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American Studies in Scandinavia : Special Topic: Transnational Strategies in Higher Education and Cultural Fields. The Case of the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Double issue of the journal American Studies in Scandinavia, refereed and peer-reviewed, containing scholarly articles and reviews: the editor's column, five miscellaneous articles, five articles on the epcial topic "Transnational Strategies in Higher Education and Cultural Fields. The Case of the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century"; four reviews of schoalrly works on American Studies, supported by the Nordic Association of American Studies. American Studies in Scandianvia invites interdisciplinary manuscripts drawing on such fields as geography, history, linguistics, literature, political science, social anthropology, and sociology.
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Archives of ALGA, volume 5
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Volume 5 contains 3 articles by N.Ibragimov, an article by R. Khamitova and the English translation of V.P.Ermakov's article "Second order differential equations:conditions of complete integrability".
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Bits of Life. Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This edited volume puts focus on current technological reconfigurations of bodies and embodied subjects from feminist perspectives. Convergences between feminist cultural analyses of info- and biotechnologies are explored by authors from many different disciplinary backgrounds (from humanities to physics).
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Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining : The Democractic Life Cycle in Western Europe
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- "Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe provides a comprehensive analysis of coalition politics in Western Europe over the post-war period. It champions a dynamic approach in which the various stages in the life of coalitions influence each other. After a review of the literature a theory chapter addresses the roles of bargaining and transaction costs in coalition governance. Eight comparative chapters address the topics of government formation (government type, formation duration), coalition agreements, portfolio allocation, conflict management, cabinet termination and duration, and the electoral consequences of coalition government. The book is based on the most comprehensive data set ever employed in coalition studies that includes both coalitional and single-party countries and governments. Each chapter first provides a comparative overview of the phenomenon under study and then moves on to state-of-the art statistical analysis. Conceptually and in the statistical analysis the study argues for an integrated approach stressing the relevance of countries, time, 'structural attributes', actors' preferences, institutions, the coalition's bargaining environment, and 'critical events'. Indeed, sufficient explanations of most phenomena under study require independent variables from several of these categories"--Jacket.
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