Marc Hooghe, Silvia Erzeel, Eline Severs, Kris Deschouwer
Politiek - Een inleiding in de politieke wetenschappen
Politiek bepaalt voor een belangrijk deel ons dagelijks leven: van eenvoudige verkeersregels tot de vraag wie er toegang krijgt tot onderwijs of gezondheidszorg.
"Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of ′community′ as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction decisions. Meer
It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. Meer
In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates. Meer
Examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. This book questions the philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. Meer
This book examines some fifty countries to ascertain how the chambers of bicameral legislatures interact when they produce legislation. An understanding of this interaction is essential because otherwise legislative behaviour in each chamber may be unintelligible or incorrectly interpreted. Meer
Louise Marlow shows the tension that existed between the traditional egalitarian ideal of early Islam, and the hierarchical impulses of the classical period. Meer
This book fills a gap in the literature on coercion and assesses the usefulness of coercive diplomacy in the post-Cold war era. The theoretical framework explains why coercive diplomacy politics succeed or fail, identifies the conditions under which Western states will be willing to back coercive strategies with use of limited force and highlights how the need for collective action affects the use of coercion. Meer
Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform. Whether these efforts involve grass roots innovation or large-scale societal reform, failure to understand and act on existing knowledge of the change process has accounted for the widespread lack of success in making educational improvements. Meer
This is the first work to condense the large literature on explanatory style -- one's tendency to offer similar sorts of explanations for different events. Meer
Women's integration into the military academies afforded an almost unique opportunity to study social change. It was a tidy, well-defined natural experiment. Meer
It was a delight to see that the facts of food preferences, eating, and food behavior conform in many ways to the general principles of psychology. Meer