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Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-11
Collection :
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
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This book will survey past and present efforts to democratize international institutions, and will advance the argument that a new degree of transparency and accountability on a global scale is necessary to address the threat of climate change. The volume will analyse...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-10
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This book explores how professional and organisational cultures influence global public-private partnerships, which form a key element of global governance. Using case studies, the partnerships of three international government organisations – the International...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-04
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This edited collection delves into the key aspects of the Trump campaign promises around immigration, trade, social and foreign policy, and unpicks how the first year of the presidency has played out in delivering them. It charts his first year from both historical and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-30
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This book provides a scholarly assessment and analysis of the Trump campaign and early presidency.This assessment and analysis is important not only to help provide some coherence to the turbulent and unpredictable character of “Trumpism,” but to contribute to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-29
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This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity and difference. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural Australia, it shows that children draw on class-based ideas of moral worth, anchored in racialised and gendered understandings, to...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-23
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This book examines the ways in which the welfare state impacts levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support in Western democracies. Going beyond the traditional contextual accounts of political behaviour, which primarily focus on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-20
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All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-15
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This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
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The economic policies of reactive states such as Turkey and Greece, both of which have shown limited ability to implement institutional reforms in recent years, have paved the way for deep crises.The crises are devastating for both societies’ social fabric, but they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
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Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of servicesSwiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
Collection :
Governance and Public Management
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Angebote Sozialer Arbeit werden selten auf Basis ihres institutionellen Kontextes reflektiert. Mittels einer räumlichen Perspektive eröffnen die Beiträge besondere Sichtweisen auf Bedarfe von Klient*innen, fachliches Arbeiten des Personals und vielschichtige soziale...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-08-06
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This book clarifies the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the Chinese Path through historical and market logic. The author begins with a historical review of Chinese institutions from their cultural origins to their modern connotations: Chinese regard unity over...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-06
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This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China. As China has urbanised within the context of explosive economic growth and a closed political system, urban subcultures and phenomena of alienation and anomie have emerged, and yet, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-03
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This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-02
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This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society. In particular since the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s major economies have...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-30
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This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land. These discussions initiate a new debate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-24
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited £1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and nothing expected...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2018-07-12
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