By interrogating contemporary democratic regimes, in the United States, and in Botswana and South Africa, the severe…

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Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the…

Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book…

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It lays out the views of leading North American, West European, and Ukrainian security analysts on European security issues…

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in…

A practical manual of protocols for achieving expression of foreign genes in mammalian cells. It includes some very new…

Viewed by experts as being on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons, Argentina and Brazil have recently taken steps to…

Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships…

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This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a…

The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy examines how implementing American tropes in policy design inadvertently…

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the…

Mirbagheri traces the revival of Islamic/ist movements, and embarks on a theoretical study of some of the fundamental…

Originally developed in Brazil, participatory budgeting is widely recognised as democratic innovation yet its concrete…

Including contributions from a range of academic disciplines including Political Science, Media and Communication Studies,…

Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience…

Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In…

This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the…

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This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international…

This book gives a comprehensive account of the drafting of the EU Charter in the first Convention and shows the important…

A discursive-sociological approach to the Europeanization of gender and other equality policies. Using largely unpublished…

This study assesses the current state of economic integration in Asia - in particular in East and South East Asia- and…

The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang…

John S. Kater, and Richard L. Wagoner collectively argue that as community colleges organize themselves to respond to…

Lobbying, Pluralism and Democracy investigates lobbying on three levels. Although a recent phenomenon, lobbying also raises…

Provides practicing social entrepreneurs, whether nonprofit or for-profit, with a guiding framework and practical…

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Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science, but do we know enough about…

This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking.…

This first comparative study of ageing and social policy in two major European countries is based on a unique set of joint…

This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational…

This book unites scholarship on law and politics with compliance research in the EU to shed light on the political role of a…

A study of prime ministerial leadership in Britain and Australia. Tony Blair and John Howard were election winning leaders…

This book looks at policy change in political parties through an examination of the British and French Left's policy towards…

Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers examines complex relations between Spain and Italy,…

Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in…

Kate Phillippo evaluates the practice of having teachers also serve as advisors, tasked with providing social-emotional…

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with young mothers and fathers, their parents and other relatives, this book provides…

Though states provide critical supports to the construction and ongoing maintenance of transnational legal constraints,…

This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates…

This collection of writings covers such subjects as income distribution, inflation, macroeconomics, expectations, open…

This edited volume brings together a series of contributions exploring the socio-cultural and psychological representation…

He systematically analyses the subject and answers the many questions about this aspect of business life, including…

One of the dark sides to democratization can be crime and corruption. This book looks at the way political liberalization…

This book examines the EU policy of the German Social Democrats (SPD) after German unification, following their rise to…

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro? This book, by a former…

A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power,…

In 1990 Zimbabwe embarked on economic liberalisation. While state autonomy has often been regarded as a vital condition for…

In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities, highly differentiated…

Have evolution, science and the trappings of the modern world killed off God irrevocably? This book is an attempt to look at…