Comparative History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 4

Innocent Batsani-Ncube
China and African Parliaments

China and African Parliaments maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilisation of three parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were financed and constructed by the…

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James S Fishkin
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

This book draws on the author's research on Deliberative Polling to chart a unique path to fixing democracy's many problems. It suggests empowering democratic reform that would strengthen rather than repl…

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Andrew Heywood, Matthew Laing
Politics

"The sixth edition of this seminal textbook introduces the discipline's foundational theories and their relevance to key subfields, including elections, security and global governance. It covers glob…

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Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

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Brian F Crisp, Patrick Cunha Silva, Santiago Olivella, Guillermo Rosas
Electoral System Incentives for Interparty and Intraparty Politics

Using novel computational tools and a comprehensive and updated dataset on electoral systems, this book develops precise and transparent measures of both electoral systems' interparty and intraparty incen…

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Yann Allard-Tremblay
Disjunctures

Disjunctures demonstrates the transformative potential of Indigenous political traditions in settler states that seek reconciliation. Though there exist irreconcilable differences between Indigenous and d…

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Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
Making a Career in Dictatorship

Who loyally carries out the most brutal violence for a dictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the…

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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

One of the Washington Post' s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Boston GlobeBest Book of 2024 "Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.&quo…

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James Geary
The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

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Elisa Randazzo, Hannah Richter
Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sus…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Bodies, Spaces, Claims

This book asserts that there is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, or politically engaged entertainers appear in public, they make or constitute political repre…

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Iosif Kovras
Accountability After Economic Crisis

This book explores how countries responded to the 2008 economic recession and explains the variations in policies of accountability. By comparing five case studies, it considers why some sought to hold th…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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David Womersley
Thinking Through Shakespeare

How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions---about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong---explains his lasting power, popularity and relevanceIn the eighteenth century, Samuel Jo…

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Baird T Spalding
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 6

Thirty-five years after the appearance of Volume 5 of Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, ten dusty cartons were discovered in the DeVorss warehouse, some of which held Spalding manuscript…

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John Mckay
Contemporary Asia

"For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power and contains within it three nations of global significance. Is this the Asian Century? How will tensions between the …

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Ewa Atanassow
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning fa…

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Matteo Bonotti, Zim Nwokora
Money, Parties, and Democracy

This book evaluates political finance rules and party systems in terms of three distinctive normative dimensions, which capture what parties, at their best, can contribute to democratic politics. Based on…

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Iván de la Nuez,
Theory of the Rearguard

"Theory of the Rearguard examines how contemporary art is in tension with survival, rather than in relation to life. In the twentieth century, Peter Bèurger's Theory of the Avant-Garde was a cult boo…

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