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Das Handbuch der deutschen Parteien schließt eine Lücke in der Parteienliteratur. Erstmals wieder werden alle wichtigen Parteien in der jüngeren Geschichte und Gegenwart der Bundesrepublik, insgesamt 106, umfassend und systematisch in einem Band behandelt. Neben die Porträts der einzelnen Parteien treten Beiträge, die die Einzeldarstellungen in einen größeren Zusammenhang einordnen. Für die dritte Auflage wurde das Handbuch grundlegend erweitert und aktualisiert

This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate of social mobility in Indian society. It underlines the fairly stable nature of Indian society, despite liberalization, and the critical role caste, class, gender and education play in this regard

In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how "decisionism" emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era. By bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume illuminates how theories of decision shaped numerous techno-scientific aspects of modern governance-helping to explain, in short, how we arrived at where we are today

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also extensively analyzed the creation of an economic order (Bretton Woods), mainly designed by Americans and tailored to their interests, but resisted by peoples residing outside of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. This scholarship, centered on the Cold War as vortex and a reconfigured world economy, is rife with contending schools of interpretation and, bolstered by troves of declassified archival documents, will support investigations and writing into the future. By contrast, this book examines a past that ran concurrent with the Cold War and interacted with it, but which usefully can also be read as separable: Washington in the first years after World War II, and in response to that conflagration, sought to redesign international society. That society was then, and remains, an admittedly amorphous thing. Yet it has always had a tangible aspect, drawing self-regarding states into occasional cooperation, mediated by treaties, laws, norms, diplomatic customs, and transnational institutions. The U.S.-led attempt during the first postwar years to salvage international society focused on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Acheson–Lilienthal plan to contain the atomic arms race, the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals to force Axis leaders to account, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the founding of the United Nations. None of these initiatives was transformative, not individually or collectively. Yet they had an ameliorative effect, traces of which have touched the twenty-first century – in struggles to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons, bring war criminals to justice, create laws supportive of human rights, and maintain an aspirational United Nations, still striving to retain meaningfulness amid world hazards. Together these partially realized innovations and frameworks constitute, if nothing else, a point of moral reference, much needed as the border between war and peace has become blurred and the consequences of a return to unrestraint must be harrowing.

Front Cover -- Author Biography -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Research and Literature -- 1. Science and Medicine: Pillars of Republic -- The Rockefeller Foundation and Pioneersof Scientific Medicine -- Advancing the Nation through Healthcare -- Fellows and Projects after 1945 -- 2. Remedies of Underdevelopment -- Technicians of Industrial Development: Robert CollegeSchool of Engineering and METU -- Setting up the Framework for Turkish Education -- Teaching of Science -- 3. The Age of Experts -- Business Development and Management Programmes in Turkey -- The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Sciences in Turkey -- The Birth of Area Studies -- 4. Humanities and Westernisation -- Islam in Turkey and the Creative Minority -- Projects, Fellows and Turkish Westernisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This text provides an authoritative, thorough, and clear account of the French legal system and its internal workings. It explains both the institutions and substantive law along with the methodology that underpins the system. Illuminating and insightful comparisons to other legal jurisdictions are made throughout.

"The concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for the environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature.The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environmental literature, history, politics, film, tv, and pedagogy. In so doing, they show that framing can serve as a valuable analytical tool connecting different academic discourses within the emergent interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. No less importantly, they demonstrate how increased awareness of framing strategies and framing effects can help us move society in a more sustainable direction"--

"Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of war in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press. The volume breaks new ground in cutting across disciplinary boundaries and offering case studies on a wide variety of fields of vision and action, and types of conflict: from civil wars in the USA, Spain, Russia and the Congo to recent western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-western perspectives - specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka. A central concern of the thirteen contributors has been to investigate the ethical and ideological implications of specific representational choices"--