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Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Justice, Gender and the Politics of Multiculturalism explores the tensions that arise when culturally diverse democratic states pursue both justice...
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Democratic Politics in the European Parliament
With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional...
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Political Constitutionalism
Judicial review by constitutional courts is often presented as a necessary supplement to democracy. This book questions its effectiveness and...
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The Architecture of Government
Since the days of Montesquieu and Jefferson, political decentralization has been seen as a force for better government and economic performance. It...
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Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances
Where do political identities come from, how do they change over time, and what is their impact on political life? This book explores these and...
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Civilizing Security
Security has become a defining feature of contemporary public discourse, permeating the so-called \'war on terror\', problems of everyday crime and...
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Fungerande globalisering
Joseph E. Stiglitz, nobelpristagare i ekonomi, diskuterar i den här boken vad som kan göras för att globaliseringen ska fungera, för att den ska...
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Bildningens förvandlingar
Bildning förknippas både med en process och ett mål. Betoningen kan ligga på processen, att man »bildas», eller på målet, det resultat som...
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The European Court and Civil Society
The European Union today stands on the brink of radical institutional and constitutional change. The most recent enlargement and proposed legal...
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The Balance of Power in International Relations
The balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations for the past five hundred years. It has also...
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Small Arms Survey 2007
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves...
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The Art of Shrinking Heads
After the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: this time it is...
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Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control...
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Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
As Europe enters a significant phase of re-integration of East and West, it faces an increasing problem with the rise of far-right political parties....
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International Institutions and Socialization in Europe
Since the path-breaking work of Karl Deutsch on security communities and Ernst Haas on European integration, it has been clear that international...
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The Violence of Participation
Contributions by Shumon Basar, Ute Meta Bauer, Celine Condorelli, Erhard Eppler, Nikolaus Hirsch, Rem Koolhaas, Stéphanie Moisdon, Ingo Niermann,...
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Public Relations and the Press
We are living in what one author describes as "highly promotional times." Governments and corporations, nonprofits and special interest...
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Of Death and Dominion
Death is the opposite not of life, but of power. And as such, Mohammed Bamyeh argues in this original work, death has had a great and largely...
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The Majangir
The Majangir live on the thickly forested slopes of the south-western edge of the Ethiopian plateau, between the Anuak of the plains and the Galla of...
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Inequality Among Brothers
Using historical documents and evidence gathered in the field, Rubie Watson provides a social history of the 600-year-old Chinese lineage village of...
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Max Weber’s Politics of Civil Society
This book is an in-depth interpretation of Max Weber as a political theorist of civil society. On the one hand, it reads Weber’s ideas from the...
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The Powers of the Union
The Powers of the Union develops and tests a new theory of centralization and bureaucratization in the European Union. Using original data spanning...
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The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35,000 square miles and...
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Advances in Economics and Econometrics
This is the second of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and a commentary presented at invited symposium sessions of the Ninth World...
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