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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.
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- 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
Hardback
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
Hardcover. In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public sector integrity, the various methodological approaches to the field as well as considering the causes of for the violation of values associated with integrity. Series: Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 figures, 28 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPB; JPP; JPQ; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380807
- ISBN
- 9781137380807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice versa. This important collection compiles and analyses Foucault's views on parrhesia to shed new light on his ideas on the importance of truth-telling in democracies. Num Pages: 144 pages, 4 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPQ; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368348
- ISBN
- 9781137368348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. The British General Election of 2015 is a must-read for anyone wanting to know how the action unfolded in the most unpredictable election for a generation. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; JPHF; JPL; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366108
- ISBN
- 9781137366108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.81
€ 162.81
The Transformation of Global Health Governance: Competing Ideas, Inter...
McInnes, Colin, Lee, Kelley, Kamradt-Scott, A...
Hardcover. The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of competing ideas about global health. They explore how this has affected the governance of specific health issues and how it relates to global governance more broadly. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS; KCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137365712
- ISBN
- 9781137365712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Paperback. Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing US policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama's efforts regarding US foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remainder of his presidency. Editor(s): Akbarzadeh, Shahram. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JM; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358813
- ISBN
- 9781137358813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37