Comparative Social Policy
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Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe
Edited by Bjørn Hvinden, Christer Hyggen, Mi A. Schoyen, Tomáš Sirovátka
‘This excellent book analyses the challenge of youth unemployment, by focusing on its causes and consequences, during the Great Recession in Europe. Throughout the volume, it uses the notions of resilience, capability, and active agency,... -
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Negotiating Early Job Insecurity
Edited by Bjørn Hvinden, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mi A. Schoyen, Christer Hyggen
‘Comprehensive and well-articulated, this book provides a new and original investigation of early experiences of job insecurity in Europe and its effects on youth well-being and future employability. Given its innovative approach that go... -
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Youth, Diversity and Employment
Edited by Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden
‘The book addresses very timely issues from a variety of perspectives and is thus appealing not only to scholars and students of social sciences and legal studies but also to practitioners and policymakers who seek a nuanced account of t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Family Demography in Asia
Edited by Stuart Gietel-Basten, John Casterline, Minja K. Choe
‘The publication is a very interesting tool for demographers interested in the situation in Asia. It really offers a comprehensive view of fertility on this continent. Reading this book is very useful for getting to know this issue.’ – F...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Democratic Empowerment in the European Union
Edited by David Levi-Faur, Frans van Waarden
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
‘Moving Beyond Barriers is very interesting and enjoyable reading for scholars from a multitude of disciplines as well as all those interested in the issue of Union citizenship. The book is well structured and the chapters speak well tog...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reconsidering EU Citizenship
Edited by Sandra Seubert, Oliver Eberl, Frans van Waarden
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
Edited by Francis Cheneval, Mónica Ferrin
‘How to build supranational citizenship while accommodating diversity and protecting existing communities is a key challenge to European integration. Case by case, this highly informative collection shows that that the EU is not alone – ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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
Edited by Antonio Argandoña
‘The home is an institution at the base of society which impacts individuals’ outcomes and decisions across the life course, from child developmental outcomes to work and retirement decisions. This book is a collection of contributions e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Ian Bache, Louise Reardon
‘I have never seen a book like this. The authors seem to me to be ahead of their time: they are the first to try to explain the gradual rise and rise of ideas about “wellbeing” in modern society. At the time of writing, nobody knows wher...eBook:Find out more$35.20
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The Evolution of Social Innovation
Edited by Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan, Ola Tjörnbo
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