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  • Welfare States and the Future Welfare States and the Future
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    Welfare States and the Future

    This volume presents a thought provoking analysis of key welfare state issues engaging policy makers across the globe. It provides a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the state of welfare...
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  • Economic Policy for a Social Europe Economic Policy for a Social Europe
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    Economic Policy for a Social Europe

    This book poses a critique of neoliberal economic polices in the EU and proposals for alternatives. The book argues that the economic weakness of the EU is the result of the very restrictive economic...
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  • Commercialization of Health Care Commercialization of Health Care
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    Commercialization of Health Care

    Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local...
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  • Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia
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    Infrastructure and Productivity in Asia

    There is a feeling that Asia is at a crossroad, and is facing a new crisis. The earlier crisis of 1997/98 showed that effective systems were missing. Afterwards governments, foreign investors and...
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  • Heterosexism in Health and Social Care Heterosexism in Health and Social Care
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    Heterosexism in Health and Social Care

    This interdisciplinary text develops a theory of heterosexism and provides everyday examples from health and social care environments. It engages with current debates, including intersecting...
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  • Re-Visioning Europe Re-Visioning Europe
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    Re-Visioning Europe

    Drawing on ethno-anthropological fieldwork, this book considers issues of identity and belonging in Europe from a consciously emic perspective. The book explores issues such as borders, migration,...
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  • Policing Football Policing Football
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    Policing Football

    This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds light on a topic of intense media interest,...
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  • Language Rights Language Rights
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    Language Rights

    Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas...
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  • Work Identity at the End of the Line? Work Identity at the End of the Line?
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    Work Identity at the End of the Line?

    Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. It combines rich interview...
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  • Labour in a Global World Labour in a Global World
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    Labour in a Global World

    This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range...
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  • Identity and Repartnering After Separation Identity and Repartnering After Separation
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    Identity and Repartnering After Separation

    This book examines the lives and repartnering behaviour of former spouses and co-habitees, groups pivotal to recent marital change. Focusing on contemporary Britain, it examines these people's...
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  • Studies in Modern Childhood Studies in Modern Childhood
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    Studies in Modern Childhood

    In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches. They demonstrate...
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  • Unfortunate Objects Unfortunate Objects
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    Unfortunate Objects

    This book analyzes how poor eighteenth-century London women coped when they found themselves pregnant, their survival networks and the consequences of bearing an illegitimate child. It does so by...
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  • Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974 Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974
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    Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974

    This book examines the range and complexity of unionist political identities, ideas and beliefs in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom in the mid-twentieth century. It discusses the careers...
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  • Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace
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    Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace

    The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this...
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  • The State of Law in the South Caucasus The State of Law in the South Caucasus
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    The State of Law in the South Caucasus

    This book evaluates the strength of the rule of law in the South Caucasus, a volatile and strategically important region of the former Soviet Union. Contributors - all of whom who have lived and...
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  • The Long March to Capitalism The Long March to Capitalism
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    The Long March to Capitalism

    The author captures the evolution of Indian industrial capitalism by extending the 'models of capitalism' and 'regulation framework'. Using principally the auto industry and anchoring the analysis to...
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  • Modernising the Labour Party Modernising the Labour Party
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    Modernising the Labour Party

    Few parties have undergone such comprehensive organizational change as the Labour Party since 1983. Labour's organization once institutionalised the political exchange between office-seeking...
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  • Analysing Everyday Experience Analysing Everyday Experience
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    Analysing Everyday Experience

    Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? This book illustrates the emergence of plural...
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  • Multicultural Encounters Multicultural Encounters
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    Multicultural Encounters

    This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of...
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  • The Politics of Childhood The Politics of Childhood
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    The Politics of Childhood

    This book analyzes the nature and experience of childhoods around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Wide-ranging developments concerning children in the fields of social policy,...
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  • World Democratic Federalism World Democratic Federalism
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    World Democratic Federalism

    Myron J. Frankman provides an interrelated set of initiatives whose components are consistent with the logic of both the process of globalization and the emerging properties of our time:...
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  • Labor and the Globalization of Production Labor and the Globalization of Production
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    Labor and the Globalization of Production

    This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing...
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  • Politicising Democracy Politicising Democracy
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    Politicising Democracy

    There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced...
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  • War and Social Theory War and Social Theory
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    War and Social Theory

    The persistence of war as a feature of modern life is examined through issues of identity and difference, that is, the construction of 'self' and 'other' as individual or community. Key texts...
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  • Friendship and Educational Choice Friendship and Educational Choice
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    Friendship and Educational Choice

    Friendship and Educational Choice provides a unique insight into how young people go about making decisions about their educational options and the subtle, yet crucial, influence of friends and peers...
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  • Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics
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    Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics

    In this exciting new study, Don Dombowsky proposes that the foundation of Nietzsche's political thought is the aristocratic liberal critique of democratic society. But he claims that Nietzsche...
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  • Agencies Agencies
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    Agencies

    Many countries now use agencies rather than ministries to deliver central government services. There have been many claims about the benefits of organizing and delivering government in this way, but...
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  • Deviant Conduct in World Politics Deviant Conduct in World Politics
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    Deviant Conduct in World Politics

    A long list of countries - labelled outcasts, pariahs and rogues - have failed to meet international standards of good conduct. In the Cold War years Rhodesia, Israel, Chile, Taiwan and South Africa,...
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  • Congestion Charging in London Congestion Charging in London
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    Congestion Charging in London

    Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on a platform that included a congestion charge for central London, a policy that became reality on 17 February 2003. Richards uses his experience as...
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  • The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment
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    The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment

    Globalization poses new challenges for the modern welfare state and democracies. One controversial issue is how struggles for economic equality are linked with struggles for recognition of difference...
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  • The Word of a Woman? The Word of a Woman?
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    The Word of a Woman?

    The notion that women lie about rape is a prevalent belief with pervasive influence. This book is unique in combining police file data with interviews obtained from both rape survivors and detectives...
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  • Universities and the Europe of Knowledge Universities and the Europe of Knowledge
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    Universities and the Europe of Knowledge

    This is a story of the EC at work over 50 years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a rich background narrative to current strategic efforts...
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  • The Ethics of the Market The Ethics of the Market
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    The Ethics of the Market

    The Ethics of the Market makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on the morality of the market by synthesizing the work of a number of liberal scholars into a systematic defence of the...
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  • Monopoly Capitalism in Crisis Monopoly Capitalism in Crisis
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    Monopoly Capitalism in Crisis

    The world economy is on the brink of a profound crisis. The threat of global deflation and the emergence of chronic excess global capacity characterizes the contemporary phase of crisis and...
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  • Global Encounters Global Encounters
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    Global Encounters

    How has globalization impacted on development? For Harrison, the answer lies in the international political economy, and the ways in which states have managed economic globalization - from positions...
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