This collection offers a critical analytical perspective and fresh empirical data on recent market-orientated social policy…

With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book…

The topics examined focus on the course of Japanese expansion, American-Japanese relations, Japanese reactions to war, the…

Using 150 years of women's history, this book details how women have organized into global movements which have shaped and…

This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the…

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa.…

The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid,…

Contemporary France has witnessed a rise of new forms of social movement, mobilising around new causes and articulating…

Rogue states' have been high on the policy agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for international…

The human imprint on the biosphere has become so pronounced in recent years that there has been talk of a new geological…

This volume in the International Papers in Political Economy series explores the latest developments in political economy,…

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book…

This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American…

This framework of analysis generates a comparative account of European socialist parties and their attitudes to…

Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments…

With China's accession to the WTO in Spring 2002 it is essential that Western investors and business people get an effective…

Inequalities of wealth and income have a significant impact for the achievement of economic, political and human development…

This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church's role in the Indian residential…

Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active…

Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as…

Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this…

Exploring the interaction between entrepreneurs and managers, this book attempts to understand the psychology behind how…

Cultural diversity and difference is increasing in European cities, driven by economic integration, migration and EU…

Foreign direct investment is an important issue that has attracted the attention of academic and professional economists as…

Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that…

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These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering…

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies…

Anatomising Embodiment and Organisation Theory explores the relationship between the human body and the development of…

This book highlights the role that national culture plays in shaping the emergent relationship between IT and organisations.…

The abrupt collapse and dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the party which governed Spain during the…

Provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how to achieve entrepreneurial excellence in the knowledge economy and…

Based upon the work of a study-group of the Study of Parliament Group, this book examines the impact of EU membership on the…

Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his…

By analyzing concrete examples of the creation of a heritage in the context of migration, this multi-sited ethnography…

Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for…

This book carries out a comparative study of the US response to popular uprisings in the Middle East as an evaluation of…

This book addresses itself to the problem of understanding the relations between psychoanalysis and language not only in…

James Buchanan (1919-2013), economist and philosopher, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1986 for his original…

This study examines the evolution and political consequences of the 2009 British MPs' expenses scandal. Despite claims of a…

This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity,…

The relevance of culture has recently enjoyed increasing recognition for the study of European integration and a European…

Since their explosion in the mid-1990s, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have turned into a global phenomenon with growing…

The collection considers the growing importance of the border as a prime site for criminal justice activity and explores the…

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States , the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods…

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion…

This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of…

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian.…

A fire sale of US debt could cause a global recession through disorderly devaluation of the dollar, raising interest rates…