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  • IV Foro internacional de mujeres contra la Corrupción

    Parte 3

    El IV Foro – octubre 2016 –hizo hincapié en el pasaje del diagnóstico a la acción:- cómo evitar que la corrupción siga matando a mujeres a través del incumplimiento de políticas públicas.- cómo incorporar la perspectiva de género en la confección de los presupuestos nacionales, provinciales y locales.- cómo lograr que el sistema judicial provea de defensores de excelencia a las víctimas de ... Read more

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  • Global Warming, Politics, and the Media

    by David Roberts ...
    Series Book 1 - National Climate Seminar
    On September 21, 2011, David Roberts participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate change. The series also opens a public conversation, inviting participants to ask questions and ... Read more

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  • L’électricité et les pouvoirs locaux en France (1880–1980)

    Une autre histoire du service public

    Series Book 10 - Histoire de l’énergie/History of Energy
    L’électricité, un service public jacobin ? À rebours des idées reçues, cet ouvrage montre le rôle joué par les pouvoirs locaux dans la construction de ce qui est devenu un pilier de l’État-Providence en France, au XXe siècle. Cette influence, peu abordée dans l’historiographie, doit être mise en regard avec les origines du secteur électrique : un système sociotechnique ancré et organisé au niveau ... Read more

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  • “We’ll Fight ‘Em To The finish !” The Battle For Nannygoat Hill: Australia’s First Campaign To Save Urban Bushland

    by Justin Cahill ...
    Nannygoat Hill stands in the Wolli Valley, about 10km from Sydney’s central business district. One of the few surviving remnants of the City’s natural environment, it supports a wide range of native plants and animals and is a much-loved local ‘beauty spot’. In 1967, Brambles Industrial Services planned to quarry the Hill and use it as road fill. What followed was Australia’s earliest known ... Read more

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  • The Gamble: The Hand You're Dealt

    This is the first of a series of free ebook preview chapters--scheduled to be released between August and December 2012--from a groundbreaking book in progress about the 2012 U.S. presidential election. What are the odds that Barack Obama will be reelected in November, despite a weak economy? Many answers to this question are backed by little more than speculation and spin. But what does current ... Read more

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  • A plan for Internet use by Local Governments in Pakistan

    Series series Local Government
    Government offices take a long time in adopting new technologies. Many offices had not yet started using even typewriters when personal computers became available. The development of Urdu software took still more time. In recent years, more and more Local Governments are using Internet and email service, while some districts have set up their web sites. The trend will continue as awareness of the ... Read more

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  • Skeletal Life

    ProfileI live in a foreston an island in GreeceI have nothing worth anythingin this tent that I live inI get fed by peoplewhom I call friendsthis is a lifeI never intendedit just happened to beon the same path as meas I try to understandall the unintended thingsthat has brought meto this pointat this timein this lifethat I live ... 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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  • 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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  • Election Night: 1960

    Election Night: 1960 by Stephen Battaglio is a fascinating and revealing look at the 1960 political contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon through the lens of NBC News.Drawing from the extensive NBC archives, Battaglio presents the drama and results by selecting a number of the most memorable moments of the evening, including Nixons premature concession and Kennedys victory speech. Also ... 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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  • Democratización y cambio político en México: procesos y actores (1988-2000)

    La selección de textos que presentamos en esta antología pretende ofrecer un panorama del proceso de democratización en México y algunos de los cambios ocurridos a partir de la elección crítica de 1988. Nos centramos en rastrear los antecedentes de la llegada de Carlos Salinas a la presidencia de la República, para luego analizar lo que sucedió durante su administración y la profunda ... Read more

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  • Avaliação em saúde

    dos modelos teóricos à prática na avaliação de programas e sistemas de saúde

    Coletânea que vem preencher uma lacuna importante no âmbito dos programas voltados para o controle dos processos endêmicos. Ela cumpre três objetivos principais: pensar o papel social da avaliação; discutir os problemas envolvidos na aproximação da teoria à ação no processo avaliativo; e colaborar com a prática de profissionais em avaliação no desenvolvimento de projetos ou planos de avaliação com ... Read more

