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In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, wie die zunehmende Nutzung von Volksabstimmungen die Wahlbeteiligung auf der lokalen Ebene beeinflusst. Mit der Einführung lokaler Volksabstimmungen in Deutschland und vielen anderen Staaten zu Beginn der 90er Jahre war...
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Springer VS
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2025-09-30
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This book studies the approach Thomas Ritchie’s Richmond Enquirer took on the Haitian Revolution. It focuses on the paper's coverage of two major events that most historians have overlooked: Haitian ruler Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ massacres of French...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book takes an in-depth look at the debates surrounding democracy and social democracy. Questioning the effectiveness of elections and referenda in expressing the 'voice of the people', it explores how voters' decisions are influenced by ideology and politicians'...
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Springer
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2025-09-30
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"The Normative Power of the EU and China: Interests Drive Norms is a vital contribution to the scholarship on global governance. It deftly dissects how both the EU and China pursue norm diffusion not as idealistic projects but as interest-driven strategies. The book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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China’s Blueprint for Global Leadership offers the first comprehensive academic analysis ofChina’s Three Major Initiatives—the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Civilization Initiative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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As democratic systems come under increasing strain worldwide, assessing their strength and resilience is more urgent than ever. Some argue that local democracy can serve as a bulwark against democratic backsliding—providing institutional resilience, political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book focuses on the spectacle of the 2024 U.S. presidential election from the return of Donald Trump and the decision by Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race and endorse Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee to the campaign sprint...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This open access book examines the Russia-Ukraine war and its origins. Based on analysis of a large number of primary and secondary sources, it provides a systematic analysis of this crucial war, its nature, outcome, possibility of peaceful settlement, violence against...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book explores the relationship between an introduced gender equality rule and broader gender sensitivity in the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji. Key concepts of gendered institutional transformation – commitment, capacity and will – are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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This book provides a comprehensive account and conceptualisation of the history and development of the middle class in Greece. What is the history of the middle class in the West after World War II? How is it related to consumerism, individualism and emancipation? How...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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What if the FBI’s surveillance of the New Left wasn’t only about repression and cynical self-interest?
This book revisits one of the most controversial episodes of the Cold War: the FBI’s counterintelligence investigations into the activist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The book discusses the 2015 Oromo protest as a social movement that brought about new practices and new actors to the exercise of freedom of expression and information through its use of the Internet as an alternative communication platform and a site of political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book adopts a regional approach to understanding 2024 presidential election outcomes. Quantitative and qualitative analysis examines electoral outcomes in the Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast, enriching contextual understandings of the national results...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Authoritarian populism is challenging contemporary democracies, raising concerns about their resilience. Using France as a magnifying lens, we show that while the gap between political elites and ordinary citizens is widening, the French remain strongly committed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The most pressing policy challenges of our time require complex and coordinated strategies that transcend territorial borders. Issues such as climate mitigation, sustainable development and the migration crisis all require policy solutions that compel sub-national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The 1990s witnessed a surge in decentralization, as national governments around the world sought to transfer responsibilities and prerogatives to regional and local authorities.The last two decades have seen a reversal of this trend, as national authorities have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book attempts to highlight the vital role water has played in creating, consolidating, protecting, and preserving ancient and medieval global civilizations. It explains how the modern world has been addressing the issue of water insecurity and learning lessons from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive analysis of the emerging field of cyber diplomacy. During the last twenty years a complex cyber ecosystem has been emerging that is increasingly challenged at various levels, in different domains and by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The concept of emancipation is a touchstone issue within classical liberalism. Commonly referred to as a condition in which individuals and groups are liberated from forms of control, domination, or restriction, “emancipation” normatively corresponds with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This volume, the second in a set of two, focuses on the challenges faced by countries and regions in implementing sustainable development.This volume addresses the obstacles encountered by emerging economies, particularly in areas such as policy implementation, resource...
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Springer
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2025-09-30
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