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The New Silk Roads - The Present and Future of the World(2019) PETER FRANKOPANVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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The Dictator's Handbook(2022) ALASTAIR SMITHDictator`s Handbook : Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good PoliticsVezava: Mehka26,62 €
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Trust and Rule(2005) TILLY, CHARLES (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK)People rely on networks of strong ties to other people for a wide range of risky long-term activities such as marrying, raising children, sustaining distinctive religions, and carrying on long-distance trade. This 2005 book asks what happens when those neVezava: Mehka41,82 €
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Uprooted(2024) CHARNYSH, VOLHA (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)This book explores how mass displacement affects social and economic development, showing that the resettlement of millions of Germans and Poles after WWII produced stronger states and more prosperous societies. It advances research on ethnicity, migratioVezava: Mehka51,31 €
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Governments around the World(2015) SHELLEY, FRED M. (UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, USA)Providing a valuable resource for secondary school and college students as well as the general public investigating the process of governance in different countries, this book provides a comprehensive comparative summary of how governments are constitutedVezava: Trda146,43 €
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Chinese Bureaucracy for Innovation-Driven Development?(2023) GOMES, ALEXANDRE DE PODESTA (CONSTRUCTOR UNIVERSITY, BREMEN AND STATE UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS, BRAZIL),TEN BRINK, TOBIAS (CONSTRUCTOR UNIVERSITY, BREMEN)In this Element, the authors find that compared with other emerging capitalist economies, the Chinese bureaucracy has developed relatively strong capabilities to advance “innovation-driven development”. This Element seeks to provide avenues for comparingVezava: Mehka34,22 €
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States of Ignorance(2025)A comparative analysis of the governance of irregular migrants in France, Germany and the UK since the 1960s. Will appeal to scholars and students of immigration policy, irregular migration, and theories of state knowledge, as well as the growing field ofVezava: Mehka57,01 €
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Restrained Radicals(2025) PAXTON, FRED (UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO)Comparing cases in Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland, Restrained Radicals explains the different approaches to local government taken by populist radical right parties, the extent of their radicalism and their impact from positions of power as they iVezava: Mehka57,01 €
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Who Controls Education?(2025) WIBORG, SUSANNE (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)This book explores the role vested interests play in shaping European education policy, often at the expense of children. Interest groups are powerful, users of education are not. The consequence of this inequality in organisational power is explored in tVezava: Mehka58,91 €
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Changing the Rules(2025) TSEBELIS, GEORGE (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR)George Tsebelis presents a theoretical argument and supporting empirical evidence on the inverse relationship between constitutional rigidity and the frequency and significance of amendments, as well as their variance. This title is also available as OpenVezava: Mehka51,31 €
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Incumbency Bias(2025) SCHIUMERINI, LUIS (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, INDIANA)We tend to think that incumbents always win elections. Yet, recently, incumbents have been ousted from office across the world. Focusing on Latin America, this book demonstrates that 'incumbency bias' emerges because democracy creates a mismatch between cVezava: Mehka58,91 €
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Conspiracy Theories and their Believers(2025) STOCKEMER, DANIEL (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA),BORDELEAU, JEAN-NICOLAS (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA)Using original survey data from eight varied cases, the authors present specific contemporary conspiracy theories, illustrate how these theories appeal in their national context, and determine whether the characteristics of the typical conspiracy theory bVezava: Mehka34,22 €