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  • Satan, Socialism and the Democrat Party
    Richard Ferguson
    Satan, Socialism, and the Democrat Party explores the underlying foundational reasons that we as a nation are disintegrating into socialism. Socialism is a political/societal mess that has brought only pain, suffering, and death to all nations that have tried it. The root causes of the Democrat Party’s love affair with socialism are reflecting the roots of their belief that all...
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    14,85 €

  • Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China
    Giulia C. Romano
    'This is a very rich monograph, based on impressive fieldwork in China, which demonstrates excellent qualitative and ethnographic research skills, research integrity, and cultural perceptiveness in the analysis. This book will make a great contribution to the literature on policy transfer and and policy mobilities, and on urban politics in contemporary China, as it offers a ric...
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    101,62 €

  • Sentencing
    Cyrus Tata
    This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism, projecting an artificial image of sentencing practices and policy potent...
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    77,37 €

  • Peace through Self-Determination
    Felix Schulte
    Bringing together comparative politics, conflict research and social psychology, this book presents a novel theory to explain the consolidation outcomes of post-conflict autonomy arrangements. It builds on Social Identity Theory and identifies a successful process of ethnic recognition as the key prerequisite for peaceful interethnic cohabitation through territorial self-govern...
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    48,47 €

  • National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia
    This book reviews Southeast Asia’s National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights. The book asks, can NHRIs overcome its weaknesses and provide protection, including remedies, to victims of human rights abuses? Assessing NHRIs’ capacity ...
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    193,54 €

  • Die Umsetzung der Leitprinzipien der Vereinten Nationen für Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte durch nationale Aktionspläne
    Simone Schubert
    Dieses Buch widmet sich zum einen allgemein der Frage, wie internationale Vorgaben in den nationalen Bereich umgesetzt werden und untersucht zum anderen die konkrete Umsetzung der UN-Leitprinzipien durch nationale Aktionspläne. Der Begriff des 'Soft Implementation Laws' wird entwickelt und es wird aufgezeigt, welche Rolle Soft Law im Umsetzungsrecht einnimmt.Einen weiteren Gege...
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    120,31 €

  • Governance, Politics and the State
    B Guy Peters / Jon Pierre
    Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics.The long-awaited second edition of this textbook takes into account the significant growth and proliferation of the field in recent years and offers a state of ...
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    57,73 €

  • The 2019 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab
    This edited volume presents an overview of cutting-edge research areas within digital ethics as defined by the Digital Ethics Lab of the University of Oxford. It identifies new challenges and opportunities of influence in setting the research agenda in the field.The yearbook presents research on the following topics: conceptual metaphor theory, cybersecurity governance, cyber c...
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    65,57 €

  • Who Governs?
    John H. Wood
    When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it?  Are politicians’ promises and textbooks’ stories to be believed?  This book examines...
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    144,55 €

  • Automation and Human Solidarity
    Bill Jordan
    This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment. It examines how reliance on coercive measures for enforcing low-paid service work attempts to postpone this third Industrial Rev...
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    71,35 €

  • CHINESE SOCIETY IN THE XI JINPING ERA
    LITAO ZHAO & DONGTAO QI
    As China has become the world's second largest economy and risen rapidly amid various internal and external challenges, its profound social transformation and changing social policies are seemingly receiving inadequate attention from both academic and policy communities, especially in the Xi Jinping era since 2013. After decades of development, new social values, behaviours...
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    93,77 €

  • A Bias Radar for Responsible Policy-Making
    Lieve Van Woensel
    Policymakers prepare society for the future and this book provides a practical toolkit for preparing pro-active, future-proof scientific policy advice for them. It explains how to make scientific advisory strategies holistic. It also explains how and where biases, which interfere with the proper functioning of the entire science-policy ecosystem, arise and investigates how emot...
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    78,85 €

  • The European Parliament in Times of EU Crisis
    Olivier Costa
    This book assesses the many changes that have occurred within the European Parliament and in its external relations since the Lisbon treaty (2009) and the last European elections (2014). It is undoubtedly the institution that has evolved the most since the 1950s. Despite the many crises experienced by European integration in the last years, the Parliament is still undergoing im...
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    108,38 €

  • Marketization in Local Government
    Marketization is one of the most powerful reform doctrines reshaping the organization of public service delivery throughout the last four decades. This book revisits conventional ideas and models of marketization and compares how these have diffused and evolved across municipalities in England and Scandinavia. The book highlights the paths and impacts of marketization as divers...
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    168,76 €

  • Dispute Resolution Mechanism for the Belt and Road Initiative
    Guiguo Wang / Mei-Fun Leung / Yuk-Lun Lee
    This book examines resolution of the disputes between both sides of Belt and Road economic cooperation. To address the problems surrounding legal guarantee and dispute resolution, the International Academy of the Belt and Road has gathered almost 50 experts from over 30 Belt and Road countries and regions to utilize current advances in the dispute resolution mechanism, taking i...
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    171,45 €

