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  • Connecting with Constituents
    Tammy R. Vigil / Tammy RVigil
    Connecting with Constituents examines the strategies presidential and vice presidential nominees and their surrogates employ while speaking at national nominating conventions to encourage voters to build bonds with one candidate and party and to discourage listeners from forming connections with the opposition. It examines addresses from 1980 to 2012. ...
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    187,77 €

  • City and Sex
    Mary Beth McConahey
    The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the b...
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    125,12 €

  • Applications of Location Analysis
    This book, companion to Foundations of Location Analysis (Springer, 2011), highlights some of the applications of location analysis within the spheres of businesses, those that deal with public services and applications that deal with law enforcement and first responders. While the Foundations book reviewed the theory and first contributions, this book describes how different l...
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    47,07 €

  • Social Policy and the Eurocrisis
    In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of ’Social Europe’ today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy in the image of the Lisbon Agenda, and the politics that derailed a more Delorsian Europe from ever emerging. ...
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    65,25 €

  • Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia
    Joachim Ahrens / Martin Brusis / Martin Schulze Wessel
    Political legitimacy has become a scarce resource in Russia and other post-Soviet states. Their capacity to deliver prosperity has suffered from economic crisis, war in Ukraine and confrontation with the West. Will nationalism and repression enable political regimes to survive? This book studies the politics of legitimation in Post-Soviet Eurasia. ...
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    65,07 €

  • The New Social Division
    This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat. ...
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    169,30 €

  • Politicizing European Integration
    Dominic Hoeglinger
    This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the timely question of the politicization of European integration. It shows how this issue’s complex linkages with traditional political divides pose a tough challenge to politicians and lead to bitter framing contests about its actual meaning. ...
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    65,46 €

  • Japan Decides 2014
    Collecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major political parties, central policy issues, campaign practices, and considers how the results were used as a mandate for massive policy reform. ...
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    132,46 €

  • Citizenship and its Others
    This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship’s inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the exclusion of migrants, welfare claimants, women, children and others. ...
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    120,60 €

  • Antitrust Institutions and Policies in the Globalising Economy
    Eleonora Poli
    Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues that three major economic crises together with market globalisation have changed governments’ perceptions of market competition, giving rise to a neo-liberal global phase. ...
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    132,88 €

  • Social Research and Policy in the Development Arena
    Martin Doornbos
    The author focuses on the research-policy nexus in development studies, highlighting reciprocal orientations and interactions between the domains of social research and of policy and politics. He looks at instances where these domains are complementary and geared towards common objectives, but also with others marked by opposing rationales. ...
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    65,17 €

  • Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama
    David A.J. Richards
    David A. J. Richards’s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: 'Suddenly,...All The Truth Was Coming Out' examines the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology behind contemporary conservatism, and President Obama’s present-day appeal as well as the reasons for the reactionary politics against him. This book posit...
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    78,77 €

  • Negotiations in the Indigenous World
    Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh
    Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh presents the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors that shape them, based on evaluative criteria developed especially for this study and on an analysis of negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and mining companies. ...
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    268,06 €

  • Anticipatory Policymaking
    Rob A. DeLeo
    Provides an in depth examination of the complex process through which United States government institutions anticipate emerging threats. Using contemporary debates over the risks associated with nanotechnology, pandemic influenza, and global warming as case study material, Rob A. DeLeo highlights the distinctive features of proactive governance. By challenging the pervasive ass...
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    267,99 €

  • Jammu and Kashmir
    Rekha Chowdhary
    This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the complex conflict situation in Kashmir from an internal perspective. It takes a broader, holistic view of the region and traces the evolution of social and political identities of Jammu and Kashmir. ...
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    281,42 €

  • Food Security and Industrial Clustering in Northeast Asia
    This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the 'regional food industrial cluster' in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning 'innovation' to a core concept, with the basic problem of food security as the horizontal axis and the areas of Northeast Asia as ...
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    67,30 €

