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Fragility, Aid, and State-building: Understanding Diverse Trajectories
Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more res…
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State-sponsored disinformation around the globe: how politicians deceive thei…
Introduction : deceiving from the top : state-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon / Martin Echeverría and Sara García Santamaría -- Theoretical understanding of state-sponsored disinformation / Petros Iosifidis -- Rethinking disinformation for the global South : towards a particular research agenda / Grisel Salazar Rebolledo -- Statistics and state-sponsored disin…
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Political behaviour in contemporary Finland: studies of voting and campaignin…
Part 1. The state of democracy -- Part 2. Elections, parties and candidates -- Part 3. Campaigning.
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- 9781003452287
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Parliaments in the late Russian Empire, revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet …
Representation of the people : the making of the State Duma, 1905-1907 -- Legislative chambers : the State Duma and the State Council, 1907-1917 -- A parliamentary revolution : postimperial assemblies, 1917-1918 -- An antiparliamentary revolution : the RSFSR Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee, 1918-1922 -- An alternative to parliament : the USSR Congress of Soviets and the …
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- 9781003431794
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Technology Assessment in a Globalized World
This open access book explores the relevance of the concept of technology assessment (TA) on an international and global level. Technologies play a key role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, population aging, digitization, and health. At the same time, their use increases the need for coordinated action and governance at the global level in the field of science, technology…
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- XIII, 271
Open Government
Dieses Buch – eine Open-Access-Publikation mit freiem Online-Zugang – bietet Führungskräften und Mitarbeitenden im öffentlichen Sektor sowie Studierenden eine ebenso kompakte wie kompetente Einführung in die wesentlichen Aspekte von Open Government. Das Konzept Open Government (offenes Regierungs- und Verwaltungshandeln) beschreibt einen Kulturwandel von Politik und Verwaltung hin zu …
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- 978-3-658-36795-4
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Public Policy and Research in Africa
This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions…
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- 978-3-030-99724-3
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- XIII, 278
Länderbericht zum Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey 2019
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bringt die Daten des Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys 2019 für einen Vergleich der Bundesländer Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein und Thüringen zusammen. Der Freiwilligensurvey wurde 2019 zum fünften Mal im Au…
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- 978-3-658-38659-7
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- Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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- XXXIX, 358
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- IX, 369
Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial…
This volume assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (EC…
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