  • The European Union and the Return of the Nation State
    This book explores the complex and ever-changing relationship between the European Union and its member states. The recent surge in tension in this relationship has been prompted by the actions of some member state governments as they question fundamental EU values and principles and refuse to implement common decisions seemingly on the basis of narrowly defined national intere...
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    193,70 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy
    The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, co-edited by two leading scholars in the international relations subfield of public diplomacy, includes 16 more chapters from the first. Ten years later, a new global landscape of public diplomacy has taken shape, with major programs in graduate-level public diplomacy studies worldwide.What separates this handboo...
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    113,50 €

  • Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams
    Ray Crawford / Ray Jr. Crawford / Ray JrCrawford
    The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams: Economic Development in the Federal City examines the leadership of former Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. The first purpose of this book is to provide an analytical tool for effective mayoral leadership that will be appropriate for the unique characteristics of Washington, DC, whi...
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    129,01 €

  • Bau- und Infrastrukturprojekte
    Frank Brettschneider
    Dialogorientierte Kommunikation ist ein wesentlicher Erfolgsfaktor für das Gelingen von Bau- und Infrastrukturprojekten. Sie erhöht die Akzeptanz in der Öffentlichkeit. Sie stärkt Vertrauen, indem sie Transparenz herstellt. Und kritische Themen können im Dialog gelöst werden. Dies erfordert eine gründliche Analyse, ein strategisches Kommunikationskonzept sowie einen frühzeitige...
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    84,05 €

  • Air Forces
    Each forward-thinking air force has now to consider potential threat scenarios that are futuristic and require some degree of planning. This volume contains data on 14 nations and their attempts to modernize, mobilize and keep ahead of their adversaries. ...
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    56,96 €

  • LN STATE & LOCAL PUBLIC FIN (2P)
    JOHN YINGER
    This book is based on lectures conducted for two classes at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University: A Public Finance Seminar for PhD students in public administration and State and Local Public Finance for master's students in public administration.Topics covered include the role of voters in a federal system, the sorting of different households into different communities,...
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    178,02 €

  • LN STATE & LOCAL PUBLIC FIN (2P)
    JOHN YINGER
    This book is based on lectures conducted for two classes at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University: A Public Finance Seminar for PhD students in public administration and State and Local Public Finance for master's students in public administration.Topics covered include the role of voters in a federal system, the sorting of different households into different communities,...
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    93,30 €

  • Political Party Dynamics and Democracy in Sweden
    Tommy Moller
    Sweden has often been described as a democratic forerunner, with one of the world’s most stable party systems and with a well-functioning parliamentary system. However, the political landscape in Sweden has undergone a rapid change in recent years. The institutions of the political system - not least political parties - appear from a historical perspective to have become partly...
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    241,38 €

  • Körper, Leib und Employability
    Kerstin Discher
    Kerstin Discher nimmt auf Basis einer narrativen Analyse die Sichtweise junger Erwachsener auf den sozialstaatlichen Aktivierungsdiskurs in den Blick. Anhand biografischer Fallgeschichten verdeutlicht sie, wie junge Erwachsene im beruflichen Übergang auf die Anforderung der Employability - der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit im aktivierenden Sozialstaat - antworten. Der eigene Körper z...
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    72,50 €

  • Governance, Politics and the State
    B Guy Peters / Jon Pierre
    Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics.The long-awaited second edition of this textbook takes into account the significant growth and proliferation of the field in recent years and offers a state of ...
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    173,68 €

  • Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
    Gregory Conti
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    59,49 €

  • Identity, Institutions and Governance in an AI World
    Peter Bloom
    The 21st century is on the verge of a possible total economic and political revolution. Technological advances in robotics, computing and digital communications have the potential to completely transform how people live and work. Even more radically, humans will soon be interacting with artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a normal and essential part of their daily existence. What...
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    48,09 €

  • Scaling up SDGs Implementation
    This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Starting from the concept ’we cannot manage what we cannot measure’, the book presents some cases showing how to draw national level baselines for the domesticatio...
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    143,50 €

  • Financial Markets (Dis)Integration in a Post-Brexit EU
    Dieter Pesendorfer
    The European Union is creating a Financial Union with a European Banking Union and a Capital Markets Union in reaction to lessons learned from incomplete financial markets integration, the Global Financial Crisis and European Sovereign Debt Crisis. This book critically analyses these projects for a more integrated, resilient and sustainable financial system at a time when the U...
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    47,65 €

  • First Century of the International Joint Commission
    The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the IJC has been integral to the modern Canada-United States relationship.This is the definitive hist...
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    51,84 €