Sociology and Social Policy
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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond ‘Ever Closer Union’
Jakov Bojović
With novel insights into the ambitions and objectives behind President Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission, this innovative book elucidates how the Commission has transcended the concept of ‘ever closer union’ in its attempts to ad...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe
Thomas Bahle, Mareike Ariaans, Katharina Koch, Claus Wendt
Given growing caseloads, limited funding and staff shortages, the need for coordination in healthcare and elderly care is at an all-time high. This timely book conducts a cross-national analysis of coordination problems in healthcare and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Rethinking Corruption
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Driven by an international agenda, the act of ‘rethinking’ corruption has already taken place more than once in the past two decades, contributing further to a post-truth about corruption than to anything else. This book makes a clear ar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Critical Geographies of Resistance
Edited by Sarah M. Hughes
This cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critical...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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(Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations
John H. Morris, Hannah Collins
Using a range of calculative devices, (Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations explores the methods used by central banks to predict and govern the tail risks that could impact financial stability. Through an in-depth case study, the b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research
Edited by Tim Vorley, Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Phil Wallace
Increasingly, academics are finding that engaging with external stakeholders can be both fruitful in undertaking research and an effective way to impact policy. With insightful and practical advice from a diverse range of contributors, i...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Political Change through Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw, Liana Simmons, Pieter Van den Broeck
This book addresses the key question of why socially innovative initiatives, including attempts to rejuvenate democracy by introducing new modes of participation, are not leading to a democratization of the State or overcoming the gap be...eBook:Find out more$25.56
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Understanding Society and Knowledge
Nico Stehr
Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge rather than nature, violence, or power provides the basis of and the driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legally enforced restricted use...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare States in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Bent Greve
This insightful book provides a systematic analysis of the development of affluent Western welfare states in this turbulent era. It explores the consequences for welfare states of modern crises such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandem...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Building the Post-Pandemic University
Edited by Mark A. Carrigan, Hannah Moscovitz, Michele Martini, Susan L. Robertson
This timely book offers a detailed, multidisciplinary view on the radical changes in higher education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters carefully investigate how the pandemic led to massive disruption in the sector, examining the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Justice in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Gary Craig
This incisive book examines how the values of social justice can be protected against attacks from the interacting economic, social, environmental, and health crises of the 21st century. Global contributors outline key elements of a poli...eBook:Find out more$40.00
