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The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?
A Case Study of the New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women. Concerns about the homogeneity of the legislature under the Single Member Plurality electoral system and the need for increased representativeness...
The Impact of Cleavages on Swiss Voting Behaviour
A Modern Research Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book studies the impact of cleavages on electoral choices. Based on a case study of Switzerland, it analyses how cleavages divide voters into voting blocs and how this influences Swiss voting behaviour and the Swiss party system. The first part examines the development of salient cleavages such...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human security’...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Historical Archaeology of New York City is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories...
The Plurality of Power
An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary...
Breaking Down Barriers
Usability, Accessibility and Inclusive Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
The Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) is one of the few gatherings where people interested in inclusive design, across different fields, including designers, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, ethnographers, policymakers and user communities,...
Process Mining in Healthcare
Evaluating and Exploiting Operational Healthcare Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
What are the possibilities for process mining in hospitals? In this book the authors provide an answer to this question by presenting a healthcare reference model that outlines all the different classes of data that are potentially available for process mining in healthcare and the relationships...
Architecture Principles
The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Enterprises, from small to large, evolve continuously. As a result, their structures are transformed and extended continuously. Without some means of control, such changes are bound to lead to an overly complex, uncoordinated and heterogeneous environment that is hard to manage and hard to adapt to...
Transforming Field and Service Operations
Methodologies for Successful Technology-Driven Business Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The drive to realise operational efficiencies, improve customer service, develop new markets and accelerate the introduction of new products has substantially increased the complexity of field service operations. To maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of these operations, organisations have...
Current Trends in Web Engineering
ICWE 2016 International Workshops, DUI, TELERISE, SoWeMine, and Liquid Web, Lugano, Switzerland, June 6-9, 2016. Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2016, held in Lugano, Switzerland, in June 2016.
The 15 revised full papers together with 5 short papers were selected form 37 submissions. The workshops complement...
by Frank P. Morello, Paul K.T. Sih
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Can two-Chinas co-exist in the present world order? In a sense they co-exist now-Free China in Taiwan (Formosa) and Communist China on the mainland. Barring a military showdown, this situation could remain for years to come. However, if we seek to put Free China and Communist China on some permanent...
Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia
An Introduction to Governments and Political Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study...
by Willem Frederik Eekelen, Willem Frederik van Eekelen
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Emiratization in the UAE Labor Market
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book combines classic and recent studies investigating challenges to Emiratization – full employment of Emirati nationals who make up only about 10% of the total workforce – in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The book offers a comprehensive overview of the events leading to the country’s...