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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
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies : A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Di…
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030820725
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- XXIX, 336
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- 658.4012 Tow
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
A cultural approach to populism
This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural per-spective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies.Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds …
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- 9781003267539
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- ix + 128 p
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- 320.5662 AUC j
Feeling Political : Emotions and institutions since 1789
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030898588
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- XIX, 390
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- 320.019 Fre
New perspectives in critical data studies : the ambivalences of data power
This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Secondly, the book examines ambivalences …
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- 9783030961800
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- xxv + 473
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- 303.483 NEW n
Understanding energy innovation : learning from smart grid experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
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- 9789811662539
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- XI, 101 p
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- -
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- 621.31 HEA u
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