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Provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a perspective on those debates. This book offers readers with an interpretation of the significant literature on The English Question, and also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question.

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Providing both an overview of the political situation and context in China with ethnographic insights, The Politics of Everyday China aims to give both the new student of China and those who have encountered the subject before an insight that goes beyond the usual cliche and surface description. -- .

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Concern over the state of the world - its tensions and disparities - fosters in many people the uneasy combination of two sensations: those of urgency and powerlessness. This book explores what we can do. It considers the options for civil society, and for the individual within the political culture.

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This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between heads and hearts, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.

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This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between heads and hearts, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.

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This study considers contemporary policies for the arts in France and the cultural and political issues thay have raised. In particular, the author focuses on the seminal Mitterand years, as well as the various influences which marked them.

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This study considers contemporary policies for the arts in France and the cultural and political issues they have raised. In particular, the author focuses on the seminal Mitterand years, as well as the various influences which marked them.

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Presents an analytical framework to explain regulatory outcomes at the global level. This book offers a series of case studies that illustrate the challenges of a global economy in which many institutions are less transparent and are held much less accountable by the media and public officials than are domestic institutions.

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Dissects the way that politicians like Blair and Bush have used and abused history to justify the new world order they are creating. This book compares political events with other crises, ranging from 17th-century England to Weimar Germany, to argue that the risks of such crises have been exaggerated, manipulated, and misunderstood.

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How might happiness research affect government policy in the United States - and beyond This book examines how governments could use the rapidly growing research data on what makes people happy - in a variety of policy areas to increase well-being and improve the quality of life for all their citizens.

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This book is about the politics of publicly provided health care. This is a comparative study of health policy and politics focusing on major countries of western Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK.

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Situates liberalism in the convulsive 1960s and illuminates the challenges that face liberalism.

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This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies.

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Provides a theoretically grounded examination of the early development of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Federation's parliament created by the 1993 constitution. This book offers an integrated account of the choices made by the elected members of the Duma in establishing basic operating arrangements.

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These essays examine political and humanitarian intervention, collective security, protection of human rights and the 'fight against impunity'.

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This important new volume analyzes relations among America's minority groups, specifically the prospects of political coalitions among those usually unrelated groups: African Americans, Asian-Americans, Latinos, Jews, Arab-Americans, and Native Americans.

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This book analyzes the politics of pension reform during the postcommunist transition in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The book is concerned with how domestic political institutions and actors interact with external influences to shape the outcome of pension reform.

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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many questioned whether the large number of political appointees in the Federal Emergency Management Agency contributed to the agency's poor handling of the catastrophe. This book examines how and why Presidents use political appointees and how their choices impact government performance - for better or worse.

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Targeted federal aid to needy city areas is difficult to maintain because of political pressure to broaden geographical coverage for continued legislative support, i.e., aid becomes distributive rather than targeted. The effectiveness of a program declines because of the broadening of the program, if all else remains constant.

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This is the first major study of politics and public administration in Japan to balance the prevailing view of the regional policy process from above" with a view "from below." Developing a comparative framework for understanding the place of localities in policy making, he demonstrates that relations among localities in Japan are much more importa