| |
This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-30
PDF, ePub
|
How do countries form reputations? Do these reputations affect interstate politics in the global arena? Reputations abound in world politics, but we know little about how state reputations form and how they evolve over time. We frequently use words like trust,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-25
PDF, ePub
|
Dominic Pakull unternimmt die erste systematische Analyse des Einflusses von nationalen Wahlen auf den Ausgang der ordentlichen Gesetzgebung der EU. Der Autor folgt dabei einem Mixed-Methods-Design und weist am Beispiel der drei größten Mitgliedstaaten nach, dass die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-01-08
PDF
|
This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ‘neutral’ to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-08
PDF, ePub
|
This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
PDF, ePub
|
A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions The first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-12-12
ePub
|
Sandra Brunsbach untersucht, in welcher Weise der demographische Wandel und die damit einhergehende Alterung der Wählerschaft in der Programmatik deutscher und britischer Parteien ihren Niederschlag finden. Im Rahmen der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung erfolgt erstmals...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-04
Collection :
Empirische Studien zur Parteienforschung
PDF
|
This edited volume covers the development of the thought of the political realist Hans J. Morgenthau from the time of his arrival in America from Nazi-dominated Europe through to his emphatic denunciation of American policy in the Vietnam War. Critical to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-24
PDF, ePub
|
This book, part of the Stanford Law School research project on the future of the legal profession, thoroughly examines the future of “big law,” defined as the large and mid-size multiservice highly specialized law firms that provide sophisticated, complex and generally...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-22
PDF, ePub
|
One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s. Fifty years after her death, she continues to deeply...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration. Each chapter investigates eight years of the Obama presidency from a different national perspective. By bringing together fourteen country studies from all regions of the world, this volume...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-07
PDF, ePub
|
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contained a threat that any state refusing to set up a health insurance exchange would lose control to the federal government. Republicans had supported the concept before it became part of Obamacare, and so virtually every state was...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-07
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
PDF, ePub
|
During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
PDF, ePub
|
Andreas Stifel befasst sich mit der politikwissenschaftlichen Analyse einer durch Widersprüche gekennzeichneten Partei und schließt die Erklärungslücke zwischen dem vielfach attestierten Scheitern der sozialen Bewegung und der gleichzeitigen erfolgreichen Etablierung...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-30
PDF, ePub
|
A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadershipThe Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert Mark Perry...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-10-24
ePub
|
‘Destined Statecraft enriches our understanding of global affairs by presenting a perspective where small powers are no longer in the periphery, but take up the main narrative. This standpoint is all the more valuable in an age where the proactive decision-making of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-18
PDF, ePub
|
This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It examines whether or not the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-17
PDF, ePub
|
This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement through formation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
PDF, ePub
|
You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own factsFantasy is the USA’s primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2017-10-12
ePub
|