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An analysis of judicial review and public policy in different parts of the world today. The authors set forth a framework for comparative analysis into the origins of judicial review, its use as a policy tool and its exercise and impact in the policy-making process.

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Orman's Comparing Presidential Power is an important and insightful study of the American Presidency.

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Since the end of the Cold War many new countries have been created, and several new wars have broken out, resulting in new forms of politics and government for which Cold War paradigms are inadequate.

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These cases explain much of the seemingly irrational behavior previously attributed to Japanese leaders.

Morgan demonstrates that culture clearly influenced outcomes in all three cases by conditioning Japanese perceptions, strategic preferences, and governmental processes.

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A fascinating analysis of the features of the Hong Kong-style democracy viewed as alien, hostile, potentially subversive, and substantially dangerous by the mainland Chinese Communist Party.

Competing Chinese Political Visions: Hong Kong vs.

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This work develops conceptual and normative frameworks to better understand national non-proliferation efforts, then examines competing US and Australian strategies of capability denial and non-possession norm building.

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This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia's quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.

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Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. It introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.

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This title seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.

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A thorough examination of the key theoretical considerations and operational principles of planning as practised by civil governments, businesses, and the military.

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A thorough examination of the key theoretical considerations and operational principles of planning as practised by civil governments, businesses, and the military.

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This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government's 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was abandoned in a humiliating climb-down. -- .

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This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government's 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was abandoned in a humiliating climb-down. -- .

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Having established a persuasive conception of leadership, Rejai and Phillips apply it to major thinkers from Plato to Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson.

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Using comparative survey data as a tool to track ideological shifts, several ideological uniformities are identified, such as the rise of a unified opposition, the paradoxical support of the masses to the authoritarian party in power, and the ideological shifts and strategies used by ruling and opposition elites to gain mass support.

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This book analyzes the effects of European Union membership conditionality on institutional reforms in Eastern European countries hoping to join the EU, specifically Albania and Macedonia.

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How should teacher librarians or instructional leaders engage in action research to improve their school library and benefit students' learning This book provides the answers.

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The 2010 federal election campaign had more twists, conspiracies and betrayals than a ripping political thriller. Confessions of a Faceless Man is the day-by-day account of the campaign by one of Labor's faceless men - Paul Howes, head of the Australian Workers' Union.