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This book identifies and addresses subtle but important questions and issues associated with the configuration of International Relations as a discipline. Starting with a much-needed discussion of manifold implications and issues associated with pluralism, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-14
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This book is a concise treatise of the alternative paradigms used in BRICS countries to tackle urban housing shortages. There are a number of alternative methods for meeting these shortages which BRICS countries have adopted. These alternatives may agree in terms of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-07
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The Greening of Everyday Life develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society. It brings together several conceptual frameworks with a diversity of case studies and practical examples of efforts to orient everyday...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-05
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Andrea Walter untersucht Chancen und Herausforderungen für Kommunalverwaltung in lokaler Politikgestaltung mit Vereinen und Verbänden am Beispiel einer Fallkommune. Sie illustriert das Rollenverständnis von Kommunalverwaltung sowie die Bedeutung von Interaktionsregeln...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-01
Collection :
Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-30
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Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required. Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World aims to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-24
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Der Band thematisiert die Sicherheitsproduktion zwischen Staat, Markt und Zivilgesellschaft in 13 Beiträgen. Zwar löst sich das staatliche Gewaltmonopol nicht auf, doch werden sowohl die konkrete Sicherheitsarbeit als auch die Steuerung der Politik der Inneren...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-22
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As late as the 1980s, breast cancer was a stigmatized disease, so much so that local reporters avoided using the word "breast" in their stories and early breast cancer organizations steered clear of it in their names. But activists with business backgrounds began to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-18
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This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 economic crisis. Bringing together leading European social policy researchers, it shows that the EU’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-09
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Alexander Wohnig stellt mittels einer Studie einen Katalog von Bedingungen einer Verbindung von sozialem und politischem Lernen auf, der als Teil einer Konzeption politischer Bildung entworfen ist – vor dem Hintergrund der Frage, wie politisches Lernen im Anschluss an...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-08-04
Collection :
Bürgerbewusstsein
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This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17–25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-02
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Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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The purpose of this ground-breaking book is to inspire the principle of innovation as a permeating program for Europe’s societies. After demonstrating early success from the realization of a single market and single currency, the European cooperation process is falling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-28
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What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and misconceptions of charitable activity in contemporary British society, especially insofar as these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-07-26
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This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-12
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This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approach, it investigates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-12
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This book examines the variation in high-skilled immigration policies in OECD countries. These countries face economic and social pressures from slowing productivity, ageing populations and pressing labour shortages. To address these inter-related challenges, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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This book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the complex interplay between private versus public forms of organization and governance in urban residential developments. Bringing together top experts from numerous disciplines, including law, economics,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-07-01
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Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required. Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World aims to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-01
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