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Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy
Laurent BernhardCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The autho...
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Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or ...
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Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics: Principles and Applications
D. Berg-SchlosserCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book approaches current controversies concerning qualitative and quantitative procedures in the social sciences and incorporates new methods s...
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South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics
M. MbaliCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins...
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Policing for Peace in Northern Ireland: Change, Conflict and Community Confidence
J. MurphyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This is the first in-depth analysis of the transition from the RUC to the PSNI seen through the eyes of key figures, inside and outside the organiz...
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Crime in Japan: Paradise Lost?
D. LeonardsenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Japan is often described as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines criminal ...
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Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how th...
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Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century
Daniel WilliamsCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99In Wales Unchained Daniel G. Williams explores how Welsh writers, politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves and have been defined by o...
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Citizens, Community and Crime Control
K. BullockCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control...
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Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal''s Earthquakes
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysi...
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Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation
Uma PradhanCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...
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Illinois Politics: A Citizens Guide to Power, Politics, and Government
James D. NowlanCurrent price €105.29Original price €116.99Shifting demographics. Downstate versus Chicago. Billionaires and bribery. Even veteran observers need a roadmap to track Illinois ever-changing p...
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Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City
Prof Valerie Martinez-EbersCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...
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Government through Culture and the Contemporary French Right
J. AhearneCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the pivotal decade of 2002-2012....
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The View from Kollam: A Day in the Life of a Sub-collector
C BalagopalCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Current price €13.59Original price €15.99Save 15% -
The City in Urban Poverty
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constit...
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The Evolution of Conservative Party Social Policy
B. WilliamsCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have change...
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The ASEAN Regional Security Partnership: Strengths and Limits of a Cooperative System
Angela Pennisi di FloristellaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99ASEAN's role as a security provider remains largely a matter of scholarly debate. Through the lens of the concept of regional security partnership,...
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A ''Macro-regional'' Europe in the Making: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational pol...
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Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa: A Borderless ECOWAS
Adebusuyi Isaac AdeniranCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of t...
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Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia: Middle Powers in a Troubled Region
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's new middle powers and emerging powers employ public diplomacy...
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Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America: A Space for Social Citizenship?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of socia...
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Recognition and the Media
R. MaiaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection examines Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings toge...
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Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914
L. SmithCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer s...
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Independence of the Scottish Mind: Elite Narratives, Public Spaces and the Making of a Modern Nation
G. HassanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This study explores modern Scotland and examines how Scottish politics, culture and identities have interacted within the national and internationa...
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Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations: Lessons from the Field
G. TyldumCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven ...
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Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Communication, Power and Social Change
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public int...
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Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia. Co...
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Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism
A. MahCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. Th...
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Democracy, Civil Society and Health in India
Madhavi GuptaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic...
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Global Politics of Health Reform in Africa: Performance, Participation, and Policy
Amy BarnesCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding mod...
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Au Pairs'' Lives in Global Context: Sisters or Servants?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated e...
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Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America
I. HarbaughCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that govern...
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Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence: The Medellín Miracle
K. MacleanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regenerat...
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Financing Illegal Migration: Chinese Underground Banks and Human Smuggling in New York City
Linda ZhaoCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This unique study explores the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling. Focusing on Chinese illegal ...
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Residential Children''s Homes and the Youth Justice System: Identity, Power and Perceptions
Julie ShawCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the att...
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Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research
N. HubbleCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel Univ...
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The British Olympic Association: A History
K. JefferysCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prom...
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Analyzing Social Media Data and Web Networks
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for comm...
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Mediterranean Racisms: Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Mediterranean Region
I. LawCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This is the first book to provide an analysis of racism in the Mediterranean region. Ian Law reassesses contemporary processes of racialization, em...
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Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier
L. WeberCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popu...
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Cultural Policies in East Asia: Dynamics between the State, Arts and Creative Industries
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overvi...
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The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece and Portugal: Europeanization in a World of Neglect
S. ZartaloudisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Po...
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Sport and the British World, 1900-1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond
E. NielsenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In...
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Offender Supervision in Europe
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervisi...
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African Transnational Diasporas: Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain
D. PasuraCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, for...
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Proportional Western Europe: The Failure of Governance
B. OwenCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the e...
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Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and Demographic Challenges
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provisi...
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