Sociology and Social Policy

The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital

Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen

This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...

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The Political Sociology of Freedom

Ronald Hamowy

Adam Ferguson and Friedrich Hayek, separated by a period of almost two hundred years, made original but similar contributions to the field of theoretical sociology. In this collection of essays, Ronald Hamowy explores the life and work o...

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Flexible Working and Organisational Change

Edited by Bram Peper, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes, Laura den Dulk

The central aim of this book is to consider to what extent changes in organisations and in the nature of jobs are compatible with the need, increasingly expressed by employees, for greater integration between work and family life. The bo...

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Democracy and Exchange

David Reisman

Democracy is the rule of the people. Exchange is supply and demand. Individualism, agreement, tolerance and choice are the underlying values that make possible the productive collaboration of the market and the state. This book assesses ...

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Working Mothers in Europe

Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert

Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers’ practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact...

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Innovation and Knowledge Management

J. D. Johnson

Modern organizations must constantly adapt to survive in today’s rapidly changing environment. A stagnant organization that cannot innovate to meet evolving conditions will eventually find itself no longer competitive in an increasingly ...

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Pension Systems

Edited by Elsa Fornero, Paolo Sestito

Pension Systems enters into the current lively debate on European pensions. The focus of the book is the analysis of public intervention in individuals’ retirement choice, its rationale and the desirability of legislation introducing a s...

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Economy and Morality

Yuichi Shionoya

Economy and Morality is a remarkable contribution to economic ethics exploring key philosophical issues including efficiency versus justice and liberty versus excellence. Its unique emphasis is the economics of virtue, which is concerned...

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The Politics of Regulation

Edited by Jacint Jordana, David Levi-Faur

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulati...

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The Network Society

Edited by Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells – one of the world’s pre-eminent social scientists – has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book ana...

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The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe

Edited by Eleni Apospori, Jane Millar

Issues of poverty and social exclusion are high on the European policy agenda. The Dynamics of Social Exclusion in Europe reports findings from a study funded by the European Commission, using data from the European Community Household P...

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