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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible

Description: The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright offers a fresh and fascinatin [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108691512
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Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance.
Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance.

Description: Jacqueline Best argues that the 1990s changes in IMF, World Bank and donor policies, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139542739
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The Power of Standards: Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services.
The Power of Standards: Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services.

Description: Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as im [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108759038
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Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?
Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?

Description: Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108284646
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The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States.
The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States.

Description: Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political or [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718513
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Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Summary for Policymakers.
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Summary for Policymakers.

Description: Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, the Summary for Policymakers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook provides an evidence-based source of environmental information to help policymakers [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108639217
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The Disinformation Age
The Disinformation Age

Description: The intentional spread of falsehoods – and attendant attacks on minorities, press freedoms, and the rule of law – challenge the basic norms and values upon which institutional legitimacy and political stability depend. How did we [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108914628
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Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People.
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People.

Description: Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment's sixth Global Environment Outlook calls on decision makers to take bold and urgent action to address pressing environmental issues in ord [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108627146
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The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights in Context: Development and Challenges.
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights in Context: Development and Challenges.

Abstract: The treaty creating the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights, if and when it comes into force, contains innovative elements that have potentially significant implications for current substantive and procedural appro [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525343
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Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development, and Culture: Focus on Asia-Pacific.
Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development, and Culture: Focus on Asia-Pacific.

Description: Historically, few topics have proven to be so controversial in international intellectual property as the protection of geographical indications (GIs). The adoption of TRIPS in 1994 did not resolve disagreements, and countries wor [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711002
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Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.

Description: Taxes and Trust is the first book on taxes to focus on trust and the first work of social science to concentrate on how tax policy actually gets implemented on the ground in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. It highlights the nuances of [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333580
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Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy.
Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy.

Description: No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silos that fail to connect to policy on the ground. This pathbreaking book [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316691335
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Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy.
Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy.

Description: Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pu [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108453004
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Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Abstract: Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567084
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Social Sector in a Decentralized Economy: India in the Era of Globalization. 
Social Sector in a Decentralized Economy: India in the Era of Globalization. 

Description: This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework. It also provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure, through benefit incidence an [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316258071
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Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions. 
Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions. 

Description: Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national security grounds even when it originates from within their own security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers of domestic companies is on the rise, [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316855430
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Social Media and Democracy
Social Media and Democracy

Description: Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock o [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108890960
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A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism

Description: Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is sympt [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108785440
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Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games

Abstract: In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This book elevates them to the place they deserve in the study of po [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108860116
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Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century

Description: Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but r [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569293
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Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies
Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies

Abstract: Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sab [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139095716
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Networks and Institutions in Europe’s Emerging Markets
Networks and Institutions in Europe’s Emerging Markets

Description: Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139381628
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Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956

Description: Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-co [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591263
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