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  • Diploma Democracy

    The Rise of Political Meritocracy

    by Mark Bovens, Anchrit Wille ...
    Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualifications ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability

    Edited by Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin, Thomas Schillemans ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of social and administrative sciences. This handbook provides a state of the art overview of recent scholarship on public accountability. It collects, consolidates, and integrates an upsurge of inquiry ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Real World of EU Accountability

    What Deficit?

    Edited by Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin, Paul 't Hart ...
    The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance. The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate the key arenas where European public policy is made or implemented are held accountable. Using a systematic analytical framework, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Justice in Climate Policy

    Distributing Climate Costs Fairly

    by Annick de Vries, Gijsbert Werner, Elsenoor Wijlhuizen, Victor Toom, Mark Bovens, Suzanne Hulscher ...
    Series series Research for Policy
    This open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and original vision: continuous support for climate policy is more likely to emerge when citizens find that the distribution of the bill for climate costs is fair. But what is a fair distribution of climate costs? This is an important question because ... Read more

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  • Migration Diversity and Social Cohesion

    Reassessing the Dutch Policy Agenda

    by Roel Jennissen, Mark Bovens, Godfried Engbersen, Meike Bokhorst ...
    Series series Research for Policy
    This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this increase, which has resulted in a plethora of policy initiatives, some more effective than others. Bringing together a large amount of research and evidence-based policy ... Read more

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  • Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

    A Realistic Perspective on Self-Reliance

    by Anne-Greet Keizer, Will Tiemeijer, Mark Bovens ...
    Series series Research for Policy
    This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal finances and, ... Read more

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  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Agnieszka Weinar, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high ... Read more

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  • Participatory Democracy and Political Participation

    Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In?

    Edited by Thomas Zittel, Dieter Fuchs ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion.Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of the most visible and explicit efforts to engineer political participation via institutional reforms. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises

    Citizen Organisations and Collective Learning in Europe

    Edited by Christian Lahusen, Ulrike Zschache, Maria Kousis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors.The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, ... Read more

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  • Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States

    Dynamics of Choice, Duties and Participation In a Changing Europe

    by Bjørn Hvinden, Håkan Johansson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization.Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, law and philosophy, it examines the transformation of social citizenship through a series of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood

    Edited by Thomas Risse, Anke Draude, Tanja A. Börzel ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While areas of limited statehood can be found everywhere - not just in the global ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • European Citizenship and Social Exclusion

    Edited by Maurice Roche, Rik Van Berkel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Frist published in 1997, this book aims to answer if European ‘post-national’ citizenship provide a practical opening and a conceptual challenge to cope with the diverse and close-circuiting crises of national European social models? What then might a new sphere of European social inclusion look like? This book also provided the first attempt to go well beyond ‘national gridlock’. Old solutions ... Read more

    $48.99 USD