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Download this eBook Governing India's Northeast
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Governing India's Northeast


Samir Kumar Das


?This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter...

Publication date: 2013-06-04
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Measuring Intra-Party Democracy


Peter Obert , Thomas Poguntke , Diana Tipei , Benjamin Von Dem Berge


This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main...

Publication date: 2013-03-12
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Empathy Imperiled


Gary Olson


The most critical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy’s revolutionary potential and today’s empathically-impaired society is the interaction between the brain and our dominant political culture.The evolutionary process has given rise to a hard-wired neural...

Publication date: 2012-12-12
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Risk Regulation in Europe


Jale Tosun


The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks.The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a...

Publication date: 2012-11-05
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R


Adrian Dusa , Alrik Thiem


Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given...

Publication date: 2012-10-23
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Download this eBook Balancing the Budget is a Progressive Priority
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Balancing the Budget is a Progressive Priority


Donald H. Taylor, Jr.


?? ? Progressives need a balanced federal budget more than Conservatives, because they believe that government has an important role to play in modern life. Lack of a long term plan to move toward a sustainable budget crowds out short term Progressive priorities:...

Publication date: 2012-04-23
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Trying to Measure Globalization


Marco Caselli


The aim of this book is to conduct a critical survey of the main tools devised for the synthetic measurement of globalization processes. To this end, the first part of the book discusses the meaning of the concept considered, highlighting the different and often...

Publication date: 2012-01-05
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Download this eBook Latin America's New Left and the Politics of Gender
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Latin America's New Left and the Politics of Gender


Karen Kampwirth


The majority of Latin Americans now live in countries that are governed by democratically elected governments on the political left, which is unprecedented in that region.  This book analyzes this occurrence by asking a question that up until now has been largely...

Publication date: 2011-07-26
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Why Is Everyone Else Wrong?


Tibor R. Machan


Especially when there is a lot of political rhetoric in the air, those of us with strong political convictions are inclined to reflect on just why we hold certain views even as others who are basically like us hold very different ones. Social scientists and other...

Publication date: 2010-11-10
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