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This book analyses the presidentialization of parties in three countries of the post-Soviet space - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - and the role of this phenomenon in their recent political history. The concept of presidentialization of politics means that parties tend...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-10
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This book represents a valuable contribution to the history of the Socialist Second International and, more generally, of European socialism between the Great Depression of the 1880s and WWI. It comes to fill a gap in the scholarship, insofar as it investigates the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-08
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This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Marx moved from an examination of the contingency and indeterminacy of individual consciousness in his early years to a critique of the atomistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-08
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This book adopts the multidimensional nature of innovation as its point of focus and offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary governance issues in Bangladesh. Each chapter views those issues from its own disciplinary perspective, but all share a common focus on...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-08
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This Open Access book examines the radioactive waste management policies of ten European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Most countries are in the process of planning and creating...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-04-06
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Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-06
ePub
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In den 1990er und frühen 2000er Jahren wurde der ökonomische Schock in Ostmitteleuropa nach der Transformation noch geduldet, mit dem Beitritt zur EU wurde aber deutlich, dass das erwartete Wohlstandsniveau nicht erreicht wird. Trotzdem konnten die politischen Systeme...
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Springer VS
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2023-04-06
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This is the "Diplomatic Council Water Book" which was officially presented at the United Nations Water Conference 2023 in New York.
Water is the basis of all life. Although more than 70 percent of our blue planet is covered with water, only three percent of it is fresh...
Editeur :
Diplomatic Council e.V.
Parution :
2023-04-06
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In the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming home’ with a vengeance. From global warming to migration crises, from assaults on democracy to Covid-19 and the fall-out of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Das Buch fasst wesentliche Erkenntnisse zur Mitgliederwerbung in Parteien systematisch zusammen und gibt darüber hinaus praxisorientierte Tipps, wie sich Mitglieder optimal gewinnen lassen können. Dabei werden partizipationstheoretische, kommunikationspsychologische und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Many coalition cabinets negotiate lengthy coalition contracts outlining the agenda for the time in office. Not only does negotiating these agreements take up time and resources, but compromises have to be made, which may result in cabinet conflicts and electoral costs....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-05
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The world is entering a new age of catastrophe.The exceptional is becoming normal.The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. Now humankind faces fresh existential threats – the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-05
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How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this assumption. Indeed, this book argues that a future non-vegan food system would be permissible on an animal rights view. It might...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-04
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By the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the 1990s the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-04
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In the context of global population aging , the aging population of China is not only a China-specific problem but also a global concern. Based on in-depth analysis, this book focuses on the increasingly serious issue of aging population of China at the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-03
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How do countries' political and policy choices affect the credit ratings they receive? Sovereign ratings influence countries' cost of funding, and observers have long worried that rating agencies - these unelected, unappointed, unaccountable, for-profit organizations -...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-03
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This book provides the first systematic, empirical analysis of the media’s approach to US vice-presidential selection (or the “veepstakes”). In their news coverage, Devine finds that media outlets typically treat vice-presidential selection as little more than a game—by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-01
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The role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-01
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After decades of federal dominance and dependence, Native governments now command attention as they exercise greater degrees of political, economic, and cultural power. Given the weight and importance of many issues confronting Native peoples today, these governments...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-01
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