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  • 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

    $33.69 USD

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  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    by Roger C. Riddell ...
    Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Politics in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Wolfgang Streeck, Armin Schäfer ...
    In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course of government through elections and if a change in government cannot translate into different ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Equity, Diversity & Canadian Labour

    by Gerald Hunt, David Rayside ...
    In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • International Development and Global Politics

    History, Theory and Practice

    by David Williams ...
    This textbook provides a historical survey of economic and political development theory and practice from 1945. Against the background of changes in global politics, it explores how the project of international development has been shaped in a series of wider contexts. Divided into two historical parts: the Sovereign Order, post 1945 to the early-1980s, and the Liberal post-Cold War Era from the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Group of Seven

    Finance Ministries, Central Banks and Global Financial Governance

    by Andrew Baker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this co-operation for US power and the abilities of the other six states to exercise leadership? What role do the G7 play in global financial governance? How much authority do they possess and how is that ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Union

    by Erik Jones, 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

    $44.99 USD

  • The Political System of the European Union

    by Simon Hix, Bjørn Høyland ...
    Series series The European Union Series
    Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political science to understand how the EU works, this text covers each of the main processes in the EU political system - executive, legislative and judicial ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation

    European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s

    by Lucio Baccaro, Chris Howell ...
    This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different ... Read more

    $27.89 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

  • Social Democracy

    A Comparative Account of the Left-Wing Party Family

    by Hans Keman ...
    The Social Democratic party family is a central part of political life in the West. This book focuses on this party family as well as a unique political force in the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative survey of when, where, how and why Social Democracy developed within established capitalist democracies.The book explains the electoral fortunes of Social Democratic parties, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Governing the World?

    Cases in Global Governance

    Edited by Sophie Harman, David Williams ...
    ‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global governance works in practice through a set of case studies on both classical issues of international relations ... Read more

    $81.99 USD