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  • Europeanization and Transnational States

    Comparing Nordic Central Governments

    by Bengt Jacobsson, Per Lægreid, Ove K. Pedersen ...
    This book investigates what happens to an organized political unit when it becomes part of a larger entity and, in particular, how increased European integration and the tentative moves towards a transnational state will affect the European Union's nation state. Europeanization and Transnational**States provides an extensive comparative survey of the central governments in four Scandinavian ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The European Union and the Baltic States

    Changing Forms of Governance

    Edited by Bengt Jacobsson ...
    Series series Europe and the Nation State
    This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and how they have become modern European states. It focuses on changes in the policies, politics and administrative practices that have taken place after 1991 in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and on the influence of rules and ideas in the European Union. The authors investigate the meeting ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Union

    by Prof Anand Menon ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is an authoritative, one-volume, and independent treatment of the history, functioning and nature of the European integration. Written by a selection of leading scholars. It covers the major institutions, policies, and events in the history of integration, whilst also providing a guide to the major theoretical approaches that have been used to study it over time. By bringing together such a ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Political Construction of Business Interests

    Coordination, Growth, and Equality

    by Cathie Jo Martin, Duane Swank ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

    Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada

    by Jennifer Elrick ...
    In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Polling and Public Opinion

    A Canadian Perspective

    by Peter Marshall Butler ...
    The importance of polling public opinion is widely recognized today. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that in mass societies, polls have also become an important medium for communicating ideas and beliefs, especially since many people have become less involved in community organizations and interest groups that formerly connected them to events and issues. Polling and Public Opinion examines the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Industrial Relations

    Origins and Patterns of National Diversity

    by Michael Poole ...
    This comparative study of industrial relations provides an analysis of a wide range of phenomena, with a view to uncovering the origins of national diversity. It takes into account the notion of strategic choice, set within a series of constraints of environment, organizational and institutional conditions and power relationships. The book: * Covers a wide range of examples from the UK, USA, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

    by Elaine Unterhalter ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Modernity

    The Nordic Model and Beyond

    Edited by Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary ... Read more

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  • Opting Out of the European Union

    Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration

    by Rebecca Adler-Nissen ...
    European integration continues to deepen despite major crises and attempts to take back sovereignty. A growing number of member states are reacting to a more constraining EU by negotiating opt-outs. This book provides the first in-depth account of how opt-outs work in practice. It examines the most controversial cases of differentiated integration: the British and Danish opt-outs from Economic and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Political Sociology

    Oppression, Resistance, and the State

    by Deric Shannon, Davita Silfen Glasberg ...
    A unique multidimensional view of the relationship between the state, society, and oppressionDesigned to help students analyze and understand political developments in the world around them, this unique text covers a wide array of political sociology concepts and theoretical perspectives. The book′s multidimensional view emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple oppressions, and ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • 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

    $47.99 CAD