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This book illuminates the importance of the citizen charter (CC) in local service delivery in Bangladesh. It describes how CC was implemented into the service delivery process and its impact. In the 1970s, the transition from traditional public administration to new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-28
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This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA. The author enriches his linguistic analysis with cognitive aspects such as source-target domain mapping and metaphor opposition to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-28
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In this book, the author attempts to debunk some myths about Western exceptionalism and to evaluate critically the characteristics that make the West superior to the Rest. The author suggests that the West does not represent a homogenous group of countries and that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-28
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This book investigates the phenomenon of overbalancing through an analysis of Japan’s foreign policy during the interbellum. In the mid-1930s, Japan withdrew from a naval arms control framework that had restrained military buildup on both sides of the Pacific Ocean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-28
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This book contributes to efforts in furthering the democratization and development processes in the Philippines by examining the decentralization efforts in Metro Manila. It explores existing as well as proposed development models for governance with focus on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-28
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Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-28
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The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance is about the politics of economic ideas and technocratic economic governance. It is also a book about the changing political economy of British capitalism's relationship to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-27
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In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians themselves appear to be watching an entirely different war – one in which they are the courageous underdogs and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-02-27
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This book highlights the geopolitical and economic consequences of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The author, a key architect of Polish economic reforms and the most frequently cited economist from post-Communist countries, shares new insights into the causes...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-25
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This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary analysis of events impacting on North Macedonia since its independence, particularly during the last decade. In the past thirty years, the country has gone through deep political, social and economic transition, along with a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-24
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This book, which is aimed at scholars, practitioners, advanced under-graduate and post-graduate students, seeks to contribute to the understanding of the EU as an international negotiator by analysing a number of external policy areas where the EU to a great extent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-24
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Mobilizing an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, this book reviews the history and consequences of NATO’s post-Cold War enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe. It offers a nuanced discussion of the merits and drawbacks of NATO enlargement...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-24
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A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change.
Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-24
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Die aktuelle sicherheitspolitische Lage mit neuen Krisen und zwischenstaatlichen Kriegen führt zu hohen Investitionen in die Streitkräfte (u.a. 100 Mrd. Euro Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr). Damit rückt ein eigentlich altes Thema erneut in den Fokus: Das...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2023-02-23
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht mit Fokus auf einzelne Bürger*innen fallspezifisch und empirisch den Handlungs- und Wirkungszusammenhang von Straßenprotest und Online-Aktivismus im Bereich der Umweltschutz-Bewegung. Eine ganze Bandbreite von Online- und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-02-22
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Using Marxist and Polanyian frameworks, this book examines the structural and discursive transformation that can explain the polarization of migration debates and within the rise of nationalist anti-migrant discourses in Europe with a special attention to Eastern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-22
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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps would-be parents make better family planning...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-22
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On the basis of systematically summarizing and sorting out the significant achievements made since China's rural reform, this book comprehensively explains the theoretical basis, principles and strategies of the road to rural revitalization of socialism with Chinese...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-22
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Written by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy. It features contributions on fundamental, methodological, and empirical issues around the concepts of power and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-21
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This book examines the Europeanisation of party politics in Malta. It evaluates the influence of Europeanisation on the political system, which is based on two party-system, polarisation, and clientelism. Malta is the smallest European Union (EU) member state,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-02-21
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