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UNINA9910452425103321 |
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Worcester Kenton |
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Titolo |
Violence and Politics [[electronic resource] ] : Globalization's Paradox |
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Florence, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
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1-315-02340-7 |
1-136-70125-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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New Political Science Reader |
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BermanzohnSally Avery |
UngarMark |
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Political violence |
Political Science |
Law, Politics & Government |
Political Theory of the State |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION Violence and Politics; PART ONE: States, Social Groups, and Contentious Politics; CHAPTER ONE Violent and Nonviolent Trajectories in Contentious Politics; CHAPTER TWO Private Armies and the Decline of the State; CHAPTER THREE State Violence and LGBT Rights; CHAPTER FOUR Globalization, Weak States, and the Death Toll in East Asia; CHAPTER FIVE Political Islam: Inclusion or Violence?; PART TWO: Identities, Adversaries, and Democratic Values |
CHAPTER SEVEN From Protest to Retribution: The Guerrilla Politics of Pro-life ViolenceCHAPTER EIGHT Violence, Nonviolence, and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; CHAPTER NINE Ethnonational Conflicts, Democratization, and Hate Crime; CHAPTER TEN Economics, Violence, and Protest in Venezuela: A Preview of the Global Future?; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Clash Within: Intrapsychically Created Enemies and Their Roles in Ethnonationalist Conflict; CHAPTER TWELVE Fear and Democracy; Contributors; Index |
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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UNINA9910696955003321 |
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Nursing homes [[electronic resource] ] : addressing the factors underlying understatement of serious care problems requires sustained CMS and state commitment : report to congressional requesters |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2009] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 72 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Nursing homes - United States |
Nursing homes - Complaints against - United States |
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Title from PDF title screen (GAO, viewed Mar. 3, 2010). |
"November 2009." |
"GAO-10-70." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910787001803321 |
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Autore |
Golunov Serghei |
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The elephant in the room : corruption and cheating in Russian universities / / Serghei Golunov |
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Stuttgart, Germany : , : ibidem-Verlag, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (133 p.) |
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, , 1614-3515 |
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Cheating (Education) |
Education, Higher - Russia (Federation) |
Cheating (Education) - Russia (Federation) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1. The problem; 1.2. Existing works on the topic; 1.3. The approach; 1.4. Book structure; 2 VULNERABILITIES OF THE RUSSIAN HIGHEREDUCATION SYSTEM; 2.1. Russian higher education system at a glance; 2.2. Some key system trends of the post-Soviet period; 2.3. Influence of environment; 2.4. Conclusion; 3 CORRUPTION AND CHEATING PRACTICES; 3.1. Conceptualisations; 3.2. Corruption; 3.3. Cheating; 3.4. Consequences; 3.5. Conclusion; 4 COUNTERACTION EFFORTS; 4.1. Strategies and best practices; 4.2. Official efforts |
4.3. Academic and student activism4.4. International impact; 4.5. Conclusion; 5 CONCLUSIONS; 5.1. Roots and relative importance of malpractices; 5.2. Damage from malpractice; 5.3. Efficiency of counteraction measures; 5.4. Recommendations; INDEX |
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This book offers a long overdue account of the wide range of corruption and cheating practices in Russian higher education, including bribery, financial fraud, clientelism, plagiarism, exam cheating, and much more. Serghei Golunov ruthlessly uncovers the recent social trends that have created a favourable ground for such malpractices and evaluates the efficiency of measures taken against |
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corruption and fraud by various actors. Although corruption and cheating are so wide-spread in most Russian universities that the real value of their diplomas is very questionable, these problems are prioritiz |
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