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Prime ministers are presented as ever-more powerful figures; at the same time they seem to fail more regularly. How can the public image be so different from the apparent experience? This book seeks to answer this conundrum. It examines the myth that prime ministers are...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-10
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In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-10
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The book draws comparison between MERCOSUR and the European Union to explain variation of regionalism and to expose its limits.The project is based on the idea that contemporary examples of regionalism should be evaluated against several propositions of multiple...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-07
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Prime ministers are presented as ever-more powerful figures; at the same time they seem to fail more regularly. How can the public image be so different from the apparent experience? This book seeks to answer this conundrum. It examines the myth that prime ministers are...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-04
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Why have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lasted longer than any others in American history? The conventional wisdom suggests that the move to an all-volunteer force and unmanned technologies such as drones have reduced the apparent burden of war so much that they have...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-05-01
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Korruption wird meist mit undemokratischen Staaten in Verbindung gebracht. Dass das Phänomen jedoch auch in konsolidierten westlichen Demokratien aufzutreten vermag, wo korrupte Verhaltensweisen aufgrund des herrschenden Selbstverständnisses einer modernen politischen...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-30
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Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order. This book locatesEurope's contemporary challenges within the longer economic and political trajectories of its 'welfare democracies'. The book argues that it...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-19
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India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. Postscripts on Independence analyses and compares the making of foreign policy ideas,...
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OUP India
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2018-04-19
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Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order. This book locatesEurope's contemporary challenges within the longer economic and political trajectories of its 'welfare democracies'. The book argues that it...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-13
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Is large-scale immigration to Europe incompatible with the continent's generous and encompassing welfare states? Are Europeans willing to share welfare benefits with ethnically different and often less well-off immigrants? Or do they regard the newcomers as undeserving...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-30
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Katharina van Elten untersucht in ihrer vergleichenden Analyse, wie Professionsidentitäten die Unterstützung der in die Kritik geratenen Kammern beeinflussen. Die Autorin zeigt, warum Professionsvorstellungen und soziale Vergemeinschaftung für die Legitimität von...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-22
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Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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Is large-scale immigration to Europe incompatible with the continent's generous and encompassing welfare states? Are Europeans willing to share welfare benefits with ethnically different and often less well-off immigrants? Or do they regard the newcomers as undeserving...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-21
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Esther Mikuszies untersucht, wie politische Rechte von Migranten offiziell ausgehandelt und von politisch aktiven Migranten erlebt werden. Am Beispiel von ecuadorianischen und marokkanischen Migranten in Spanien nimmt sie politische Bürgerschaft als multilokales...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-15
Collection :
Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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Dieses Buch widmet sich Changemanagement im Rahmen von Fusionen im öffentlichen Sektor. Anhand eines Vergleichs analysiert Christoph Czychun fünf empirisch untersuchte Fälle von Verwaltungsvereinigungen in der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen unter Anwendung einer aus...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-13
Collection :
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
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From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory...
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Basic Books
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2018-03-06
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This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-23
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With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas. Both case and comparative studies of such historical cases as the silver, slave, and commodity trades,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-13
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This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-02
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The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote.The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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