Shifting Obsessions
Shifting Obsessions

Author: Ivan Krastev

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 6155053898

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This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.

Shifting Obsessions
Shifting Obsessions

Author: Ivan Krastev

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9789639241947

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Annotation Rather than being a study of anti-corruption policies, this work looks at the politics of anti-corruption and their institutional motivations. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.

Tourette's Syndrome -- Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions
Tourette's Syndrome -- Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions

Author: James F. Leckman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1998-11-09

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9780471160373

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Früher wurde das Tourette-Syndrom (TS) als seltene Störung betrachtet; mittlerweile jedoch wurde erkannt, daß TS häufig in der Kindheit beginnt. Man weiß jetzt auch, daß die Anfälligkeit für TS über Generationen hinweg vererbt wird. Diagnose, Genetik, Phänomenologie, Geschichte und Behandlung von TS werden hier dargestellt, ausgehend von einem einmaligen Ansatz, der Beziehungen zwischen der Störung und dem normalen Entwicklungsweg herstellt. (8/98)

Understanding the Private–Public Divide
Understanding the Private–Public Divide

Author: Avner Offer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1108496202

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A distinctive new account of why markets focus on short-term goals, while government needs to concentrate on society's long-term interests.

Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior
Neurobiology of Grooming Behavior

Author: Allan V. Kalueff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139483897

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Grooming is among the most evolutionary ancient and highly represented behaviours in many animal species. It represents a significant proportion of an animal's total activity and between 30-50% of their waking hours. Recent research has demonstrated that grooming is regulated by specific brain circuits and is sensitive to stress, as well as to pharmacologic compounds and genetic manipulation, making it ideal for modelling affective disorders that arise as a function of stressful environments, such as stress and post-traumatic stress disorder. Over a series of 12 chapters that introduce and explicate the field of grooming research and its significance for the human and animal brain, this book covers the breadth of grooming animal models while simultaneously providing sufficient depth in introducing the concepts and translational approaches to grooming research. Written primarily for graduates and researchers within the neuroscientific community.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder For Dummies
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder For Dummies

Author: Charles H. Elliott

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-11-24

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780470444696

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Arguably one of the most complex emotional disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is surprisingly common. Furthermore, most people at some time in their lives exhibit a smattering of OCD-like symptoms. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies sorts out the otherwise curious and confusing world of obsessive compulsive disorder. Engaging and comprehensive, it explains the causes of OCD and describes the rainbow of OCD symptoms. The book shows readers whether OCD symptoms represent normal and trivial concerns (for example, a neat freak) or something that should be checked out by a mental health professional (for example, needing to wash hands so often that they become raw and red). In easy to understand steps, the authors lay out the latest treatments that have been proven to work for this disorder, and provide practical and real tools for living well long-term. Whether you or someone you care about has this disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies gives you an empathic understanding of this fascinating yet treatable mental disorder.

The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Author: Denys Gorbach

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2024-03-15

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1805392999

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Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 and the popular response to the Russian invasion in 2022. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the book focuses on the moral economy that constitutes the working class and structures its relations with other social groups.

Shamanism
Shamanism

Author: Graham Harvey

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780415253291

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This is an essential tribute to the vitality and breadth of shamanic tradition both amongst the most distant tribes of America and Asia, and within seemingly ordinary aspects of modern western culture.

Europe as Empire
Europe as Empire

Author: Jan Zielonka

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-10-11

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0199231869

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This book offers a strikingly new perspective on EU enlargement. Basing his findings on substantial empirical evidence, Zielonka presents a carefully argued account of the kind of political entity the European Union is becoming, with particular reference to recent enlargement.

A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption

Author: Blendi Kajsiu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1317188349

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Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. It did so in four interrelated ways. First, blaming every Albanian failure on corruption avoided a critical engagement with the existing neoliberal developmental model. Second, the dominant articulation of corruption as abuse of public office for private gain consigned it to the public sector, transforming neoliberal policies of privatisation and expanding markets into anticorruption measures. Third, international anticorruption campaigns reproduced an asymmetric relationship of dependency between Albania and the international institutions that monitored it by articulating corruption as internal to the Albanian condition. Finally, against corruption international and local actors could articulate a neoliberal order that was free of internal contradictions and fully compatible with democratization. As a rare example of post-structuralist discourse analysis of corruption this book can be useful for future research on discourses of corruption in other countries of the region and beyond.