IntroductionMichael ButterPart I: Case Studies1. Makers versus Getters: Productivism in Henry Ford⁰́₉s The International JewAdam John Koper 2. Anticommunism and Conspiracy Myths in Brazil: From the 1937 ⁰́₋Cohen Plan⁰́₊ to the Bolsonarist ⁰́₋Red Menace⁰́₊Rodrigo Patto S©Ł Motta3. The Weaponization of Conspiracy TheoriesEirikur Bergmann4. Populism and Conspiracism in C…
Part 1. The state of democracy -- Part 2. Elections, parties and candidates -- Part 3. Campaigning.
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 …
Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the …
This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a non-Western theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global South,” could release international relations from the grip of a Western, “Westphalian” model. This book argues that a Buddhist approach to international relations could provide a genuine alternative. Because o…
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration…
This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important changes and challenges that have affected Swiss democracy, including the country's relationship …
This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of social and economic citizenship rights in a market-centered context, and the increasing popularity of cash transfer as an instru…