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- 3rd ed. - Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Description
- Book — xii, 675 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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- Introduction Roderick MacFarquhar
- 1. The establishment and consolidation of the new regime, 1949-57 Frederick C. Teiwes
- 2. The Great Leap Forward and the split in Yan'an leadership, 1958-65 Kenneth Leiberthal
- 3. The Chinese state in crisis, 1966-9 Harry Harding
- 4. The succession to Mao and the end of Maoism, 1969-82 Roderick MacFarquhar
- 5. The road to Tiananmen: Chinese politics in the 1980s Richard Baum
- 6. Reaction, resurgence, and succession: Chinese politics since Tiananmen Joseph Fewsmith
- 7. Globalization and governance under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao Alice Miller.
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- Porsche-Ludwig, Markus.
- [Place of publication not identified] : Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2016.
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- Book — 1 online resource.
- Bradley, Gerard V.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (232 p.) : digital, PDF file(s).
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- Part I: 1. The establishment clause and the 'problem of the church' Steven D. Smith
- 2. Dueling Clios: Stevens and Scalia on the original meaning of the establishment clause Gerard V. Bradley
- Part II: 3. Coercian and religious exercises Kent Greenawalt
- 4. Religious freedom and (and in) institutions Richard W. Garnett
- Part III: 5. Free exercise, religious conscience, and the common good Christopher Wolfe
- 6. Conscience, religion, and the state Christopher Tollefsen
- Part IV: 7. Globalization and the free exercise of religion worldwide Jose Casanova
- 8. The irony of a globalizing future: economics, technology, identity, and religious liberty William Inboden
- Part V: 9. A foreign policy of religious freedom: theoretical and evidentiary foundation Daniel Philpott
- 10. International religious freedom and moral responsibility Thomas Farr.
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- Joosr Ltd.
- Hove : Joosr Ltd, 2016.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (21 pages)
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- What's it about?; Gaining and maintaining power requires consistently training both body and brain; Choosing the right employees can help protect from internal and external threats; Leaders don't have to be loved (but should avoid being hated); Leaders maintain power by ensuring they are needed; Build up your reputation as a leader by achieving great tasks; Being a strong leader requires taking risks; Final summary; Now read the book; Key takeaways; Copyright Page.
- McCall, Leslie, 1964- author.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — xvii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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- Introduction: thinking about income inequality
- 1. Beyond the opposition between opportunity and inequality: theories of American beliefs about inequality from the nineteenth century to the present
- 2. The emergence of a new social issue: media coverage of economic inequality and social class in the United States, 1980-2010
- 3. American beliefs about income inequality: what, when, who, and why
- 4. Why do Americans care about income inequality? The role of opportunity
- 5. Americans' social policy preferences in the era of rising inequality
- Conclusion: a new era of beliefs about inequality.
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- New York : Novinka , [2015]
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- Book — 1 online resource.
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- Preface
- Congressional Staff: Duties & Functions of Selected Positions
- Congressional Salaries & Allowances
- Staff Pay Levels for Selected Positions in House Member Offices, 2009-2013
- Staff Pay Levels for Selected Positions in Senators Offices, FY2009-FY2013
- Index.
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- Whiteley, Paul.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Description
- Book — xvi, 317 pages ; 23 cm
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- 1. The politics of affluence and austerity
- 2. Tony's politics: prosperity and performance
- 3. Gordon's politics: economic crisis and political change
- 4. 'I agree with Nick': campaigning for change in 2010
- 5. Making political choices: 2010
- 6. Bearish Britain: the Coalition in power
- 7. Choosing how to choose: the AV ballot referendum
- 8. Performance politics and subjective well-being
- 9. Valence politics, austerity policies and electoral prospects
- Appendix A. Structure of the 2010 British Election Study
- Appendix B. Measurement.
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8. Arguments for liberty [2017]
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2016]
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- Book — 1 online resource
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- Utilitarianism / Christopher Freiman
- Natural rights / Eric Mack
- Kantanism / Jason Kuznicki
- Contractarianism / Jan Narveson
- Rawlsianism / Kevin Vallier
- Virtue ethics / Mark LeBar
- Objectivism / Neera K. Badhwar
- Ethical intuitionism / Michael Huemer
- Moral pluralism / Jason Brennan.
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- Rowe, Carolyn.
- Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Description
- Book — ix, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- Regional Representations in the EU: An Introduction Regional Representations in the EU: A Framework for Analysis Regional Offices and the Domestic Politics of Europe The Activity Profile of Regional Representations in the EU Resourcing and Organisational Principles Strategic Direction and Accountability Conclusion.
