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Analysing asylum in Britain and Germany from a historical and conceptual perspective, this book provides a comparative study of asylum and refugee policies.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What We Know About Political Extremism -- 1.2 Why We Need to Study Attitudes -- 1.3 Choosing the Political Context -- 1.4 Data -- 1.5 Outline of the Book -- References -- 2 What Is Political Extremism? -- 2.1 Right-Wing Extremism -- 2.2 Left-Wing Extremism -- 2.3 Critical Assessment and Conclusion -- References -- 3 A Theory of Political Extremism -- 3.1 Similarities Between LWE and RWE -- 3.2 Motivations for Political Extremism -- 3.3 A Unified Model of Political Extremism -- References -- 4 Research Design: From Theory to Application -- 4.1 Data Sets -- 4.2 Operationalization -- 4.3 Hypotheses -- 4.4 Method -- Appendix -- References -- 5 Measuring Extremist Attitudes -- 5.1 The Downside of Traditional Approaches -- 5.2 Attitudes vs. Ideology vs. Voting Behavior -- 5.3 Toward a Scale for Extremist Attitudes -- 5.4 Summary -- Appendix -- References -- 6 The Distribution of Extremist Attitudes Within German Society -- 6.1 Time Trends -- 6.2 Regional Distribution -- 6.3 Summary -- References -- 7 The Origins of Political Extremism -- 7.1 Individual-Level Factors -- 7.2 Contextual Level -- 7.3 Robustness Checks -- 7.4 Stability of Political Extremism -- 7.5 Summary -- Appendix -- References -- 8 Conclusion -- 8.1 Limitations -- 8.2 Outlook -- References -- Index.

Political technocrats in Mexico are a group of individuals whose level of education, discipline of study, experiences abroad and career all lead them to stress the use of specialized knowledge for solving human and social problems. Political technocrats have been increasing in number in Mexico and they now dominate the agencies responsible for allocating federal revenues to economic and social problems

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The main purpose of the article is to present the evolution of legal regulations regarding national minorities in Ukraine, the structure of these minorities and the dynamics of demographic change. The authors analyzed the geographical distribution as well as the political, cultural and educational activity of the most numerous national minorities. They presented the main reasons for the increase or decrease in the size of the largest national groups. The political and legal foundations of minority activities, the specificity of the organization of their educational institutions, national-cultural associations and ethnic parties were analyzed. Particular attention was paid to the problematic provisions of the new Education Act (2017), which reduced the status of languages of national minorities in education and led to the deterioration of relations with individual countries with which minorities are associated. The authors discussed the most severe problems in bilateral relations arising from Ukraine's policy towards minorities and some ideas on how to solve them. The main methods of improving nationality policy in contemporary Ukraine were also presented.

Imperial Germany is a prominent historical case in the study of Western Europe's political development. This article investigates the number and content of political conflict dimensions from the foundation of the modern German state in 1867 to the end of Bismarck's reign as Chancellor in 1890. Methodologically, it applies dimension-reducing statistical methods to a novel data set of content-coded parliamentary roll call votes. The analysis suggests that the emergence of the Catholic Centre Party in 1871 permanently transformed the conflict space from a single liberal-conservative divide to a two-dimensional space that distinguished positions on socio-economic issues and regime matters, respectively. The fact that positions on redistributive and regime issues were not aligned implies that theories stressing economic inequality as a driver for regime change are of limited applicability. Instead, the case of Imperial Germany highlights the importance of cross-cutting non-economic societal cleavages and the role of societal and political organizations in drawing attention to and perpetuating these divisions.