Central / national / federal government policies Books

Examines international cooperation in European security from a transaction cost economics perspective. This book addresses the puzzle of how to approach differing institutional preferences. It argues that the reduction and limitation of transaction costs...

Is a Confucian cultural climate hostile to gender equality in families and public decision-making? What is the impact of gender equality legislation in East Asia? Approaches to these welfare regimes have ignored gender, while gendered accounts of welfare...

The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this book explores how to face current challenges to multiculturalism without reifying...

Analyses the impact of the managerial reforms of the European Commission. In 1999 the resignation of the College of Commissioners triggered the implementation of a White Paper which listed 98 measures to overhaul the way the Commission did business. Ten...

This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that...

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to...

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighborhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of...

This book examines the origin, nature, the portfolio, organizational structure and operation of the seven largest SWFs from the perspective of the holding countries. Uniquely it tackles the issues from the perspectives of those non-OECD countries whose...

This book critically evaluates more than 10 years of Russian membership in the Council of Europe. Starting from the second term of Putins presidency, one can observe a Russian strategy to undermine the normative power of the Council of Europe. As a...

This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships...

Governance of Public Sector Organizations analyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity...

As the tensions in the Greek economy take centre stage in the international headlines, this book examines the working of the Greek political system and the way it relates with the Greek society. It investigates how and why Greece is just the first,...

One of the less discussed achievements of the women's movement is the option to reject the patronymic naming system (or the convention of women replacing their own family names by their husbands' names when they get married). This book offers an analysis...

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with both narratives of feminist decline and re-emergence, it draws on poststructuralist political theory to assess current forms of...

This book addresses the governance of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, with reference to the social aspects of technology and the technological mediation of the pandemic in international contexts.

List of Figures Introduction Technology Empire Alien Criminality White Slavery Anarchist Outrages The Criminologists Index

This book examines the changing nature of the policies adopted to promote international financial stability. Specifically, it investigates the policies that the IMF followed in response to the Mexican, Asian, and subprime crisis. The book argues that...

This book examines how the European environmental movement, as part of an emerging European civil society, has impinged on the problem definitions and solution strategies in the European politics of the environment. Examining core case studies in...

This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for...

The globalization of trade, investment, and finance continues apace. Many have benefited from this, but deep inequalities persist. This book argues that the interconnections established by globalization make possible a critique of its inequality. For...

What does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK depend on whether or not people think they are British?...

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analyzing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is...

Diversity in the European Union encompasses the national cultures and languages of the member states, but increasingly also assertions of difference within European societies. Immigrants have brought to the fore religious, ethnic, and racial diversity,...

Introduction PART I: SOME CLUES FROM HISTORY Introduction Ending Gold Convertibility in the 1930s Coalition Bickering in Turkey, 2000-01 Meltdown in Argentina, 1991-2002 Emerging Political Patterns PART II: POLITICAL-ECONOMY CRISIS MODELS Introduction A...

Foreword by Professor Michael Tonry Preface PART I: HISTORY History: Race Relations and Justice; A.Kalunta-Crumpton PART II: EUROPE: IS THERE RACE IN CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE? Britain; B.A.Cole France; P.Irving Jackson Germany; H-J.Albrecht Italy; ...

PART I: INNOVATION AS IDEAS WITHIN INSTITUTIONS Innovation, Government and Networks Innovation and Public Policy Networks as Interactions and Structures Networks and Key Actors PART II: INNOVATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT Introduction City of Parkside: Big Bang...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, identifying underlying causes in globalisation, migration policies and gender inequality. It questions...

Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas about the decline of the family meal, the individualization of food choice and the relationship...

Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. The future of sleep has become contested and uncertain: something to be defended, downsized or even...

List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Sociology of Drug Use A Social Classification of Drug Use The Folk Devil Next Door Lifestyle, Consumption and Subterranean Play Just a Phase? Drug Use and Social Change Bibliography

This volume is the first ever English translation of Part III of Johann von Thünen's famous 'Isolated State'. The original German publication from 1863 has been translated by Keith Tribe and is E Ulrich van Suntum on behalf of the Thünen Society. It...

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: EXAMINING E-GOVERNMENT Conceptualizing Technology and Government The Governmentality of E-government PART II: DOMAINS OF E-GOVERNMENT E-welfare E-taxation E-health PART III: RECONFIGURATION OF GOVERNMENT...

In Memoriam Acknowledgements PART I: THE CONTEXT Why Revisit 'The Last Refuge'? Changing Contexts of Care The Study Design and Methods PART II: REVISITING 'THE LAST REFUGE' Survivors and Non-survivors Residents and Staff The Living Environment Daily...

Introduction: Industries, Globalization and Politics; B.Jullien & A.Smith European Automobile Distribution: Globalization and Incomplete Liberalization; B.Jullien Globalization within the French Wine Industry: Commercial Challenges but Producer...

How do United States public policies differ from those of other wealthy democracies? Why do they differ? The Roots of American Exceptionalism draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures...

This critique of the securitization and criminalization of asylum seeking challenges the claim that asylum seekers 'threaten' receiving states. It analyzes recent policy developments in relation to their wider historical, political and European contexts...

Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the midVictorian period, infusing Christmas with...

Invoked by politicians, promoted in policy, and sought by migrants, citizenship is a crucial marker of what makes being a member of society valuable, and of what membership entails in a world of fluid boundaries. This volume explores questions of...

Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines the ways in which ordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today,...

Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation is the first book in English to examine the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by...