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Hardcover. Russia 2025 offers a compelling insight into Russia's future by exploring thematic scenarios ranging from politics to demographics. The widening rift between a modernizing, post-Communist society and a paternalistic government will ultimately shape developments in the coming years and will impact on state-society and Center-periphery relations. Editor(s): Lipman, Maria; Petrov, Nikolay. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPQ; JPV; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336903
- ISBN
- 9781137336903
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€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state." Editor(s): Vaughan, Christopher; Schomerus, Mareike; De Vries, Lotje. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, 5 maps, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBTR; JPHC; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137340887
- ISBN
- 9781137340887
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€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama. Editor(s): Kaufman, Peter Iver. Series: Jepson Studies in Leadership. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; JPHL; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343352
- ISBN
- 9781137343352
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€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. Updating the papers from the 2011 Asan Conference to cover the end of 2011, this book reflects the state of analysis on the eve of the important 2012-13 transition to China's fifth-generation leaders. Editor(s): Rozman, Gilbert. Series: Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Num Pages: 343 pages, 35 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPH; JPQB; JPSD; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344090
- ISBN
- 9781137344090
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€ 129.94
€ 129.94
Hardcover. The 2012 election in Japan ejected the governing DPJ and returned the LDP overwhelmingly to power while brand new parties pulled in millions of voters. This book explains what happened, why it happened and what it means. International experts analyze the election results, parties strategies, gender issues, policy implications and more. Editor(s): Pekkanen, Robert; Reed, Steven R.; Scheiner, Ethan. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JMG; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348517
- ISBN
- 9781137348517
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€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. The authors use multilateral security governance theory to propose mutual persuasion, institution-building, incorporation of non-state actors into multilateral strategies, collective action, and multilateral governance as a strategy for modern Mexico. Editor(s): Hussain, Imtiaz; Schiavon, Jorge A. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JPHV; JPSD; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349880
- ISBN
- 9781137349880
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€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists. This book explores how professional associations act as pressure groups and highlights the democratic regime that is prevailing and the potential convergence problems that Europe may face. Editor(s): Rego, Raquel. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBL; JPH; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352743
- ISBN
- 9781137352743
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€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Paperback. European and American experts systematically compare US and EU strategies to promote democracy around the world - from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and Southeast Asia. In doing so, the authors debunk the pernicious myth that there exists a transatlantic divide over democracy promotion. Editor(s): Magen, Amichai; Risse, Thomas; McFaul, Michael A. Series: Governance and Limited Statehood. Num Pages: 309 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 1QFG; JPB; JPHV; JPS; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353962
- ISBN
- 9781137353962
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€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Paperback. Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state, society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics and expectations. In this IPE Classic, with a new Foreword and Preface, globalization and multilateralism are linked to questions of epistemology, ontology, and strategy. Editor(s): Gill, Stephen. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JPHV; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355164
- ISBN
- 9781137355164
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€ 57.25
€ 57.25
Paperback. With a new Preface and Foreword, this IPE Classic, by an international group of authors, analyzes the ways in which local politics in developing countries - often neglected in work on democratization - render democratic experiments more or less successful in realizing substantial democracy. Editor(s): Tornquist, Olle; Harriss, John; Stokke, Kristian. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPHV; JPR; JPS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355195
- ISBN
- 9781137355195
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€ 118.90
€ 118.90
Hardcover. Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other. Editor(s): Prozorov, Sergei; Lindberg, Susanna; Ojakangas, Mika. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPH; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137361813
- ISBN
- 9781137361813
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€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "Arab Spring" has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the politics of identity and the historical and political processes that have shaped development. This book focuses on how these factors interact with globalization and affect state formation. Editor(s): Christie, Kenneth; Masad, Mohammad. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137369598
- ISBN
- 9781137369598
