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The individual in the economic and monetary union: a study of legal accountab…
The European Union's response to the financial crisis was designed in a way that prevented EU citizens from holding decision-makers accountable. This book reimagines legal accountability by focusing on the citizen, who should be at the centre of the common interest in the EU, with solidarity and equality as guiding principles.
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- -
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- 9781009207942
- Collation
- xxv, 220 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 346.402 BOB t
Defending checks and balances in EU member states : taking stock of europe’…
This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It analyses substantive standards, powers, procedures as well as the consequences and implications of the various instruments. It combines the analysis of the European level, be i…
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- 1
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- 9783662623176
- Collation
- x, 480p. : ill.
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- Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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- 342.4044 DEF d
Migration and discrimination : IMISCOE short reader
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also present…
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- 1
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- 9783030672812
- Collation
- ix, 98p. : ill.
- Series Title
- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 325.4 ROS m
How safe is eating chicken?
Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers coll…
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- 21
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- 8884534968
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- -
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- -
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- 658 ROM h
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, diplomat, and patron of the …
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004508453
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- 571 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 709.2 MEN a
Museums and sites of persuasion : politics, memory and human rights
March 31, 2017 marked the centenary of the transfer of the Danish colony—the Danish West Indies (today’s US Virgin Islands)—to the US. During the 100 years that had passed, the history had only occasionally been revisited in Danish public debate and history books—often shaped as a postcolonial nostalgic longing for what was perceived as a paradise lost. Even less often had the history o…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138567818
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- xi, 232 p, ill
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- -
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- 323.075 JOY m
Iberian world empires and the globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor impor…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811308338
- Collation
- xxvi, 520p; ill
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
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- BAR i
Female social entrepreneurship : challenging boundaries and reframing gender …
Das Zusammenspiel von Unternehmertum, Gender, Nachhaltigkeit und insbesondere der sozialen Dimension ist komplex und unterschätzt. Diese Studie analysiert Social Entrepreneurship durch eine Gender-Linse und stellt deutsche Sozialunternehmerinnen und ihre politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Kontexte dar. Im Rahmen eines deskriptiven qualitativen Forschungsdesigns wurden eine Sekundäranalys…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783847425304
- Collation
- 292p
- Series Title
- L'AGENda, 10
- Call Number
- 658.408 GER
At home in Renaissance Bruges : connecting objects, people and domestic space…
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written so…
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- -
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- 9789462703179
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- 320 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 747.249332 DEG a
The Repoliticization of the Welfare State
The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis encouraged strong social spending responses to protect millions of individuals, governments have faced growing pressure to reduce budgets and make deep cuts to the welfare state. Whereas conservative parties h…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472075324
- Collation
- 234p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 332.1094 MCM
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