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The Housing Bias: Rethinking Land Use Laws for a Diverse New America
P. BoudreauxCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99Arguing that our laws are skewed to benefit entrenched homeowners, at the expense of newcomers and lower-income households, this book advocates bot...
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The Promise of Participation: Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala
D. AltschulerCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99To what extent does participation in one particular domain of public life lead to wider participation in other areas? Through the use of an unprece...
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Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy
Edward C. LorenzCurrent price €105.29Original price €116.99Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (I...
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Social Care in the UKs Four Nations: Between Two Paradigms
Catherine NeedhamCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Two decades have passed since the devolution of social care policy, with key differences emerging between the UKs four systems, but what impact hav...
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Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States
Christopher WarshawCurrent price €82.79Original price €89.99A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government. Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens c...
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The Officer and the People: Accountability and Authority in Pre-Modern Europe
Oxford University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99This volume focuses on the relationship between officers and local communities in premodern Europe. Its starting point is that communities played a...
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Changing Borders and Challenging Belonging: Policy Change and Private Experience
Peter Lang International Academic PublishersCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50«This timely and important book provides a critical look at borders and belonging. It illuminates the tensions and contradictions that often exist ...
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When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Mark A. R. KleimanCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adult...
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The Wrong Ally: Pakistans State Sovereignty Under US Dependence
Ahmed WaheedCurrent price €65.31Original price €70.99Current price €65.31Original price €70.99Save 8% -
The Great Irish Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations
Peter Lang International Academic PublishersCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...
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Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?: Perspectives on Nationhood, Identity, and Belonging in Europe
Peter Lang LtdCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Current price €53.99Original price €59.99Save 10% -
Analysis of the Development of Beijing (2020)
Beijing Academy of Social SciencesCurrent price €83.71Original price €90.99This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2019, both within itself and as an integral pa...
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Analysis of the Development of Beijing (2020)
Beijing Academy of Social SciencesCurrent price €83.71Original price €90.99This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2019, both within itself and as an integral pa...
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Over the Atlantic: Diplomacy and Paradiplomacy in EU and Latin America
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99The book is the result of a collective research work between the members of the team of the project Over the Atlantic (co-founded by the Erasmus + ...
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Jammu and Kashmir: Past Tense, Present Imperfect and Future Indefinite
K. L. BhatiaCurrent price €47.83Original price €51.99Current price €47.83Original price €51.99Save 8% -
Herbert Simms: An Architect for the People
Lindie NaughtonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Dublins teeming slums, long regarded as the worst in Europe, were teetering on the brink of structural and sanitary public catastrophe during the e...
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The African Charter on Human and Peoples'' Rights: A Commentary
Rachel MurrayCurrent price €242.87Original price €263.99The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, ...
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Left, Right, Wrong: Politics has lost its way a route map for change
Clive FurnessCurrent price €16.55Original price €17.99Public services are in crisis. NHS backlogs, police forces in disarray and a housing crisis growing ever worse. Whole areas of our national infrast...
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The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court
Alex JeffreyCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using the example of the...
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The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio''s Quest to Save the Soul of New York
Professor Joseph P. ViterittiCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99When Michael Bloomberg handed over the city to Bill de Blasio, New York and the country were experiencing record levels of income inequality. De Bl...
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Reclaiming Local Democracy: A Progressive Future for Local Government
Ines NewmanCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99Current price €27.59Original price €29.99Save 8% -
The Shale Renaissance: How Fracking Has Ignited Debate, Challenged Regulators, and Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century
David Allen GoodCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing - more commonly known as fracking - was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of ...
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More Than a Chain: How to be a twenty-first century Mayor, Lord Mayor or Council Chair
Duncan Bhaskaran BrownCurrent price €16.55Original price €17.99Current price €16.55Original price €17.99Save 8% -
From Aswan to Stiegler''s Gorge: Small stories about large dams
Nordic Africa InstituteCurrent price €22.07Original price €23.99Current price €22.07Original price €23.99Save 8% -
Divided Cities: Governing Diversity
Nordic Academic PressCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Very rarely has peace and conflict studies been combined with public administration research. This book brings together theories from conflict reso...
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Welcoming New Americans?: Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation
Abigail Fisher WilliamsonCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Even as Donald Trumps election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as...
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Nineteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria: Politics in Provincial Councils
M. Safa SaracogluCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99This book provides a detailed exploration of the way in which administrative and judicial offices and practices provided an essential space for pol...
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The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
Jonathan DimblebyCurrent price €20.23Original price €21.991 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People's Republic of China. In 19...
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Yorkshire: Ancient Nation, Future Province
Colin SpeakmanCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99This is an important book about one of England''s most fascinating regions - Yorkshire. Colin Speakman explores Yorkshire''s origin as an independe...
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Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States
Erin Metz McDonnellCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinct...
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Transforming Childcare and Listening to Families: Policy in Wales and Beyond
Wendy BallCurrent price €15.63Original price €16.99This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales ...
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Equality and Public Policy: Exploring the Impact of Devolution in the UK
Paul ChaneyCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Equality of opportunity is a contested concept. It evokes strong emotions from proponents and opponents alike. Enduring issues of inequality and di...
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Urban Economics and Fiscal Policy
Holger SiegCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economicsWith more than half of todays global GDP being produced by appro...
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Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States
Erin Metz McDonnellCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinct...
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