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  • EU Presidencies between Politics and Administration EU Presidencies between Politics and Administration
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    EU Presidencies between Politics and Administration

    This book offers the first comprehensive analysis after the Lisbon Treaty came into force of the EU Presidency's impact on national administrations in the Member States of Poland, Denmark and Cyprus before, during and after the Presidency. Placing the...
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  • The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims
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    The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims

    Problems involving minorities still constitute a significant challenge for public policies in countries such as the ones on the territories of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Unassimilated, facing the cultural "non-transparency" of their...
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  • Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China
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    Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China

    Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi - a term that denotes the...
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  • Judgement And Decision/h Judgement And Decision/h
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    Judgement And Decision/h

    This book is an expanded version of the symposium which was intended to bring to the audience the views of a scientist in government, who is conversant with the problem of public policy formation, particularly as it is involved how to make use of modern...
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  • Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy
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    Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy

    This book examines the use of economic coercion by the U.S. to achieve foreign policy objectives. It presents cases studies limited to coercive attempts by the United States which took place during the Johnson administration. The cases involve the use of...
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  • Power-Sharing Power-Sharing
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    Power-Sharing

    Power-sharing is an important political strategy for managing protracted conflicts and it can also facilitate the democratic accommodation of difference. Despite these benefits, it has been much criticised, with claims that it is unable to produce peace...
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  • European Enlargement across Rounds and Beyond Borders European Enlargement across Rounds and Beyond Borders
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    European Enlargement across Rounds and Beyond Borders

    Enlargement has been an almost constant part of European integration history - going from an improvised exercise to the EU's most developed foreign policy tool. However, neither the longevity nor the complexity of enlargement has been properly...
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  • Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe
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    Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe

    The European Union plays an increasingly central role in global relations from migration to trade to institutional financial solvency. The formation and continuation of these relations - their narratives and discourses - are rooted in social, political,...
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  • The EU and Russia in Their 'Contested Neighbourhood' The EU and Russia in Their 'Contested Neighbourhood'
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    The EU and Russia in Their 'Contested Neighbourhood'

    The literature on the European Union influence's in its Eastern neighbourhood has tended to focus on EU-level policies and prioritize EU-related variables. This book seeks to overcome this EU-centric approach by connecting EU policy transfer to the...
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  • Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations
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    Ethnic Conflict in Asymmetric Federations

    In the last years of their existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration, the former Yugoslav...
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  • Consolidation Policies in Federal States Consolidation Policies in Federal States
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    Consolidation Policies in Federal States

    The Global Financial Crisis has led to a renewed attention for the management of public debt and deficits of advanced and developing industrial states. To successfully deal with such problems of public finances raises particular concerns in federal...
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  • Public Ethics at the European Commission Public Ethics at the European Commission
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    Public Ethics at the European Commission

    Since the early 2000s, reforms in the area of public ethics have represented a significant part in the European Commission's efforts to improve its internal governance and democratic legitimacy, and address the crisis of public confidence in European...
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  • Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change
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    Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change

    Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent ministers to their cabinet. This book shows this is not necessarily the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in...
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  • Religion and Politics Under Capitalism Religion and Politics Under Capitalism
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    Religion and Politics Under Capitalism

    This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary...
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  • The Twitter Presidency The Twitter Presidency
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    The Twitter Presidency

    The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. Trump's manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is...
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  • Domination and Global Political Justice Domination and Global Political Justice
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    Domination and Global Political Justice

    Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power. Domination has again become a central political concern through the...
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  • US National Cybersecurity US National Cybersecurity
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    US National Cybersecurity

    This volume explores the contemporary challenges to US national cybersecurity.Taking stock of the field, it features contributions by leading experts working at the intersection between academia and government and offers a unique overview of some of the...
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  • Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes
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    Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes

    Originally published in 1963, this volume is devoted to an analysis of the organisation of the Commissioners of Sewers, the Incorporated Guardians of the Poor, the Turnpike Trusts and the Improvement Commissioners, and depicts the important development...
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  • The Administrative Factor The Administrative Factor
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    The Administrative Factor

    Originally published in 1973, the chapters in this volume tackle a wide range of problems arising from this process of modernization. The first section looks at the discussion of ideas and theories about administration in the nineteenth century, when...
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  • Israel at the Polls 2015 Israel at the Polls 2015
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    Israel at the Polls 2015

    Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving the way for general elections. While the initial impression was that the upcoming elections were...
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  • Time and Globalization Time and Globalization
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    Time and Globalization

    Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones. However, time, in both its ideational and material dimensions, has...
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  • (En)gendering the Political (En)gendering the Political
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    (En)gendering the Political

    What is the relationship between being political and citizenship? What might it mean to be marginalised through both the practices and knowledge of citizenship? What might citizenship look like from a position of social, political and cultural exclusion?...
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  • The Ukrainian Crisis The Ukrainian Crisis
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    The Ukrainian Crisis

    The conflict in eastern Ukraine continues with little sign of a negotiated resolution. Crimea has been absorbed into the Russian Federation, and celebrates the third anniversary of its 'integration' in March 2017. The ongoing nature of the conflict...
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  • Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access
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    Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access

    Across Africa, new collectivities are shifting the terms within which access to economic opportunity, social belonging, and political agency have historically been understood. Recent years have seen powerful waves of civic mobilization sweep across the...
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  • Is Turkey De-Europeanising? Is Turkey De-Europeanising?
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    Is Turkey De-Europeanising?

    This comprehensive edited volume conceptually develops the notion of 'de-Europeanisation' as an important development in the literature on Europeanisation, and applies it specifically to the case of Turkey. 'De-Europeanisation' is defined as the loss or...
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  • Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations
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    Democratizing Public Governance in Developing Nations

    This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance...
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  • Growth, Crisis, Democracy Growth, Crisis, Democracy
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    Growth, Crisis, Democracy

    Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from...
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  • Local Politics and National Policy Local Politics and National Policy
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    Local Politics and National Policy

    This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger developments in national...
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  • Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa
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    Violence and Candidate Nomination in Africa

    This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa. Through a combination of comparative studies and country-specific case studies spanning much of...
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  • Researching Non-state Actors in International Security Researching Non-state Actors in International Security
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    Researching Non-state Actors in International Security

    This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security.All researchers face the same challenge, not only must they identify a...
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  • Du Système Social, Ses Applications Pratiques a L'individu, a La Famille, a La Société, Dans L'intérêt Du Bien-Être, Du Bonheur, Et De La Civilisation Des Peuples Du Système Social, Ses Applications Pratiques a L'individu, a La Famille, a La Société, Dans L'intérêt Du Bien-Être, Du Bonheur, Et De La Civilisation Des Peuples
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    Du Système Social, Ses Applications Pratiques a L'individu, a La Famille, a La Société, Dans L'intérêt Du Bien-Être, Du Bonheur, Et De La Civilisation Des Peuples

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Vorlesungen Über Sozialismus Und Soziale Fragen Vorlesungen Über Sozialismus Und Soziale Fragen
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    Vorlesungen Über Sozialismus Und Soziale Fragen

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Oesterreichischer Finanzpolitik Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Oesterreichischer Finanzpolitik
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    Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Oesterreichischer Finanzpolitik

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Die Politischen Reden Des Fürsten Bismarck Die Politischen Reden Des Fürsten Bismarck
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    Die Politischen Reden Des Fürsten Bismarck

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Traveling Auteurs Traveling Auteurs
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    Traveling Auteurs

    What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Traveling Auteurs, author Luca Caminati analyzes the work of influential Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini,...
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  • "Right Makes Might" "Right Makes Might"
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    "Right Makes Might"

    In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the...
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  • The Theory of Human Things The Theory of Human Things
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    The Theory of Human Things

    This book can help a person make better decisions and be wiser by:• Helping a person make better judgements in their daily encounters.• Giving a general blueprint for a person's life.• Working as a guide for common human behaviours...
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  • The Power of the Presidency The Power of the Presidency
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    The Power of the Presidency

    The American presidency is the most powerful political office in the world. But this impressive statement serves only to raise a whole series of fundamental questions: What is the scope of presidential powers and what are its limits? Can the president...
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  • Hopkins Touch Hopkins Touch
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    Hopkins Touch

    The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the...
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  • People Are King People Are King
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    People Are King

    In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns modeled after those in Spain. But rather...
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  • Shadow of Unfairness Shadow of Unfairness
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    Shadow of Unfairness

    In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree...
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