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29 produkter
29 produkter
Party Mandates and Democracy
Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 200 kr
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When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a majority of pledges—sometimes a large majority—are acted upon in most countries, most of the time. The fulfillment of parties’ election pledges is an essential part of the democratic process. This book is the first major, genuinely comparative study of promises across a broad range of countries and elections, including the United States, Canada, nine Western European countries, and Bulgaria. The book thus adds to the body of literature on the variety of outcomes stemming from alternative democratic institutions.
531 kr
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European legislation affects countless aspects of daily life in modern Europe but just how does the European Union make such significant legislative decisions? How important are the formal decision-making procedures in defining decision outcomes and how important is the bargaining that takes place among the actors involved? Using a combination of detailed evidence and theoretical rigour, this volume addresses these questions and others that are central to understanding how the EU works in practice. It focuses on the practice of day-to-day decision-making in Brussels and the interactions that take place among the Member States in the Council and among the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. A unique data set of actual Commission proposals are examined against which the authors develop, apply and test a range of explanatory models of decision-making, exemplifying how to study decision-making in other political systems using advanced theoretical tools and appropriate research design.
1 500 kr
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European legislation affects countless aspects of daily life in modern Europe but just how does the European Union make such significant legislative decisions? How important are the formal decision-making procedures in defining decision outcomes and how important is the bargaining that takes place among the actors involved? Using a combination of detailed evidence and theoretical rigour, this volume addresses these questions and others that are central to understanding how the EU works in practice. It focuses on the practice of day-to-day decision-making in Brussels and the interactions that take place among the Member States in the Council and among the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. A unique data set of actual Commission proposals are examined against which the authors develop, apply and test a range of explanatory models of decision-making, exemplifying how to study decision-making in other political systems using advanced theoretical tools and appropriate research design.
195 kr
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144 kr
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1 498 kr
Kommande
Using an innovative mix of cross-national analyses, original survey experiments, and detailed case studies across advanced democracies, Promises Made, Promises Kept provides a compelling exploration of how globalization constrains domestic politics and transforms the nature of democratic representation. The authors show how globalization reduces the ability of governing parties to keep their campaign promises, and how parties strategically adapt to this by making vaguer promises or shifting their rhetoric to manage voter expectations. These adaptations have significant consequences: they reshape democratic competition and have contributed to the growing appeal of populist messaging. This timely and accessible book offers fresh insight into why promises are broken, how parties adapt under pressure, and what this means for voters, institutions, and the future of democratic politics. Essential reading for anyone concerned with the health of democracy in an interdependent world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
519 kr
Kommande
Using an innovative mix of cross-national analyses, original survey experiments, and detailed case studies across advanced democracies, Promises Made, Promises Kept provides a compelling exploration of how globalization constrains domestic politics and transforms the nature of democratic representation. The authors show how globalization reduces the ability of governing parties to keep their campaign promises, and how parties strategically adapt to this by making vaguer promises or shifting their rhetoric to manage voter expectations. These adaptations have significant consequences: they reshape democratic competition and have contributed to the growing appeal of populist messaging. This timely and accessible book offers fresh insight into why promises are broken, how parties adapt under pressure, and what this means for voters, institutions, and the future of democratic politics. Essential reading for anyone concerned with the health of democracy in an interdependent world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
344 kr
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272 kr
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Treatise On the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-Notes, Bank Notes, Bankers' Notes, and Checks On Bankers, in Scotland
Including a Summary of English Decisions Applicable to the Law of Scotland
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
512 kr
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2 245 kr
Kommande
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the established and expanding body of research on promissory representation, which is found in all known democracies.It looks at promise-making, keeping and breaking by political parties, examining campaign promises in a broad range of national contexts. The book addresses an extensive number of fundamental issues in relation to key concepts, theories and empirical comparisons regarding a set of processes crucial to how democracies work, with parties playing a vital mediating role in achieving congruence between public sentiment and public policies.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, campaigning and elections, and more broadly democracy and comparative politics.
Resolving Controversy in the European Union
Legislative Decision-Making before and after Enlargement
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 251 kr
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How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative system that include the roles played by the European Commission, European Parliament and member states' national governments in the Council of Ministers. Robert Thomson examines more than 300 controversial issues in the EU from the past decade and describes many cases of controversial decision-making as well as rigorous comparative analyses. The analyses test competing expectations regarding key aspects of the political system, including the policy demands made by different institutions and member states, the distributions of power among the institutions and member states, and the contents of decision outcomes. These analyses are also highly relevant to the EU's democratic deficit and various reform proposals.
Resolving Controversy in the European Union
Legislative Decision-Making before and after Enlargement
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
452 kr
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How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative system that include the roles played by the European Commission, European Parliament and member states' national governments in the Council of Ministers. Robert Thomson examines more than 300 controversial issues in the EU from the past decade and describes many cases of controversial decision-making as well as rigorous comparative analyses. The analyses test competing expectations regarding key aspects of the political system, including the policy demands made by different institutions and member states, the distributions of power among the institutions and member states, and the contents of decision outcomes. These analyses are also highly relevant to the EU's democratic deficit and various reform proposals.
