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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “pertti alasuutari”
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  • National Parliaments as a Global Institution

    An Institutionalist View

    by Pertti Alasuutari ...
    Countries all over the world make decisions of national and international importance in a national parliament. Today, for a country to have a national parliament is a global norm, but this has only been the case for the last few hundred years. The development of this remarkable uniformity has seen national parliaments become a global institution. National Parliaments as a Global Institution ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Synchronization of National Policies

    Ethnography of the Global Tribe of Moderns

    by Pertti Alasuutari ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The Synchronization of National Policies shows how it is possible that there is remarkable uniformity in the policies that the nation-states adopt, although there is no world government. Mainstream research attributes such global governance to the influence of leading countries, to functional requirements created by capitalism and technological development, or to international organizations. This ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Media Audience

    The New Agenda

    Edited by Pertti Alasuutari ...
    Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life. ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • National Policy-Making

    Domestication of Global Trends

    Edited by Pertti Alasuutari, Ali Qadir ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national level—where policies are ultimately made and implemented—when policy-making is interdependent worldwide? How do policy-makers take into account the prior choices of other countries? Far more research is needed on the process of interdependent decision-making in the world polity ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods

    Edited by Leonard Bickman, Julia Brannen, Pertti Alasuutari ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume.The Handbook includes chapters on each phase of the research process: research design, methods of data collection, and the processes of analyzing and interpreting data. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Epistemic Governance

    Social Change in the Modern World

    by Pertti Alasuutari, Ali Qadir ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality. Agents of change such as parliamentarians or social movement activists will assess and affect what they believe to be people’s conceptions of what is possible, rational, and desirable. This often means that these key authority figures will invest ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Expertise

    Competing for Authority in Global Governance

    by Ole Jacob Sending ...
    Series series Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics
    Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing competition for authority in global governance.Drawing on insights from sociology, political science, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Liberalism and Its Discontents

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to International Law

    Edited by James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ... Read more

    $48.39 USD

  • New Critical Writings in Political Sociology

    Volume Three: Globalization and Contemporary Challenges to the Nation-State

    by Alan Scott ...
    Series series New Critical Writings in Political Sociology
    In the third and final volume of this series, we examine the implications of the accelerating globalization process for the nation-state. Are globalization, the rise of regional and international institutions, and the international agreements on human rights actually reducing and transforming state sovereignty? Clearly ethnic, racial, and religious identities remain salient, but how do they ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Future of Social Movement Research

    Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes

    Edited by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, Bert Klandermans ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD