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  • Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus

    Edited by Ilka Steiner, Philippe Wanner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book provides insight on current patterns of migration in Switzerland, which fall along a continuum from long-term and permanent to more temporary and fluid. These patterns are shaped by the interplay of legal norms, economic drivers and societal factors. The various dimensions of this Migration-Mobility Nexus are investigated by means of newly collected survey data: the Migration ... Read more

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  • Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

    A Comparative Network Analysis

    Edited by Berit Karseth, Kirsten Sivesind, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for ... Read more

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  • Comparative Welfare State Politics

    by Kees van Kersbergen, Barbara Vis ...
    Welfare state reform occurs in all advanced capitalist democracies, but it does not occur in identical ways, to the same degree or with similar consequences. In Comparative Welfare State Politics, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform by asking 'big' questions. Why did we need a welfare state in the first place? How did we ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Theory of Global Governance

    Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation

    by Michael Zürn ...
    This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice

    Reflections and Alternative Perspectives

    by Edwin Buitelaar, Anet Weterings, Roderik Ponds ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
    Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich.The authors ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Introduction to Migration Studies

    An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity

    Edited by Peter Scholten ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. ... Read more

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  • The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens

    Public Opinion and Social Inequalities in Comparative and Relational Perspective

    by Christian Lahusen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Kimberly J. Morgan, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson, Daniel Béland ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

    The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

    Edited by Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott ...
    Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a ... Read more

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  • EU Cohesion Policy

    Reassessing performance and direction

    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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  • Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion

    Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

    Edited by Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade*,* colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several ... Read more

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