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Kommunale Wahlkämpfe wurden in der Wahlkampfforschung bislang wenig beachtet. Dabei finden insbesondere zu den Oberbürgermeister- und Landratswahlen Kampagnen statt, die einen weitgehend unverfälschten Blick in das Geschehen vor Ort zulassen. Da Personenwahlkämpfe um...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-25
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Are you organising an international heritage project? Turning a so-called 'heritage revival' into a meaningful experience for the general public can be a challenge to historians, archaeologists, museum conservators and tourism professionals alike. This Companion to...
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Springer
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2014-07-24
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This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced by South-South migrants....
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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Global Migration Issues
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This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. It provides a conceptual framework that allows readers to see a wide variety of work as part of a unified field. It provides a description of key concepts...
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
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This book examines in detail both historical and current legal concepts of ‘religious cultural heritage’ within the context of the European continent. The latter group is primarily based on the variety of sacred cultural elements emanating from the different religious...
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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This book focuses on the issues of resilience and variability of desert pastoralists, explicitly challenging a set of traditional topics of the discourse around pastoralism in arid lands of the Old World. Based on a field research carried out on the Kel Tadrart Tuareg...
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Springer
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2014-07-19
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SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
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Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged. This debate critically reflects the Habermasian ideal of a (national) public sphere in a transnational context. However, it seems that the issue of a reconstruction of a global public...
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Polity
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2014-07-17
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The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies. This book sets the record straight by demonstrating the profound implications of his unique philosophical project for our understanding of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-17
Collection :
Theory and Media
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Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and...
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Polity
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2014-07-17
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Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the ‘default perspective’ on the...
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Springer
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2014-07-17
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Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
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From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-17
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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Cities in industrialised countries have grown over time, yet shrinkage of cities occurs in many regions. This process has many impacts on urban ecology, which can be observed on urban brownfield sites in particular. The integration of these sites with sustainable urban...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Lange Zeit fristete der kulturelle Nationalismus ein Schattendasein in der Forschung. Zu Unrecht, denn der kulturelle Nationalismus spielt eine entscheidende Rolle in der Ausbildung einer nationalen Identität. Indem er die Menschen mit ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-15
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This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children’s rights into capabilities in settings as different as children’s parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical...
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Springer
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2014-07-14
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Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
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This brief fills a gap in the studies of organized crime in Mexico (Kan 2012, Ríos 2011, Dell 2011) by documenting and mapping the post-2008 assassination of Mexican border police chiefs. It traces out a “systematic” of law-enforcement assassination in Northern Tier...
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Springer
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2014-07-14
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SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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ALDA – The Association of Local Democracy Agencies – is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. It is made up of over 160 members comprising local authorities and civil society organisations in the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-07-11
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This book explores the development of the influential worldwide Hizmet movement inspired by the Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen, known for his moderate Islamic emphasis on peaceful relations among diverse people. It provides a detailed study of Gülen’s account of the...
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Springer
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2014-07-10
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when...
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PublicAffairs
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2014-07-08
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This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism. We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and...
Editeur :
Springer
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2014-07-08
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to the creation of urban districts against the backdrop of the current rapid urbanization and transformation of Shanghai on its way to becoming a world city....
Editeur :
Springer
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2014-07-08
Collection :
Springer Geography
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