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  • The Presidential System in Turkey
    Battal Yilmaz
    This book explores the opportunities and obstacles to a presidential system in Turkey as proposed by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Since the formation of Turkey’s parliamentary system in 1909, there have been many attempts to replace it with an elected executive branch. After the referendum for constitutional amendment to elect the president by the people in 200...
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    67,14 €

  • Routledge Revivals
    Michael P. Fogarty
    First published in 1957, this book is a detailed analysis on Christian Democracy, a movement backed by Protestants as well as Catholics, which has become one of the great social forces of Western Europe. It is strong in eight countries. The first half of Fogarty’s book sets out what the many Christian-Democratic movements stand for. The second part of the book shows how these m...
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    65,36 €

  • The Governance of Private Security
    Marco Boggero
    1. IntroductionPart I: Ideas, Interests and Institutions2. The Swiss Initiative3.  The United Nations as Actor of Governance4. Testing PMSC Norms5. Designing Institutions: The Role of the State in Voluntary RegulationPart II: Boundaries of Regime Construction6. Contestation or Accommodation 7. Nigeria’s Engagement8. State and Non-State Choices in Liberia9. Sierra Leone: Continu...
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    159,40 €

  • Right-to-Work Laws and the Crumbling of American Public Health
    Deborah Wallace / Rodrick Wallace
    This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations. RTW laws forbid requiring union membership even at union-represented worksites. The core of the 22 long-term RTW states was the Confederacy, cultural descendants of rigidly hierarchical agrarian feudal England. RTW laws buttress hierarchy and power imbalance which unions minimize at ...
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    66,84 €

  • Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context
    This book is the first comprehensive international overview of maternity services. Drawing on concepts of risk and social citizenship, it explores the relationship between welfare regimes and health policy by comparing and contrasting provision for childbearing women. ...
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    72,96 €

  • Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World
    This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the transfer of cultural policies, considering them in terms of co-production and synchrony. This argument is developed through an e...
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    136,24 €

  • The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa
    Line-Noue Memea Kruse
    This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions, administrative decisions, court cases and rising tensions between indigenous cus...
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    197,56 €

  • Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration
    Haroon A. Khan
    This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the cooperation of both the public and private sectors, especially in a rapidly globaliz...
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    121,93 €

  • Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region
    Morgen Johansen
    This book examines the concept and public service value of social equity in public administration research and practice outside of the Western context, considering the influence that historical, cultural, and social trends of Asian and Pacific societies may have on how social equity is conceptualized and realized in the Asia-Pacific region. The book presents the results of an e...
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    156,89 €

  • Gun Control Policies in Latin America
    Diego Sanjurjo
    This book analyses the crucial role that guns play in the dynamics of extreme violence engulfing Latin America and the policies that are being implemented to confront it. Gun control is surprisingly not a prominent issue in most countries of the region, but this situation is rapidly changing as proliferation and violence dramatically increase. The book adopts an extended versio...
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    101,43 €

  • The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger
    This collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations. Drawing on relevant material from Egypt, Ireland, India, Ukraine, and other regions of the globe, The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger is a rigorously comparative study made up of ten essays by ...
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    133,87 €

  • Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below
    Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. It highlights that welfare states are hard pressed to reform in order to cope with ongoing socio-economic and demographic challenges. While public opinion is commonly seen to oppose welfare cuts and organized i...
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    146,10 €

  • Welfare Beyond the Welfare State
    Felix Behling
    This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare systems with surprisingly few differences between the UK and Germany. Mainta...
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    121,52 €

  • Shaping American Democracy
    Scott M. Roulier
    This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners-including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists-not only articulated unique visions of democracy in their extensive writings, but also instantiated those id...
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    35,73 €

  • Global Economic Uncertainties and Exchange Rate Shocks
    Eliphas Ndou / Mthuli Ncube / Nombulelo Gumata
    This book examines the macroeconomic and regulatory impact of domestic and international shocks on the South African economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis. It also assesses the impact of the US economy’s eventual recovery from the crisis and the prospect of higher US interest rates in future. Told in three parts, the book explores associations between economic growt...
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    95,90 €

  • Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity
    Charles W. Lowney II
    This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West.  A partnership between Michael Polanyi  and Charles Taylor’s thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly ...
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    146,16 €

  • Corporate Power and Regulation
    Sandra Eckert
    ​'A novel, insightful and provocative foray into the abilities, capacities and limits of corporate power on the one hand and public power and capacities on the other hand. Eckert offers new and refine insights on core issues in the theories of public and private interest regulation.'-David Levi Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel'This impressive book breaks important g...
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    101,07 €

  • Families and Personal Networks
    This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania. Drawing on national surveys of family trajectories and social networks, the contributors highlight personal and family relationships t...
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    121,71 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
    This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. Drawing on research from a world-class team of experts, this collection addresses the challenges facing survey-based data collection today as well as the potential opportunities presented by new approaches to survey research, including in the developm...
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    304,12 €

  • Street-Frequenting Young People in Fiji
    Patrick Vakaoti
    This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji. Typically viewed as ’out of place’, these young people disturb what it means to be young and Fijian. Despite their marginal existence, they through their activities demonstrate the need to belong. The book adopts a critical postmodern perspective to explore this reality and propose ways of ...
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    66,84 €

  • Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe
    Maurizio Ambrosini
    Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems. In doing so, it answers vital policy questions regarding the continued existence of irregular migration, pathways to legality, and relations between unauthorized migrants and recei...
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    80,56 €

  • Politics
    Ian Budge
    This comprehensive introduction to politics provides an essential template for assessing the health and workings of present day democracy by exploring how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular preferences. ...
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    326,22 €

  • Chronic Silence of Political Parties in End of Life Policymaking in the United States
    Bianca Easterly
    Questions of whether and when life should end are controversial but are they also partisan? The Chronic Silence of Political Parties in End of Life Policymaking in the United States retraces the legislative history of the right to die movement to examine the impact of the absence of the two major political parties on the diffusion of innovation. ...
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    115,71 €

  • Framing the Fight against Human Trafficking
    Amanda Clark / Amanda D. Clark / Amanda DClark
    Framing the Fight against Human Trafficking examines the framing strategies of a prominent social movement coalition in the field. The author argues coalition learning aided by the organizational structure of the group led to tactical diffusion and innovative use of action repertoires in the anti–human trafficking movement. ...
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    122,37 €

  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump
    Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of America we now see around us. These topical studies provide compelling reading for both the general reader and the specialist. ...
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    129,12 €

  • Report on Chinese Social Opinion and Crisis Management
    Yungeng Xie
    This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media. It offers insights into Chinese public opinion for an international readership, and to promote the media literacy and crisis coping capacity of all social sectors by integrating multiple research perspectives, including journalism and communication, management, sociology, psychology, information sec...
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    134,91 €

  • Latin American Geopolitics
    This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics. Globalization has decisively influenced Latin American nationhood and it has also helped create a global region with global cities that are the result of the urbanization process. Also, globalization and migration are changing Latin America’s own visi...
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    193,73 €

  • Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond
    Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these problems, helping to revitalize rural areas. ...
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    142,96 €

  • Policy Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
    Beryl Radin
    Policy Analysis in the Twenty-First Century is designed to familiarize students with the diversity of experiences that they can expect to face in their practitioner role. Case studies illustrate realities in the current policy analysis environment as well as the analyst’s personal values and career goals. ...
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    241,30 €

  • Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization
    This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level. Written by leading authorities in the fields of distributional analysis and normative economics, the respective chapters present detailed overv...
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    134,73 €


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