Political Science
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Changing Bureaucracies: Adapting to Uncertainty, and How Evaluation Can HelpIn Changing Bureaucracies, international experts provide an unparalleled look at how public sector bureaucracies can better adapt to the reality of unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity, and how they can better respond to the emerging needs and demands of citizens and beneficiaries. In...
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Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders: The Case of Contemporary SpainCapitalism, Institutions and Social Orders develops a novel political economy approach by establishing a dialogue between the Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA) theory and Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism theory. Using this synthesis, it provides an in-depth analysis of Spain's recent socio-economic evolution since the early...
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Public Service Logic: Creating Value for Public Service Users, Citizens, and Society Through Public Service DeliveryThis book is based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his previous conceptual and empirical work in this field, together with new empirical evidence from emerging research. Public Service Logic...
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The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and EducationWorldwide, there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years. This handbook is the first book which identifies what is happening in different regions of the world to provide different countries and client groups with the opportunity...
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Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church-State Relations in EnglandThe Church of England finds itself colliding with society at large on regular occasion. Has the time come, therefore, where the advantages of being the established church are at last outweighed by the disadvantages? Is there a case for disestablishment, and if so, what...
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Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global SouthHow lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest. Over the past decade, legal challenges have arisen in the Global South over patents on genetically modified crops. In this ethnographic...
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Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of InequalityIn this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through (il)liberal orders, where racial inequities thicken in the borderlands of interior frontiers. Sometimes those frontiers, or the lines that definethe contours of belonging...
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In Pursuit of Competence: A Life as a Westminster NomadThis is a memoir covering some 50 years' involvement with delivering public services in a wide range of roles: civil servant; local government; chairing inquiries and public bodies; special adviser; Minister; and Parliamentarian. The book's topic areas include the NHS, social services, social care,...
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The Men from Miami: American Rebels and Patriots on Both Sides of Fidel Castro's Cuban RevolutionThe Men from Miami is a real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution - then switched sides to try to bring him down. This larger-than-life assortment of adventurers and misfits wreaked havoc across the Caribbean...
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Uncool and Incorrect in Chile: The Nixon Administration and the Downfall of Salvador AllendeThe military coup that toppled Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 led to one of the most repressive military dictatorships in Latin American history. Although the coup's full origin remains one of the great mysteries of the Cold War, most assume that powers in...
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Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our MindsWithout a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - from who we date to how we vote. But...
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Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East AsiaThis edited collection examines the effects of the Great War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in East Asia. Contributors to this collection highlight how Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian groups and individuals actively sought to envision a global order in which...
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To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan GenocideIn To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By...
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Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsAuthor: Facing History and OurselvesPublisher: Facing History & Ourselves National FoundatioPublished: 05/01/2010Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59dISBN: 9780981954325
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Contesting the Last Frontier: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian AmericansWomen of color, including Asian Pacific American (APA) women, have made considerable inroads into elective office in the United States in recent years; in fact, their numbers have grown more rapidly than those of white women. Nonetheless, focusing only on success stories gives the...
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Heroes Are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage, and Wisdom from the Covid Front LinesIn Heroes are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage and Wisdom from the COVID Front Lines, we read gripping first-hand accounts by those thrust into the depths of the crisis. This book is a must-read for health care workers who have been besieged by the...
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Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial ExceptionalismModern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets...
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In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOPBased on extensive reporting, a Game of Thrones-like telling of what comes next for the factions and families within the Republican Party as they plot for supremacy in the post-Trump era. With Trump's four years in the White House now in the rearview, an...
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Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and DakarDecolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters' versions of events to counterbalance more...
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Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy LandNarratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has its roots deep in the 19th century, with Victorians who first cast the...
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