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  • Dualisation of Part-Time Work

    The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders

    by Roy Nilsen, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Kristine Nergaard, Heejung Chung, Jonas Felbo-Kolding, Anna Ilsøe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenneth Hudson, Min Young Song, Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee, Belinda Hewitt, Mara Yerkes, Thordis Reimer, Sissel C. Trygstad, Margarita León, Lara Maestripieri, Ghailani Dalila ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea.This ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Social Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment

    A Comparative Analysis of Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe and Beyond

    Edited by Raquel Gallego, Sheila González Motos, Lara Maestripieri ...
    Since the early 2000s, social innovation has become increasingly relevant in the political and research debates on welfare state transformations. Although most social innovations are citizen-led, some new institution-led initiatives have also emerged. But what are the implications of social innovation for equity and welfare? How does policy learning from social innovation take place in different ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

  • Professionalism and Social Change

    Processes of Differentiation Within, Between and Beyond Professions

    Edited by Lara Maestripieri, Andrea Bellini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book guides the reader in discovering contemporary professions and the critical changes they have lived through after the post-industrial transformation of advanced capitalist societies. Two interrelated concepts are used to interpret what is happening in professional work: differentiation, namely the set of processes by which professions and professionalism have become more diverse, and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education

    Old Patterns, New Dynamics, and Changing Rules?

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Pundy Pillay, Akiyoshi Yonezawa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the ... Read more

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

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  • Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    A Global Commentary

    Edited by Laura Spence, Mollie Painter-Morland ...
    Series Book 2 - The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series
    This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Wicked Problems in Public Policy

    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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  • Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations

    A Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality

    Edited by Angela Wroblewski, Rachel Palmén ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The under-representation of women in research and innovation has been documented as a global phenomenon and is particularly heightened on decision-making boards and in leadership positions. Presenting a reflexive approach to gender equality for research organisations developed within the TARGET project, funded by ... Read more

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  • Economic Complexity and Human Development

    How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

    by Dominik Hartmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. ... Read more

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  • The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession

    Faculty Culture at For-Profit Colleges and Universities

    by Vicente M. Lechuga ...
    The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies continue to emerge, education is becoming of increasing import to employees seeking to upgrade their ... Read more

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