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hardcover. This book examines the governance arrangements in Northern Ireland through a multi-level lens, particularly in the period since the new institutions established through the 1998 Agreement became more firmly embedded. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JPH; JPQ; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453990
- ISBN
- 9781137453990
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Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardback. By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JPB; JPQB; KFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453969
- ISBN
- 9781137453969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture. The book examines the ways in which cultural issues have been framed at the EU level and the policies and instruments to which they have given vent. Editor(s): Psychogiopoulou, Evangelia. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFC; JFFS; JPQB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453747
- ISBN
- 9781137453747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.29
€ 183.29
Hardback. An engaging explanation and unique analysis of the increased involvement of the private sector in one of the world's most influential development organizations, the United Nations Development Programme. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449191
- ISBN
- 9781137449191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers examines complex relations between Spain and Italy, beginning in 1943 and continuing until 1957, contending that the relationship cannot be examined in isolation and must be understood in its broader context. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DST; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448668
- ISBN
- 9781137448668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have changed within this particular policy sphere, the book explores various theoretical, social, political, and electoral dimensions of the subject matter. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JKS; JPFM; JPL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137445803
- ISBN
- 9781137445803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMF; JMQ; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438218
- ISBN
- 9781137438218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.13
€ 100.13
Hardcover. What are the factors of Lukashenka's longevity at the helm of power? This question is addressed in the context of Belarusian history and identity, not as an outcome of a form of government deceitfully imposed on an allegedly benighted people whom better positioned and informed outsiders seek to enlighten and liberate. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPFC; JPHX; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436740
- ISBN
- 9781137436740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Hardcover. This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external pressures and to continue to pursue a distinctive political and policy agenda. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JPQ; JPRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436733
- ISBN
- 9781137436733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Social Policies and Ethnic Conflict in China: Lessons from Xinjiang (P...
Zhang, Shaoying, McGhee, Derek
Hardcover. This study addresses how China's policy response to problems in Xinjiang is interpreted and implemented by officials, who are both governing agents and governed subjects by interviewing Chinese officials working in both Central government and Local governments. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL1; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436658
- ISBN
- 9781137436658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social media can also help sustain civic engagement beyond protest. Editor(s): Uldam, Julie; Vestergaard, Anne. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434159
- ISBN
- 9781137434159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardback. This timely study analyses the ways in which competing ideologies and cultural narratives have influenced the Obama administration's decision-making on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, situating these decisions within the broader history of American foreign policy. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428554
- ISBN
- 9781137428554
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Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality, this book examines gender inequality in Pakistan's public sector and questions whether a singular focus on gender training is enough to achieve progress in a patriarchal institutional context. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFFJ; JPHL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426468
- ISBN
- 9781137426468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.03
€ 52.93
€ 47.03
Hardcover. This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents inscribe themselves into different Russian narratives about Russia's rightful place in the world. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMH; JPQB; JPW; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414052
- ISBN
- 9781137414052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. What are the principal drivers of recent higher education reforms? This study investigates whether the soft governance mechanism of transnational communication has evoked cross-national policy harmonization. Results suggest that the Bologna Process has triggered substantial policy harmonization beyond general policy convergence. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412782
- ISBN
- 9781137412782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This volume provides a pluralistic discussion from world-renowned scholars on the international aspects of the debt crisis and prospects for resolution. It provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the debt crisis has impacted Western Europe, the emerging markets and Latin America, and puts forward different suggestions for recovery. Editor(s): Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Heymann, Daniel. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 3JMC; 3JMG; JPQB; KCL; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411471
- ISBN
- 9781137411471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Hardcover. Five presidents (Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama) have been elected to and served a second term. Seemingly free from electoral pressure, each president has taken a unique approach to their second term, and the book seeks to unpack the rationale behind their decisions and actions in their final years of power. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JPHL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410986
- ISBN
- 9781137410986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Laws are essential to the lives of all British citizens and crucial to the survival of British Governments. This book follows the work of House of Commons bill committees as they scrutinise legislation and reveals the hidden depths of law making in the British Parliament. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15 black & white tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPH; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410658
- ISBN
- 9781137410658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardback. Centering its study around three explanatory variables - actors, institutions and ideas - this book argues that Russia's hybrid institutional environment reduces the competition of policy ideas, both at the stage of policy elaboration by the community of state and non-state policy experts, and also at the stage of policy adoption by parliament. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPA; JPP; JPQB. 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
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409737
- ISBN
- 9781137409737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
The Administrating Victimization: The Politics of Anti-Social Behaviou...
Duggan, Marian, Heap, Vicky
Hardcover. This study addresses the management of victims and victim policy under the Coalition government, in light of an increasing move towards neoliberal and punitive law and order agendas. With a focus on victims of anti-social behaviour and hate crime, Duggan and Heap explore the changing role of the victim in contemporary criminal justice discourses. Series: Palgrave Hate Studies. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFS; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409263
- ISBN
- 9781137409263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFFJ; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 322 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405401
- ISBN
- 9781137405401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.67
€ 182.67
Hardcover. The Normativity of the European Union provides an account of what has made European integration possible. Reconstructing the integration process up to the Eurozone crisis, Eriksen provides novel insight into the conditions for integration and the nature of the EU as well as highlighting why European solidarity has become a moral duty. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPQ; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391445
- ISBN
- 9781137391445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the US and Europe: How Does...
Ariane Chebel D'Appollonia
Hardcover. Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats. This book identifies how different groups have responded and explains why, synthesizing findings in the fields of securitization, migrant integration, and migrant mobilization. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388049
- ISBN
- 9781137388049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. The book analyzes how the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used force in response to incidents of international terrorism - providing comparison between each of the administrations as they grappled with the evolving nature and role of terrorism in the United States and abroad. Num Pages: 286 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPQ; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384041
- ISBN
- 9781137384041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19