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This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role
that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on
a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of
in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of
annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant
judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and
decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of
actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the
emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact
of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the
impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they
originate from.
Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of
specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book
industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the
millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era's most
popular books were diverse and often surprising in retrospect,
despite an oppressive ideological and cultural climate: Huxley's
Brave New World was widely read in the 1930s, while Saint-Exupery's
Wind, Sand and Stars was a great success during the war years.
Bestsellers of the Third Reich surveys this motley collection of
books, along with the circumstances of their publication, to
provide an innovative new window into the history of Nazi Germany.
Public Policy and the CJEU's Power offers an overarching analytical
framework for thinking about the impact of policy contexts on the
CJEU's influence on European public policy and the course of
European integration. Thereby, it lays out a research agenda that
is best described as public policy approach to studying judicial
power in the European Union. The policy contexts within which
actors operate do not only structure the incentives to use
litigation, they also affect how strongly the implementation of
court rulings relies on these policy stakeholders. Therefore, the
CJEU's power is strongly dependent on policy contexts and policy
stakeholders. This argument is illustrated by a wide variety of
empirical analyses covering the three major types of legal actions
before the CJEU (infringement proceedings, preliminary rulings and
annulments), a wide variety of policy fields (e.g. competition law,
internal market regulation, common agriculture policy, social
policies, foreign policy), and different types of policy
stakeholders (e.g. public, private, subnational, national and
European stakeholders). Using this rich empirical material, the
book provides an analytic framework for thinking about how policy
contexts influence the CJEU's impact. Bringing together expert
contributions, Public Policy and the CJEU's Power will be of great
interest and use to scholars working on the European Union, law and
politics and public policy. The chapters were originally published
as a special issue in the Journal of European Integration.
This book unites scholarship on law and politics with compliance
research in the EU to shed light on the political role of a
neglected dimension of litigation in the EU: the political role of
governmental actions for annulment. The book does not portray
national governments as passive actors within the EU's judicial
arena. Instead it focuses on cases in which national governments
turn to the Court of Justice to litigate against the European
Commission, and provides several answers to the question of why EU
member state governments take this decision. Governments hope, on
the one hand, to evade costly domestic adjustments where the
Commission uses administrative acts to interfere with domestic
policy application. On the other hand, governments hope to provoke
judicial law-making to influence the long-term development of EU
administrative law and sectoral regulation. The book will be of
particular interest to political scientists and legal scholars. .
Public Policy and the CJEU's Power offers an overarching analytical
framework for thinking about the impact of policy contexts on the
CJEU's influence on European public policy and the course of
European integration. Thereby, it lays out a research agenda that
is best described as public policy approach to studying judicial
power in the European Union. The policy contexts within which
actors operate do not only structure the incentives to use
litigation, they also affect how strongly the implementation of
court rulings relies on these policy stakeholders. Therefore, the
CJEU's power is strongly dependent on policy contexts and policy
stakeholders. This argument is illustrated by a wide variety of
empirical analyses covering the three major types of legal actions
before the CJEU (infringement proceedings, preliminary rulings and
annulments), a wide variety of policy fields (e.g. competition law,
internal market regulation, common agriculture policy, social
policies, foreign policy), and different types of policy
stakeholders (e.g. public, private, subnational, national and
European stakeholders). Using this rich empirical material, the
book provides an analytic framework for thinking about how policy
contexts influence the CJEU's impact. Bringing together expert
contributions, Public Policy and the CJEU's Power will be of great
interest and use to scholars working on the European Union, law and
politics and public policy. The chapters were originally published
as a special issue in the Journal of European Integration.
The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and
the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand,
responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy.
On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy
accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects
modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic
government in three main ways. First, policy accumulation renders
policy content increasingly complex, which crowds out policy
substance from public debates and leads to an increasingly
unhealthy discursive prioritisation of politics over policy.
Secondly, policy accumulation comes with aggravating implementation
deficits, as it produces administrative backlogs and incentivises
selective implementation. Finally, policy accumulation undermines
the pursuit of evidence-based public policy, because it threatens
our ability to evaluate the increasingly complex interactions
within growing policy mixes. The authors argue that the stability
of democratic systems will crucially depend on their ability to
make policy accumulation more sustainable.
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role
that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on
a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of
in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of
annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant
judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and
decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of
actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the
emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact
of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the
impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they
originate from.
This study is historical and pragmatic in its approach and examines
the first advertisements in German postwar magazines prior to the
currency reform in 1948. One central interest of the study is
advertising as part of the cultural history of everyday life
reflecting the specific living (and survival) conditions and the
intellectual climate of the period. Others are the conditions
determining what advertising looked like and the intentions of the
advertising experts. What kind of advertising was appropriate to a
period of upheaval and general (language) crisis? The author
indicates the traditions drawn upon and the emergence of new
patterns adumbrating 'modern' contemporary advertising strategies.
The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and
the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand,
responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy.
On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy
accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects
modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic
government in three main ways. First, policy accumulation renders
policy content increasingly complex, which crowds out policy
substance from public debates and leads to an increasingly
unhealthy discursive prioritisation of politics over policy.
Secondly, policy accumulation comes with aggravating implementation
deficits, as it produces administrative backlogs and incentivises
selective implementation. Finally, policy accumulation undermines
the pursuit of evidence-based public policy, because it threatens
our ability to evaluate the increasingly complex interactions
within growing policy mixes. The authors argue that the stability
of democratic systems will crucially depend on their ability to
make policy accumulation more sustainable.
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is a pioneer in
visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously
helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford
by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a complex
system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze
frames-proving conclusively, for the first time, that a galloping
horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a
second. For the next three decades, Muybridge continued his quest
to fully catalog many aspects of human and animal movement,
shooting hundreds of horses and other animals, -as well as nude or
draped subjects engaged in various activities such as running,
walking, boxing, fencing, and descending a staircase (the latter
study inspired Marcel Duchamp's famous 1912 painting).This book
traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking
about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments.
Many plates of Muybridge's groundbreaking Animal Locomotion (1887)
are reproduced here. In addition, Muybridge's handmade and
extremely rare first illustrated album, The Attitudes of Animals in
Motion (1881), is reproduced in large part. A detailed chronology
by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of
the most important pioneers of photography. About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating
the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Cela fait plus de cinq siecles qu'une fleche bien placee mit fin au
regne de terreur instaure par Sargon l'Aneantisseur. Le temps passa
pendant que la Terre pansait ses blessures et que la Magie tomba
dans l'oubli. Maintenant, Aldrick et sa famille sont en route pour
la capitale pour se rendre au Tournoi du Roi, ils voyagent
paisiblement par un temps magnifique. Il n'aurait jamais pu
s'imaginer que par cette merveilleuse journee de printemps, sa vie
entiere etait sur le point d'etre completement bouleversee, ou que
sa destinee puisse etre qu'il doive faire face a... ...l'emergence
de l'Aneantisseur.
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