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Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population. Industry and demographic projections forecast rising influ……続きを見る

Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution. Th……続きを見る

This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like. Contributors argue that digital games are not created no……続きを見る

Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State, the Governor General, in facing the challenge of dy……続きを見る

पुस्तक के पाँचवें खंड में कुछ उन आंदोलनकारियों को भी शामिल किया गया है जिनकी मौत पुलिस या माफिया की गोली से नहीं हुई, बल्कि जिन्होंने इलाज के अभाव में दम तोड़ा, जिनकी स्वाभाविक या दुर्घटना में मौत ह……続きを見る

En el contexto democrático actual -caracterizado por una pérdida de confianza y credibilidad ciudadana-, la competencia electoral es una guerra de percepciones, donde lo más importante no son los he……続きを見る

This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on th……続きを見る

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Popular views of white working-class communities are common but knowledge of their views on multiculturalism and change less so. This i……続きを見る

In 2002, after a long political struggle, Lula was elected Brazil’s first working class President amid huge expectations that he and the Workers’ Party (PT) would bring much-needed reform. A great d……続きを見る

Originally published in 1971. On May 4th, 1970, shots fired by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University were heard around the world. People were either outraged by the killings or outraged a……続きを見る

Activism in any social movement group is, as Deborah Gould observes, a project of collective ‘world-making’. It is about changing the world out there by influencing policy and public opinion, but is……続きを見る

Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most……続きを見る

Originally published in 1983. This book presents a description and critical analysis of the communication systems and policy at the time in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, the Federal Rep……続きを見る

Language Assistance under the Voting Rights Act provides an interesting and unique approach to the problem of translating minority language ballots and evaluating the causes and effects of differenc……続きを見る

The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in……続きを見る

**A Kirkus Best Book of 2013 A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been** Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endure……続きを見る

The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms……続きを見る

This book examines whether parties’ ability to channel voter interests into political institutions has in fact declined in the wake of decline of party membership figures and the increase of state f……続きを見る

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world, his……続きを見る

Dall’introduzione: «Con queste poche righe di presentazione vorrei ringraziare tutti gli amici valsusini che mi hanno aiutato nella realizzazione di questo libricino. Le pagine che seguono affrontan……続きを見る

In 2009 the US House of Representatives passed legislation requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over the coming decade. Later that year, President Obama went to Copenhagen ……続きを見る

An autobiography of a ground-breaking medical doctor. Dr. David A. Hamburg started as a medical student with interest in stress disorders, paying special attention to the propensity toward violence,……続きを見る

This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inad……続きを見る

This book analyzes the power variations between political executives in semi-presidential regimes. It contrasts institutional, partisan, and extra-institutional explanations and identifies patterns ……続きを見る

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution. Designed to be a central guara……続きを見る

Scholarship on NATO is often preoccupied with key episodes in the development of the organisation and so, for the most part, has remained inattentive to theory. This book addresses that gap in the l……続きを見る

An die politische Lebensleistung Konrad Adenauers und Helmut Kohls kam er nie heran, er war auch nicht so umschwärmt wie Willy Brandt, nicht so kumpelhaft wie Gerhard Schröder, nicht so kontrolliert……続きを見る

Krisenmanagement ist eine herausragende Aufgabe staatlicher Institutionen. Intensive Interdependenzen und ein umfassender Sicherheitsbegriffs stellen hohe Anforderungen an die sachliche Kompetenz eb……続きを見る

Le dialogue authentique, les compromis, les consensus qui permirent de débloquer la crise politique et institutionnelle tunisienne Le présent ouvrage est le produit final d’une enquête de terrain, l……続きを見る

The authentic dialogue, the compromises, the consensus which allowed Tunisia to overcome its political and institutional crisis This book is the final product of an investigation launched in Novembe……続きを見る