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Democracy is in decline and the share of world's population living in freedom under democratic government has decreased considerably as authoritarian practices proliferate. Surprisingly, most of the analyses that study these developments give little attention to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Leading multinational technology companies like...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-06-17
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In his new book John A. Hall traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires to the past: Hall argues that this is not the case....
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Polity
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2024-06-14
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What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are...
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Polity
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2024-06-10
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17,99€
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A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.
Thirty years ago, the idea...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-03
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This book focuses on how Burmanization created and reinforced ethnic divides since the 1962 coup d’etat. when General Ne Win concentrated all authority in the Burmese speaking army. Background research for the book includes Burmese language materials from the Burmese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-15
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This book focuses on the making and implication of AUKUS for Australians in their relations with their own state and governance, the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world. AUKUS is an incipient military state and a highly dangerous development, moving...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-13
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In Making Punches Count, the first comprehensive account of legislative floor violence and its consequences, Nathan Batto and Emily Beaulieu focus on recent episodes from a wide variety of countries, including Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, Mexico, Uganda, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-10
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Personalist leaders, such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko or Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, are increasingly prominent players in the international landscape; their motivations and policies, however, are poorly understood. The regimes they lead...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-10
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Civil Society Activism in the Middle East analyzes the impact of repression on civil society activism in the Middle East through analyzing the cases of Egypt and Jordan.
Sika argues that authoritarian regimes' repressive strategies toward civil society actors vary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-08
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This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare management. The 2008 crash marked a critical stress test for...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-08
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'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced...Nobody has outlined this danger more compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization...
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Virgin Digital
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2024-05-02
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What happens when a tradition-bound institution encounters an iconoclastic president intent on changing how the government operates? In Disruption?, Sean M. Theriault has gathered nineteen leading authors from a range of subfields to provide a compelling understanding...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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One of the primary goals of the 1970s-era conservative legal movement was to undo New Deal policies that favored labor at the expense of capital.One of the movement's most effective strategies turned out to be advancing bipartisan legislation on arbitration and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The key to sustained and equitable...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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What makes terrorism a unique form of political violence is its underground nature. According to the conceptualization of the phenomenon offered in this book, terrorism is the kind of violence carried out when the perpetrators lack territorial control. There is a strong...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-17
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Civil Society Activism in the Middle East analyzes the impact of repression on civil society activism in the Middle East through analyzing the cases of Egypt and Jordan.
Sika argues that authoritarian regimes' repressive strategies toward civil society actors vary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-15
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This open access book focuses on the nexus between “party system stability” and “democratic consolidation”, using Slovenia as a case study. Its findings are presented from a comparative perspective to illustrate the commonalities and differences found in research on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-19
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ANDY BURNHAM & STEVE ROTHERAM'S PLAN FOR BRITAINDescribed as:'A PATH-BREAKING BOOK' - Gordon Brown'HEARTFELT, AMBITIOUS' - Brian Groom'A PROGRAMME OF OPTIMISM' - Tribune'PERSUASIVE... A CLEAR PLAN' - The ObserverFor the very first time, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram,...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2024-03-07
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This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare management. The 2008 crash marked a critical stress test for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-05
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