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  • The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy

    Turning Talk into Power

    by Mechthild Roos ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The European Parliament (EP) – a powerful actor in today's European Union – was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at first. Yet this book shows that the EP was much more influential in shaping Community policy in the early years of the integration process than either the founding Treaties or most existing scholarship would allow. It studies the EP’s institutional evolution ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Informal Construction of Europe

    Edited by Lennaert van Heumen, Mechthild Roos ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    Informal dimensions of European integration have received limited academic attention to date, despite their historical and contemporary importance. Particularly studies in European integration history, while frequently mentioning informal processes, have as yet rarely conceptualised the study of informality in European integration, and thus fail usually to systematically analyse conditions, impact ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Social Policy and Practice in Canada

    A History

    by Alvin Finkel ...
    Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young.This book is the first synthesis on social policy ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

    Edited by Miriam Smith ...
    Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Diploma Democracy

    The Rise of Political Meritocracy

    by Mark Bovens, Anchrit Wille ...
    Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualifications ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Social Democracy

    A Comparative Account of the Left-Wing Party Family

    by Hans Keman ...
    The Social Democratic party family is a central part of political life in the West. This book focuses on this party family as well as a unique political force in the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative survey of when, where, how and why Social Democracy developed within established capitalist democracies.The book explains the electoral fortunes of Social Democratic parties, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Ethical Spirit of EU Law

    by Markus Frischhut ...
    This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the more important because EU law is now affecting more and more areas of national law, including such sensitive ones as the patentability of human life. Especially when unethical ... Read more

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  • Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe

    Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges

    Edited by Sarah Spencer, Anna Triandafyllidou ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book takes ... Read more

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  • The Search for a European Identity

    Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union

    Edited by Furio Cerutti, Sonia Lucarelli ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, the editors have developed a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between these two items in the problematic development of the EU into a fully-fledged political actor.The ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Gender and International Migration in Europe

    Employment, Welfare and Politics

    by Eleonore Kofman, Annie Phizacklea, Parvati Raghuram, Rosemary Sales ...
    Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations. As the European Union seeks to extend equal opportunities, increasingly restrictionist immigration policies and the persistence of racism, deny autonomy and choice to migrant women. This work demonstrates how processes of globalisation and change in state ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Participatory Democracy and Political Participation

    Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In?

    Edited by Thomas Zittel, Dieter Fuchs ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion.Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of the most visible and explicit efforts to engineer political participation via institutional reforms. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Social Changes in a Global World

    by Ulrike Schuerkens ...
    Renowned author Ulrike Schuerkens presents an in-depth exploration of social transformations and developments. Combining an international approach with up-to-date research, the book:Has dedicated chapters on contemporary topics including technology, new media, war and terror, political culture and inequalityIncludes an analysis of societal structures – inequality, globalization, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD