Boko Haram

Ojochenemi J David, Lucky E Asuelime, Hakeem Onapajo

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book investigates the socio-economic determinants of the emergence and persistence of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. Since 2009, Boko Haram con... Lees meer

Contemporary Famine Analysis

Olivier Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This Brief provides some answers as to why famines continue to torment humankind here in the 21st century despite all our progress in food production,... Lees meer

On the Measurement of Social Phenomena

Marco Delmastro

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book explores the analysis of social phenomena, using a multidisciplinary approach while addressing statistical, economic, sociological, as well ... Lees meer

Gender Equality in Politics

Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresent... Lees meer

Empathy Imperiled

Gary Olson

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science | nr. 10
• The most critical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy's revolutionary potential and today's empathically-impaired society is the interac... Lees meer

Universal Basic Income and the Reshaping of Democracy

Burkhard Wehner

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice? This book discusses these questions by analyzing the political logic ... Lees meer

Archives for Maintaining Community and Society in the Digital Age

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people's lives at each level of community, organi... Lees meer

The Aceh Separatism Conflict in Indonesia

Novri Susan

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book is the first to analyse the practice of governance to resolve conflict in the case of Aceh in Indonesia. Combining theoretical discourse on ... Lees meer

A Free Press, If You Can Keep It

Giovanna Maria Dora Dore, Arya D McCarthy, James A Scharf

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The authors pair computational analyses from the fie... Lees meer

Balancing the Budget Is a Progressive Priority

Donald H Taylor Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science | nr. 7
• ​​ ​ Progressives need a balanced federal budget more than Conservatives, because they believe that government has an important role to play in modern... Lees meer

Modern Iran in Perspective

Ali Pirzadeh

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that th... Lees meer

Geopolitics, Development, and National Security

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This volume focuses on the spotlight on Romania and Moldova, two distinct nations that share a common language, history and culture. Romania is a NATO... Lees meer

Democratic Decision-Making

Peter Emerson

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can b... Lees meer

Environment and Society

Manuel Arias-Maldonado

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the envir... Lees meer

Challenges in Research Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessibl... Lees meer

Cyber Justice

Anja Mihr

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet. The author defines ... Lees meer

Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program

James P Howard II

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic ef... Lees meer

Time Policies for a Sustainable Society

Lucia A Reisch

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• ​This book explores time use, time policy, well-being and sustainable development using concepts and findings from time policy research, socio-ecologi... Lees meer

The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?

Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation f... Lees meer

Researching Central Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central As... Lees meer

Internationalization of Consumer Law

Mateja Durovic, Hans W Micklitz

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and th... Lees meer

School Funding and Student Achievement

Andy Spears

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science | nr. 23
• This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed... Lees meer

The End of European Security Institutions?

Benjamin Zyla

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• This book discusses Brexit's implications for the two most important security institutions in Europe, the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFS... Lees meer

Beyond the Turnout Paradox

Luis Fernando Medina Sierra

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Political Science
• ​This Brief uses game-theoretic analysis to debunk the turnout paradox and offers an alternative economic model to elucidate the patterns behind the s... Lees meer