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This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia’s urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization....
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Springer
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2023-01-01
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This book analyzes ancient cities that are facing crisis, and their coping mechanism to maintain resiliency and sustainability to remain economically viable and historically relevant. The book takes a fresh look at the underlying causes of the crises and recommends good...
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Springer
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2023-01-01
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With exclusive reporting, eyewitness accounts and analysis from the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The New York Times, this edition of THE JANUARY 6 REPORT offers the definitive record of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Read the report from the select...
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Twelve
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2022-12-24
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A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse.
As American politics descends into a battle of anger and...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-12-23
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This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is necessarily a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or authoritarian. Its central aim is to shed light on manifestations of authoritarianism...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-21
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In the first work of its kind, Incorporation of the Bill of Rights provides a detailed account of the Supreme Court’s application of federal rights to the state level. Approaching the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment and right by right, Gary Bugh’s content analysis...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-20
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The people who live in border towns often have closer relations with people across their immediate borders than with people in the same country as them. Despite how intertwined these border communities often are, neither community can access the governmental...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Why have most African countries not achieved greater...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This book explores why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be 'magical thinking' in public policy. Contemporary policy scholarship tends to be cynical about movements to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-16
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Der Band beschäftigt sich mit Aspekten von Smart Cities, Digitalisierung und Bürgerbeteiligung. Digitalisierung mit Bürgerbeteiligung und Bürgerbeteiligung mit digitalen Instrumenten und Formaten – das sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille. Smart Cities erproben zahlreiche...
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Springer VS
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2022-12-16
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This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities. Throughout the book the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This book examines public-nonprofit collaborations in the context of federal homeless policy. Communities across the U.S. are expected to create local homeless service networks, known as Continuums of Care (CoCs), in order to respond to their incidence of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This book analyzes how AKP’s embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks.This project adapts a post-Soviet geography approach to the media, intelligentsia, and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-15
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Hungary was once a frontrunner of democratization. However, since Viktor Orbán came to power in 2010, the country has been the subject of critical media coverage and concerns due to illiberal policies and anti-EU rhetoric. The book helps to analyze and evaluate the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-15
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Die Untersuchung will einen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zum Thema deutsche Auswärtige Kulturpolitik im Allgemeinen leisten. Mit dem Schwerpunkt der Kulturinstitute des Goethe-Instituts im Ausland wird ein Thema in den Fokus gerückt, das bereits vielfach diskutiert worden...
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Springer VS
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2022-12-15
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This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states’ autonomy during the Cold War, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-14
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Approximately one-third of parliamentary democracies are or are typically ruled by a minority government - a situation where the party or parties represented at cabinet do not between them hold a majority of seats in the national legislature. Minority governments are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-14
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War has returned to Europe, and NATO stands at the forefront of the response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. But how does NATO function? How do NATO member states perceive and act through the Atlantic Alliance? And ultimately how do states shape NATO's cohesion and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-14
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Curtain up explores city diplomacy in global migration governance. The author lays out the paradox that cities, although increasingly de facto migration actors in an urbanizing world, lack channels to influence international policies that directly impact local...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-12-14
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The debate on governance originates in the OECD world. At the latest since the postcolonial debate, we know that we need to “test” our assumptions under radically different conditions. This book offers an extended perspective of local self-governance by examining cases...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-13
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