Search: Social Sciences - Sociology &amp; Anthropology, 2010

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116

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ISBN13:

9789004187269

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Adversarial Case-Making

Thomas Scheffer, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.

€94.00$122.00

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114

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ISBN13:

9789004181137

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Thick Comparison

Edited by Thomas Scheffer, Humboldt University Berlin and Jörg Niewöhner, Humboldt University Berlin

In ethnographic inquiry, comparing is fraught with difficulties, never complete and often fails. Yet it remains a strangely productive mode of working. Thick comparison develops and reflects on the production of comparability as a fruitful process in ethnographic research.

€94.00$122.00

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Volume:

113

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ISBN13:

9789004180338

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Afghanistan, Iraq, and Post-Conflict Governance: Damoclean Democracy?

Imtiaz Hussain, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico

A comparative study is made of how conflict-terminating negotiations led to maiden democratic elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, pointing various thresholds out through specific chapters, invoking negotiations theories/stages to deepen interpretations, and prospecting the Bush Doctrine's future ...

€94.00$122.00

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111

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ISBN13:

9789004179394

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Democratic Elitism

Edited by Heinrich Best, University of Jena, Germany and John Higley, University of Texas

This book reconsiders Joseph Schumpeter's democratic elitism in light of the directions that recent theories of democracy have taken, and it analyzes democratic elitism's workings in western and eastern European states early in the 21st century.