Unter dem Deckmantel der FreundschaftEin amtierender Bundeskanzler, Gerhard Schröder, lässt sich eine obszön hohe Summe zusichern – von einem umstrittenen Finanzunternehmer.
»Es sind so viele politische Klischees über meinen Werdegang und meine Regierungszeit in die Welt gesetzt worden, dass die Legenden über die historischen Zusammenhänge bereits zu verdrängen drohen, wie es wirklich war.
1949, mit Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, wurde die Nachkriegsteilung Deutschlands staatliche Realität.
Bis heute faszinieren Denken und Persönlichkeit der Wortführerin der linken Sozialdemokratie aus den Zeiten des Kaiserreichs, sorgen für kontroverse Diskussionen nicht nur in linken Bewegungen.
Leon Witt hat es geschafft: Obwohl menschengemachte Kunst eigentlich kaum noch eine Rolle spielt und die meisten Werke von Algorithmen geschaffen werden, ist das 39-jährige Genie zum Superstar aufgestiegen.
This book explores how national identity has been negotiated and (re)imagined through the political symbols that embody it in post-conflict Timor-Leste.
This book examines how local agencies in Cambodia and Mindanao (the Philippines) have developed their own models of peacebuilding under the strong influence and advocacy of external intervention.
This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012).
"e;Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.
This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style.
This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects.
Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency.
This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe.
How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades.
The book offers a comprehensive analysis of public opinion toward presidential candidate spouses over the course of three decades, drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks including the concept of "e;new traditionalism"e; and a plethora of empirical data to explore why some spouses engender greater support than others-and what these reactions reveal about the American public and the gendered nature of the American presidency.
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy under the government of Justin Trudeau, with a concentration on the areas of climate change, trade, Indigenous rights, arms sales, refugees, military affairs, and relationships with the United States and China.
This is the first thorough and systematic interrogation of Republican Party oratory and rhetoric that examines a series of leading figures in American conservative politics.
This book of a renowned political scientist and specialist in political theory fundamentally challenges the new fashion of post-democracy by offering an outlook on 'neo-democracy'.
This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the 'technocratic shift' in ministerial recruitment, measuring its extent and variations over time in fourteen European countries.
This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country's anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized.
This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia.
This book examines both the rhetorical content of contemporary public leadership and the leadership methods pioneered by early English statesman Sir Francis Bacon.