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Rationality of Irrationality : Political Determinants and Effects of Party Po…
Citizens in democracies complain that political parties’ positions on major issues are too ambiguous for them to confidently understand. Why is party position ambiguity so common? Are party positions ambiguous because political parties fail in forming clear policies or because they deliberately blur their positions? Rationality of Irrationality argues that political parties are motivated to s…
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- 9780472902910
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- xiii, 245 p. ill;
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- 324.2 RAT K
The advisory roles of political scientists in Europe : comparing engagements …
This open access book centres on the advisory roles of political scientists in Europe. Based on a cross-national survey, the book offers a comparative analysis of the viewpoints and activities of university-based political scientists on external engagement. Political scientists in Europe appear more extrovert as academics than sometimes thought. In their professional functioning they engage in …
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- 9
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- 9783030860059
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- xxx; 421p;
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- 320.6094 ADV M
Logics Of War; Explanations For Limited And Unlimited Conflicts
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation’s decision to go to wa…
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- 9780801468179
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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The development of political institutions : power, legitimacy, democracy
While the literature on “new institutionalism” explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara takes a “historical institutionalist” approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change in explaining the develop…
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- edision 7
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- 9780472132836
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- 217 p.
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- 320.11. THE f
Shakespeare and the fall of the roman republic selfhood, stoicism and civil war
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare’s place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of me…
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- 21
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- 9781474427487
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- xi. :321 p. :ill.
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- 822.33. SHA p
Veiled threats : representing 'the Muslim woman' in UK public policy discourses
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism.
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- 9781447325192
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- xiii, 218p.
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- 305.486970941 RAS v
Democratic multiplicity : perceiving, enacting and integrating democratic div…
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differen…
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- 9781009178372
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- xxi, 426p.
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- 321.8 DEM e
Feminist IR in Europe : knowledge production in academic institutions
The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a wealth of excellent scholarship, while also focusing on the politics of location and the international political economy of feminist knowledge production. Who are some of the central feminist scholars located in Europe…
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- -
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- 9783030919993
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- ix, 174 p.
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- -
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- 327.0704 STE f
Paternalism to partnership : the administration of Indian affairs, 1786-2021
Paternalism to Partnership examines the administration of Indian affairs from 1786, when the first federal administrator was appointed, through 2021. David H. DeJong examines each administrator through a biographical sketch and excerpts of policy statements defining the administrator’s political philosophy, drawn from official reports or the administrator’s own writings. The Indian Offic…
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- 9781496230584
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- xvii, 476 p.
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- -
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- 323.1197 DEJ p
Imperial incarceration : detention without trial in the making of British col…
For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who stood in the way of imperial expansion. Such conduct raised difficult questions about Britain's …
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- -
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- 9781009004848
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- xii, 450p.
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- Studies in legal history
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- 345.960231 LOB i
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