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The volume includes comparative and comprehensive discussions on anti-corruption policies of governments and anti-corruption agencies across Europe. Compared to existing literature that focuses either on general and theoretical aspects related to corruption or on...
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Springer
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2021-12-10
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This book explores the existence of gaps between public preferences and institutional designs in democracies, and specifically cases in which such gaps are maintained for a long period of time without being challenged by the electorate. Gaps such as these can be seen in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-10
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This interdisciplinary volume presents a comprehensive framework to understand political awareness. Political awareness has become an important part of research on political attitudes and political behavior since the publication of John Zaller's work on political...
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Springer
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2021-12-09
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Participation has become an orthodoxy in the field of development, an essential element of projects and programmes. This book analyses participation in development interventions as an institutionalised expectation – a rationalized myth – and examines how organisations...
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Springer VS
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2021-12-09
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This book offers a distinctive approach to understanding Anglo-American relations with Iran in the early Cold War. It establishes how the United Kingdom and United States used soft power between 1953 and 1960 to combat communism and promote their respective ways of life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-08
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This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections...
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Springer
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2021-12-08
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Wahlkreisarbeit von Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestags als eine zentrale Voraussetzung der repräsentativen Demokratie. Auf Basis von Interviews mit 33 Mitgliedern des Bundestages während der ersten Infektionswelle von...
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Springer VS
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2021-12-08
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Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices. Guilt has become political, and it assumes a highly visible place in the public sphere and academic debate in fields ranging from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-08
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After the 2008–9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional. Now,...
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Polity
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2021-12-07
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The Case For
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The problem of rent is at the root of vital social concerns in the twenty-first century, ranging from the climate emergency and spiralling economic inequality to the repercussions of global economic crises. But while many of us may be familiar with rent (especially...
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Polity
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2021-12-07
Collection :
What is Political Economy?
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This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain. It deals critically with a variety of sociological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-06
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This book presents an overview of the main changes in the United States' foreign policy in response to the transformations in the international order in the last decades. If, after the end of the Cold War, the USA invested in the universalization of market economy and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-12-06
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Nach der ersten grün-roten Landesregierung in einem deutschen Bundesland von 2011 bis 2016 in Baden-Württemberg führte Winfried Kretschmann von 2016 bis 2021 zum zweiten Mal eine grün-geführte Landesregierung an – eine lagerübergreifend grün-schwarze Kiwi-Koalition....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-05
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This book tackles the question of how to characterise and account for recentralisation in Colombia between central and lower levels of government across a 26-year period. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the distribution of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-04
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This book offers a diachronical and inter-/transmedia approach to the relationship of media and fear in a variety of geographical and cultural settings.This allows for an in-depth understanding of the media’s role in pandemics, wars and other crises, as well as in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-03
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In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Cities Lobby explores how local officials use lobbyists to compete for power in state politics.
When Cities Lobby tells the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-03
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Capitalism has become 'financialized'. Since the 1970s, the swelling of financial markets and asset price bubbles has occurred alongside weaker underlying economic growth. Yet financialization was not a spontaneous market development - it was deeply political. States...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-03
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Ein junges Mädchen aus Schweden schafft, was viele über Jahrzehnte versucht haben. Greta Thunberg und die Fridays for Future-Bewegung schlagen Alarm und die Politik hört nicht nur zu, sondern ist angesichts der Kraft der sozialen Bewegung dazu gezwungen, aktiv zu...
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Springer VS
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2021-12-03
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Der Putschversuch im Juli 2016 war eine Zäsur in der türkischen Politik. Dieses Buch widmet sich den türkischen Außenbeziehungen im Mittleren Osten. In dieser Region spielt die Türkei als Regionalmacht eine entscheidende Rolle. Zypernstreit, Bergkarabach-Konflikt, Krieg...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-02
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Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work.
How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms?...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-02
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