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Retrofitting Leninism explains, through the lens of China, how open governance and modern information technology come together to sustain a tightly controlled but socially responsive system of authoritarianism.
When closed authoritarian regimes reform and open up,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-14
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Ideas In Time deals extensively with the history of ideas. The aims of the book are: to provide a coherent theoretical account of the ill-defined field known as ‘the history of ideas’; to emphasise the longue durée or long view in intellectual and cultural history; to...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Provence
Parution :
2021-10-13
Collection :
Sociétés contemporaines
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This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world.The authors present an innovative empirical exploration...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-12
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This book opens up the black box of government communication during the age of political spin, using archival and official documents, memoirs and biographies, and in-depth interviews with media, political and government witnesses. It argues that substantive and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-12
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European bloc, the reunification of Germany was a major episode in the history of modern Europe — and one widely held to have been opposed by that country's centuries-old enemy, France. But while it has been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-12
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The study of Japanese politics is a vibrant field that has changed substantially over time. This work provides an in-depth exploration of current research. Moreover, it addresses theoretical questions and empirical issues that will guide research on Japan for years to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-11
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-11
Collection :
Executive Politics and Governance
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This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-10
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The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy. It is based on a research project on the energy sector of both the countries. It discusses the agreements in the energy sector between the two countries and the renewable energy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-09
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This book is driven by the question: what role is played by the local security research community in Kosovo’s internationally-led Security Sector Reform? Kosovo’s SSR has been heavily driven by international knowledge rather than the context-sensitive evidence, with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-09
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges – the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to understand how they have developed...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-08
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This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex issues pertaining to relations with Indigenous peoples, who occupied the land long before the Europeans arrived. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-08
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The strength of secessionism in liberal-democracies varies in time and space. Inspired by historical institutionalism, Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy argues that such variation is explained by the extent to which autonomy evolves in time. If autonomy adjusts to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-07
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Legislative debates make democracy and representation work. Political actors engage in legislative debates to make their voice heard to voters. Parties use debates to shore up their brand.
This book makes the most comprehensive study of legislative debates thus far,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-07
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Legislative debates make democracy and representation work. Political actors engage in legislative debates to make their voice heard to voters. Parties use debates to shore up their brand.
This book makes the most comprehensive study of legislative debates thus far,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-07
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The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to manage. Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil society actors have worked together...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-07
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This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-06
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This book explores post-Soviet Eurasian regional security governance, as embedded in the military alliance of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). CSTO was established in 2002 and consists of six post-Soviet countries: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-06
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In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix - Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-05
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