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  • Cultures of Transparency

    Between Promise and Peril

    Edited by Stefan Berger, Susanne Fengler, Dimitrij Owetschkin, Julia Sittmann ...
    This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency.How can society deal with increasing and often diverging demands and expectations of transparency? What role can different political and civil ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Frank Webster ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding information occupations and the development of the internet convince many that living in an Information Society is the destiny of us all. Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • The Ungovernable Society

    A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and ... Read more

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  • The Capacity to Govern

    A Report to the Club of Rome

    by Yehezkel Dror ...
    The inadequacies of contemporary forms of governance are increasingly recognized: the brain drain from politics, distrust of governments, the danger of mass media and money-dominated elections, and the failure of governments to find good policy options on major issues. Industry, civil society and non-governmental organizations, however important, cannot compensate for government's incapacity to ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective

    Theoretical Debates and Methodological Innovations

    Edited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, Hans-Heinrich Nolte ...
    Series series Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
    During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in the 1970s, no single core power has attained a hegemonic position in an increasingly polarized world. As income inequalities have become more pronounced in core countries, especially in the U.S. and the U.K., global inequalities emerged as a "new" topic of social ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Media, Democracy and European Culture

    Edited by Ib Bondebjerg, Peter Madsen ...
    Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media, communication policy and the question of how the media report on Europe runs as a thread through all contributions. The book is interdisciplinary and international ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Power and Influence of Economists

    Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics

    Edited by Jens Maesse, Stephan Pühringer, Thierry Rossier, Pierre Benz ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both ... Read more

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  • 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

  • The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Damien Cahill, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings, David Primrose ...
    Over the last two decades, ‘neoliberalism’ has emerged as a key concept within a range of social science disciplines including sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, political economy, and cultural studies.The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism showcases the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in this field by bringing together a team of global experts. Across seven key ... Read more

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  • Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe

    A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Changes

    Edited by Mario Reimer, Panagiotis Getimis, Hans Blotevogel ...
    Ideal for students and practitioners working in spatial planning, the Europeanization of planning agendas and regional policy in general Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe develops a systematic methodological framework to analyze changes in planning systems throughout Europe. The main aim of the book is to delineate the coexistence of continuity and change and of convergence and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Future of Representative Democracy

    Edited by Sonia Alonso, John Keane, Wolfgang Merkel ...
    The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and their future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms of present-day trends and past theories of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • What We Are Fighting For

    A Radical Collective Manifesto

    Edited by Federico Campagna, Emanuele Campiglio ...
    *Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013*From the pens of major figures of the anti-austerity movement, comes the first radical, collective manifesto of the new decade.From participatory democracy to media reform, from direct action to communal living, What Are We Fighting For is a bold look at alternatives to the economic, social and political travesty of contemporary capitalism. Chapters ... Read more

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