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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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Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and political isolation. Today, China has the world's second largest economy and is a major player in global diplomacy. This volume, written by some of the leading experts in the field, tracks China's extraordinary transformation from the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the death of Chairman Mao, to its dynamic rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. The latest edition of the book includes a new introduction and a seventh chapter which focuses on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the godfather of China's transformation, under his successors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.
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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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Almost everyone today affirms the importance and merit of religious liberty. But religious liberty is being challenged by new questions (for example, use of the niqab or church adoption services for same-sex couples) and new forces (such as globalization and Islamism). Combined, these make the meaning of religious liberty in the twenty-first century uncertain. This collection of essays by ten of the world's leading scholars on religious liberty takes aim at these issues. The book is arranged around five specific challenges to religious liberty today: the state's responsibility to prevent coercion and intimidation of believers by others within the same faith community; the US's basic moral responsibilities to promote religious liberty abroad; how to understand and apply the traditional right of conscientious objection in today's circumstances; the distinctive problems presented by globalization; and the viability today of an 'originalist' interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses.
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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.

• 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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It is widely assumed that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both incomplete survey data and economic conditions of the past and not present. In fact, Americans have desired less inequality for decades, and McCall's book explains why. Americans become most concerned about inequality in times of inequitable growth, when they view the rich as prospering while opportunities for good jobs, fair pay and high quality education are restricted for everyone else. As a result, they favor policies to expand opportunity and redistribute earnings in the workplace, reducing inequality in the market rather than redistributing income after the fact with tax and spending policies. This book resolves the paradox of how Americans can express little enthusiasm for welfare state policies and still yearn for a more equitable society, and forwards a new model of preferences about income inequality rooted in labor market opportunities rather than welfare state policies.
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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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The United States Congress conducts several types of activities for which it employs staff. These activities include assisting Members in official responsibilities in personal, committee, leadership, or administrative office settings. Congressional career tracks generally mirror common stages of other professional careers, but with adaptations to the congressional workplace. These adaptations include relatively short career ladders on which staff may acquire substantial responsibilities in a relatively short period of time, and close support of a Member's legislative and representational responsibilities. This book focuses on positions in House and Senate personal offices, and provides sample position descriptions for 14 positions with similar job titles in each chamber. This book also provides basic information on congressional salaries and allowances.
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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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Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates the political economy of party support for British political parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997. Using valence politics models of electoral choice and marshalling an unprecedented wealth of survey data collected in the British Election Study's monthly Continuous Monitoring Surveys, the authors trace forces affecting support for New Labour during its thirteen years in office. They then study how the recessionary economy has influenced the dynamics of party support since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition came to power in May 2010 and factors that shaped voting in Britain's May 2011 national referendum on changing the electoral system. Placing Britain in comparative perspective with cross-national survey data gathered in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, the authors investigate how the economic crisis has affected support for incumbent governments and democratic politics in over twenty European countries.
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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.

What's the best political system? What standards should we use to decide, and why? Arguments for Liberty is a guide to thinking about these questions. Two schools of thought have long dominated libertarian discussions about ethics: utilitarianism and natural rights. Those two theories are important, but they're not the only ways people think about ethics and political philosophy. In Arguments for Liberty, you'll find a broader approach to libertarianism. In each of Arguments for Liberty's nine chapters a different political philosopher discusses how his or her preferred school of thought judges political institutions and why libertarianism best meets that standard. Though they end up in the same place, the paths they take diverge in fascinating ways. Readers will find in these pages not only an excellent introduction to libertarianism, but also a primer on some of the most important political and ethical theories.
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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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What are regional representations in the European Union? What do they hope to achieve? Since the mid-1980s, sub-state actors in the EU such as county councils, Lander, Autonomous Communities, local, municipal and city authorities have been opening representative offices in Brussels -- mini 'embassies' for their territories. Although on the surface these representations might look the same, in practice they operate according to very different dynamics. Whilst some rival national governments for a stake in EU policy development, others have more modest ambitions. This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the burgeoning phenomenon of regional representation in the EU. Considering evidence from old member states as well as those which joined the EU more recently, it looks at where strategies and aims differ, positioning various 'types' of representation closer to the work of embassies or to that carried out by lobbying groups. The author also considers how regional representations contribute to our understanding of multi-level governance in the EU.
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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.

The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal. Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for American conservatism (George H. Nash), the essays expound broadly and deeply on populist unrest-the populist revolts of ancient Rome (Barry Strauss), the rise of popular referenda and the Brexit vote (Daniel Hannan), American populism and the legacy of H. L. Mencken (Fred Siegel), populism and the Founders' generation (James Piereson), populism and identity (Roger Scruton), populism around the world (Andrew C. McCarthy), the birth of a new American populist movement (Victor Davis Hanson), and populism's historical impact on the American party system (Conrad Black). The book concludes with a discussion of the struggle to keep government in the hands of a free people (Roger Kimball). Just what perils and promises are found in populist ferment may be the question of our age. Taken together, these ten essays consider "the voice of the people" in the light of history, in a collection that only The New Criterion could assemble.
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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?

• 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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Accounting for Ministers uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. Utilising agency theory, it describes Cabinet government as a system of incentives for prime ministerial and parliamentary rule. The authors use a unique dataset of ministers from 1945 to 2007 to examine the structural and individual characteristics that lead to the selection and durability of ministers. Sensitive to historical context, it describes the unique features of different Prime Ministers and the sorts of issues and scandals that lead to the forced exit of ministers. The authors identify the structural factors that determine ministerial performance and tenure, seeing resignation calls as performance indicators. Probing the nature of individual and collective responsibility within Westminster forms of government, its rigorous analysis provides powerful new insights into the nature of Cabinet government.
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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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This book explores ways foreign intervention and external rivalries can affect the institutionalization of governance in weak states. When sufficiently competitive, foreign rivalries in a weak state can actually foster the political centralization, territoriality and autonomy associated with state sovereignty. This counterintuitive finding comes from studying the collective effects of foreign contestation over a weak state as informed by changes in the expected opportunity cost of intervention for outside actors. When interveners associate high opportunity costs with intervention, they bolster sovereign statehood as a next best alternative to their worst fear - domination of that polity by adversaries. Sovereign statehood develops if foreign actors concurrently and consistently behave this way toward a weak state. This book evaluates that argument against three 'least likely' cases - China, Indonesia and Thailand between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
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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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Practical Approaches to Reliability Theory in Cutting-Edge Applications Probabilistic Reliability Models helps readers understand and properly use statistical methods and optimal resource allocation to solve engineering problems. The author supplies engineers with a deeper understanding of mathematical models while also equipping mathematically oriented readers with a fundamental knowledge of the engineeringrelated applications at the center of model building. The book showcases the use of probability theory and mathematical statistics to solve common, real-world reliability problems. Following an introduction to the topic, subsequent chapters explore key systems and models including: * Unrecoverable objects and recoverable systems * Methods of direct enumeration * Markov models and heuristic models * Performance effectiveness * Time redundancy * System survivability * Aging units and their related systems * Multistate systems Detailed case studies illustrate the relevance of the discussed methods to real-world technical projects including software failure avalanches, gas pipelines with underground storage, and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) control systems. Numerical examples and detailed explanations accompany each topic, and exercises throughout allow readers to test their comprehension of the presented material. Probabilistic Reliability Models is an excellent book for statistics, engineering, and operations research courses on applied probability at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. The book is also a valuable reference for professionals and researchers working in industry who would like a mathematical review of reliability models and the relevant applications.
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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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• 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.

The Arab uprisings that emerged in reaction to unemployment, high inflation, corruption, and the lack of liberty under authoritarian rule in the Middle East and North Africa paved the way for social and political transformations in the region. As a consequence of these uprisings, new actors have gained prominence, while regional issues have become more aggravated and complicated, challenging existing national borders. The involvement of a broad range of regional and external actors in various parts of the region has created new conflicts and alliances. New Actors and Issues in the Post-Arab Uprisings examines how the post-Arab uprisings period, with its diversity of issues and actors, challenges existing policies and national borders in the Middle East. This collection provides readers with a deeper understanding of the political and social changes that are underway through diverse perspectives on various critical issues.
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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.