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How to Democratize the European Union...and Why Bother?

How to Democratize the European Union...and Why Bother?

In this provocative book, Philippe C. Schmitter explores both the possibility and the desirability of democratizing the EU. He argues that as a 'non-state' and a 'non-nation' it will have to invent new forms of citizenship, representation, and... Zobraziť viac

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Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector

Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a review of theoretical research on performance... Zobraziť viac

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Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognised,... Zobraziť viac

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Radical Islam in Central Asia

Radical Islam in Central Asia

This original study by distinguished scholar Vitaly V. Naumkin offers an authoritative analysis of the key militant Islamic organizations in Central Asia. Long veiled in secrecy, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Hizb at-Tahrir al-Islami, and the Islami Zobraziť viac

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Emergencies and Politics

Emergencies and Politics

In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. He develops a theory which proposes a democratic politics that is liberal but that takes seriously threats to life and limb from... Zobraziť viac

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Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments

The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as parliaments in adolescence. This book... Zobraziť viac

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Local Public Services in Times of Austerity across Mediterranean Europe

Local Public Services in Times of Austerity across Mediterranean Europe

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe. The book describes and compares the trajectories of austerity, and the... Zobraziť viac

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Comparative Constitutional Reasoning

Comparative Constitutional Reasoning

Examining reasoning practices of constitutional judges across eighteen legal systems globally, this book focuses on leading cases in order to compare processes, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Contributors offer the most... Zobraziť viac

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Public Policy and Program Evaluation

Public Policy and Program Evaluation

Evaluation is a controversial and little understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision-making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a recent... Zobraziť viac

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Muslim Politics

Muslim Politics

In this updated paperback edition, Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori explore how the politics of Islam play out in the lives of Muslims throughout the world. They discuss how recent events such as September 11 and the 2003 war in Iraq have contributed... Zobraziť viac

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Decisions and Elections

Decisions and Elections

A highly accessible book offering a new interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Zobraziť viac

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Greece and the Reinvention of Politics

Greece and the Reinvention of Politics

One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece... Zobraziť viac

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The Nation and Its Fragments

The Nation and Its Fragments

"An original and powerful analysis of the emergence of anticolonial nationalism and the postcolonial state. . . . This is not merely a book on nationalism in India with some 'comparative' implications. Instead, it presents the historical case of... Zobraziť viac

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The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes

The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes

Shows how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets in Russia. Zobraziť viac

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Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958

Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958

Examining Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine from both the European and indigenous points of view, D. K. Fieldhouse argues that the western powers failed in their stated purpose of establishing stable democratic states in these ex-Ottoman... Zobraziť viac

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Staging the Past

Staging the Past

Maria Bucur, (2001)

This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic... Zobraziť viac

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The Lies We Were Told

The Lies We Were Told

"This is a book you should read, for understanding what went wrong in the past is our only hope of doing better in the future... Zobraziť viac

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

This book provides a unique insight into the institution building process and constitutional politics in new democracies of Eastern Europe. For the first time, an in-depth empirical analysis of thirteen individual post-communist countries is provided... Zobraziť viac

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China's Foreign Political and Economic Relations

China's Foreign Political and Economic Relations

This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China's foreign relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt provide a comprehensive and discriminating view of the complex, often competing factors (domestic... Zobraziť viac

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Settling Accounts

Settling Accounts

As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there... Zobraziť viac

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