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Download this eBook Continuity and Change of Party Democracies in Europe
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Continuity and Change of Party Democracies in Europe


Sebastian Bukow , Uwe Jun


This special issue of the German Political Science Quarterly addresses the transformation and the sustainability of European party democracies, both at the level of party organization as well as party systems and competition. The contributions in this volume are...

Publication date: 2020-02-19
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Download this eBook Strategic Communication and its Role in Conflict News
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Strategic Communication and its Role in Conflict News


Marc Jungblut


Marc Jungblut extends existing knowledge on the role of strategic communication in conflict news by examining four violent conflicts. He relies on an automated content analysis of texts by 52 strategic communicators, such as politicians, NGOs, social movements, as well...

Publication date: 2020-01-13
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Download this eBook Gender Politics in Transition
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Gender Politics in Transition


Eva Schmidt


Eva Schmidt analyses how power relations, ideas, and institutions in Tunisian gender politics changed during the democratisation process 2011–2014. Her analysis of gender politics offers a productive lens to understand the course of the Tunisian transition. As gender...

Publication date: 2019-11-11
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Download this eBook Martyr Cults and Political Identities in Lebanon
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Martyr Cults and Political Identities in Lebanon


Sabrina Bonsen


Sabrina Bonsen sheds light on political cults of martyrs in Lebanon and reconsiders the context of their emergence, development and distinct characteristics since 1920. She examines how the honouring of martyrs became an established practice in Lebanese politics and is...

Publication date: 2019-10-24
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Download this eBook International Climate Agreements under Review
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International Climate Agreements under Review


Anja Zenker


Given the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement, Anja Zenker examines the potential of free trade benefits as an incentive mechanism for an effective and stable climate change cooperation of states. She addresses the question of how the specific policy design affects the...

Publication date: 2019-10-10
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Download this eBook The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany
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The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany


Lutz Mez , Lila Okamura , Helmut Weidner


Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined...

Publication date: 2019-08-10
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Download this eBook Natural Resource Governance, Grievances and Conflict
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Natural Resource Governance, Grievances and Conflict


Janine Romero Valenzuela


Janine Romero Valenzuela analyses the Bolivian lithium program in the largest empirical study to date with a focus on local perspectives and governance, identifying grievances and conflict dimensions. The case study shows that it is particularly an altered governance...

Publication date: 2019-07-17
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Download this eBook Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability in Nuclear Waste Governance
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Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability in Nuclear Waste Governance


Achim Brunnengräber , Maria Rosaria Di Nucci


This book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste...

Publication date: 2019-07-12
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Download this eBook The European Social Model under Pressure
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The European Social Model under Pressure


Romana Careja , Patrick Emmenegger , Nathalie Giger


The European Social Model is at a crossroad. Although from the 1990s onwards, the threat of an imminent crisis shaped much of the rhetoric surrounding the future of the welfare state, disagreement within the academic community remains. What is however increasingly clear...

Publication date: 2019-07-11
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Download this eBook The State of the European Union
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The State of the European Union


Martin Pachel , Elisabeth Springler , Stefanie Wöhl , Bernhard Zeilinger


Against the backdrop of combating the financial and economic crisis in the European Union for the past decade, this volume strives to explore the manifold impacts the prevailing crisis management has on the further alignment of European Integration. The efforts targeted...

Publication date: 2019-07-08
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Download this eBook Justice and Peace
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Justice and Peace


Caroline Fehl , Dirk Peters , Simone Wisotzki , Jonas Wolff


This book studies the justice concerns of political actors in important international regimes and international and domestic conflicts and traces their effects on peace and conflict. The book demonstrates that such justice concerns play an ambivalent role for the...

Publication date: 2019-07-05
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Download this eBook Economic Effects of Political Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations (2005-2014)
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Economic Effects of Political Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations (2005-2014)


Franziska Schultz


Diplomatic issues, i.e. the textbook discussion, the Yasukuni debate, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute cause political shocks to Japan-China relations, but economic exchange is maintained. Franziska Schultz discusses political shocks within bilateral relations,...

Publication date: 2019-06-10
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Download this eBook Family Life in Japan and Germany
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Family Life in Japan and Germany


Uta Meier-Gräwe , Miyoko Motozawa , Annette Schad-Seifert


This volume addresses the family situation in Japan and Germany. Gender-segregated labor markets and precarious employment patterns bear detrimental consequences for the socioeconomic capacity to maintain family households and to have children. By applying a...

Publication date: 2019-05-22
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Download this eBook Russia, EU and the Post-Soviet Democratic Failure
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Russia, EU and the Post-Soviet Democratic Failure


Bidzina Lebanidze


By studying the influence of the two main external actors in post-Soviet space, the EU and Russia,  this study contributes to the increasing body of literature that studies the causes of democratic recession and authoritarian backlash in post-Soviet states and the...

Publication date: 2019-05-22
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Download this eBook Orchestrating Local Climate Policy in the European Union
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Orchestrating Local Climate Policy in the European Union


Lena Bendlin


Can we sidestep tedious climate policy negotiations and forge a coalition of the willing instead? Many international organizations and scholars hope to spur local climate action by orchestration, indirect and voluntary governance arrangements. Lena Bendlin looks beyond...

Publication date: 2019-05-13
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Download this eBook The Nagorno-Karabakh deadlock
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The Nagorno-Karabakh deadlock


Azer Babayev , Bruno Schoch , Hans-Joachim Spanger


The book examines all relevant models which have been employed in settling ethno-territorial conflicts since the time of the League of Nations. Eight of these models have been studied in-depth.The aim of this analysis is to gain expertise and insights...

Publication date: 2019-05-02
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Download this eBook The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
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The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power


Amela Ajanovic , Reinhard Haas , Lutz Mez


This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still a heavily disputed issue. Aside from technical...

Publication date: 2019-04-26
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Download this eBook Fragmented State Capacity
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Fragmented State Capacity


Marco Just Quiles


Marco Just Quiles offers new perspectives on how domestic and external factors interact to shape variations in local state capacity. Using Bolivia as a case, he applies quantitative and qualitative methods to decode the nexus between global interdependencies,...

Publication date: 2019-03-15
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Download this eBook Forest Transition Deficiency Syndrome
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Forest Transition Deficiency Syndrome


Emmanuel Ametepeh


While previous studies focus on lack of enforcement of forest laws, poverty, and ecological values of forest dependent people, coherent studies on people’s motivations for forest illegalities and non-compliance behavior remain scanty. Emmanuel Ametepeh argues that the...

Publication date: 2019-01-04
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Download this eBook Sustainable Mobility in Munich
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Sustainable Mobility in Munich


Chelsea Tschoerner-Budde


Chelsea Tschoerner-Budde analyzes discourse in two cases of sustainable mobility policymaking in Munich: cycling promotion and electric mobility promotion. Both cases revealed that the formation and integration of a new, socially driven discourse on everyday mobility...

Publication date: 2018-11-11
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