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  • The Application of Political Science Methods in Europe

    A Multifaceted Dilemma

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book attempts to provide the first comprehensive description of the complexity and comparative homogeneity of political science methods in Europe today. It deals with the present (and future) of political science methods in Europe in order to explore a multifaceted dilemma concerning not only the prospects for the profession, but also political scientists’ ability to do their part in ... Read more

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  • The International System in the Post-Pandemic World

    Perspectives for Europe and Asia

    Series series Encounters with Complexity
    This book analyses the multidimensional influence of COVID-19 on world politics, with a special focus on Euro-Asian relations, as well as changes in Europe caused by the pandemic. Expert international and interdisciplinary contributors analyse the measures undertaken to counter COVID, its use to justify increased governmental surveillance, the role of religion and regional institutions and the ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe

    From Myth to Action

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data, as well as offering reflections on the future structure of the discipline. In the middle of a delicate phase of changes marked by the effects of pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we need to pay attention to the factors that are ... Read more

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    The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to ... Read more

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  • Cultural Evolution

    Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tribe tries to claim ... Read more

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    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

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  • Professionalism

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    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Good Governance

    How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Skepticism

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  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

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    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

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  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

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