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Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social...
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Rediscovering Voluntary Action: The Beat of a Different Drum
C. RochesterCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...
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Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strat...
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Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity: Institutional Reforms and Performance
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms wit...
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Participatory Democracy and Civil Society in the EU: Agenda-Setting and Institutionalisation
Kenneth A. LoparoCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years...
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The Core of Care Ethics
S. CollinsCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argue...
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Rediscovering Voluntary Action: The Beat of a Different Drum
C. RochesterCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence ...
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Governance, Performance, and Capacity Stress: The Chronic Case of Prison Crowding
S. BastowCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Public policy systems often sustain chronic capacity stress (CCS) meaning they neither excel nor fail in what they do, but do both in ways that are...
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Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. Our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting o...
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Discourses of Olympism: From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012
D. ChatziefstathiouCurrent price €104.54Original price €122.99This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across th...
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Engaging the Other: Public Policy and Western-Muslim Intersections
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public disco...
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Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830-1910: Constructions of Identity and Citizenship in Belgium
J. HoegaertsCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgi...
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American Sociology: From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal
S. TurnerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of ...
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British Muslim Politics: Examining Pakistani Biraderi Networks
P. AkhtarCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the politi...
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Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City
A. LehmannCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a...
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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the Re-Privatization of Labor
R. GoodmanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impe...
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Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the Re-Privatization of Labor
R. GoodmanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. It responds to a moment when feminism's impe...
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Community Research for Community Development
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community dev...
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Mapping Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and pol...
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Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in Social Policy
S. BörnerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book examines the relationship of belonging and social policy in a historical-comparative perspective reconstructing individual arguments in f...
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Constructing Risky Identities in Policy and Practice
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social pro...
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The Problem of Post-Racialism
M. VickermanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book argues that Americans' belief in post-racialism, rooted in both ideology and material progress among racial minorities, is wrong because ...
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Debating Multiculturalism in the Nordic Welfare States
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With...
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Social Justice through Citizenship?: The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain
A. LewickiCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Lewicki examines how current salient discourses of citizenship conceptualize democratic relations and frame the 'Muslim question' in Germany and Gr...
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