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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jan van deth”
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  • New Participatory Dimensions in Civil Society

    Professionalization and Individualized Collective Action

    Edited by Jan van Deth, William Maloney ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This book examines citizen engagement in contemporary democratic politics and the development of new participatory forms. Based on empirical information gathered from citizens, activists and organizations, it examines the changing face of democratic participation.Advanced democracies are ‘plagued’ by the complex problem of basing political decisions on the active engagement of citizens and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Social Capital and European Democracy

    Edited by Marco Maraffi, Kenneth Newton, Jan Van Deth, Paul Whiteley ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The authors of this work examine the dominant view that voluntary activity promotes social capital and hence good government, but also explore alternative models for the creation of social capital. Theoretical discussion is combined with detailed case studies to provide a new explanation of : * the origins and nature of social capital * its effects on political participation and policy-making * ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Equivalence in Comparative Politics

    Edited by Jan van Deth ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, such as: tolerance; political values; religious orientations; gender roles; voluntary associations; party organizations and party positions; democratic regimes, and the mass media. Each chapter covers different ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies

    Edited by Michael Brecher, Frank P. Harvey ...
    Series series Millennial reflections on international studies
    No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy: Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies consists of twelve original ... Read more

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  • Institutional Theory in Political Science

    The New Institutionalism

    by Professor B. Guy Peters ...
    Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises eight variations on the theme of institutional analysis. Through a series of questions, the author ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era

    Edited by Peter A. Hall, Michèle Lamont ...
    What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Quality In Early Childhood Services - An International Perspective

    by Helen Penn ...
    Examining how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. ... Read more

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  • Social Capital and Economics

    Social Values, Power, and Social Identity

    Edited by Asimina Christoforou, John Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Social Work and Migration

    Immigrant and Refugee Settlement and Integration

    by Kathleen Valtonen ...
    Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first book-length study on the challenges these issues create for the profession. Drawing on a wide range of research in migration which is not widely available to social workers or included in social work literature, ... Read more

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  • Security

    Dialogue across Disciplines

    Edited by Philippe Bourbeau ...
    Security is a vital subject of study in the twenty-first century and a central theme in many social science disciplines. This volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which the concept of security is theorized and studied across different disciplines. The book has two objectives: first, to explore the growing diversity of theories, paradigms, and methods developed to study security; ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Jan W. Van Deth, José Ramón Montero, Anders Westholm ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies.Research on the future and quality of contemporary democracy is usually restricted to focus either on political participation, on particular aspects of citizenship, or on social activities, exclusively. This new book offers the first empirical ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

    Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

    by Dick Houtman ...
    Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are ... Read more

    $65.99 USD