Bestuurskundig onderzoek is een praktische inleiding in de onderzoeksmethodologie die aansluit bij bestuurskundige thema’s. Er wordt rekening gehouden met de specifieke eigenschappen van de bestuurskunde als onderzoeksgebied, bijvoorbeeld met het interdisciplinaire karakter ervan. Daardoor krijgt het vak meteen betekenis.

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Wat is de stand van Nederland? We hoeven volgens sommigen alleen maar naar de vele initiatieven van mensen onderling te kijken - de buurtinitiatieven, de broodfondsen, de duurzame energiecoöperaties - om te concluderen dat het prima met ons gaat. Burgers wachten niet langer op de overheid en kunnen met elkaar veel voor elkaar boksen: Het gaat goed! Tegelijkertijd bestaat er naast dit positieve verhaal ook een ander verhaal over Nederland. Er is sprake van een wijdverspreid maatschappelijk on...

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.

On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Mu...

With unrivalled coverage of a wide range of issues - from terrorism, inter-state conflict and nuclear deterrence, to environmental security, health, and transnational crime - Contemporary Security Studies is the definitive introduction to Security Studies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, it provides a student-friendly guide to traditional and critical theoretical approaches, as well as the most important contemporary issues that dominate the modern security field. The s...

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government.

And even after decades of free-market criticism and reform, their core institutions have proven resilient and popular. This Very Short Introduction describes the modern welfare state, explaining its...

How exactly has the British system changed? Where does power now lie? In this book, the author offers the first assessment in many years of Britain's governing arrangements as a whole, providing much needed context for the 2015 general election.

The autobiography of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century.

Drawing on mainstream and critical theoretical approaches, International Organizations offers a comprehensive examination of international organizations' political and structural role in world politics. This text details the types and activities of international organizations and provides students with the conceptual tools needed to evaluate their effectiveness. Surveying key issue areas from international and human security to trade and the environment, International Organizations looks at p...

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable for anyone doing research in this area.

The book does not simply lay down precepts. It presents examples drawn from the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian....

Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was w...