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  • Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

    by Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Kristof Steyvers, Carmen Navarro ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • International Impacts on Social Policy

    Short Histories in Global Perspective

    Edited by Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels, Herbert Obinger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

    by Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Good Governance

    How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi ...
    Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

    Edited by Johanna Kuhlmann, Frank Nullmeier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Read more

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  • Dictators and Democrats

    Masses, Elites, and Regime Change

    by Stephan Haggard, Robert R. Kaufman ...
    A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the worldFrom the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Kimberly J. Morgan, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson, Daniel Béland ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are ... Read more

    $154.99 USD

  • International Influence Beyond Conditionality

    Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement

    Edited by Rachel A. Epstein, Ulrich Sedelmeier ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    The European Union’s (EU) membership conditionality has been perceived as a highly effective means of influence on non-member states in the run-up to the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. According to the incentive-based explanation that dominates the literature, conditionality has been particularly effective when the EU offered a credible membership incentive and when governments did not consider the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • EU Cohesion Policy

    Reassessing performance and direction

    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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  • East Asia's Reemergence

    by Philip S. Golub ...
    East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of world GDP has risen from less than 10 to 30 percent, a ratio that is set to rise to 40 percent by 2030.What has made East Asia’s remarkable ascent possible, and what does this economic rebalancing between East and West mean for world politics? In this ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union

    by Birol A. Yeşilada, Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This book is about the future of the EU in the light of global power transition taking place in the twenty-first century and demonstrates how its future rests on a delicate balance between policy challenge, member states’ interests, and convergence or divergence of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe

    Edited by Agnieszka Weinar, Saskia Bonjour, Lyubov Zhyznomirska ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe provides a rigorous and critical examination of what is exceptional about the European politics of migration and the study of it.Crucially, this book goes beyond the study of the politics of migration in the handful of Western European countries to showcase a European approach to the study of migration politics, inclusive of tendencies ... Read more

    $65.99 USD