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10. Political psychology [2018]
- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- Vox populi (Encounter Books)
- New York : Encounter Books, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
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- American conservatism & the problem of populism / George H. Nash
- Populares & populists / Barry Strauss
- Insects of the hour / Daniel Hannan
- The German victory over American populism / Fred Siegel
- A bulwark against tyranny / James Piereson
- Populism versus populism / Andrew C. McCarthy
- Representation & the people / Roger Scruton
- The unlikeliest populist / Victor Davis Hanson
- Avenue to renovation / Conrad Black
- The imperative of freedom / Roger Kimball.
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12. Debates on the rise of Islamist extremism [2019]
- Green, Robert, 1969- author.
- San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, Inc., [2019]
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- Book — 1 online resource.
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- 1. A brief history of the rise of Islamist extremism
- 2. Is Islamist extremism the result of political repression?
- 3. Does Western intervention in the Middle East cause Islamist extremism?
- 4. Does poverty cause Islamist extremism?
- 5. Has the War on Terror been successful?
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (208 p.) : digital, PDF file(s).
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Managing the Cabinet: principal-agent relations in government
- 3. The structure of British government
- 4. Who serves in government and how long do they last?
- 5. The Prime Minister and Cabinet
- 6. Performance measures and forced exits
- 7. Ministerial performance and tenure
- 8. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index.
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14. Professor Bloom's Delight on the Right : American Conservatism and The Closing of the American Mind [2015]
- Mücke, Moritz P., author.
- Hamburg [Germany] : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2015.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- Chong, Ja Ian.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Description
- Book — x, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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- 1. Molding the institutions of governance: theories of state formation and the contingency of sovereignty in fragile polities
- 2. Imposing states: foreign rivalries, local collaboration, and state form in peripheral polities
- 3. Feudalizing the Chinese polity, 1893-1922: assessing the adequacy of alternative takes on state reorganization
- 4. External influence and China's feudalization, 1893-1922: opportunity costs and patterns of foreign intervention
- 5. The evolution of foreign involvement in China, 1923-52: rising opportunity costs and convergent approaches to intervention
- 6. How intervention remade the Chinese state, 1923-52: foreign sponsorship and the building of sovereign China
- 7. Creating Indonesia, 1893-1952: major power rivalry and the making of sovereign statehood
- 8. Siam stands apart, 1893-1952: external intervention and rise of a sovereign Thai state
- 9. Domesticating international relations, externalizing comparative politics: foreign intervention and the state in world politics.
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- Jäggi, Christian J.
- [Place of publication not identified] : Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH : Traugott Bautz, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- New York : Nova Publishers, 2016.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (182 pages). Digital: data file.
- Ushakov, I. A. (Igorʹ Alekseevich)
- San Diego, CA : Wiley, c2012.
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- Book — 1 online resource.
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- Preface xiii Acronyms and Notations xv
- 1 What Is Reliability? 1 1.1 Reliability as a Property of Technical Objects, 1 1.2 Other "Ilities", 2 1.3 Hierarchical Levels of Analyzed Objects, 5 1.4 How Can Reliability Be Measured?, 5 1.5 Software Reliability, 7 1.5.1 Case Study: Avalanche of Software Failures, 8
- 2 Unrecoverable Objects 9 2.1 Unit, 9 2.1.1 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 9 2.1.2 Mean Time to Failure, 10 2.2 Series Systems, 11 2.2.1 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 11 2.2.2 Mean Time to Failure, 13 2.3 Parallel System, 14 2.3.1 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 14 2.3.2 Mean Time to Failure, 18 2.4 Structure of Type "k-out-of-n", 20 2.5 Realistic Models of Loaded Redundancy, 22 2.5.1 Unreliable Switching Process, 23 2.5.2 Non-Instant Switching, 23 2.5.3 Unreliable Switch, 24 2.5.4 Switch Serving as Interface, 25 2.5.5 Incomplete Monitoring of the Operating Unit, 26 2.5.6 Periodical Monitoring of the Operating Unit, 28 2.6 Reducible Structures, 28 2.6.1 Parallel-Series and Series-Parallel Structures, 28 2.6.2 General Case of Reducible Structures, 29 2.7 Standby Redundancy, 30 2.7.1 Simple Redundant Group, 30 2.7.2 Standby Redundancy of Type "k-out-of-n", 33 2.8 Realistic Models of Unloaded Redundancy, 34 2.8.1 Unreliable Switching Process, 34 2.8.2 Non-Instant Switching, 35 2.8.3 Unreliable Switch, 35 2.8.4 Switch Serving as Interface, 37 2.8.5 Incomplete Monitoring of the Operating Unit, 38
- 3 Recoverable Systems: Markov Models 40 3.1 Unit, 40 3.1.1 Markov Model, 41 3.2 Series System, 47 3.2.1 Turning Off System During Recovery, 47 3.2.2 System in Operating State During Recovery: Unrestricted Repair, 49 3.2.3 System in Operating State During Recovery: Restricted Repair, 51 3.3 Dubbed System, 53 3.3.1 General Description, 53 3.3.2 Nonstationary Availability Coefficient, 54 3.3.3 Stationary Availability Coefficient, 58 3.3.4 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 59 3.3.5 Stationary Coefficient of Interval Availability, 62 3.3.6 Mean Time to Failure, 63 3.3.7 Mean Time Between Failures, 63 3.3.8 Mean Recovery Time, 65 3.4 Parallel Systems, 65 3.5 Structures of Type "m-out-of-n", 66
- 4 Recoverable Systems: Heuristic Models 72 4.1 Preliminary Notes, 72 4.2 Poisson Process, 75 4.3 Procedures over Poisson Processes, 78 4.3.1 Thinning Procedure, 78 4.3.2 Superposition Procedure, 80 4.4 Asymptotic Thinning Procedure over Stochastic Point Process, 80 4.5 Asymptotic Superposition of Stochastic Point Processes, 82 4.6 Intersection of Flows of Narrow Impulses, 84 4.7 Heuristic Method for Reliability Analysis of Series Recoverable Systems, 87 4.8 Heuristic Method for Reliability Analysis of Parallel Recoverable Systems, 87 4.8.1 Influence of Unreliable Switching Procedure, 88 4.8.2 Influence of Switch's Unreliability, 89 4.8.3 Periodical Monitoring of the Operating Unit, 90 4.8.4 Partial Monitoring of the Operating Unit, 91 4.9 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 93
- 5 Time Redundancy 95 5.1 System with Possibility of Restarting Operation, 95 5.2 Systems with "Admissibly Short Failures", 98 5.3 Systems with Time Accumulation, 99 5.4 Case Study: Gas Pipeline with an Underground Storage, 100 5.5 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 102
- 6 "Aging" Units and Systems of "Aging" Units 103 6.1 Chebyshev Bound, 103 6.2 "Aging" Unit, 104 6.3 Bounds for Probability of Failure-Free Operations, 105 6.4 Series System Consisting of "Aging" Units, 108 6.4.1 Preliminary Lemma, 108 6.5 Series System, 110 6.5.1 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 110 6.5.2 Mean Time to Failure of a Series System, 112 6.6 Parallel System, 114 6.6.1 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 114 6.6.2 Mean Time to Failure, 117 6.7 Bounds for the Coefficient of Operational Availability, 119 6.8 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 121
- 7 Two-Pole Networks 123 7.1 General Comments, 123 7.1.1 Method of Direct Enumeration, 125 7.2 Method of Boolean Function Decomposition, 127 7.3 Method of Paths and Cuts, 130 7.3.1 Esary--Proschan Bounds, 130 7.3.2 "Improvements" of Esary--Proschan Bounds, 133 7.3.3 Litvak--Ushakov Bounds, 135 7.3.4 Comparison of the Two Methods, 139 7.4 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 140
- 8 Performance Effectiveness 143 8.1 Effectiveness Concepts, 143 8.2 General Idea of Effectiveness Evaluation, 145 8.2.1 Conditional Case Study: Airport Traffic Control System, 147 8.3 Additive Type of System Units' Outcomes, 150 8.4 Case Study: ICBM Control System, 151 8.5 Systems with Intersecting Zones of Action, 153 8.6 Practical Recommendation, 158 8.7 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 160
- 9 System Survivability 162 9.1 Illustrative Example, 166 9.2 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 167