251 kr
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249 kr
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Del 11549 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
12th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2019, Washington, DC, USA, July 9–12, 2019, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
622 kr
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2019, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2019. The total of 28 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers in this volume show, people, theories, methods and data from a wide number of disciplines including computer science, psychology, sociology, communication science, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational science. Numerous types of computational methods are used include, but not limited to, machine learning, language technology, social network analysis and visualization, agent-based simulation, and statistics.
Del 12268 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
13th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2020, Washington, DC, USA, October 18–21, 2020, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
538 kr
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A wide number of disciplines are represented including computer science, psychology, sociology, communication science, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational science.
Del 12720 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
14th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–9, 2021, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
538 kr
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2021, which was held online during July 6–9, 2021.The 32 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions.
Del 13558 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
15th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 20–23, 2022, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
538 kr
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2022, which was in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in September 2022.The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions.
Del 14161 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
16th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 20–22, 2023, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
803 kr
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2023, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in September 2023. The 31 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions.
Del 14972 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
17th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 18–20, 2024, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
697 kr
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2024, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, during September 18–20, 2024. The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.
Del 16127 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
18th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 14–17, 2025, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
621 kr
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2025, which took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in October 2025.The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They are divided into the following themes: Advances in Tools and Theory; Data-Driven Approaches.Another focus of the conference is on understanding, predicting, and influencing human sociocultural behavior.
2 129 kr
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The field of ultrafast nonlinear optics is broad and multidisciplinary, and encompasses areas concerned with both the generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses of light, as well as those concerned with the applications of such pulses. Ultrashort pulses are extreme events – both in terms of their durations, and also the high peak powers which their short durations can facilitate. These extreme properties make them powerful experiment tools. On one hand, their ultrashort durations facilitate the probing and manipulation of matter on incredibly short timescales. On the other, their ultrashort durations can facilitate high peak powers which can drive highly nonlinear light-matter interaction processes.Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics covers a complete range of topics, both applied and fundamental in nature, within the area of ultrafast nonlinear optics. Chapters 1 to 4 are concerned with the generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses. Chapters 5 to 7 are concerned with fundamental applications of ultrashort pulses in metrology and quantum control. Chapters 8 and 9 are concerned with ultrafast nonlinear optics in optical fibres. Chapters 10 to 13 are concerned with the applications of ultrashort pulses in areas such as particle acceleration, microscopy, and micromachining.The chapters are aimed at graduate-student level and are intended to provide the student with an accessible, self-contained and comprehensive gateway into each subject.
2 129 kr
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The field of ultrafast nonlinear optics is broad and multidisciplinary, and encompasses areas concerned with both the generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses of light, as well as those concerned with the applications of such pulses. Ultrashort pulses are extreme events – both in terms of their durations, and also the high peak powers which their short durations can facilitate. These extreme properties make them powerful experiment tools. On one hand, their ultrashort durations facilitate the probing and manipulation of matter on incredibly short timescales. On the other, their ultrashort durations can facilitate high peak powers which can drive highly nonlinear light-matter interaction processes.Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics covers a complete range of topics, both applied and fundamental in nature, within the area of ultrafast nonlinear optics. Chapters 1 to 4 are concerned with the generation and measurement of ultrashort pulses. Chapters 5 to 7 are concerned with fundamental applications of ultrashort pulses in metrology and quantum control. Chapters 8 and 9 are concerned with ultrafast nonlinear optics in optical fibres. Chapters 10 to 13 are concerned with the applications of ultrashort pulses in areas such as particle acceleration, microscopy, and micromachining.The chapters are aimed at graduate-student level and are intended to provide the student with an accessible, self-contained and comprehensive gateway into each subject.
Del 10354 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
10th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2017, Washington, DC, USA, July 5-8, 2017, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
538 kr
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2017, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2017.The 16 full papers and 27 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. Owing to its strong multi-disciplinary heritage, the papers represent a large range of disciplines including computer science, psychology, sociology, communication science, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational science and use numerous types of computational methods such as machine learning, language technology, social network analysis and visualization, agent-based simulation, and statistics. They are organized in the following topical sections: behavioral and social sciences; cyber and intelligence applications; information, systems, and network sciences; and methodology.
Del 10899 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
11th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2018, Washington, DC, USA, July 10-13, 2018, Proceedings
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
538 kr
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2018, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2018. The total of 27 short and 18 full papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: advances in sociocultural and behavioral process modeling; information, systems, and network science; applications for health and well-being; military and intelligence applications; cybersecurity.
Party Mandate
Election Pledges and Government Actions in the Netherland's 1986-98
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
168 kr
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208 kr
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