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The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial focus, quotas are not simply about changing...

The fifth edition of this key student text provides an accessible and stimulating account of the legal framework of public administration. The new edition has been thoroughly reorganized to reflect the modern tranformation in the perception of the nature and function of administrative law....

What is it to have a reason to do something? is one sort of question; what is it we have reason to do? is another. These questions are often explored separately. But our answers to them may not be independent: what reasons are may have implications for what reasons there are. So the door is opened to a troubling tension--the account of what reasons...

Offering a wealth of reliable information, The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible provides more than 300 articles that cover everyone from Adam and Eve to Jesus Christ and everywhere from the Garden of Eden to Golgotha and Gethsemane.    Readers will find fascinating, informative entries on virtually every major figure who walked across...

Noted for its clear and direct writing style, the seventh edition of EU Law provides a systematic overview of the European institutions and offers thorough, wide ranging coverage of the key substantive law topics, including separate chapters on discrimination, competition and environmental law. Incisive analysis of the governing themes and...

Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust ConsciousnessAmericans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely absent from...