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For the past decade and a half, the world has witnessed a precipitous decline of democratic countries and the consequent rise of autocrats. How Autocrats Rise: Sequences of Democratic Backsliding challenges the conventional wisdom and offers an institutional-ideological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-13
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How do governments in Europe justify their budgets towards the national parliament? Are their socioeconomic policies shaped more by electoral pressures or by their commitments towards the European Union?
In Between Voters and Eurocrats, Johannes Karremans presents a...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-13
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This book explores the concept of advertising and the different ways advertising is understood and evaluated. It dives deep into planning, designing, and executing advertising campaigns on different mediums. It discusses the theoretical and research parts of advertising...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-01-12
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Der Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das politische System der Slowakei. Gegenstand sind seine Entstehung und Struktur, die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen im europäischen Kontext sowie wichtige Politikfelder. Herausgearbeitet werden...
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Springer VS
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2024-01-12
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This edited volume fills a gap in this understudied niche of sport in Hong Kong by offering an interdisciplinary inquiry that acknowledges sport as a global force that shapes local culture, identity, and politics. As such this publication accommodates perspectives...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-01-12
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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.
In Civil Society's Democratic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-11
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This is an open access book. The Critical Island Studies Consortium (CIS) was born in 2019 in Manila with the theme, “Critical Island Studies: The Islandic Archipelago, and Oceanic.” The CIS consortium aims at developing a new planetary perspective from which to...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-01-10
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This open access edited volume focuses on the scope and benefits of strengthening local industrial-health linkages. The Covid-19 pandemic collapsed international supply chains for health. That experience brought home to African policy makers the critical nature of local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-10
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Engineers represent the (industrial) modern age like no other profession. In the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, however, the enormous numerical expansion of the profession was contrasted by comparatively unfavorable working conditions and incomes. This was...
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Springer
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2024-01-09
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Lobbying is not only the subject of ongoing, heated debates in politics and the public sphere but has also been a focus of the social sciences for decades. This edited volume provides an overview of the current state of research on lobbying from the perspective of...
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Springer
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2024-01-09
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Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a reflection of its...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-01-09
Collection :
Polity Histories
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This innovative book shows that the health, education, and employment of billions of people have been improving on every continent in the past three decades. The globalization of welfare has had the biggest impact in developing countries, where more than five-sixths of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-09
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“Delivering juicy details with unrelenting speed and force” (Jonathan Allen), Swamp Monsters is the wild inside story of how Donald Trump made a star of Ron DeSantis and then set out to destroy him—a struggle for supremacy that has turned Florida into...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2024-01-09
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This book sheds light on the so-called ‘Moro Doctrine’, an Italian state security policy which has been portrayed in literature as an under-the-counter agreement made between Italy and Palestinian movement during the Cold War. The Moro Doctrine, or ‘Lodo Moro’ as it is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-08
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For peace advocates a corollary to Clausewitz’s dictum that “war is politics by other means” might be that other politics could prevent war. By highlighting both individual peace advocates and antiwar/peace organizations from World War I through the wars of the 21st...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-05
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At least 70% of the world’s population now lives under an autocracy. There are more openly authoritarian states than ever, democratic regimes are ‘backsliding’ into autocracy, and authoritarian values and practices are increasingly normalized. Regimes in China and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2024-01-05
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This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, it examines this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-04
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This book examines the implications of Brexit for Africa-UK relations amid a ‘new scramble’ for the continent. Engaging Nkrumah on neo-colonialism and recent scholarship on global coloniality, Langan here underscores concerns that Brexit was fuelled by an imperial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-04
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This book analyses Member States’ and EU neighbours’ national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration. In a geopolitical context in which Russia’s...
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Springer
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2024-01-04
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Kommunalwirtschaft ist integraler Bestandteil der Gesamtwirtschaft, deren Wertschöpfung in Deutschland zu fast 90 Prozent von privaten Produzenten geprägt ist. Das Wegbrechen globaler Lieferketten durch die Corona-Pandemie und auch im Kontext mit der russischen...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2024-01-04
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