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Provides insight in the political-institutional conditions that have impeded and encouraged onshore wind power implementation in the Netherlands, England and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia

How do citizens perceive the shift from economic integration to political unification? What principles guide their approval or rejection of EU projects? What are chances and risks of EU legitimacy?

Examines images of Amsterdam and Rotterdam from a range of city dwellers, describing their ideal city as they engage in city council debates to gain support, and try to eliminate those with different images

This book studies the relationship between collective rituals and three key issues of public space, discursive contexts, and normative orders, over the course of three different periods of Iranian political systems: the Qajar Dynasty (beginning in 1848 with the founding of Naseredin Shah's Kingdom), the Pahlavi dynasty (1926-1979), and the Islamic Republic (from 1979 until the present).

Proefschrift over de beeldtaal en betekenis van het Noord-Nederlands familieportret. Het proefschrift opent met een theoretisch hoofdstuk waarin de methodiek van Aloïs Riegl het uitgangspunt vormt voor de discussie over de kunsthistorische aanpak van de beeldtraditie van het familieportret. De analyse van het beeldmateriaal is de kern van het onderzoek. Laarmann besteedt vooral aandacht aan de algemene kenmerken van het genre familieportret zoals deze naar voren komen uit de bestudering van het omvangrijke materiaal.Vervolgens wordt het onderzoek toegespitst op het oeuvre van met name één kunstenaar, Herman Meindertsz Doncker, die zich in Enkhuizen specialiseerde in familieportretten. Het laatste hoofdstuk is gewijd aan één speciaal familieportret waarvan verschillende aspecten geanalyseerd worden: zowel compositie en motieven in hun beeldtraditie, maar ook de relatie tot de actuele levenssituatie van het voorgestelde gezin worden onderzocht.

Increasing doubts over the narratives that traditionally served to legitimize the tasks and possibilities of societal institutions - such as science - have also called into question the significance of philosophy to educational thinking. Related debates largely concern epistemological issues, i.e. issues regarding the nature and status of (scientif

These five articles, first presented at the conference 'The Holocaust and other Genocides. The Uses, Misuses and Abuses of the Holocaust Paradigm' in 2011, reflect the current Dutch research on the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War and recent developments in the historiography concerning this topic. To a certain extent, the work being done in the Netherlands has reflected the international historiography in that it addresses the political and public responses to National Socialism and occupation, the nature of the persecution and the regime in the concentration camps. The perspectives of the general population, of the victims and of the perpetrators are all examined, but above all those of bystanders. In this selection of the most recent research, there is a particular emphasis on the nature of the persecution and the general public's reaction to it.