Political structure and processes

Just 25 years ago, Europe was engaged in a process of democratization and integration.

La presente obra, que consta de seis capítulos, revisa las respuestas del derecho punitivo del Estado frente a la protesta social.

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This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach.

This book explores the political sources of racially segmented elections and ANC dominance in South Africa.

Problems of democratization, its successes, failures and future prospects, belong to the most pressing concerns of our times.

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Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union.

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?

This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific non-mainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia.

This Element seeks to make sense of Southeast Asia''s numerous armed conflicts, analysing typology, ethnicity, trends and conflict management.

Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics.

Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution.

In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing.

The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and created the government structures that allowed them to dominate the United States.

Party System Closure maps trends in interparty relations in Europe from 1848 until 2019.

Examines how international context and domestic politics interact in producing state policies toward religious minorities in Turkey and France.

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid.

European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere.

This book presents a positive assessment of democratic quality as it has developed in ten postcommunist countries.

Local government affects us all.

This book examines twentieth and twenty-first-century American political discourse through the framework of progressive liberalism and neoliberalism.

A 'non-election' in terms of popular perception, the 2004 European elections in the United Kingdom nevertheless provided a fascinating snapshot of the new, far more fluid electoral trends that have been emerging since the end of the Thatcher era, with Green, Eurosceptical, regional and single issue parties all jostling for electoral space with the bigger three.

This book is an in-depth analysis of the educational development of tribals in India.

An impassioned call to arms for Democrats to embrace the principles that made the party and the country great-a true moral vision for leadership at home and abroadIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, a cri de coeur for Democrats who have grown increasingly frustrated with their party's leaders, former senator Gary Hart takes the Democrats to task for choosing caution and calculation in place of moral principles.

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as well as the use of similar platforms by citizens to find information, communicate about elections or engage more generally in political issues.

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.

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As the 2016 election campaign attests, the Grand Old Party-once moderate and even magnanimous-has fallen into a prison of its own making when it comes to presidential politics.

All four post-Cold War presidents have attempted to negotiate and ratify at least one major arms control agreement.

Space weaponry, satellite surveillance and communications, and private space travel are all means in which outer space is being humanized: incorporated into society's projects.

Democracy in America, written by French lawyer Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831, documents his travels through America where he finds an equality unknown in Europe.

The principal statute addressing air quality concerns, the Clean Air Act was first enacted in 1955, with major revisions in 1970, 1977, and 1990 and is addressed in the first part of this book.

The book discusses the Pakistan factor in Indian foreign policy, covering the evolution of both Indian nationalism and Hindu nationalism and their impact on India's foreign policy framework.

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

This exciting new book explores the role of government, politics, and policy in American lives.

Argues that radical right voting in Europe is rooted in people''s feelings of attachment to and defensiveness of their local communities.

This handbook reviews the extant literature on the most important issues in health and science journalism, with a focus on summarizing the relevant research and identifying key questions that are yet to be answered.

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages.

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