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Inklusion und Beteiligung bei Bürger*innenbeteiligungsverfahren
In diesem Open-Access-Buch widmet sich Jonathan Seim der Frage, wer an Bürger*innenbeteiligungsverfahren beteiligt werden sollte. Ob jene Konsultationsverfahren tatsächlich zu einer Stärkung der Demokratie beitragen können, hängt auch von der Beantwortung dieser bisher nur unzureichend thematisierten Frage ab. Die Arbeit ist interdisziplinär angelegt, insofern sie sich an der Schnittstell…
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- 9783658459871
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- VIII, 263hlm; ill., lamp.,
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International Organizations in Global Social Governance
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding…
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- 9783030654399
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- XXVII, 353 ill; lamp
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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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- 978-3-031-08608-3
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- IX, 369
A History of Chile, 1808–2002
A History of Chile chronicles the nation's political, social, and economic evolution from its independence until the early years of the Lagos regime. Employing primary and secondary materials, it explores the growth of Chile's agricultural economy, during which the large landed estates appeared; the nineteenth-century wheat and mining booms; the rise of the nitrate mines; their replacement by c…
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- 9780511991189
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- Cambridge Latin American Studies
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A Feminist Critique of Police Stops
A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment. An expert whose writing, teaching and community outreach centers on the Constitution's limits on police power, Howard Law Professor Josephine Ross, argues that our constitutional rights are a mirage. In reality, we can't say no when police seek to question or search us. Building on …
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- 9781108697477
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A Divided Republic Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France
This book is an original and sophisticated historical interpretation of contemporary French political culture. Until now, there have been few attempts to understand the political consequences of the profound geopolitical, intellectual and economic changes that France has undergone since the 1970s. However, Emile Chabal's detailed study shows how passionate debates over citizenship, immigration,…
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- 9781107447936
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A Debt Against the Living
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison is often quoted for the proposition that we should not be bound to the 'dead hand of the past', suggesting that the Constitution should instead be interpreted as a living, breathing document. Less well-known is Madison's response, in which he said the improvements made by the dead - including the U…
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