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  • Automation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    The Social Construction of the Future of Work

    by Larry Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions and Organisations
    Automation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence draws on historical and contemporary debates to examine the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence.While automation is often portrayed as an inevitable technological force driving economic progress or job loss, this book reframes it as a socially constructed discourse that is shaped by competing beliefs, interests and narratives about ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee

    International Experiences and Perspectives Past, Present, and Near Future

    Edited by Richard K. Caputo, Larry Liu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries. Contributing authors address specific issues about major efforts to influence public policy regarding basic income guarantee, such as: who were the main advocates and thought leaders involved in support of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

    Edited by J. Raadschelders, T. Toonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This revised and expanded edition of a benchmark collection compares how civil services around the world have adapted to cope with managing public services in the 21st century. The volume provides insights into multi-level governance, juridification and issues of efficiency and responsiveness as well as exploring the impact of fiscal austerity. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

    Edited by Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters ...
    The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry.Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

    by Kathleen Thelen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates ... Read more

    $27.89 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

  • Basic Income

    A Guide for the Open-Minded

    by Guy Standing ...
    Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Assault on Kids and Teachers

    Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools

    Edited by Roberta Ahlquist, Paul C. Gorski, Theresa Montaño ...
    Series Book 523 - Counterpoints
    In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the “public” out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education. Contributors, including teachers, educational and community activists, teacher educators, critical ... Read more

    $40.09 USD

  • Power Despite Precarity

    Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education

    by Joe Berry, Helena Worthen ...
    Series series Wildcat
    Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education.Power Despite Precarity is part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics of Bureaucracy

    by B. Guy Peters, Guy Peters ...
    Routledge is proud to publish the fifth edition of this comprehensive, comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world. Written by a leading authority in the field, it offers an extensive, well documented, comparative analysis stressing the effects of politics and organised interests on bureaucracy. New to the fifth edition: *a ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Steering from the Centre

    Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies

    Edited by Jon Pierre, Carl Dahlström, B. Guy Peters ...
    Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in the wake of reform ideas such as the New Public Management which stress deregulation and decentralization.This ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • What’s Race Got To Do With It?

    How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality, Second Edition

    Edited by Edwin Mayorga, Ujju Aggarwal, Bree Picower ...
    Series Book 7 - Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness
    The first edition of What’s Race Got to Do With It (2015) addressed a moment when those working on the ground—activists, educators, young people, and families—were trying to understand and fight back against neoliberal education reforms (e.g., high stakes testing, school closings, and charter schools), while uncovering what race had to do with it all in the context of a supposedly post-racial ... Read more

    $38.69 USD