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€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. The diffusion of fascism in Europe coincided with a wave of dictatorships that supplanted democratic regimes. This volume explores this interaction and in their historical context. Editor(s): Costa-Pinto, Antonio; Kallis, Aristotle. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384409
- ISBN
- 9781137384409
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€ 141.38
€ 141.38
Paperback. A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and public interest. Editor(s): Vries, Michiel S. de; Kim, Pan Suk. Series: Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPH; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387981
- ISBN
- 9781137387981
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€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Hardcover. International friendship is a distinct type of interstate relationship, and that as such, it can contribute to capture aspects of international politics that have long remained unattended. This book offers a framework for analyzing friendship in international politics by presenting a variety of conceptual approaches and empirical cases. Editor(s): Koschut, Simon; Oelsner, Andrea. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396334
- ISBN
- 9781137396334
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€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War. Editor(s): Mehrkens, Heidi; Muller, Frank Lorenz. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; JPF; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454966
- ISBN
- 9781137454966
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€ 119.80
€ 119.80
Hardcover. This book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It does so by combining insights from European Political Economy; European Integration and governance studies; and, socio-legal studies in the European context. Editor(s): Hartmann, Eva; Kjaer, Poul Fritz. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPA; JPH; KCP; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484512
- ISBN
- 9781137484512
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€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. This volume brings together a broad range of research on governors in the American states, examining governors as potentially powerful leaders who are subject to a range of constraints, as well as considering how individual governors may choose leadership paths that either enhance or detract from that power. Editor(s): Redlawsk, David P. Num Pages: 277 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488183
- ISBN
- 9781137488183
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€ 129.28
€ 129.28
Hardcover. This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the context of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath in Europe, it observes a return of redistributive conflicts that correlates with a 'new politics of identity', nationalism, regionalism and expressions of Euroscepticism. Editor(s): Trenz, Hans-Jorg; Ruzza, Carlo; Guiraudon, Virginie. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPHV; JPSN2; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493668
- ISBN
- 9781137493668
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€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardcover. This book studies the dynamics of political discourse in governance processes. It demonstrates the process in which political discourses become normative mechanisms, first marking socially constructed realities in politics, second playing a role in delineating the subsequent policy frames, and third influencing the public sphere. Editor(s): Korkut, Umut; Cox, Robert Henry; Bucken-Knapp, Gregg; Mahendran, Kesi. Num Pages: 252 pages, 10 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JPF; JPH; JPP; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495778
- ISBN
- 9781137495778
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€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. Bringing together perspectives from multiple disciplines and diverse regions of the world, this book explores the causes of persistent gender inequalities in public and private life, their implications for the meaning of democracy in the 21st century, and strategies for social transformation to attain democratic governance and gender justice. Editor(s): Vianello, Mino; Hawkesworth, Mary. Num Pages: 425 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPH; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 28. Weight in Grams: 648.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137514158
- ISBN
- 9781137514158
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€ 120.38
€ 120.38
Hardcover. This volume is a study of the emergence and consequences of computerized voting advice applications (VAAs) in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In contrast to the European experience of VAAs simplifying vote choices, this research shows that VAAs in East Asia may increase their complexity. Editor(s): Liao, Da-Chi; Chen, Boyu; Jensen, Michael J.; Pritchard, Colin W. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPHF; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137522061
- ISBN
- 9781137522061
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€ 118.79
€ 118.79
Hardcover. This volume is a theoretical analysis of the current crises of state and societal transformations in the Middle East and North Africa. The emphasis on the impact and limits of neoliberal governmentality places these uprisings within the specific contextual and structural environment of neoliberal globalization. Editor(s): Akcali, Emel. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JPA; JPFK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546920
- ISBN
- 9781137546920
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Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. Following the crisis in Ukraine, the Putin regime made political choices that will determine Russia's development for years to come. This cutting edge Pivot makes a key contribution to the debate on Russia's development and traces emerging trends in various spheres of Russian life, from the economy and foreign policy, to society and ideology. Editor(s): Lipman, Maria; Petrov, Nikolay. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUK; JPH; JPQB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137548108
- ISBN
- 9781137548108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00