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  • Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s

    Edited by Tim Verlaan, Christian Wicke ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s. Since their post-war recovery and reconstruction, cities in this part of the world underwent far-reaching societal transitions such as deindustrialisation and the rise of the service economy, the expansion and decline of ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Crime Data Handbook

    by Ian Brunton-Smith, Tim Verlaan, Henk Elffers, Sam Langton, Stuart Thomas, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Sarah Czarnomski, Lisa Tompson, Jesús C. Aguerri, Fernando Miró-Llinares, Kirsty Bennett, Tomas Diviak, Craig Bennell, Tori Semple, Bryce Jenkins, Jack Cunliffe, Angelo Moretti, Jose Pina-Sanchez, Thiago R. Oliveira, Leticia Couto, Marta Murrià Sangenís, Cristina Sobrino Garcés, Timothy I. C. Cubitt, Mark Mills, Nico Trajtenberg, Olga Sanchez de Ribera de Castro, Carly Lighttowlers, Lucy Bryant, Olivia Horsefield, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo, Ana B. Gómez-Bellvís, Scott Keay, Jude Towers, Sara Correia-Hopkins, José María López Riba, Raquel Bartolomé Gutiérrez, Esther Fernández-Molina, Rosemary Barberet, Anthony Morgan, Alexandru Cernat, Alex Sutherland, Nicholas Lord ...
    Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics. The fuel that has driven this growth is data – and one of its most pressing challenges is the lack of research on the use and interpretation of data sources.This accessible, engaging book closes that gap for ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    A Radical History of Urban Planning

    by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago ...
    An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commonsCharacterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Hegemony of Growth

    The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

    by Matthias Schmelzer ...
    In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations, Schmelzer offers the first transnational study to chart the history of growth discourses. He ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Citizens of Nowhere

    How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself

    by Lorenzo Marsili, Niccolò Milanese, Yanis Varoufakis ...
    Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status quo already exist.This book is at once a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities

    Edited by Birgit Glorius, Jeroen Doomernik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and the consequences for ... Read more

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  • All Tomorrow's Parties

    The Changing Face of European Party Politics

    by Florian Hartleb ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Political parties are continually under pressure, due to changes in societies, technologies and politics as a whole. But at the moment, Europe is on the threshold of a new environment that is changing the face of political parties themselves. The picture has elements both optimistic (concerning the possibilities of ‘virtual’ activism) and pessimistic (concerning ‘real’ membership and stable voting ... Read more

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  • Making Competitive Cities

    Edited by Sako Musterd, Alan Murie ...
    The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law). It provides significant new knowledge to the theoretical and practical understanding of the conditions necessary to stimulate "creative knowledge" ... Read more

    $118.00 USD

  • Swiss Democracy

    Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies

    by Wolf Linder, Sean Mueller ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important changes and challenges that have affected Swiss democracy, including the country's relationship ... Read more

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  • The History of the European Union

    Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72

    Edited by Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht, Morten Rasmussen ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    This book radically re-conceptualises the origins of the European Union as a trans- and supranational polity as it emerged between the Schuman Plan of May 1950 and the first enlargement of the European Communities at the start of 1973.Drawing upon social science theories and debates as well as recent historical research, Wolfram Kaiser and Morten Rasmussen in their introductory chapters discuss ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Scaling the Heights: Thought Leadership, Liberal Values and the History of The Mont Pelerin Society

    Thought Leadership, Liberal Values and the History of The Mont Pelerin Society

    by Eamonn Butler ...
    The Mont Pelerin Society is an august, admired, yet strangely enigmatic organisation. Perhaps that’s because it holds no official views, formulates no policies and publishes no manifestos. Or because it doesn’t publicise the results of its discussions – and doesn’t even seek agreement among its members. So why does this singularly low-profile organisation attract distinctly high-profile members – ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Professionalisation of Political Communication

    by Ralph Negrine, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos ...
    Has the communication of politics become professionalised? Who are the ‘professionals’ and what part do they play in the political process? Can the process of professionalisation be observed in different political systems? These, and related questions, about the changing nature of practices in political communication are explored in this book that looks at developments across a number of different ... Read more

    $28.99 USD