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This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions. It describes the origins of these movements in India presenting a political-strategic view of their development and,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-09
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This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties. In particular, it assesses whether and to what extent the dynamics of party competition are likely to shape policy agenda and affect policy change. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-05
Collection :
Comparative Territorial Politics
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Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others. In some cases, exclusion from a society’s symbolic landscape can spark controversy, or rouse emotion so much so that they result in cultural contestation. Examples...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-04
Collection :
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
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Das Buch fasst im ersten Teil das ökonomische System von Friedrich List in lebendiger, allgemein verständlicher, aktueller und anschaulicher Weise zusammen und belegt seine Bedeutung als Vordenker der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft umfassend. Im weiteren Verlauf werden dann...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2018-07-03
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This edited book draws on a cross-cultural and historical lens to theoretically and practically analyse gambling regulations and the use of gambling revenue. It takes on a broad spectrum of perspectives, from the origin of the money, to the regulators, operators...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-28
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This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions.This is the first time...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-27
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Historically, the welfare state of the 20th century, which was built on the foundation of an industrial economy, seems poorly adapted to a 21st-century information age. Socially, profound demographic shifts--especially an aging population, increasing numbers of women in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-25
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Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens when art is considered relevant for societal development, at both a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-23
Collection :
New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
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This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity. It offers a companion publication to The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants (2015). Historically the Catholic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-20
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This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis. It analyses the public contributions from a broad range of observers, including domestic and international agencies, academics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-16
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In this timely study, the author examines the historical approach to race and diversity and suggests that equality strategies have been a vital, but limited, means of addressing discrimination and community tensions. Community Cohesion, it argues, offers a new framework...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-14
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This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection.This volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on trust in the EU from the vantage point of political science, law and economics. It applies insights from a number of different dimensions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
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Written by a group of the most experienced and well-known environmental engineers in the world, from a unique perspective, this volume explores the hot-button issue of climate change, its causes, and the future of the planet. Climate change is one of the most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2018-06-12
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This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-06-08
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des Braunschweiger Projekts ‚Stadtteil in der Schule‘. Ziel des Projektes ist es, Teilhabechancen für Kinder in sozialen Brennpunkten zu erhöhen, indem GrundschülerInnen und deren Familien der Zugang zu vorhandenen sozialen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-06-07
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How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2018-06-07
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The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-06
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Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have no limits. Could capping top incomes tackle rising inequality more effectively than...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-06-04
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This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the growth of the food...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-26
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