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Politics for Hire
Stefan Svallfors
‘Unelected political professionals loom increasingly large in European governance. But what do these professionals do, how do they do it, and what difference does it make? In a single study, Stefan Svallfors recasts our understanding of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Capitalism in Transformation
Edited by Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand, Fabienne Décieux, Karin Fischer, Birgit Sauer
‘The book provides new historical and theoretical reflections on the work of Karl Polanyi and its relevance to today’s movements and countermovements, including new fictitious commodities, such as knowledge and care, the rise of the popu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Individualism and Inequality
Ralph Fevre
‘Suitors would be wrong to see this book as just another study of modern-day inequality. It offers far more insight than other books on this topic. Broadly, it is about two related trends: the decline of belief in human qualities and hum...eBook:Find out more$38.40
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How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public
Edited by Staffan Kumlin, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
‘This crucial volume significantly advances the study of policy feedbacks. With contributions from many subfields and methodological approaches, it offers both sophisticated theorizing and new empirical examples that show how policies ma...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Party Politics and Social Welfare
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Silke van Dyk, Martin Roggenkamp
‘This is a well-researched and very informative study of the relative impact of social democracy and Christian democracy on welfare state reform in the past three decades. . . I highly recommend it, because the book makes a great contrib... -
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Governance of Welfare State Reform
Edited by Irene Dingeldey, Heinz Rothgang
‘A timely and empirically grounded contribution to the literature on welfare governance. Examining internationalisation, regionalisation, privatisation and re-regulation, the case study chapters open up important questions about convergi... -
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Analysing Social Policy
Edited by Greg Marston, Catherine McDonald
This book brings together leading international researchers to discuss governmental approaches to analysing social policies.eBook:Find out more$47.20
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The Political Sociology of Freedom
Ronald Hamowy
‘Ronald Hamowy’s foundational study of the Scottish Enlightenment provides a framework for his further critical assessments of the political and juridical contributions of F.A. Hayek, one of its great interpreters. This collection, which... -
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Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Edited by Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis, Birte Siim
‘Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics is a significant new book. The authors take seven key concepts – care, citizenship, social exclusion, contractualism, de-commodification, representation, social capital – and explore thes...eBook:Find out more$47.20
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The OECD and European Welfare States
Edited by Klaus Armingeon, Michelle Beyeler
‘. . . thanks to Klaus Armingeon and Michelle Beyeler the discussion on the role of the OECD in welfare policy has at last found a sound empirical basis. This is a very welcome contribution to a debate that is too often characterised by ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Challenges to the Welfare State
Edited by Henry Cavanna
‘This book will be of interest to welfare-state scholars seeking recent and well-informed observations on a broad range of issues. There is much valuable and fairly current information contained in this eclectic volume.’ – Rebecca A. Va... -
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The SOciology of Politics
Edited by William Outhwaite, Luke Martell
‘. . . this reader is a must for the enthusiastic. . .’ – Stephen Hunt, Reviewing Sociology This scholarly collection presents some of the most important classical and contemporary texts of relevance to political sociology. Volume I off...
