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Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe
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Negotiating Early Job Insecurity
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Youth, Diversity and Employment
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Family Demography in Asia
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Democratic Empowerment in the European Union
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This book looks at democratic empowerment via institutional designs that extend the political rights of European citizens. It focuses on three themes: first, the positive and negative effects of the European Union institutional design on...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Moving Beyond Barriers
Edited by Sandra Seubert, Marcel Hoogenboom, Trudie Knijn, Sybe de Vries, Frans van Waarden
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Reconsidering EU Citizenship
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25 years after the introduction of EU citizenship this book reconsiders its contradictions and constraints as well as promises and prospects. Analyzing a disputed concept and evaluating its implementation and social effects Reconsidering...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Citizenship in Segmented Societies
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EU Citizenship and Social Rights
Edited by Frans Pennings, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
In the 1990s, the Maastricht Treaty introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. In practice, however, there are substantial barriers to making use of this right, particularly to integration and to accessing the social and welf...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Home
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The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Ian Bache, Louise Reardon
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The Evolution of Social Innovation
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At a time when governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. E...eBook:Find out more$40.00
