State and Local Government Reforms in France and Germany
The edited book aims at comparatively analysing the development and current situation ofstate and local government reforms ...
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Swiss Democracy Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies
This book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly ...
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Swiss Public Administration
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied ...
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The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods
This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective ...
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The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
This book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan ...
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The Information Society: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy
The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The ...
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The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927–1945 : Crossing Boundaries
The volume at hand traces the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics between ...
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This book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they ...
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The Politics of Diversity in Music Education
This book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through ...
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism
This book critically reexamines the link of Puritanism and liberty in historical and comparative perspective. The book exposes ...
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The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe
The book explores urban dynamics in post-socialist Europe 15 years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ metaphor ...
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Transformation and Development Studies in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Member States
This book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security ...
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Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South
This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...
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Youthquake 2017 : The Rise of Young Cosmopolitans in Britain
Investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, ...
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