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The Politics of the Public Encounter
Edited by Peter Hupe
‘The Politics of the Public Encounter unpacks an evolving and increasingly complex, sometimes confronting interaction between citizens and their governments. This book helps to understand how changing communication processes, transformin... -
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A Research Agenda for Civil Society
Edited by Kees Biekart, Alan Fowler
‘A Research Agenda for Civil Society provides a much needed synopsis of the antecedents, internal contradictions, and promises of civil society within a comparative African-Global Southern Context. At a time of pervasive political and ep... -
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Speaking Truth to Power
Benjamin Ginsberg, Collin Paschall
‘Ginsberg and Paschall, two experts in their own right, have produced a provocative book about the role of expertise in politics and policy-making. Amidst a host of illuminating examples and serious arguments, a core insight leaps out at... -
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The Role of the Public Sector
Bent Greve
‘Recent years have witnessed the “Return of the State” after decades of spreading neo-liberalism and market ideology. Bent Greve’s book is a very well written text able to capture the old and new roles of the public sector in contemporar... -
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Debating Biopolitics
Edited by Marco Piasentier, Sara Raimondi
‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of tho... -
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Political Change through Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw, Liana Simmons, Pieter Van den Broeck
‘This thought-provoking volume sits at the nexus of social innovation and democratic political theory and practice. Leading international scholars compare and confront different approaches to nurturing emancipatory social change in a wor... -
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Handbook of Culture and Glocalization
Edited by Victor N. Roudometof, Ugo Dessì
‘The Handbook of Culture and Glocalization is a must-read for those interested in the phenomenon of glocalization and cultural adaptation. At the macro level, the volume is important to understand the role of technologies, news productio...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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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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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
