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Consumers And Consumption In Comparison

~~112,63€~~ 101,37€ 10% OFF

 <p>Consumption studies are underrated in the social sciences. Drawing specific attention to this need for further analysis, this latest volume of <em>Comparative Social Research</em> presents a rich collection of chapters offering an up-to-date view of the sociology of consumption.</p><p>Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, <em>Consumers and Consumption in Comparison</em> focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.</p><p>With chapters covering consumer collective action, health and food consumption, sustainable consumption, the cost-of-living crises, gendered online play, and more, this is compelling read for scholars across the social sciences interested in a comparative view of consumers and consumptions.</p>
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Comparative Historical And Typological Approach To The Middle Eastern State System - Taking Stein Rokkan’S Ambitions Beyond Europe

~~125,88€~~ 100,70€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 <p>The study of state formation and nation building is a proud tradition. Currently, however, it is difficult to discern a unified research frontier in this field, due to a persistent gap between the more case-based historical focus seen in area studies, and more generalizing approaches inspired by the natural sciences.</p><p>Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume explores the potential of his work to address this gap. Featuring Rokkan’s lecture skeleton methodology, given in Paris 1976, but included here as the first ever English language translation, this collection brings into sharp focus how Rokkan developed a set of methodological tools that allowed the construction of regional models and typological maps for guiding paired or clustered comparisons of state formation and nation building in any world region. Acknowledging Rokkan’s key argument that relevant models and maps need to be developed through knowledge about a region’s history rather than through formal concepts alone, contributors draw on the full potential of Rokkan’s innovations by calibrating them with empirical material from a world region not analysed by Rokkan himself: the Middle East.</p><p>Thoughtfully reconstructing and upgrading Rokkan’s methodology, <em>A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System </em>ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.</p>
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Comparative Historical And Typological Approach To The Middle Eastern State System - Taking Stein Rokkan’S Ambitions Beyond Europe

~~125,88€~~ 100,70€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 <p>The study of state formation and nation building is a proud tradition. Currently, however, it is difficult to discern a unified research frontier in this field, due to a persistent gap between the more case-based historical focus seen in area studies, and more generalizing approaches inspired by the natural sciences.</p><p>Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume explores the potential of his work to address this gap. Featuring Rokkan’s lecture skeleton methodology, given in Paris 1976, but included here as the first ever English language translation, this collection brings into sharp focus how Rokkan developed a set of methodological tools that allowed the construction of regional models and typological maps for guiding paired or clustered comparisons of state formation and nation building in any world region. Acknowledging Rokkan’s key argument that relevant models and maps need to be developed through knowledge about a region’s history rather than through formal concepts alone, contributors draw on the full potential of Rokkan’s innovations by calibrating them with empirical material from a world region not analysed by Rokkan himself: the Middle East.</p><p>Thoughtfully reconstructing and upgrading Rokkan’s methodology, <em>A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System </em>ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.</p>
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A Comparative Historical And Typological Approach To The Middle Eastern State System - Taking Stein Rokkanâ€™S Ambitions Beyond Europe

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 Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.
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Social Democracy In The 21st Century

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 Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elaborates on how social democracy should be understood under these changing circumstances, how social democratic parties have responded and what future trajectories await.
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Elites And People - Challenges To Democracy

~~99,36€~~ 79,49€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 <div>This volume contains an Open Access chapter.</div><div>Relationships between elites and democracy have always been strained. The very concept of elites - of ''chosen people'' - stands in contradiction to democratic ideals of political equality. Simultaneously, they are necessary parts of democratic societies. In any large-scale society, democracy is unthinkable without large organizations, be they political bodies, bureaucracies, enterprises, or voluntary organizations. When power is concentrated at the summit of such organizations the incumbents of the top positions potentially constitute groups that often are termed elite groups. </div><div>The present volume of <i>Comparative Social Research</i> offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women''s political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US. </div><div><br></div><div>The quality of democratic governance seems to be in decline in many parts of contemporary world. Nevertheless, political elections are still a main source of legitimacy, even when they are far from being free and fair. Developments in the Third Wave democracies established around 1990 both in Europe and in the rest of the world, are treated in several chapters. How do they fare two or three decades later? Another group of chapters sets the focus on elite recruitment and socialization, spelled out against class and gender. The volume concludes by highlighting various entanglements of elites with populism, concerning both underlying reasons for the recent populist expansion and the various images of elites in populist movements. </div>
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Elites And People - Challenges To Democracy

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 <div>This volume contains an Open Access chapter.</div><div>Relationships between elites and democracy have always been strained. The very concept of elites - of ''chosen people'' - stands in contradiction to democratic ideals of political equality. Simultaneously, they are necessary parts of democratic societies. In any large-scale society, democracy is unthinkable without large organizations, be they political bodies, bureaucracies, enterprises, or voluntary organizations. When power is concentrated at the summit of such organizations the incumbents of the top positions potentially constitute groups that often are termed elite groups. </div><div>The present volume of <i>Comparative Social Research</i> offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women''s political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US. </div><div><br></div><div>The quality of democratic governance seems to be in decline in many parts of contemporary world. Nevertheless, political elections are still a main source of legitimacy, even when they are far from being free and fair. Developments in the Third Wave democracies established around 1990 both in Europe and in the rest of the world, are treated in several chapters. How do they fare two or three decades later? Another group of chapters sets the focus on elite recruitment and socialization, spelled out against class and gender. The volume concludes by highlighting various entanglements of elites with populism, concerning both underlying reasons for the recent populist expansion and the various images of elites in populist movements. </div>
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Bureaucracy And Society In Transition - Comparative Perspectives

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 New Public Management has held a central position within public administration over the past few decades, complemented by various models promoting post-bureaucratic organization. But ‘traditional’ bureaucracy has not disappeared, and bureaucracy is in transition in the West and the rest of the world. Bureaucracies still fill crucial positions in modern societies, despite growing criticism of assumed inefficiencies and unlimited growth. <div><br></div><div>This volume examines a range of issues related to bureaucracies in transition across Europe, with a particular focus on the Nordic region. Chapters examine a range of topics including a reinterpretation of Weber’s conception of bureaucracy; the historical development of institutions and organizational structures in Sweden and Greece; the myth of bureaucratic neutrality and the concept of ‘competent neutrality’; performance management systems; the anti-bureaucratic identities of senior civil servants; the role of experts and expertise in bureaucratic organizations; the impact of reform on public sector executives; the curbing of corruption in Scandinavian states; an interrogation of the Nordic administrative model; Supreme Audit Institutions; ‘street-level’ bureaucracy; and the establishment of an ‘ethics of office’ amongst Danish civil servants. </div>
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Bureaucracy And Society In Transition - Comparative Perspectives

~~121,89€~~ 97,51€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 New Public Management has held a central position within public administration over the past few decades, complemented by various models promoting post-bureaucratic organization. But ‘traditional’ bureaucracy has not disappeared, and bureaucracy is in transition in the West and the rest of the world. Bureaucracies still fill crucial positions in modern societies, despite growing criticism of assumed inefficiencies and unlimited growth. <div><br></div><div>This volume examines a range of issues related to bureaucracies in transition across Europe, with a particular focus on the Nordic region. Chapters examine a range of topics including a reinterpretation of Weber’s conception of bureaucracy; the historical development of institutions and organizational structures in Sweden and Greece; the myth of bureaucratic neutrality and the concept of ‘competent neutrality’; performance management systems; the anti-bureaucratic identities of senior civil servants; the role of experts and expertise in bureaucratic organizations; the impact of reform on public sector executives; the curbing of corruption in Scandinavian states; an interrogation of the Nordic administrative model; Supreme Audit Institutions; ‘street-level’ bureaucracy; and the establishment of an ‘ethics of office’ amongst Danish civil servants. </div>
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Labour Mobility In The Enlarged Single European Market

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 The 2004 reunification of Eastern and Western Europe and the subsequent economic crisis caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility and a profound shift in preceding patterns of migration in Europe. While previous decades of European integration brought very modest cross-border flows of labour, the past decade has engendered the largest European movements of labour in modern time - mostly from East to West, but eventually also from South to North. In a situation of record high European unemployment, this has sparked controversy about the very notion of free movement, one of the basic foundations of the European Community, and has unleashed heated debates about the conditions, causes, and consequences of large-scale labour migration for receiving as well as sending societies. Against this background, this volume of Comparative Social Research will contribute to improve our understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the past decade’s surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe.
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Gender Segregation In Vocational Education

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 This book investigates the contexts of gender segregation in vocational education (VET) from a cross-national, comparative perspective. It tackles questions about occupational expectations, gendered pathways to applied fields of study, feminization of occupations and the relationship between educational choice and opportunity structures.
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Class And Stratification Analysis

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 Emphasizes unsolved issues and developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both theoretical and methodological innovations and revisions. In this book, comparative analysis has also revealed cross-national differentiation in stratification processes, partly related to welfare state arrangements and national policies.
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Civil Society In Comparative Perspective

by Bernard Enjolras e Karl Henrik Sivesind

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 Presents a collection of comparative studies of civil society around two main issues: the comparison and analysis of civil society regimes in relation to different constructions of citizenship and welfare states and the role of civil society in governance and active participation of citizens.
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Whistleblowing And Freedom Of Expression In Working Life - Comparative Perspectives

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 The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read onlineWith contributors from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa, chapters focus on factors that influence how different countries design and implement their whistleblower protection laws.
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Consumers And Consumption In Comparison

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 Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.
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Tiny Reindeer - A Heartwarming Christmas Story

by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

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A Tale Of Two Dragons

by Geraldine McCaughrean; Illustration: Peter Malone

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Social Democracy In The 21st Century

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 Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elaborates on how social democracy should be understood under these changing circumstances, how social democratic parties have responded and what future trajectories await.
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A Dog'S Hope: An Unputdownable, Heartwar - An Unputdownable, Heartwarming And Emotional Page Turner

by Casey Wilson

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The Italian Villa: An Emotional And Abso

by Daniela Sacerdoti

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The Girl I Thought I Knew: A Gripping An - A Gripping And Emotional Page-Turner With A Twist

by Kelly Heard

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The Leaving Party: An Absolutely Grippin - An Absolutely Gripping And Addictive Psychological Thriller

by Lesley Sanderson

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The Forgotten Wife: A Heartbreaking Fami - A Heartbreaking Family Drama With A Stunning Twist

by Emma Robinson

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The Last Wife - An Absolutely Gripping And Emotional Page Turner With A Brilliant Twist

by Marsh Nicola Marsh

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