Comparative History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 4

Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

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Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Tanja Eschenauer-Engler
Dictators' Endgames

Dictators' Endgames examines the political role of the military in "dictators' endgames": large-scale nonviolent mass protests in autocracies that demand the regime leader's removal from office.

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Claire A Dunlop, Jonathan C Kamkhaji, Claudio M Radaelli, Gaia Taffoni
Designing Rulemaking

In Designing Rulemaking, the authors examine how governments around the world have adopted access to information legislation and how these innovations, designed to open up rulemaking process and make regu…

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Innocent Batsani-Ncube
China and African Parliaments

China and African Parliaments maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilisation of three parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were financed and constructed by the…

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James S Fishkin
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

This book draws on the author's research on Deliberative Polling to chart a unique path to fixing democracy's many problems. It suggests empowering democratic reform that would strengthen rather than repl…

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James Geary
The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

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Meng Xia
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

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Jan Eijking
The Technocratic International

Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as technical institutions separate from political concerns. An…

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Brian F Crisp, Patrick Cunha Silva, Santiago Olivella, Guillermo Rosas
Electoral System Incentives for Interparty and Intraparty Politics

Using novel computational tools and a comprehensive and updated dataset on electoral systems, this book develops precise and transparent measures of both electoral systems' interparty and intraparty incen…

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Yann Allard-Tremblay
Disjunctures

Disjunctures demonstrates the transformative potential of Indigenous political traditions in settler states that seek reconciliation. Though there exist irreconcilable differences between Indigenous and d…

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Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
Making a Career in Dictatorship

Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the…

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Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
Making a Career in Dictatorship

Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the…

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Bodies, Spaces, Claims

This book asserts that there is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, or politically engaged entertainers appear in public, they make or constitute political repre…

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Uluc Ozuyener
Born in Secrecy--Maaminim

This book tells the story of the Sabbatean descendants who continued to carry the spark of faith in the enigmatic Shabbatai Sevi (1626-76), not in public, but behind closed doors, through gestures, ritual…

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Iosif Kovras
Accountability After Economic Crisis

This book explores how countries responded to the 2008 economic recession and explains the variations in policies of accountability. By comparing five case studies, it considers why some sought to hold th…

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Alexander Davenport
Unfulfilled Electoral Potential of West European Liberal Parties

For all their long histories, liberal parties win relatively little popular support in most of Western Europe. This book, however, highlights an influx of voters combining economically free-market and cul…

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Ewa Atanassow
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning fa…

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Matteo Bonotti, Zim Nwokora
Money, Parties, and Democracy

This book evaluates political finance rules and party systems in terms of three distinctive normative dimensions, which capture what parties, at their best, can contribute to democratic politics. Based on…

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Christian Joppke
Political Neoliberalism

In Political Neoliberalism, Christian Joppke tackles one of the most disputed concepts in current social thought, arguing that neoliberalism is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phe…

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Gerard Roland
Empires, Nation-States, and Democracies

How the geopolitical behavior of states is closely related to the nature of their political systemsToday's world is characterized by an unstable coexistence of empires, nation-states, and democracies. In …

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