Olivia Cheung

Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics

Amsterdam University Press, 2023. Hardcover. Pp: 190. This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through 'factional model-making', a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to contest the party line publicly. Dazhai, Anhui, Nanjie, Shekou, Shenzhen, Guangdong and Chongqing were cultivated into factional models by party elites before Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Although factional model-making undermined party discipline, it often did not threaten regime security and even contributed to regime resilience through strengthening collective leadership and other means. This follows that the suppression of factional model-making under Xi might undermine longer-term regime resilience. However, Xi believes that regime security rests on his strongman rule, not any benefits that factional model-making may contribute. It is in this spirit that he grooms Zhejiang into a party model for his policy programme of common prosperity, which is designed to legitimize his vision of socialism. ISBN: 9789463720298. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Fernando Casal Bértoa , Ingrid van Biezen

The Regulation of Post-Communist Party Politics

Routledge, 2018. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 294. The question of how political parties are, and ought to be, regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years, both within the scholarly community and among policy-makers and politicians as the state assumes an increasingly active role in the management of, and control over, their behaviour and organisation This book concentrates on the regulation of political parties in the EU post-communist democracies, and on Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, in particular. In analysing the various dimensions of party regulation, it builds on the main premises derived from the neo-institutionalist literature in political science, concerning the ways in which the (formal and informal) rules and procedures may influence, constrain or determine the behaviour of political actors. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of Eastern European political parties provided by leading experts in the field and casts theoretical and empirical light on the manner in which the constitutional and legal regulation of party organizations and finances have had an impact (or not) on the consolidation of party politics in post-communist Europe since 1989. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Political Parties and Behaviour, East European and Post-Communist Politics and Comparative Politics. ISBN: 9781138651937. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Maarten A. Hajer

Authoritative Governance

OUP Oxford, 2009. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 224. The role of the media has become a central part of politics and policy in the twenty-first century. That dominance has led many to suggest a trend of 'dumbing down': the privileging of style over content. In this provocative new book, Maarten Hajer takes issue with the 'dumbing down' thesis both on theoretical and empirical grounds. He aims to show how authoritative governance remains possible in crisis-driven circumstances and a highly 'mediatised' world. The book elaborates a communicative understanding of authority, which, the author argues, can create a new basis for authoritative governance in a world marked by political and institutional fragmentation. Extending his discourse-analytical framework, Hajer uses both discursive and dramaturgical methods to study policy makers in their struggle for authority. Three detailed case studies - the plans to rebuild Ground Zero, the aftermath of the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, and the recent role of the British Food Standards Agency - provide a wealth of detail of the dynamics of authority in today's mediatised polity and bring out the peculiar role that crises now play. The argument of the book is that in the age of mediatization governance needs to be 'performed'. Hajer describes a genuinely new authoritative governance that breaks with exisiting interpretations. He demonstrates new ways in which the traditional government of standing institutions and notions of network governance can be combined in actively creating relations with a variety of publics. ISBN: 9780199281671. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Hooghe, Liesbet

Measuring Regional Authority. A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ACADEM. Hardback. Pp: 687. ISBN: 9780198728870. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Ismael Saz , Zira Box , Toni Morant , Julián Sanz

Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century

Springer International Publishing, 2019. Hardback. Pp: 357. This book provides a comparative study of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms. It presents these as transnational political cultures and examines the dictatorships and regimes in which these cultures played significant roles. The book is organised into three main sections, focusing on nationalists, fascists and dictatorships in turn. The chapters range across French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German experiences, and include a broader overview of the political cultures in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America. The chapters consider the identities, organizations and evolution of the various cultures and specific political movements, alongside the intersections between these movements and how they adapted to changing contexts. By doing so, the book offers a global view of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms, and promotes debate around these political cultures. ISBN: 9783030224103. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Karin Aggestam , Annika Björkdahl

Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans

Routledge, 2012. Hardcover. Pp: 241. This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are commonly referred to there is surprisingly little research and few conceptualizations of the interplay between the two. This edited volume is the result of three years of collaborative research and draws upon insights from such disciplines as peace and conflict, international law, political science and international relations. It contains policy-relevant knowledge about effective peacebuilding strategies, as well as an in-depth analysis of the contemporary peace processes in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches, the work makes an original contribution to the growing literature on peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, Middle Eastern Politics, European Politics and IR/Security Studies. ISBN: 9780415525039. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Locke, Jill

Democracy and the Death of Shame. Political Equality and Social Disturbance

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Hardback. Pp: 214. ISBN: 9781107063198. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Manual Duran 294689, Jan Melissen 294690

Mediterranean Paradiplomacies. The dynamics of diplomatic reterritorialization

E.J. Brill/ Nijhoff , 2017. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 404. ISBN: 9789004285408. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Mao Tse-Tung 164873, Che Guevara 11943

Guerilla Warfare. With a foreword by Capt. B.H. Liddell Hart

Cassell, 1968. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 162. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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J. S. McClelland

The Crowd and the Mob

Unwin Hyman, 1989. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 343. ISBN: 9780043201886. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Arthur P. Mendel

Michael Bakunin. Roots of Apocalypse

Praeger, 1981. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 517. ISBN: 9780030592188. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Robert G. Patman

The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa. The Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement

Cambridge University Press, 1990. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 411. This is an attempt to address the paradoxes of Soviet behaviour in the Horn of Africa. Dr Patman, editor of the journal Third World in Soviet Perspective, traces the impact of history, superpower relationships and competition on Soviet perceptions and motives. Dr Patman provides a careful historical background to the recent conflicts and shows how the Soviet Union and its East European partners dramatically switched from being close allies of Somalia to allies of Ethiopia and then intervened in the Ethiopian-Somali war of 1977-8 to ensure the military defeat of their former ally. However, he does not confine himself simply to retrospective analysis. He also assesses the Soviet experience in the region in the period since 1978, and considers in particular the impact of Gorbachev's thinking and the new diplomacy. The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa provides the most detailed examination yet of Soviet policy. ISBN: 9780521360227. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Pieter-Jan Verstraete 280692, Maurits Cailliau 166608

Fotobiografie Joris van Severen

Studiecentrum Joris van Severen, 2014. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 248. ISBN: 9789076057163. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Sadurski, Wojciech

Equality and Legitimacy

Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 2008. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 276. ISBN: 9780199545179. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Sandfort, Jodi

Effective Implementation In Practice. Integrating Public Policy and Management

John Wiley & Sons. Paperback. Pp: 408. ISBN: 9781118775486. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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