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The Quest to Cyber Superiority
Further, the book demonstrates how a nation’s technological advancement may not necessarily lead to cyber-superiority. It covers cybersecurity issues with regard to conflicts that shape relationships between major economies, and explains how attempts to secure the cyber domain have been hampered by the lack of an international consensus on key issues and concepts. The book also reveals how so…
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- 978-3-319-40554-4
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- XXIV, 240
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The Quest for Good Urban Governance
This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe, and Asia. It presents a value menu and deliberately does not come up with “one best way” for improving urban governance. Good urban governance is presented as a balancing act, an interplay between government, business and civil society in whi…
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- 978-3-658-10079-7
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- X, 242
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- Urban and Regional Research International
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The Humanitarian Challenge
This book includes contributions from academics, practitioners and policy-makers connected with the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), an international association of universities that is committed to interdisciplinary education and research on humanitarian action. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of NOHA, this book highlights some of the most pressing issues and challenges facing hum…
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- 978-3-319-13470-3
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- XII, 286,2 illustrations in colour
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- The Humanitarian Challenge
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Politics, Power, and Purpose : An Orientation to Political Science
This textbook is intended to orient students to the study of politics and the discipline of political science. By the end of this course, students will gain comprehensive understanding of political behavior, political institutions, and normative ideas of political theory.
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- 320 STE p
Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data: The Role of Twitte…
This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions. The author investigates the data-generating processes leading users to interact with digital services in politically relevant contexts. These interactions produce digital traces, which in turn can be analyzed to dra…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-20319-5
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- XXI, 220
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- 353.008 JUN a
The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform
Brazil is renowned worldwide for its remarkable reforms in pharmaceutical regulation, which have enhanced access to essential medicines while lowering drug costs. This book innovates by analysing the generic drug reform in Brazil, demonstrating that pharmaceutical regulation is only partially influenced by non-state actors. Little is known about the institutional antecedents and policy process…
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- 978-3-319-12565-7
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- XII, 117
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management
In the opening chapter, the authors describe the influences of politics and the power relationships between actors involved in decision-making in contaminated sites management, which they term a “wicked problem.” Chapter Two offers a theoretical framework for understanding institutions and the environmental management of contaminated sites. The next five chapters present a detailed case stu…
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- 978-3-319-11307-4
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- XIX, 159
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The Political Economy of a Living Wage
This book tells the story behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of the phrase "living wage" in a variety of speeches, letters, and statements, and examines the degree to which programs of the New Deal reflected the ideas of a living wage movement that existed in the US for almost three decades before Roosevelt was elected president. Far from being a side issue, the previously unexplore…
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- 978-3-319-32473-9
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- X, 292
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- Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
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The Future of Work in Information Society
This book investigates the question as to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of work and, if so, what the consequences will be. The author addresses this question from the perspective of a technologist well versed in econometrics and game theory, and argues that it is not technology alone that could lead to the end of work, but its utilization by the capitalist syst…
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- 978-3-319-33909-2
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- X, 72
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics SpringerBriefs in Economics
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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countr…
This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, …
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- 9783319300689
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- XXVIII, 482 halaman
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- Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
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- 370 TWE
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