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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jayme lemke”
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  • Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School

    Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Jayme Lemke, Vlad Tarko ...
    Elinor Ostrom was the first female winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, and her achievement has generated renewed interest in the Bloomington School research program in institutional economics and political economy. These essays showcase Ostrom's extensive and lasting influence throughout economics and the wider social sciences. Contributors contextualize the Bloomington School within schools ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of F. A. Hayek

    Edited by Peter J. Boettke, Virgil Henry Storr, Jayme S. Lemke ...
    Series series Economy, Polity, and Society
    This volume critically explore and extend Hayek’s Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness from the disciplines of law, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, and history. Hayek’s insights about knowledge become even more important once it is recognized that nothing in the social world occurs in isolation. There is no such thing as a distinct economic, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Applications of Public Choice Theory to Public Policy

    by Dr. George Agyeah, Dr. Brittany K. Giles-Jones, Dr. Malte Hendrickx, Dr. Saige M. Hill, Dr. Cory Jack, Dr. Gah-Kai Leung, Dr. Agostina Lorenzini, Dr. Laura Montenovo, Dr. Jean Vilbert, Dallin Overstreet, Jayme S. Lemke2, Virgil Henry Storr4 ...
    Series series Economy, Polity, and Society
    The contributors to this book utilize the Public Choice approach to interpret, analyze, and at times even predict policy outcomes from a variety of contexts around the world. Applications of Public Choice Theory to Public Policy emphasizes how much can be learned from studying real people in the process of navigating political processes and institutional change. The volume directly addresses what ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

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  • Caring Democracy

    Markets, Equality, and Justice

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the centerAmericans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see ... Read more

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  • Fortunes of Feminism

    From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

    by Nancy Fraser ...
    Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of Sociology

    by Tony Lawson, Joan Garrod ...
    With full coverage of areas such as social stratification, crime and deviance, culture and identity, mass media, power and politics, and religion, the Dictionary of Sociology is designed to give the reader a sound introduction to the debates and issues in which sociologists engage. Cross references abound, while illustrations and tables further aid understanding and the A-Z format makes the book ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Handbook of Public Sociology

    by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy, Stephen Cornell, Michael DeCesare, Sean Elias, Frank Furedi, Norval D. Glenn, John Hagan, Lina Hu, Robert Kleidman, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard, Damon Mayrl, Bill McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Jennifer Mueller, Samuel P. Oliner, Pamela E. Oliver, Caroline Hodges Persell, Laurel Westbrook, Lee McPhail, Herbert J. Gans, Ruth Horowitz, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Lawrence T. Nichols, Saskia Sassen, Edward A. Tiryakian ...
    Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Politics, Gender, and Concepts

    Theory and Methodology

    Edited by Gary Goertz, Amy G. Mazur ...
    A critique of concepts has been central to feminist scholarship since its inception. However, while gender scholars have identified the analytical gaps in existing social science concepts, few have systematically mapped out a gendered approach to issues in political analysis and theory development. This volume addresses this important gap in the literature by exploring the methodology of concept ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Childhood and Postcolonization

    Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice

    by Gaile S. Cannella, Radhika Viruru ...
    Series series Changing Images of Early Childhood
    This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world. Using a postcolonial lens on current educational practices, the authors hope to lift those practices out of reproducing traditional power structures and push our thinking beyond the adult/child dichotomy into new possibilities for the lives that are created with ... Read more

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  • Culture and Social Theory

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory ... Read more

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  • Critical Social Theory in Public Administration

    by Richard C Box ...
    The essential premise of critical social theory is that contemporary society is neither democratic nor free, but that modern global capitalism creates a citizenry satiated with consumer goods, unaware of alternative ways of living. In the public sector, critical theory suggests that governing systems are influenced, if not controlled, by the wealthy and powerful, leaving public professionals to ... Read more

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