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Welfare States in the 21st Century
Ian Greener
‘This text is essential reading for the study of comparative social policy. It explores and accounts for the five “New Giants” for 24 developed nations using the relatively novel approach of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It is ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Peace Processes]()
Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Peace Processes
John D. Brewer
‘John Brewer provides a comprehensive and insightful introduction to peace processes, bringing the consideration of war, violence and peace into the mainstream of sociological thought where it belongs. This is a major contribution to bot...eBook:Find out more$19.96
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![The Politicisation of Social Europe]()
The Politicisation of Social Europe
Francesco Corti
‘The book provides an up-to-date assessment of Social Europe and its politics since the Great Recession. It outlines the main conflict lines which have shaped policy development at the EU level and gauges their relative significance in d...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ideology
David Reisman
This insightful book sheds light on three competing ideological windows on the world: conservatism, liberalism and socialism. David Reisman explores the importance of these perspectives not only to generating public policy, but also in o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Information Policy
Edited by Alistair S. Duff
‘Alistair Duff’s compendium of thought leaders underscores the fact that each era brings with it the rich opportunities of positive evolution, and the pressures and problems of a society and economy undergoing extremely rapid change. As ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Demopathy and the Democratic Malaise
Luigi Di Gregorio
‘This work offers a convincing analysis that stresses the mutual causation between political leadership, citizens, and the media. I am confident that promising (and achievable) cures follow logically from this analysis. Demopathy and the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Defining Public Goods
David J. O’Brien
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Digital Citizen(ship)
Luigi Ceccarini
‘What does it mean to be a “good online citizen”? While it has become a commonplace to say that the Internet is profoundly changing our political and social lives, few commentators have delved into the full ramifications of its implicati...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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$40.00
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![How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public]()
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
