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Handbook on the Politics of Small States
Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino, Anders Wivel
Comprehensive and timely, this Handbook identifies the key characteristics, challenges and opportunities involved in the politics of small states across the globe today. Acknowledging the historical legacies behind these states, the chap...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Leadership, Populism, and Resistance
Edited by Kristin M.S. Bezio, George R. Goethals
Leadership, Populism, and Resistance draws upon the study of history, politics, policy, media, virtue, and heroism to examine the ways in which populism and popular movements have evolved, what we have learned (and failed to learn) from ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Relational Nordic Welfare State
Edited by Sakari Hänninen, Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä, Paula Saikkonen
The success of the Nordic welfare state is well known, but the key drivers of its remarkable expansion are not. This book explores the relationships between citizens that constitute the normative groundwork of Nordic societies, arguing t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Rational Choice Sociology
Michael Hechter
Rational Choice Sociology shows that despite the scepticism of many sociologists, rational choice theory indeed can account for a variety of non-market outcomes, including those concerning social norms, family dynamics, crime, rebellion,...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification
Edited by Ronald S. Burt, Yanjie Bian, Lijun Song, Nan Lin
This insightful book explores the spread of ''social'' network imagery in three areas of sociology – social capital, social support, and China – using as its protagonist a man active in all three: Nan Lin. Social Capital, Social Support ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity
Edited by Victor Galaz
There is an increased interest in integrating insights from the complexity sciences to studies of governance and policy. While the issue has been debated, and the term of ‘complexity’ has multiple and sometimes contested interpretations,...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics
Anna Durnová
Post-factual politics has united scientists and civil society in a public defence of truth, however, the battle may already have been lost to a binarity of facts and emotions. Analysing and comparing scientists’ protests against the Trum...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The American Right After Reagan
Edward Ashbee, John Dumbrell, Alex Waddan
This timely and significant book provides a comprehensive overview of right-wing ideology and policy-making in the years since Ronald Reagan left office. The authors assess the ways in which the Reagan legacy, rather than the empirical r...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Regional Governance in the EU
Edited by Gabriele Abels, Jan Battke
The role of regions in the European Union has been frequently debated since the 1980s. This comprehensive book provides a thorough overview of the issue from a variety of perspectives, analysing regional governance and territorial dynami...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe
Attila Ágh
The dramatic decline of democracy in East-Central Europe has attracted great interest world-wide. Going beyond the narrow spectrum of the extensive literature on this topic, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of ECE region – Czech...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Defining Landscape Democracy
Edited by Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen, Deni Ruggeri
This stimulating book explores theories, conceptual frameworks, and cultural approaches with the purpose of uncovering a cross-cultural understanding of landscape democracy, a concept at the intersection of landscape, democracy and spati...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Religion and Comparative Development
Theocharis Grigoriadis
Religion and Comparative Development is the first analytical endeavor on religion and government that incorporates microeconomic modeling of democracy and dictatorship as well as empirical linkages between religious norms and the bureauc...eBook:Find out more£25.00