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Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes
Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes. Even though their introduction rarely leads to a change in power, such elections should not be regarded as mere window-dressing. She argues that competitive elections are installed to deal with a split among the incumbent elite and to facilitate the formation of a new rulin…
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- 978-3-658-09510-9
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- XII, 148
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- Studien zur Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
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Multi-Level Governance in Universities:Strategy, Structure, Control
Governing universities is a multi-level as well as a highly paradoxical endeavor. The featured studies in this book examine critically the multifaceted repercussions of changing governance logics and show how contradictory demands for scholarly peer control, market responsiveness, public policy control, and democratization create governance paradoxes. While a large body of academic literature h…
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- 978-3-319-32676-4
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- XI, 256
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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The Teaching Profession Present and Future
This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and national reports on its status, as well as on reforms of various education systems. It proposes a global approach to the quality of the teaching profession as a decisive ingredient of education quality, including a conception of its identity and a vision of its future. Moreover, it is suggested that …
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- 978-3-319-12130-7
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The Sub-national Dimension of the EU A Legal Study of Multilevel Governance
This book is the first monograph-form legal study on multilevel governance in the EU and represents a radical change in the approach to this topic. Particularly after the Treaty of Lisbon’s entry into force, research on multilevel governance can no longer remain confined to the analysis of political dynamics or of soft law arrangements. Multilevel governance emerges as a constitutional princi…
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- 978-3-319-14589-1
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The State as an Actor in Religion Policy Policy Cycle and Governance Perspec…
Maria Grazia Martino and her contributing authors highlight the different solutions found by European countries with different ecclesiastical law systems, different distributions of Christian denominations and different percentages of Muslim immigrants: Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Italy and Greece. Churches and religious communities are actors from civil society. The state sets the fr…
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- 978-3-658-06945-2
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Migration, Regionalization, Citizenship
From the perspectives of the political sciences as well as literature and language studies, this volume looks comparatively at Canadian and European constellations of cultural and linguistic diversity. By so doing, it takes Canada as exemplary for the effects of transnationalization, regionalization, and cultural and linguistic diversification on notions of citizenship and processes of identity…
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- 978-3-658-06582-9
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- VII, 270
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- Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks
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The Role of Sport in Health-Related Promotion of Physical Activity
Enrico Michelini illustrates that sport plays a very marginal role in the contemporary health promotion. This is the main result of the present analysis of national strategies for the promotion of physical activity issued by the health ministries of France, Germany, and Italy. All these health-strategies are rather ambiguous on this subject: They mention sport systematically as an abstract term…
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- 978-3-658-08188-1
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Mergers in Higher Education
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at sheddin…
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- 978-3-319-21917-2
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- XII, 236
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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Methods and Modalities of Effective School Inspections
This book provides an overview and discussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles and responsibilities of Inspectorates of Education. Chapters include findings from systematic literature reviews and primary research whi…
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- 978-3-319-31001-5
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- IX, 179
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- Accountability and Educational Improvement
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The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization
This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress and regression, those that have regressed into dictatorship, and those that are currently i…
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- 978-3-319-18383-1
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