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  • Scenes and Communities in the City

    This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept ... Read more

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  • Progettare il domani

    Riflessioni per un modello di dibattito pubblico

    Una riflessione in merito al tema del dibattito pubblico sulle grandi opere, con alcuni spunti metodologici per migliorare i processi di coinvolgimento degli stakeholder, garantire la trasparenza del confronto, rendere più oggettivi possibile i processi decisionali e più rendicontabile il percorso. La ripresa economica post Covid è una sfida per l’Italia ma anche una grande occasione per ... Read more

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  • Europe in the International Order

    Series Book 20 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    The subject of this work is the rise and fall of Europe’s aim to rebuild its position in global politics after the Cold War. With success in the unification of Europe and the subsequent deepening and enlargement of its integration, the Union set itself the ambitious task of becoming a global power, even a superpower.However, starting with the first decade of the XXI century, we have witnessed a ... Read more

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  • 21 Machetes

    by John Geesman ...
    Take one of America's largest utilities...a delusional, error-prone CEO...a $46.5 million war chest filched from customers...California's squalid, pay-to-play ballot initiative process...what results? Hubris, overreach and venality upended by truthiness. Over-torqued battlefield dispatches create a fast-paced nonfiction novella -- a bugle call to that silent army of citizen optimists everywhere. ... Read more

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  • O Ministério Público Federal e a administração da justiça no Brasil

    [...] Este trabalho [pretende] apenas elaborar uma reflexão sobre algumas questões atuais, esperando que sirva como ponto de partida para novas análises, tanto por parte dos integrantes do Ministério Público como por todos aqueles que se interessam em aprimorar o sistema de justiça do país. ... Read more

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  • Commitment to Equity Handbook

    Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty

    Edited by Nora Lustig ...
    Edited by Nora Lustig, the Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (Brookings Institution Press and CEQ Institute-Tulane University, 2nd edition, 2022) is a unique manual on the theory and practical methods to estimate the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty. In addition, the second edition covers frontier topics ... Read more

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  • Comparative Renewables Policy

    Political, Organizational and European Fields

    Series series Routledge Studies on the Governance of Sustainability in Europe
    Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development.The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in isolation. It provides empirically rich and systematically conducted comparative case studies on the ... Read more

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  • Dekoloniale politische Bildung

    Eine empirische Untersuchung von Lernendenvorstellungen zum postkolonialen Erbe

    Series series Bürgerbewusstsein
    In diesem Open-Access-Buch setzt sich Malte Kleinschmidt mit der Frage auseinander, wie politische Bildung zu einer Dekolonisierung beitragen kann. Nicht erst durch die Auseinandersetzungen um Black Lives Matter wird deutlich, dass Rassismus und Kolonialität nicht als Phänomene der Vergangenheit abgetan werden können. Anhand von der Analyse von 44 Interviews mit Schüler_innen von 9. Klassen an ... Read more

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  • Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research
    This open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored in public health scholarship. Bringing together academics and researchers working at the intersection of both, the book ... Read more

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  • The Independent Variable Problem

    Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept

    Series series Sozialstrukturanalyse
    This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable.To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some important ... Read more

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  • Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences

    The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Migration

    by Ermira Danaj ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in ... Read more

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  • The Truman White House

    The Administration of the Presidency 1945-1953

    Edited by Frances H. Heller ...
    This retrospective study brings together twenty-two key associates of President Truman’s to consider the administrative operation of the presidency from 1945 to 1953. A record of the discussions that took place at the conference held in May 1977 sponsored by the Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and international Affairs, it presents an assortment of views on Truman’s administrative ... Read more

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  • Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education

    Now What?

    Series series Political Pedagogies
    This open access book is a nuanced introduction to Forced Migration Studies and a toolkit for faculty and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on community-engaged learning. Experts from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and experimental sciences offer interdisciplinary perspectives to translate critical analysis into concrete action. The collection highlights activists, artists, ... Read more

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  • European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order

    European Strategic Autonomy Through Differentiated Integration

    Series series The European Union in International Affairs
    This is an open access book. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. However, the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Qatar

    Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives

    Series Book 9 - Gulf Studies
    This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water ... Read more

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • Data Governance and Policy in Africa

    Series series Information Technology and Global Governance
    This open access book examines data governance and its implications for policymaking in Africa. Bringing together economists, lawyers, statisticians, and technology experts, it assesses gaps in both the availability and use of existing data across the continent, and argues that data creation, management and governance need to improve if private and public sectors are to reap the benefits of big ... Read more

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  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • 50 Key Questions Only We The People Can Answer

    Series Book 9 - Write A Book A Week Challenge
    Stanley Bronstein believes the America our founding fathers helped create in the 18th century is in very serious trouble. If America continues on its present course of action it cannot survive.Despite that dire prediction, Stanley Bronstein believes there is hope; that it is not too late.In Part I of this book, Stanley lays out thirteen truths (one for each of the colonies) about America that he ... Read more

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  • Preventing Mass Human-Rights Violations and Atrocity Crimes

    Series Book 42 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    The problem of preventing mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes is one of the key issues in international relations. The book presents the capacity of the international community in the field. The available instruments of early warning, preventive diplomacy as well as legal, economic, and military measures of prevention are included. Cases of Chechnya, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire and Libya ... Read more

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  • As relações públicas e a educação corporativa

    uma interface possível

    Esta obra trata da educação e, em especial, da educação corporativa e seus desdobramentos na cultura organizacional e nas próprias correntes de educação aplicadas ao meio corporativo. ... Read more

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  • Corruption in a Global Context

    Restoring Public Trust, Integrity, and Accountability

    This book provides an important survey of the causes and current state of corruption across a range of nations and regions. Delving into the diverse ways in which corruption is being combatted, the book explores and describes efforts to inculcate principles of ethical conduct in citizens, private sector actors and public sector personnel and institutions.Corruption is a global condition that ... Read more

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  • Between Mobility and Migration

    The Multi-Level Governance of Intra-European Movement

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book offers a critical perspective on intra-European mobility and migration by using new empirical data and theoretical discussions. It develops a theoretical and empirical analysis of the consequences of intra-European movement for sending and receiving urban regions in The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Turkey, Poland and Czech Republic.The book conceptualizes Central and Eastern ... Read more

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  • Wellbeing and Devolution

    Reframing the Role of Government in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

    Series series Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
    It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. At different times and for different reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach – codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This open ... Read more

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