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  • Os eleitos

    representação e carreiras políticas em democracias

    Este livro é produto de uma agenda de investigações que um conjunto de pesquisadores de diferentes instituições e perspectivas metodológicas tem procurado enfrentar, ao longo dos últimos anos. Como alguém torna-se um profissional da política? Que trajetórias são percorridas por um aspirante a uma carreira política, até a conquista de postos públicos? Que atributos ou recursos são ... Read more

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  • Place Branding and Marketing from a Policy Perspective

    Building Effective Strategies for Places

    Series series Routledge Studies in Marketing
    As part of an emerging literature on place branding, this book fills the important gap between practice-oriented literature—which lacks in-depth and critical analysis—and technical academic literature—which tends to miss down-to-earth practitioners' concerns and to overlook policy and political contexts. Providing frameworks and knowledge on how to practice place branding effectively, this book ... 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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  • Plains of Bolivia and Lake Titicaca

    The main object of this project is the territory, already in the Amazonian slope, that forms the high part of the Madeira river basin. Here the rainfall is sufficient for the dry land cultivation, the vegetation does not usually have much power and its colonization is within the possible. They are the Plains of Mojos, horizontal alluvial plain between the Andes and the Brazilian archaic massif, ... Read more

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  • Truth Chronicle - The World Belongs to Musk!

    The Truth Chronicles, #1

    by Robert Knotts ...
    Series Book 1 - The Truth Chronicles
    Q: How do you survive in a world of disinformation?A: You chronicle the truth.Welcome to the post-truth world!In this age of disinformation, it is important to document the travesties of the oligarchs and puppet masters; the "Powers That Be".This monthly publication is salty.It's for adults ONLY!If you can't handle tough questions (hint: you are a snowflake) you will not like this periodical.Left, ... Read more

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  • A New Dark Age?

    -Reviews Appreciated-Are we on the cusp of another dark age, in comparison to where we currently stand?The following does not even include the current strains and situations placed upon the world systems and networks of the economic, environmental, trade, food, and medical distribution. And differing positive and negative separates movements. Nor does it consider the instruction of the younger ... Read more

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  • Le graffiti pour sauver des vies

    L’art s’engage contre le coronavirus au Sénégal

    En pleine pandémie du coronavirus, l’ouvrage Le Graffiti pour sauver des vies, richement illustré, montre comment l’art urbain s’engage dans la lutte contre le virus.Depuis plusieurs semaines, les artistes graffeurs des collectifs RBS Crew, Undu graffiti et Doxandem Squad utilisent leur art pour lutter contre la propagation du coronavirus au Sénégal. Partout dans Dakar et ailleurs, des graffitis ... Read more

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  • From Colonialism to International Aid

    External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South

    Edited by Carina Schmitt ...
    Series series Global Dynamics of Social Policy
    This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and contemporary donor agencies.Following an introduction to the analysis of external actors in social policy making in the Global South, the contributions explore which external ... Read more

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  • Stuttgart 21 - eine Rekonstruktion der Proteste

    Soziale Bewegungen in Zeiten der Postdemokratie

    Series Book 3 - Soziale Bewegung und Protest
    Die Konflikte um das Großprojekt »Stuttgart 21« verdeutlichen exemplarisch, wie Protestbewegungen das postdemokratische Zusammenspiel von Staat und Wirtschaft herausfordern. Bürgerbeteiligung und Kostentransparenz sind seither nahezu obligatorisch, dabei hat die Bewegung gegen »S21« ihr eigentliches Ziel, das Bahn- und Immobilienprojekt zu stoppen, verfehlt, trotz scheinbar positiver Ausgangslage. ... Read more

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  • America's Disenfranchised

    Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy

    by Desmond Meade ...
    Series series Brown Democracy Medal
    The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.Voting is foundational in a democracy, yet over six million American citizens remain stripped of their ability to participate in elections ... Read more

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  • Research Assessment in the Humanities

    Towards Criteria and Procedures

    This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for ... Read more

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