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A seminal text in European studies, which addresses issues of research design and causal analysis. The chapters draw on different methodological traditions, notions of causality, and methods and use strong research design to address substantive problems in public...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-16
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What comes next for a former leader in a democracy - a Prime Minister or President obliged to leave office because they have lost an election, come to the end of their constitutionally-fixed term, lost the backing of their party, or chosen to leave? This book analyses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-05
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An all star cast of academic experts offer an important and timely analysis of the pursuit of autonomy. They argue that it is key to move beyond the primarily normative debate about the rights or wrongs of autonomous regions on the basis of cultural concerns, instead...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-27
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The bestselling author ofThe Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.This is the story of the corporate...
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Constable
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2012-03-15
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You think that the recession isn't biting? Look again.You think that the riots in August 2011 were unpredicted? Think again. 75 years after George Orwell's classic expose on life in the North, Stephen Armstrong returns to find that many things have changed, but not...
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Constable
Parution :
2012-03-08
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The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-03-01
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'Likely to become the essential short work on modern Australia' Don Watson 'Megalogenis is Australia's best explainer A brilliant read' Annabel Crabb There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use...
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E-Penguin
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2012-02-22
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Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includes 25 parties in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom from 1965 onwards. The topics covered...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-01-12
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The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'. It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practical ways it could be implemented. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-12
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Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-13
Collection :
Development and Change Special Issues
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As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging.As God is Back shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model of personal,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-10-06
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The Quest continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin began twenty years ago with his No.1 International BestsellerThe Prize, revealing the on-going quest to meet the world's energy needs - and the power and riches that come with it.A master story teller as well as our...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-09-20
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Jennifer Granholm was the two-term governor of Michigan, a state synonymous with manufacturing during a financial crisis that threatened to put all America's major car companies into bankruptcy. The immediate and knock-on effects were catastrophic. Granholm's grand...
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PublicAffairs
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2011-09-20
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'If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice; no power will be able to stop them' Hadith attributed to the Prophet MuhammadThe Black Banners is the ultimate insider's account of the realities of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-09-12
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When the global financial system crashed, governments in America and Britain performed the greatest bailout in history. The legacy is record government debt, low growth and a new era of austerity. A stellar cast of contributors, including Tim Bale, Wyn Grant and Graham...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-02
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This book examines the relationship between semi-presidentialism and democratic performance. Semi-presidentialism - where a constitution provides for both a directly elected president and a prime minister and cabinet responsible to the legislature - has become the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-25
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