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Perry Anderson, Edward Palmer Thompson, David Harvey, Moishe Postone, Derek Sayer, Simon Clarke, Robert Brenner, Ellen Meiksins Wood et David McNally : neuf penseurs importants dont l'influence grandissante marque un renouveau de l'apport de l'œuvre de Marx et de ses successeurs au champ des sciences sociales. Chaque chapitre décrit le parcours intellectuel de l'une de ces figures.
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For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in U.S. environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. By considering how the Environmental Protection Agency has responded to 12291, these essays identify the limitations of conventional practices of benefit-cost analysis.
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When Sarah Palin says it, all of America hears it. In the few years since Americans met Sarah Palin, her every word has been chronicled, analyzed, celebrated, and yes, infamously disparaged. Regardless of your party affiliation, it's impossible to deny her influence on American politics and the dialogue her ideas have generated. Author Matt Lewis has gathered some of Palin's most memorable remarks, reminding us that whether you consider her a rogue...
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THAT WAS THEN
"Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you put in place. How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the U.S. military?" --Dick Cheney, 1991
MIND-SET
"F*** Saddam. We're taking him out." --George W. Bush, to three U.S. senators, March 2002
WMD
"If the president wants to go to war, our job is to find the intelligence to allow him to...
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Este libro, resultado de una investigación con estudiantes de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sensibiliza sobre escenarios posibles en el Sistema Integral para la Paz (antes SIVJRNR) que dan cuenta de testimonios de violencias sufridas, hoy con vocación de perdón y con base en experiencias en territorio de constructores de paz desde la institucionalidad (CEV y CNMH) y visibiliza oportunidades de ajuste sistémico...
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Les soulèvements populaires en Tunisie et en Égypte, avec la chute de Ben Ali et de Moubarak, ont produit un effet de démonstration des défauts de la cuirasse de régimes apparemment forts. Leurs succès ont favorisé une propension à l'action dans d'autres pays arabes, au sein de sociétés dont les revendications et les régimes ne sont pas forcément identiques. Ils ont ainsi ouvert un cycle de mobilisations qui, pour l'heure, n'est pas clos.
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First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores the intersections between governance and media in western democracies, which have undergone profound recent changes. Many governmental powers have been shifted toward a host of network parties such as NGOs, state enterprises, international organizations, autonomous agencies, and local governments. Governments have developed complex networks for service delivery and...
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First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this critical and practical volume challenges policy theory scholars to change the way they produce and communicate research. Leading academics propose eight ways to synthesise and translate state of the art knowledge to equip scholars to communicate their insights with each other and a wider audience. Chapters consider topics such as narratives as tools for influencing policy change, essential...
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An anthology of stories from American servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan from the military blog launched by the creator of “Doonesbury”.
In 2006, Gary Trudeau launched “The Sandbox”, an online forum where service members could share their stories with readers at home. In hundreds of compelling posts, soldiers wrote movingly of their day-to-day lives, of their mission, and of the drama that unfolds daily around them.
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La autonomía y la participación en la dirección de los asuntos públicos son elementos fundamentales para la preservación de la identidad y los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. No se trata solamente de una cuestión de ética política, sino que también desde un punto de vista meramente instrumental la autonomía se convierte en un ingrediente esencial para que los pueblos indígenas puedan acceder de una manera efectiva al conjunto de derechos...
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Saving California is focused on policy changes that could help restore some of California's lost luster - regardless of what politician runs our massive state government apparatus. The authors are all current or former Californians, people with deep expertise in their respective policy areas. Although their chapters include a fair share of criticism of current policy directions - how could they not? - they each propose real-world policy changes that...
13) La collaboration interorganisationnelle: Conditions, retombées et perspectives en contexte public
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Cet ouvrage se consacre à des expériences de collaboration interorganisationnelle dans les administrations publiques québécoise et fédérale canadienne. Au nom de la diversité, il explore les efforts déployés par les organismes publics et leurs partenaires pour répondre à des enjeux aussi complexes qu'importants : la lutte anticorruption, la mutualisation des données géomatiques, la défense de l'intégrité des programmes publics, la...
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Refuting the myth that America's socially conservative thinkers, journalists, and commentators tend to support the war in Iraq, this text incorporates the opinions of some of the leading figures in America's conservative movement on why the decision to go to war and the continuing occupation of Iraq was and is the wrong course of action. Twenty-five articles by influential thinkers such as former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, syndicated columnists...
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A lo largo del siglo xx, los fascismos asolaron Europa y las dictaduras se multiplicaron en buena parte de América Latina. Hoy, en pleno siglo xxi, aquella bestia que creímos desterrada para siempre no solo ha resurgido, sino que, saltando fronteras, acecha esta vez el mundo entero.
Se ha nutrido de las desigualdades traídas por una crisis interminable, ha crecido cada vez que los poderosos se han sentido fuertes y se han desligado de toda atadura...
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Exposición minuciosa de las fallas económicas, financieras y democráticas de las instituciones europeas, "Bajo el yugo neoliberal" rebate sin piedad los enfoques interesados que pretenden "echar la culpa a las víctimas". La agenda renovadora, tanto de la democracia como de la economía política, comienza con este libro y sus prometedores autores.
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"¿Qué sentido tiene dedicar tiempo a escribir un libro sobre Juego de tronos? ¿No es acaso una tarea ociosa? ¿No hay asuntos más importantes a los que prestar atención ante el drama social y político en el que estamos inmersos? Para responder a estas preguntas, conviene antes preguntarse por las razones del éxito tanto de los libros como de las distintas temporadas de la serie. En principio, podría parecer que la clave del éxito es simplemente...
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Balance electoral de Colombia 2011 utiliza la misma metodología de trabajo de la edición 2010 y pretende mostrar que en los comicios regionalesanalizados en esta nueva versión, existen unas dinámicas nacionales comparables a través de losgrandes agregados que representan el voto de los partidos políticos. En estesentido, se retoma la principal apuesta de Balance 2010 de poner a estosactores en el centro del análisis.
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On 8 May 2018, the International Karl Polanyi Society was founded in Vienna. This marked the beginning of a new phase of engagement with a thinker who had already come to be regarded as a centennial figure in the Anglo-Saxon world.
This book serves as an introduction to The Great Transformation, Polanyi's magnum opus and one of the most important works of the 20th century. It helps us to understand the background to Karl Polanyi's intellectual career,...
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Die Welt erlebt Krieg in der Ukraine. Sie erlebt, wie Staaten für ihre Selbsterhaltung – wer dieses „Selbst" ist und was dazu gehört, definieren sie selbst – in großem Stil über Leichen gehen. Und die Menschen, welt- und vor allem europaweit, reagieren: mit bedingungsloser Selbstverpflichtung zu moralischer Parteinahme.
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Russland ringt um seine Behauptung als strategische Macht –
Amerika um deren Erledigung
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