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UNINA9910464524303321 |
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Autore |
Cawood Ian |
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The Liberal Unionist Party : a history / / by Ian Cawood |
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London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2012 |
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0-7556-2293-6 |
0-85773-652-3 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (629 p.) |
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International library of political studies |
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Irish question |
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 |
Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1910 |
Great Britain Politics and government 1910-1936 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1: 'Dagon must be thrown down' The Origins of the Liberal Unionist party -- Chapter 2: Whiggery or Socialism? The Ideology of Liberal Unionism -- Chapter 3: 'Yeast to leaven the Tory lump' The Unionist Alliance -- Chapter 4: Party Organisation - Cave or Caucus? -- Chapter 5: Liberal Unionism and the electorate - 'A Farce and a Fraud'? -- Chapter 6: 'Strangled by its own parent', The Strange Death of Liberal Unionism - 1895-1912 -- Conclusion: Who were the Liberal Unionists?. |
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"The Liberal Unionist party was one of the shortest-lived political parties in British history. It was formed in 1886 by a faction of the Liberal party, led by Lord Hartington, which opposed Irish home rule. In 1895, it entered into a coalition government with the Conservative party and in 1912, now under the leadership of Joseph Chamberlain, it amalgamated with the Conservatives. Ian Cawood here uses previously unpublished archival material to provide the first complete study of the Liberal Unionist party. He argues that the party was a genuinely successful political movement with widespread activist and popular support which resulted in the development of an authentic Liberal Unionist culture across Britain in the mid-1890s. The issues which this |
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book explores are central to an understanding of the development of the twentieth century Conservative party, the emergence of a 'national' political culture, and the problems, both organisational and ideological, of a sustained period of coalition in the British parliamentary system."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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UNINA9910462377303321 |
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Autore |
McCarty Nolan M |
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Titolo |
Political bubbles [[electronic resource] ] : financial crises and the failure of American democracy / / Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PooleKeith T |
RosenthalHoward <1939-> |
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Financial crises - United States - History - 21st century |
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 - Political aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Political Bubble. Why Washington Allows Financial Crises to Occur -- Chapter 1. Bubble Expectations -- Chapter 2. Ideology -- Chapter 3. Interests -- Chapter 4. Institutions -- Chapter 5. The Political Bubble of the Crisis of 2008 -- Part II. Pops. Why Washington Delays in Solving Financial Crises -- Chapter 6. Historical Lessons of the Responses to Pops -- Chapter 7. The Pop of 2008 -- Chapter 8. "Populism -- Chapter 9 . How to Waste a Crisis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
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Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent |
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combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political bubbles helped create the real estate-generated financial bubble and the 2008 financial crisis, this book argues that similar government oversights in the aftermath of the crisis undermined Washington's response to the "popped" financial bubble, and shows how such patterns have occurred repeatedly throughout US history. The authors show that just as financial bubbles are an unfortunate mix of mistaken beliefs, market imperfections, and greed, political bubbles are the product of rigid ideologies, unresponsive and ineffective government institutions, and special interests. Financial market innovations--including adjustable-rate mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, and credit default swaps--become subject to legislated leniency and regulatory failure, increasing hazardous practices. The authors shed important light on the politics that blinds regulators to the economic weaknesses that create the conditions for economic bubbles and recommend simple, focused rules that should help avoid such crises in the future. The first full accounting of how politics produces financial ruptures, Political Bubbles offers timely lessons that all sectors would do well to heed. |
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UNINA9910799904903321 |
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Autore |
Srinivasan Ancha |
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Titolo |
Climate smart development in Asia : Transition to Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economies in Asia |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012 |
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1-283-46169-2 |
0-203-14156-3 |
9786613461698 |
1-136-49692-0 |
1-136-49691-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LingFrank Hiroshi |
MoriHideyuki |
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Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Economic aspects -- Asia |
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Asia |
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Asia |
Energy policy -- Environmental aspects -- Asia |
Sustainable development -- Asia |
Business & Economics |
Economic History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front Cover; Climate Smart Development in Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Section I: Introduction; 1. Climate smart development in Asia: An overview: Ancha Srinivasan, Frank Hiroshi Ling and Hideyuki Mori; Section II: Case Studies; 2. The potential for low carbon climate resilient economy (LCE) in Japan: Frank Hiroshi Ling and Junichi Fujino; 3. The potential for LCE in India: Surender Kumar and Shunsuke Managi |
4. Challenges and opportunities for LCE in China: A case study of policies for wind power development: Xiaomei Tan and Brett Rose5. LCE |
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in Indonesia: A review of national programs for climate mitigation and resilience: Frank Hiroshi Ling and Ancha Srinivasan; 6. The potential for voluntary approaches to realize a climate smart economy: Private-public partnerships in Taiwan: Ju-Han Zoe Wang and Wen-Cheng Hu; Section III: Enabling Conditions; 7. Technologies for climate smart development: A case study of carbon capture and storage: Frank Hiroshi Ling, Xiangyang Xu and Ancha Srinivasan |
8. Financing the low carbon energy sector in the context of future climate regime negotiations: Kentaro Tamura and Koji Fukuda9. Enabling the transition to climate smart development in Asian cities: Heike Schroeder, Jun Li, Harriet Bulkeley, Carine Barbier, Jimin Zhao, Michel Colombier, Shu Yi Chu and Shibani Ghosh; 10. Policy frameworks for climate smart development: The case of hydropower: Yadu Nath Pokhrel, Taikan Oki and Shinjiro Kanae; 11. Bioenergy deployment for climate smart development: The case of biogas for cooking in India: Hoysala N. Chanakya and Patil Balachandra |
Section IV: The Way Forward12. Climate smart development in Asia: The way forward: Ancha Srinivasan and Frank Hiroshi Ling; Index |
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The future of China, India and Asia's other emerging economies and their ability to take a 'low-carbon' and 'climate-resilient' development path determine the future of global carbon emissions and climate change. Indeed, the battle to confront global climate change will be won or lost in Asia. The transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy (LCE), which involves many steps towards improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources and transport systems, sustainable land use, eco-friendly consumption and proactive adaptation, may be regarded as the world's fourth revolution, af |
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UNINA9910483987303321 |
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Titolo |
Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic / / edited by Alex Mesoudi, Kenichi Aoki |
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Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series, , 2365-063X |
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Anthropology |
Culture—Study and teaching |
Archaeology |
Evolution (Biology) |
Regional and Cultural Studies |
Evolutionary Biology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet -- Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population -- Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data -- The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective -- Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured? -- “Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’ -- Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model -- Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior -- Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic -- Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior. |
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This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-)species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The contributing authors are directly involved in this effort, and the material presented includes novel approaches and findings. Chapters explain how learning strategies in combination with social and demographic factors (e.g., population size and mobility patterns) predict cultural evolution in a world without the printing press, television, or the Internet. Also addressed is the inverse problem of how learning strategies may be inferred from actual trajectories of cultural change, for example as seen in the North American Palaeolithic. Mathematics and statistics, a sometimes necessary part of theory, are explained in elementary terms where they appear, with details relegated to appendices. Full citations of the relevant literature will help the reader to further pursue any topic of interest. |
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