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Politics of (dis) integration
This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation. This affects individual lives as well as social cohesion. The book highlights the variety of ways in which integration and disintegration are related t…
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- 9783030250898
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- xiv, 217p. : ill.
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- 305.8 POL p
Electronic democracy
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a tool for political mobilisation, internet Voting and Voting Advice Applications, and other phenomena, this volume critically engages with the hope for more transparency and po…
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- 9783847400189
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- 203 pages ; 21 cm.
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- The world of political science : the development of the discipline
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- 321.802854678 KER e
Accountability in public policy partnerships
Public-private partnerships have become an important tool for delivering essential public goods, but critics fear that they erode public accountability. Making partnerships more accountable requires a clear understanding of what accountability means for partnerships and which mechanisms can be used to strengthen it. Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships develops a new model of accountabi…
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- 9780230290617
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- xiii, 264p. : ill.
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- 352.34 STE a
Climate change and poverty
Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution.
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- 9781447300878
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- 304.25 FIT c
European e-democracy in practice
This open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyzing selected representative e-participation projects at the local, national and European governmental levels, it identifies the preconditions, best practices and shortcomings of e-participation practices in connection…
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- 9783030271848
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- xi, 359p. : ill.
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- 323.042094 EUR e
In Search of Social Democracy
Focusing on the social democratic heartland of Western Europe, In search of social democracy gives the first detailed assessment of how the new social democratic revisionism has fared in government. The book begins by considering the causes of the end of social democracy’s golden age and the magnitude of the challenges faced by social democratic parties after the 1970s. It then examines detai…
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- 9781526125095
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- 320.5315 CAL s
The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in Sou…
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of th…
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- 9780801452024
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- XX, 250 p.
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- Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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- 379.24095482 COD l
Theories of social capital
Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept. Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social the…
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- 9781849644426
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- 302 FIN t
Student politics in Africa : representation and activism
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and…
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- 9781928331223
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- xii, 267p. : ill.
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- 370.96 STU s
Islam, politics and change : the Indonesian experience after the fall of Suharto
After violent protests all over the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy. In this book Indonesian scholars attached to Islamic universities and Dutch researchers investigate what happened since and what the consequences are of the growing influence of orthodoxy and radicalism, which alrea…
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- 9789087282387
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- 333p. : ill.
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- 320.959804 ISL i
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