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“linus westheuser”

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  • Trigger Points

    Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society

    by Steffen Mau, Thomas Lux, Linus Westheuser ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Today’s political debates are fiercely polarized. But looking beyond the headlines, this book shows that ordinary citizens hold much more nuanced, less divided views.Drawing on rich survey data and group discussions, this work maps four major areas of conflict: migration, climate change, diversity, and economic justice.Across these ... Read more

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  • Capitalism on Edge

    How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

    by Albena Azmanova ...
    Series Book 69 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism’s terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction.Azmanova’s new ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The End of Illusions

    Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

    by Andreas Reckwitz ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Learning, Philosophy, and African Citizenship

    Edited by Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of African citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one particular framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as both theoretically discussed by philosophers and ... 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

    $36.49 USD

  • What Is Globalization?

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Creative Construction

    Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond

    by Heide Lutosh, James Muldoon, Samuel Decker, Jakob Heyer, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Elena Hofferberth, Cédric Durand, Matthias Schmelzer, Matthias Neumann, Gabriele Winker, Dougie Booth, Rabea Berfelde, Philipp Möller, Nancy Fraser, Samia Mohammed, Stefan Meretz, Simon Sutterlütti, Evgeny Morozov, Eva von Redecker, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault, Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Simon Schaupp, Kohei Saito ...
    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Theory of Global Governance

    Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation

    by Michael Zürn ...
    This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Re-Forming Capitalism

    Institutional Change in the German Political Economy

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Power in the Global Age

    A New Global Political Economy

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers.The author puts forward the provocative thesis ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Globalization and Everyday Life

    by Larry Ray ...
    Series series The New Sociology
    Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globalization is an outcome of structural and cultural processes that manifest in different ways in economy, politics, culture and organizations. So the globalized world is increasingly heterogeneous, unequal and conflictual rather than integrated and ordered. Secondly, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Handbook of Public Sociology

    by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy, Stephen Cornell, Michael DeCesare, Sean Elias, Frank Furedi, Norval D. Glenn, John Hagan, Lina Hu, Robert Kleidman, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard, Damon Mayrl, Bill McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Jennifer Mueller, Samuel P. Oliner, Pamela E. Oliver, Caroline Hodges Persell, Laurel Westbrook, Lee McPhail, Herbert J. Gans, Ruth Horowitz, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Lawrence T. Nichols, Saskia Sassen, Edward A. Tiryakian ...
    Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional ... Read more

    $64.79 USD