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  • Modern Game Testing: A Pragmatic Guide to Test Planning and Strategy

    by Chris Howell ...
    Series Book 1 - Modern Game Testing
    Focusing exclusively on the unique challenges of video game testing, you’ll discover how modern game companies create test plans and strategies for large and complex games, and learn the foolproof techniques and processes created for and used by real-world game teams.Packed with expert advice and real-life examples, you’ll find this book invaluable if you want to improve your own or your team’s ... Read more

    $40.93 USD

  • Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation

    European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s

    by Lucio Baccaro, Chris Howell ...
    This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Regulating Labor

    The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France

    by Chris Howell ...
    In May and June of 1968 a dramatic wave of strikes paralyzed France, making industrial relations reform a key item on the government agenda. French trade unions seemed due for a golden age of growth and importance. Today, however, trade unions are weaker in France than in any other advanced capitalist country. How did such exceptional militancy give way to equally remarkable quiescence? To answer ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Trade Unions and the State

    The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000

    by Chris Howell ...
    The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions?In analyzing how an entirely new industrial relations system was constructed after 1979, Howell offers a revisionist history of British trade ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Nordic Neoliberalisms

    Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics after 1970

    Edited by Jenny Andersson, Chris Howell ...
    Series series Nordic Studies in a Global Context
    Drawing on a cross-disciplinary perspective from history and social science, this book examines what is common to neoliberalism, and where it differs, in four Nordic countries across four key sectors of liberalization: capital markets, labor markets, industrial relations and the welfare state.Assessing its scope and forms, the actors involved, processes and mechanisms, and how it has been ... Read more

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  • The Political Construction of Business Interests

    Coordination, Growth, and Equality

    by Cathie Jo Martin, Duane Swank ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Politics of Bureaucracy

    by B. Guy Peters, Guy Peters ...
    Routledge is proud to publish the fifth edition of this comprehensive, comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world. Written by a leading authority in the field, it offers an extensive, well documented, comparative analysis stressing the effects of politics and organised interests on bureaucracy. New to the fifth edition: *a ... Read more

    $63.95 USD

  • African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999

    by Nicolas Van de Walle ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    This 2001 book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Liberalism in Illiberal States

    Ideas and Economic Adjustment in Contemporary Europe

    by Mark I. Vail ...
    After the end of the Cold War, liberalism emerged as the world's dominant political-economic ideology, and economic liberalism seemed to have achieved global hegemony. In Liberalism in Illiberal States, Mark Vail acknowledges the dominance of economic liberalism, but argues that its implementation in specific countries is always unique and dependent upon powerful historical factors. He focuses on ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Regionalism and Global Economic Integration

    Europe, Asia and the Americas

    Edited by William D. Coleman, Geoffrey D. Underhill ...
    This scholarly and interdisciplinary volume sheds much needed light on the realtionship between national policies, regional integration patterns and the wider global setting. It covers regional patterns in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Individual chapters focus on topics ranging from industrial or financial policies to social welfare regimes, as well as broader assessments and comparisons of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • How Will Capitalism End?

    Essays on a Failing System

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher EducationA major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The End of the Eurocrats' Dream

    Adjusting to European Diversity

    Edited by Damian Chalmers, Markus Jachtenfuchs, Christian Joerges ...
    This volume argues that the crisis of the European Union is not merely a fiscal crisis but reveals and amplifies deeper flaws in the structure of the EU itself. It is a multidimensional crisis of the economic, legal and political cornerstones of European integration and marks the end of the technocratic mode of integration which has been dominant since the 1950s. The EU has a weak political and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD