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Hardback. The authors shows how and why standards are used as governance tools. They follow the historical development of standards and their new forms and roles, across the substantive areas of industrial and organizational 'quality', the financial sector, environment, and labour. Editor(s): Ponte, Stefano; Gibbon, Peter; Vestergaard, Jakob. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230295407
- ISBN
- 9780230295407
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Condition: New
€ 151.00
€ 151.00
The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms. Europa, Eur...
Graziano, Paolo R.. Ed(S): Jacquot, Sophie; P...
Hardback. This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes. Editor(s): Jacquot, Sophie; Palier, Bruno. Series: Work and Welfare in Europe. Num Pages: 369 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHBL; JKSB; JPB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 369
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296435
- ISBN
- 9780230296435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.27
€ 68.27
Europeanization of the Western Balkans: Environmental Governance in Bo...
Fagan, Adam, Sircar, Indiraneel
Hardcover. The book analyses the changing roles of international agencies, governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, and local communities around major road-building environmental impact assessment processes in order to examine whether the influence of the European Union has transformed environmental governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Serbia. Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1DVWYS; 1QFE; JPB; JPHC; JPSN2; RND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296510
- ISBN
- 9780230296510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSP2; JPH; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298675
- ISBN
- 9780230298675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. Existing theories of cooperation assume a stable geo-political order, led by countries with a shared conception of the modalities of cooperation. These assumptions are no longer justified. Effective Multilateralism makes the case for a new approach to explaining international cooperation through the lens of East Asian. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298699
- ISBN
- 9780230298699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries. Editor(s): Engeli, Isabelle; Rothmayr Allison, Christine. Series: ECPR Research Methods. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298750
- ISBN
- 9780230298750
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Condition: New
€ 150.16
€ 150.16
Hardcover. Through the use of a historical-institutional perspective and with particular reference to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; this study explores the state of family policies in Post-Communist Europe. It analyzes how these policies have developed and examines their impact on gender relations for the countries mentioned. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFSJ1; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299955
- ISBN
- 9780230299955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1974-1976. Series: Nuclear Weapons and International Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 1KBB; 1QFN; HBW; JPSF; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300934
- ISBN
- 9780230300934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and scholars in Russian Studies. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; CFB; CFX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301016
- ISBN
- 9780230301016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever - then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301856
- ISBN
- 9780230301856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
hardcover. Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions. Editor(s): Assmann, Aleida; Shortt, Linda. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301993
- ISBN
- 9780230301993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Offering a uniquely 'psycho-cultural' take on the emotional dynamics of UK political culture this book uses theories and research in psychoanalysis, cultural and media studies and political sociology. It explores the cultural and emotional processes that shape our relationship to politics in a media age, referencing Joanna Lumley to Nigel Farage. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 201 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302525
- ISBN
- 9780230302525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.13
€ 94.13
Hardcover. British women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to international affairs in feminist politics, the gendered representation and experience of the Munich Crisis, and the profound impression made by female public opinion on PM Neville Chamberlain in his negotiations with the dictators. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; JFSJ1; JPS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304291
- ISBN
- 9780230304291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.75
€ 117.75
hardcover. Analyzes the communication processes in direct democratic campaigns and their effect on the opinion formation of the voters. Based on a detailed analysis of the politicians' strategies, media coverage and the opinion formation of the public in three campaigns, this book argues that the campaigns are more enlightening than manipulating. Editor(s): Kriesi, Hanspeter. Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFH; JPHF; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304895
- ISBN
- 9780230304895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardcover. Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800. Series: Political Corruption and Governance. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308886
- ISBN
- 9780230308886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. The book explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural processes at play. Num Pages: 251 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPW; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230309180
- ISBN
- 9780230309180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Clear disparities exist between notions of representative democracy and political practice in Britain. Alternative models of democracy, however, have their own incongruities in trying to marry representation and democracy. This book analyses the mismatches in democratic theories and between theory and practice in British representative democracy. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314467
- ISBN
- 9780230314467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This study departs from traditional interpretations of cohabitation in French politics, which suggest French institutions are capable of coping when the President and Prime Minister originate from different political parties. Instead, it offers the opposite view that cohabitation leads to partisan conflict and inertia in the policy-making process. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHF; JPHV; JPL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337107
- ISBN
- 9780230337107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Public Sector Employment Regimes: Transformations of the State as an E...
Gottschall, Karin, Hils, Sylvia, Kittel, Bern...
Hardcover. This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'model' employer. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 374 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JPB; JPP; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337152
- ISBN
- 9780230337152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardback. Provides a full account of the politics and intelligence of American relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Carter presidency to the Obama administration. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; JPRB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337299
- ISBN
- 9780230337299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardback. This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone--the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HF; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338128
- ISBN
- 9780230338128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardback. This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JNF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338241
- ISBN
- 9780230338241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 48.08
€ 53.36
€ 48.08
Hardback. Cyprus is a postcolonial island known for natural gas reserves and ethnic divisions. This volume presents a fresh perspective on the Cyprus problem by examining the societal transformations taking place within the island: socioeconomic development, population transitions and migration, and rapidly changing social and political institutions. Num Pages: 307 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; HBTR; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338548
- ISBN
- 9780230338548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. How do nations address the above health policy goals and respond to current challenges? As these four cases (United States, Germany, Canada, and South Africa) demonstrate, the answer lies in the underlying politics of health policy at work. Series: Perspectives in Comparative Politics. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1HFMS; 1KBB; JPB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338876
- ISBN
- 9780230338876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19