Politics and government

The reference book reviews and presents systematically the use of Internet in administration and politics.

Explains the compatibility of economic development and democracy in the United States during industrialization.

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing.

The unique political history of the Southern United States is rooted in the fact that it is the only region to have ever taken up arms against the national government.

Das Repetitorium befasst sich mit den Eckpunkten und Meilensteinen in der Entwicklung der Menschenrechteund vermittelt eine prägnante Übersicht der politischen und rechtlichen Umsetzung der Menschenrechte in der Neuzeit.

First published in 1997, this volume approaches the controversial issue of Medicare and its future.

Though parity is still rare, presidential cabinets contain more women than ever before.

A Brookings Institution Press and Yale Center for the Study of Globalization publicationThe latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reflects the growing international consensus that the earth's climate is being changed by anthropogenic greenhouse gasses.

This book reflects on the significance of duties in creating an egalitarian society by collating and contextualizing the relevant literature.

Globalization and National Economic Welfare makes an original, powerful and timely contribution to a highly topical issue that affects all countries by showing why globalization is unsustainable in the long term without fundamental changes in existing attitudes and institutions.

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments.

Discover the leadership strengths of world-class mountain guides and see how developing and applying these principles can help you reach for the highest summits in work-and in life.

Examines the causes of intelligence failures in the Cold War, post-9/11, and pre-Iraq War.

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy.

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties.

This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding American bureaucracy.

As each power vies for its national interests on the world stage, how do its own citizens' democratic interests fare at home?

Described by one soldier as a metal box designed by a sadist to move soldiers across the water, the Landing Craft, Infantry was a large beaching craft intended to deliver an infantry company to a hostile shore, once the beachhead was secured.

Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need.

Who or what determines the right to die?

Carrying Capacity, within a given resource base, is the maximum rate of resource consumption and waste discharge that can be sustained indefinitely.

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates' court.

The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "e;market-institutional"e; perspective - which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions.

Wenn vormals Fremde in eine gastgebende Gemeinschaft aufgenommen werden, "passiert" Gastfreundschaft.

This new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights.

Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.

This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era.

The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior to combat the virus and preserve life.

Das Buch zur aktuellen Flüchtlingskrise Er rettete Zehntausende bedrohte Hutu aus dem Regenwald, koordinierte die internationalen Maßnahmen im Kosovo.

This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban Revolution.

The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls.

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

Simons describes the current human-rights situation in Saudi Arabia with reference to corruption, the treatment of dissidents, the penal system, the suppression of women, slavery and other aspects.

Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Business Funding is ideal for scholars and practitioners who work in the field of public policy design and implementation, finance and banking, and economic development.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.

It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement.

This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift's political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works.

Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times, this book, dedicated to Michael Winter, stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East, an area of study which has traditionally attracted little attention from Islamists.

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination.

Der Band bündelt Analysen führender Wahlforscherinnen und Wahlforscher sowie Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler aus Deutschland zur Bundestagswahl 2021.

The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.

This book takes a strategic approach and provides a comprehensive review of books and papers about human resource management (HRM) and labor relations management in China, especially since China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.