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Political Reform Reconsidered
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the role of ideas in shaping their goals and outcomes. For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble, politicians, business people and academics tackled a range of institutional reforms. The sweeping changes they enacted—covering almost…
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- 978-981-19-9432-6
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- XVIII, 215
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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
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- 9783030191863
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- XXIV, 366 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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The Ethical Spirit of EU Law
This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the more important because EU law is now affecting more and more areas of national law, including such sensitive ones as the patentability of human life. Especially when une…
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- 9783030105822
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- XIX, 157 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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The Resilience of the Hungarian Legal System since 2010 : A Failed Resilience?
This open access book explains the factors that cause the poor functioning or failure of certain legal institutions or the success of others in the current Hungarian legal system after the 2010 transition from liberal to illiberal/populist democracy. The authors argue in most regulatory areas that reform is needed in lawmaking or in the application and practice of law, because there are systemi…
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- 9783031704512
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- VIII, 240 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Modernising European Legal Education (MELE) : Innovative Strategies to Addres…
This open access book presents innovative strategies to address cross-cutting topics and foster transversal competences. The modernization of European legal education presents a compelling challenge that calls for enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration among academic disciplines and innovative teaching methods. The volume introduces venues towards education innovation and engages with complex…
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- 9783031408014
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- VIII, 303 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Lived Institutions as History of Experience
This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people’s everyday lives? Histories of institutions have mainly focused on the structures and power relations produced by institutional settings. Likew…
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- 9783031389566
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- XVII, 353 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State
This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state, the collection introduces theoretical, methodological and empirical insights for bridging the everyday life and institutional structures. The chapters analyze how the welfare state as a particular individual-society relationship has become …
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- 9783031216633
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- XX, 379 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 9783030921408
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- XIII, 305 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000
This open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions. It revolves around the following questions: What kinds of experiences have engendered national mobilization and feelings of national belonging? How have political and societal conflicts tu…
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- 9783030698829
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- XXI, 392 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the princ…
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- 9783030047238
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- X, 365 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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