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  • Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field

    This open access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven countries within the framework of ‘Authoritarianism in a Global Age’, a major comparative research project. It responds to the demand for increased attention to methodological rigor and transparency in qualitative research, and seeks to advance and practically support field research in authoritarian ... Read more

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  • Vierzig Jahre »Überwachen und Strafen«

    Zur Aktualität der Foucault'schen Machtanalyse

    Edited by Marc Rölli, Roberto Nigro ...
    Series series Edition Moderne Postmoderne
    Mit »Überwachen und Strafen« hat Michel Foucault vor 40 Jahren ein Buch veröffentlicht, das die gängigen Vorbegriffe des Machtdenkens - und damit der politischen Theorie und des Befreiungsdiskurses - durcheinander gewirbelt hat. Der Band geht der Frage nach, wie die aktuellen Machtverhältnisse beschaffen sind, die »uns« (wen genau?) in ihrem Bann halten. Welche Aktualität besitzen die Analysen der ... Read more

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  • The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland

    Governing Activation at the Street-Level

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland. It offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role ... Read more

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  • Why Liberty: Your Life, Your Choices, Your Future

    by Tom Palmer ...
    "Libertarianism is hot."--The Washington PostThe ideas presented in this book are about an alternative view of politics: a politics, not of force, but of persuasion, of live-and-let-live, of rejecting both subjugation and domination.The essays are mainly written by younger people who are active in the Students For Liberty, a very dynamic and exciting international movement. They offer an ... Read more

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  • Breve historia del liberalismo. Desde Jerusalen hasta Buenos Aires

    by Jorge Klusen ...
    Dos mil años de historia liberal, desde Jerusalén -en época de Jesús-, hasta nuestros días en Buenos Aires, Argentina. El origen del liberalismo más allá de lo que solemos pensar o creer históricamente liberal. Se revén hechos históricos muy conocidos por todos pero mirados desde el filtro del liberalismo y cómo éste ha empujado o acomodado los resultados a sus intereses.La diáspora judeo ... Read more

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  • Decolonising Political Concepts

    Series series Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
    This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive translations into practices.Despite the acclaimed twentieth-century decolonisation waves, coloniality still remains in subtle and obvious practices, in visible and invisible ... Read more

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  • Against Corruption: A book of essays

    by David Cameron ...
    Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.Foreword by David Cameron, Prime ... Read more

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  • Taming the Big Green Elephant

    Setting in Motion the Transformation Towards Sustainability

    Series series Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
    In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the system to adapt to changes. However, shifting entails transition costs that are accrued through the effects of lock-ins that have framed ... Read more

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  • Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans

    The Lure of the Local Film Economy

    by Vicki Mayer ...
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of ... Read more

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  • Die Entwicklung der kurdischen Freiheitsbewegung

    Gesammelte Texte zur Einführung in Geschichte und Gegenwart

    Joost Jongerden und Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya werfen in diesem Sammelband einen gründlichen und keinesfalls unkritischen Blick auf das politische Projekt der Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans, der PKK. Ganz im Gegensatz zur Untersuchung der kurdischen Frage in der Türkei, die schon lange in großem Umfang stattfindet, sind Forschungen zu den kurdischen Organisationen rar. Insbesondere dem Politikverständnis der ... Read more

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  • Qué hacemos con los impuestos

    Series series Qué hacemos
    ¿Qué hacemos por una fiscalidad justa y suficiente, que acabe con el fraude y la elusión en el pago de los impuestos? El discurso oficial de la crisis insiste en que España tiene un problema de gasto público, que necesita ser recortado. ¿Por qué no se pone el mismo énfasis en el otro plato de la balanza: los ingresos? El sistema fiscal español, sin haber conseguido nunca ser un sistema justo, ... Read more

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  • Trust(ing) in Europe?

    How increased social capital can contribute to economic development

    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    This report surveys recent works in political economy showing that trust—and civic capital more generally—matter for various aspects of economic well-being and presents new evidence from European countries showing that trust has deteriorated considerably in those European countries that have been affected the most by the ongoing economic downturn. We also discuss policy recommendations. The key ... Read more

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  • Flex Cop: A Police Officer's Creative Approach to Conflict

    by Mark Andreas ...
    In this unusual booklet, a former Cincinnati police officer with a 30-year police career, details his experience of using totally outside-the-box approaches to managing and resolving conflict. While working on the Cincinnati police force, Mr. Gardner was given responsibility for the most volatile cases because he developed such effective—though unconventional—ways of dealing with these dangerous ... Read more

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  • Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War

    Series Book 33 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as ... Read more

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  • Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Ethics
    This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the implications for law and regulation. The five chapters examine the main forms of contemporary biometrics–fingerprint recognition, facial recognition and DNA identification– as well ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma

    Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience

    Edited by Abbas Rajabifard ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**Large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, and between countries, affects sustainable development at local, national, and regional levels. To strengthen urban and rural resilience to global ... Read more

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  • Ecological Democracy

    Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene

    by Odin Lysaker ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Ecological Democracy offers an original, thought-provoking, and engaging treatment of why and how democracy should be re-imagined in reaction to today’s ecological crisis. The book explains that one need to re-imagine both the view on nature and democratic ideals within the same framework in the Anthropocene, the present geological epoch of human-made instability in the Earth system and its ... Read more

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  • Fading Paradise

    by CD Moulton ...
    This is a warning to those who would invest in Panama´. Take the greatest care. Join in trying to have the president crack down hard on scams. This is a great country with a terrible worldwide reputation because the corruption and badly thought-out laws favor crooks over victims. This president has the strength and ability to make changes, but will he? ... Read more

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  • And Satan Came Also

    by Albert McRill ...
    "And Satan Came Also" is the classic history of vice and corruption in early Oklahoma City. Written in 1956 by former city manager McRill, the book is as much a city legend as the stories contained in it. Originally published in 1956 and republished in annotated form in 2013, this is the first edition available as an ebook. ... Read more

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  • O que é Violência Política contra a Mulher?

    "O que é Violência Política contra a Mulher" pretende discutir a baixa representatividade de mulheres em posição de poder e os vários desafios que as candidatas precisam encarar antes, durante e depois do pleito, no exercício de seu mandato.De forma didática e direta, a publicação traz orientações sobre a importância de uma maior participação de mulheres na política e sobre o que pode caracterizar ... Read more

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  • Institutions of Hanseatic Trade

    Studies on the Political Economy of a Medieval Network Organisation

    The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants’ commercial exchange by reputation, trust and culture. The institutional economics approach also allows for a ... Read more

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  • Cyber Security Politics

    Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation

    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual settings, ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History

    This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that ... Read more

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  • Choosing Between Current Leaderships

    It seems to me, we politically, are being driven to choose between Corruption and Incompetence or Weakness and Cluelessness.Vote anyway – USE IT OR YOU WILL LOSE IT! ... Read more

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