Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Public Sector Employment Regimes

    Transformations of the State as an Employer

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'model' employer. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Employment in the Lean Years:Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade

    Edited by David Marsden ...
    Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labour market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the 'fat years'. However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labour market policy makers ensure the labour market ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Social Entrepreneurship

    Theory and Practice

    Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible, social impact. Utilizing case studies drawn from various fields and all over the world, the authors document how social ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Emiratization in the UAE Labor Market

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book combines classic and recent studies investigating challenges to Emiratization – full employment of Emirati nationals who make up only about 10% of the total workforce – in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The book offers a comprehensive overview of the events leading to the country’s rapid growth and development, as well as important social and cultural issues arising as the country ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Washington State Census Board and Its Demographic Legacy

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a massive wartime in-migration. The narrative also shows the demographic legacy of the Board and, ultimately, provides an unforgettable look into the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines

    Patronage, Emotion and Democracy

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare, and constitutes formal organizations. So intimately connected is it with the health of democracy and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reimagineering the Nation

    Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden

    Series Book 4 - Political and Social Change
    This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European perspective. It addresses changing frameworks of citizenship, welfare and democracy, migration ... Read more

    $84.79 USD

  • Women's Work in East and West: The Dual Burden of Employment and Family Life

    The Dual Burden of Employment and Family Life

    Unmasking Administrative Evil discusses the overlooked relationship between evil and public affairs, as well as other fields and professions in public life. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85

    by Michael Beggs ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia. This book tells the story of how the Australian state was shaped by the confrontation with monetary instability: a pre-history of neoliberalism. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Managing Modernity

    Beyond Bureaucracy?

    Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn't, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation. But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe

    Edited by T. Sirovátka ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the unemployed are implemented and delivered. This book analyzes and compares these reforms in nine European countries, focusing on the reforms programmes themselves, as well as on their effects. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Networked Governance

    New Research Perspectives

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research. In doing so, contributions take into account the increasingly complex forms which governance faces, consisting of different types of actors (e.g. individuals, states, economic entities, NGOs, IGOs), instruments (e.g. law, suggestions, flexible norms) ... Read more

    $98.09 USD