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  • Leading from Behind

    Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era

    Edited by Petra Ahrens, Phillip M. Ayoub, Sabine Lang ...
    This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas

    Resisting Institutions

    Edited by Sabine Lang, Petra Meier, Birgit Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe. Contributors identify actors, institutions, and cultural legacies shape how quotas are put into practice. The volume’s subtitle, Resisting Institutions, points to the myriad ways in which parties and other institutions in Europe over time have resisted the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Men as Women, Women as Men

    Changing Gender in Native American Cultures

    by Sabine Lang ...
    Translated by John L. Vantine ...
    As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities.This book provides an ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Gender Equality in Politics

    Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria

    by Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures. Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which electoral systems and party regulations interface with voluntary party quotas in Germany and Austria. All ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere

    by Sabine Lang ...
    Nongovernmental organizations act on behalf of citizens in politics and society. Yet many question their legitimacy and ask who they speak for. This book investigates how NGOs can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests. Sabine Lang analyzes the choices that NGOs face in their work for policy change between working in institutional settings and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Renegotiating the Welfare State

    Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation

    Edited by Gerhard Lehmbruch, Frans van Waarden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations

    TTIP in a Globalized World

    by Jean-Frederic Morin, Tereza Novotná, Frederik Ponjaert, Mario Telò ...
    Series series Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution

    UNEP at Fifty

    by Maria Ivanova ...
    Series series One Planet
    The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution

    A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries

    Edited by Thomas König, Simon Hug ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution.It examines how such decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of nation states and on the lives of citizens, independent of the ratification of a constitution. Few efforts have been made to document constitution building ... Read more

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  • The Sacred Hoop

    Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

    by Paula Gunn Allen ...
    Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen's celebrated study of women's roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women's studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyondThis groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays investigates and celebrates Native American ... Read more

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  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

    Resurgence and the Development Agenda

    by Christopher May ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Covering the World Intellectual Property Organization, this volume introduces a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy.Christopher May discusses:how the World Intellectual Property Organization works, its antecedents and historythe debates about the role and justification of intellectual propertythe role of WIPO within ... Read more

    $54.99 USD