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In this book, legal scholar Randy Barnett elaborates and defends the fundamental premise of the Declaration of Independence: that all persons have a natural right to pursue happiness so long as they respect the equal rights of others, and that governments are only...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-06
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The Kingdom of Bahrain’s perseverance as an independent state in one of the world’s most dangerous regions presents an enigma in the metanarrative of three centuries of near perpetual strife along the Arabian littoral. This mystery is due to Bahrain’s size when compared...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-30
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Although much prized in daily conversation, good listening has been almost completely ignored in that form of political conversation we know as democracy. This book examines the reasons why so little attention has been paid to the listening aspect of democratic...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-30
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As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In Deciphering Sun Tzu, Derek Yuen seeks to reclaim for the reader the hidden...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-11
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Equal opportunity is a powerful idea, and one with extremely broad appeal in contemporary politics, political theory, and law. But what does it mean? On close examination, the most attractive existing conceptions of equal opportunity turn out to be impossible to achieve...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-10
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Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-12
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This volume examines a variety of philosophical approaches that seek to formulate practical guidelines or norms for human actions and behavior in different areas of society, including politics, cultural traditions, the environment, business management, architecture, and...
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Springer
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2013-12-11
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This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful...
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Springer
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2013-12-04
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Why did Machiavelli write the Prince - and why did religious and political authorities find it so threatening? Five hundred years on, this book tries to answer these questions.
In the first detailed, chapter-by-chapter reading of the Prince in any language, Erica...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-28
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This book examines the implementation and consequences of the Italian expatriate vote and representation introduced in 2001 in the external electoral colleges with special attention to the Electoral College known as Africa-Asia-Oceania-Antarctica. The Italian elections...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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The Rebel is Camus's 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-31
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In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-16
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This book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. It argues that a liberal state can insist upon the universal reach of liberal ideas, while still distinguishing between what is owed to citizens and what is owed to foreign citizens.This liberalism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-26
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Die Schweiz gilt als demokratisches Lehrmodell der politischen Egalität und ausgeprägten Mitspracherechte des Stimmvolkes. Ursprünglich während Jahrzehnten durch eine kollegiale Einparteienregierung geführt, wurde diese erst im Laufe der Zeit zu einer relativ stabilen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2013-08-15
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This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-15
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This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-15
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This book offers a theory of democratic justice. According to the theory, justice emerges from collective agreement among political associates who enjoy approximate equality of power. Such situations can be seen as social contracts, and we find an empirical model for...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-15
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We live in a world which is characterised by both a radical inequality in wealth and incomes and the accelerating depletion of scarce natural resources. One of the things that prevents us from addressing these problems, perhaps even prevents us from seeing them as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-15
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What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive about that kind of thinking? That question is all-too infrequently asked by political theorists, or is dealt with through generalizations, abstractions, and dichotomies. This study...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-08
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Neben der Kategorie der Zeit bilden die Kategorien Raum und Grenze sowohl im materiellen als auch im spirituellen Sinne die wichtigsten Determinanten des menschlichen Lebens und Zusammenlebens. Im Umgang mit ihnen vollzieht und erfüllt sich unser Schicksal - als...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2013-07-27
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