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The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis examines the external pressures vis- -vis British economic policy that…

This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus…

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In Formal and Informal Social Safety Nets , Ashraf analyses the role of social safety nets in a time when our global economy…

This book offers cross-national evidence of the effectiveness of financial and physical incentives for regional development.…

Northern Irish Literature, 1975-2006 and its companion volume, Northern Irish Literature 1956-75 , examine the contexts for…

This book deals with the social, cultural and especially political significance of media by shifting from the usual focus on…

After an exploration of the experience gained by former central and eastern European countries in the General Agreement on…

Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of…

This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport…

Amidst changing notions of religion and identity in the modern Middle East, this book uncovers the hidden story of Ahmad…

Embodying Democracy analyzes the politics of electoral reform in eight post-communist states including Poland, Hungary, the…

This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning.…

Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and the culture of the little magazine of the period, eleven contributors from…

This book explores the background of the eurozone crisis, outlining a number of potential solutions. It attempts to discover…

Democratic Ideals and the Politization of Nature introduces the feral citizen as a response to a perceived need to…

The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly…

This book presents an alternative theoretical approach to the study of the transformation of the modern welfare state. In so…

This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Britain…

A topical examination of the impact of globalization and the intricate relationship between international trade and labour…

The Conservatives under David Cameron provides the first and definitive analysis of the development of 'New Conservative'…

This book examines how Japan has changed its economic relationship with East Asia since the mid 1990s by looking at its…

The Eurasian continent, which has for over a century lagged behind in global markets, is currently gaining economic and…

This book considers how an entrepreneurial university can improve the social and economic development of countries which are…

Chinese banks have been making headlines recently, but what lies beneath? Banking in China appears different. What explains…

This book is a collection of essays by a unique group of authors about the political destruction of the probation service in…

This exciting new addition to Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics argues that social capital can…

George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. The book establishes how intensely…

Educators from the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, FRG, Israel, and Sweden survey the current educational scene in the US and…

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as…

Shakespeare provided the Victorians with ways of thinking about the authority of the past, about the emergence of a new mass…

Analysis of why politicians are driven to create an independent judicial institution with the authority to overrule their…

The IRA's ability to exploit the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was central to the…

Offers an innovative perspective of managerial practices adopted by multinational companies. The authors examine the…

A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture.…

Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies,…

This book is a timely study in light of the resurgence of resource nationalism that is currently occurring in several…

Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper,…

Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities…

This is a specially commissioned set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics. The letters show…

Comparing Regionalisms summarizes the UNU/WIDER international research project on the formation of world regions, and what…

The book argues that comics tell us a great deal about the sociocultural realities of language, exploring what code…

Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization…

Based on interviews with many of the participants and on unprecedented access to the confidential talks documents, it…

The concepts and theories surrounding the economics of unemployment have multiplied and evolved over the course of the…

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared that the only option for developing countries was integration into the…

This book explores the origins of the so-called 'punitive turn' in penal policy across Western nations over the past two…