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Gendered Vulnerability examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts.

In From Inclusion to Influence, Walter Wilson addresses urgent questions regarding the political incorporation of Latinos in America.

The party whips are essential components of the U.

The party whips are essential components of the U.

Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved.

Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group U.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

The BRICS nations-Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-recently committed, as enshrined in their 2024 Declaration, to jointly promoting a global framework for data governance.

A wild ride through the destruction of the American government - and the unsung heroes who tried to stop it - by the No.

EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime: Data Retention and Policymaking offers a comprehensive and comparative study of the right to private life and data retention within the EU and ECHR legal orders.

Many governments in semi-democratic regimes have adopted participatory democratic institutions to promote development and accountability.

EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime: Data Retention and Policymaking offers a comprehensive and comparative study of the right to private life and data retention within the EU and ECHR legal orders.

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Much of the scholarly literature and principal books on criminal justice and crime control policy take the operations of the criminal justice system, the causes of crime and delinquency, theories about crime and justice, and crime prevention as the central topics for study and policy analysis.

The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics provides a comprehensive examination of Norway's political institutions, politics, public policy-making, and international relations.

The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics provides a comprehensive examination of Norway's political institutions, politics, public policy-making, and international relations.

When, and how, might crises force institutions to change?

Many governments in semi-democratic regimes have adopted participatory democratic institutions to promote development and accountability.

A critical challenge to Scotland's new system of government is the making and implementation of public policy.

Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities.

Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities.

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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination.

British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination.

In 2003, North Carolina became the third U.

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict illuminates the controversial course of America's Middle East relations from the birth of Israel to the Reagan administration.

This book investigates the implementation of school closure and consolidation policies in Chinese primary education.

The 2019 edition of the World Population Policies report, a report published biennially since 2003, focuses on Government policies and programmes on international migration.

This book investigates the implementation of school closure and consolidation policies in Chinese primary education.

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

Lyndon Johnson invaded the Dominican Republic.

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

Every retirement plan, every health budget, and every family conversation about the spare room rests on one unexamined sentence: somebody will be there.

From the middle of the twentieth century, think tanks have played an indelible role in the rise of American conservatism.

This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for studying the governance of the local co-creation of environmental solutions.

Economic and social inequality have become defining features of the world economy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Presidents and their advisors consistently seek to improve the management of their foreign policy decision processes.

For decades, public expectations of U.

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Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought tirelessly to reform American adoption and to overcome prejudice against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock.

As the number of women in the U.

This book analyses the developments of European social rights and European social citizenship since the proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR).

This discerning book examines the promise and practice of hybrid democratic innovations that combine voting and deliberation within a single participatory design, while remaining anchored in representative democracy.

In a Vermont gymnasium, the seats are full and the mood is grim.

This incisive book examines the relationship between federalism and democracy from a theoretical and comparative perspective.