romanian dictatorships, it compares the different ways in which political regimes convey their view of the world through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should put in place...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-04
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It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should put in place...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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Ulrich Heisterkamp untersucht aus vergleichender Perspektive das Potential und die Leistungsprofile der deutschen politischen Stiftungen als Think Tanks. Er leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag nicht nur zum Verständnis der parteinahen Stiftungen als Besonderheit des...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-31
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This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens’ behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness. Using the AsiaBarometer Survey data on quality of life, it studies various...
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Springer
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2017-05-21
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Auf der Basis einer Fallanalyse Spaniens entwickelt Andreas Baumer eine Systematik der Politikoptionen, die demokratischen Staaten gegenüber dem Phänomen der irregulären Migration zur Verfügung stehen. Dabei geht es auch um die Frage, in welchem Spannungsverhältnis...
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Springer VS
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2017-04-06
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This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust. To gauge trust both interpersonal and institutional in 29 Asian societies, the AsiaBarometer survey, the best—and...
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Springer
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2017-03-14
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The Sinews of State Power seeks to explain why rural China has been so unstable since 2000, despite numerous national reforms. Using original fieldwork, it traces the rise and demise of cohesive local states in rural China since the Maoist era. It shows that, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-10
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This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-07
Collection :
Global Issues
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This book shows how the introduction of intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
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Sebastian Stier führt bislang isolierte Literaturen der politik- und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Internetforschung zusammen und untersucht empirisch, inwiefern Autokratien in ihrer Netzpolitik und politischen Online-Kommunikation von Demokratien abweichen. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-02-06
Collection :
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
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This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the action of a group of individuals called “Ambassadors of Participation” was...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-10
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This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-04
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How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front?
Democracy in the Woods addresses these question by examining land rights conflicts-and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-02
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This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This book addresses the problem of World Regional Studies and its components: regional complexes, regional subsystems and global regions. With an increasingly complex international system and the emergence of new actors, it is clear that the conceptual framing within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state. It details their lobbying strategies and the leverage it gives them in policy-making in China's political system. Analysis is provided in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization. The author emphasizes the horizontal interactions between local...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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