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Social democractic parties and the working class : new voting patterns
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on mul…
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- 9783030462390
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- 324.2174 REN s
Why international organizations hate politics : depoliticizing the world
Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO everyday activities while allowing them to remain engaged in politics, even when they pretend not to. Delving into the inner dynamics of global governance, this book develops an analytical framework on why I…
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- 9780429466984
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- xx + 202 p
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- 341.2 LOU w
The new politics of numbers : utopia, evidence and democracy
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
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- 9783030782016
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- XXVII, 497 p
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- 320.0723 AND t
Islam and the trajectory of globalization : rational idealism and the structu…
The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and national exclusivism, such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and national populism. In exploring issues relating to tensions and conflicts around globalization, the book iden…
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- 9781003203360
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- xii + 322 p
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- 322.1 LOU i
Judicial law-making in European constitutional courts
This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined. The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; an…
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- 9781003022442
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- viii + 269 p
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- 347.40352 JUD j
Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practic…
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- 9781003045663
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- xx + 349 p
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- 948.02 SEM n
Athlete activism : contemporary perspectives
This book examines the phenomenon of athlete activism across all levels of sport, from elite and international sport, to collegiate and semi-pro, and asks what this tells us about the relationship between sport and wider society.With contributions from scholars around the world, the book presents a series of fascinating case studies, including the activism of world-famous athletes such as Sere…
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- 9781003140290
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- xv + 206 p
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- 796.092 MAG a
Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…
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- 9781003111474
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- 308 p.
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- 507.105 KNO k
Young people as agents of sustainable society : reclaiming the future
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. …
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- 9781003345114
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- 258 p.
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- 304.2 YOU y
Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decoloni…
This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly wh…
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- 9783319530796
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- xvi, 223p.
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- 305.8001 DEI r
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