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The public sector urgently needs more personnel and must actively engage with the labor market to distinguish itself from the private sector. Scholars recommend developing a strong “public service brand” and using sector-specific motives to attract individuals who...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2024-10-30
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Dictators' Endgames examines the political role of the military in “dictators' endgames”: large-scale nonviolent mass protests in autocracies that demand the regime leader's removal from office. It addresses the question why some militaries defend an embattled autocrat...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-30
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In Making Financial Globalization, Clara Park challenges the conventional wisdom that finance has always been global. Drawing on original datasets of financial trade restrictions and domestic financial regulations in over 100 countries, archival research of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-29
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This book presents a fresh perspective on the geopolitical landscape surrounding NATO's enlargement, aptly termed "expansion by invitation." Looking beyond conventional narratives, it unravels the multifaceted outcomes of this process, extending beyond the initial...
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Springer
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2024-10-29
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This book examines twentieth and twenty-first-century American political discourse through the framework of progressive liberalism and neoliberalism. Progressive liberalism and neoliberalism as forms of normative reason redefine specific political concepts, which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-28
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During his presidency, FDR led the American public to believe that the US government could set policy that would transform the economy. This book argues that this assumption, which ultimately became embedded into the general American psyche, has impacted our economy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-28
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The book tells (and analyzes) the story of the United Nations multidimensional stabilization operation in Mali (MINUSMA), which closed at the end of the 2023 after almost a decade of existence. MINUSMA, which is the UN operation that has by far attracted the most media...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-27
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Since the creation of the Department for International Development, the purpose of UK development policy and aid has changed significantly. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of these changes, their causes, and their implications. It argues that UK...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-26
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This book analyses the entanglement between Washington and Hollywood to shed light on the violence inherent in the image as a semiotic-material agent in contemporary warfare. In the 21st century, the weaponized military drone, an image-centered machine, has spearheaded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-26
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Why are some authoritarian regimes highly competitive and others highly unified? Do they function differently? And what does it mean for our understanding of democracy and democratization?
In The Social Roots of Authoritarianism, Natalia Forrat describes two models of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations, from the creation of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book critically examines the subjective value of privacy in the context of state surveillance, exploring how individuals assess costs and benefits of surveillance. It delves into the complex relationship between attitudes towards privacy, security, and state...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-24
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This book analyzes the legacy of the first Trump administration on a variety of different fronts. Whether it was the extensive use of Twitter, the tendency to express controversial, and often dubious views, or to even slander foreign leaders, Trump was a disruptive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-24
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The modern work ethic is in crisis.The numerous harms and injustices harboured by current labour markets and work organisations, combined with the threat of mass unemployment entailed in rampant automation, have inspired a strong “post-work” movement in the theoretical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 bewegt viele Menschen die Frage, was den russischen Staatsführer zu dieser Entscheidung bewogen hat. Während sich die Forschung schon länger mit dieser Thematik befasst, werden dabei oft der Staatsführer und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite trend occurring in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Tolerance is usually regarded as a quintessential liberal value. This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars of religion as the solution to the problem of religious violence....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-23
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This edited volume provides original research and innovative analysis on corruption and anti-corruption in countries and regions of the Global South. It brings together economists, social and political scientists, and international relations, law, public...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-22
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The dominant narrative in intelligence studies portrays the evolution of intelligence from Cold War times to the present as one of increasing complexity. But Western intelligence and security services have countered terrorism before: terrorism became an important threat...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-22
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How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic values? This question has become particularly pressing after the recent successes of right-wing populist leaders and parties...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-22
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