  • Sparen in öffentlichen Haushalten
    Ingo Caspari / Walter Reese-Schäfer / Werner Haßenkamp
    Vom Schuldenmachen zum Sparen.- Grundzüge einer Soziologie des Sparens.- Zehn Beispiele auf Basis der Systemtheorie.- Kommunikative Vernunft als Leitfaden zum guten Sparen. ...
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    20,98 €

  • Applications of Location Analysis
    This book, companion to Foundations of Location Analysis (Springer, 2011), highlights some of the applications of location analysis within the spheres of businesses, those that deal with public services and applications that deal with law enforcement and first responders. While the Foundations book reviewed the theory and first contributions, this book describes how different l...
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    135,45 €

  • Extraterritorial Citizenship in Postcommunist Europe
    The volume reflects on citizenship practices and policies across post-socialist states. Seven original research chapters look at the effects of institution-building on the relationship between citizens residing beyond the borders of “their” state and the political processes taking place both in their countries of residence and in their kin states. ...
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    187,26 €

  • Queen and country
    Emma Vickers
    Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945 ...
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    28,61 €

  • Governmentality and Counter-Hegemony in Bangladesh
    S.M. Shamsul Alam
    Using Michel Foucault’s idea of governmentality, this book reinterprets various cases of revolt and popular uprisings in Bangladesh. It attempts to synthesize the theories of Foucault’s governmentality and Antonio Gramsci’s notions of hegemony and counter-hegemony. Bangladesh’s history of revolt and counter-hegemony are categorized as nationalist governmentality, authoritarian ...
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    65,22 €

  • Democratic Constitution, 2nd Edition (Revised)
    Louis Fisher / Neal Devins
    Constitutional law is clearly shaped by judicial actors. But who else contributes? Scholars in the past have recognized that the legislative branch plays a significant role in determining structural issues, such as separation of powers and federalism, but stopped there--claiming that only courts had the independence and expertise to safeguard individual and minority rights. In ...
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    60,79 €

  • European Space Policy
    This book explores advances in European space policy and their significance for European integration. Using a ’framing’ methodology, it addresses central questions in European studies in order to form an interdisciplinary bridge between current research in space policy and contemporary European political studies. It assesses the interests of EU institutions in space and how the...
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    254,25 €

  • Putin’s Propaganda Machine
    Herpen / Marcel H. Van Herpen / Marcel HVan Herpen
    Putin’s Propaganda Machine examines Russia’s “information war,” one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin’s propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia’s soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main ...
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    125,96 €

  • Putin’s Propaganda Machine
    Herpen / Marcel H. Van Herpen / Marcel HVan Herpen
    Putin’s Propaganda Machine examines Russia’s “information war,” one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin’s propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia’s soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main ...
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    51,24 €

  • Social Work with Adults
    Helen Davies / Jim Rogers / Lucy Bright
    Helps support students to learn how the Mental Capacity Act operates, what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults and how these two principles interact and inform one another. ...
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    161,56 €

  • Social Work with Adults
    Helen Davies / Jim Rogers / Lucy Bright
    Helps support students to learn how the Mental Capacity Act operates, what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults and how these two principles interact and inform one another. ...
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    53,40 €

  • Understanding and Using Research in Social Work
    Anne McGlade / Brian J Taylor / Brian J. Taylor / Campbell Killick
    An evidence-based text that will help support students to appraise and then integrate research into both their daily practice decisions and their assignments and assessments ...
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    147,65 €

  • Understanding and Using Research in Social Work
    Anne McGlade / Brian J Taylor / Brian J. Taylor / Campbell Killick
    An evidence-based text that will help support students to appraise and then integrate research into both their daily practice decisions and their assignments and assessments ...
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    52,18 €

  • Sustainable Growth and Development in a Regional Economy
    Tohru Naito
    This is the first book to provide readers with a theoretical and empirical analysis of sustainable economic growth in Asian countries. Recently, most Asian countries have achieved rapid economic growth and their existence cannot be ignored in the world economy. However, these countries now face the serious problems that have confronted more developed countries such as environme...
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    67,29 €