- 10 Multistate Systems 169 10.1 Preliminary Notes, 169 10.2 Generating Function, 169 10.3 Universal Generating Function, 172 10.4 Multistate Series System, 174 10.4.1 Series Connection of Piping Runs, 174 10.4.2 Series Connection of Resistors, 177 10.4.3 Series Connections of Capacitors, 179 10.5 Multistate Parallel System, 181 10.5.1 Parallel Connection of Piping Runs, 181 10.5.2 Parallel Connection of Resistors, 182 10.5.3 Parallel Connections of Capacitors, 182 10.6 Reducible Systems, 183 10.7 Conclusion, 190 10.8 Brief Historical Overview and Related Sources, 190 Appendix A Main Distributions Related to Reliability Theory 195 A.1 Discrete Distributions, 195 A.1.1 Degenerate Distribution, 195 A.1.2 Bernoulli Distribution, 196 A.1.3 Binomial Distribution, 197 A.1.4 Poisson Distribution, 198 A.1.5 Geometric Distribution, 200 A.2 Continuous Distributions, 201 A.2.1 Intensity Function, 201 A.2.2 Continuous Uniform Distribution, 202 A.2.3 Exponential Distribution, 203 A.2.4 Erlang Distribution, 204 A.2.5 Hyperexponential Distribution, 205 A.2.6 Normal Distribution, 207 A.2.7Weibull--Gnedenko Distribution, 207 Appendix B Laplace Transformation 209 Appendix C Markov Processes 214 C.1 General Markov Process, 214 C.1.1 Nonstationary Availability Coefficient, 216 C.1.2 Probability of Failure-Free Operation, 218 C.1.3 Stationary Availability Coefficient, 220 C.1.4 Mean Time to Failure and Mean Time Between Failures, 221 C.1.5 Mean Recovery Time, 222 C.2 Birth--Death Process, 223 Appendix D General Bibliography 227 Index 231.
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Featuring practical approaches to various reliability theory applications, this book--the first of three in a series--helps readers to understand and properly utilize statistical methods and optimal resource allocation to solve everyday engineering problems. It contains many illustrative numerical examples and explanatory figures, numerous exercises with solutions and explanations, and detailed case studies related to real-world technical projects. Topical coverage includes an overview of reliability; unrecoverable objects; recoverable systems; Markov models; heuristic models; time redundancy; aging units; methods of direct enumeration; performance effectiveness; system survivability; and multistate systems.
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- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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- Book — 1 online resource
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- Challenges to US Middle East policy in the post-Arab uprisings period
- Migration categories and the nation-state: Turkey's Syrians
- Kurdish politics vis-a-vis national borders in the Middle East
- Jihadi cool: how pop-culture is used by radical Islamists
- Factors driving the growth of the Syrian opposition
- Politics in limbo: the case of Syrian refugees
- The impact of the Arab Spring on NATO's policy towards the Middle East.
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20. Governing the Czech Republic and Slovakia : Between State Socialism and the European Union [2008]
- Scherpereel, John A.
- Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (274 pages) Digital: data file.
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- Title page; copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ch1-Introduction; Conceptual Baselines: Public Administration, Institutions, Administrative Reform; Self-Governing Regions and Civil Service: Two Missing Institutions; Hypotheses: From Missing Institutions to New Institutions?; Towards a Theory of Post-Socialist Administrative Reform; Case Selection, Data, and Research Strategies; Notes; ch2-Socialist State Building; Building Czechoslovakia: The Pre-Communist Approach; Building the Institutions of Party Domination; Consolidating the Institutions of Party Domination.
- Institutional Foundations of Mobilization: National Committees and "Civil Servants" During the Prague SpringRe-establishing Domination, 1968-1989; Conclusions; Notes; ch3-Transitional Moments: Institutional Legacies and Choices; On Constitutions and Reconstitutions: Keeping the Institutions, Changing the Incumbents; Enabling Institutions: Municipal National Committees and State Reconfiguration in 1990; Institutional Dearth: Demands for Moravian Self-government and the Issue of Self-governing Regions in 1990; Institutional Dearth: The Irrelevance of Civil Service Reform; Conclusions; Notes.
- Ch4-Two States, Two Paths, One DestinationThe Terminal Federal Era (1990-1992): Administrative Reform in an Uncertain Political Environment; Administrative Reform in the Czech Republic, 1992-1996; Administrative Reform in Slovakia, 1992-1996; Conclusions; Notes; ch5-The EU and State Reform: A Deepening Relationship; EU Administrative Reform Policy and Assistance, 1990-1997; Ineffective, But Not Irrelevant: "Europe" as a Rhetorical Tool; EU Administrative Reform Policy and Assistance, 1997-2004.
- Case Studies: Establishing Self-Governing Regions and Legally Protected Civil Services in the Czech Republic and SlovakiaConclusions; Notes; ch6-The Czech Republic and Slovakia in the European Union; Explanatory Assertions; Testing the Assertions; Conclusions; Notes; Acronyms; References; Index; About the Book.
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