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  • Health and Political Engagement

    by Mikko Mattila, Lauri Rapeli, Hanna Wass, Peter Söderlund ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective.This book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of health and political engagement. Using both individual-level and country-level data drawn from the European Social Survey, World ... Read more

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  • Advancing Future-Orientation in Policymaking

    Institutions, Individuals and Risks

    by Vesa Koskimaa, Lauri Rapeli ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    This book argues that, under certain societal and institutional conditions, party-, interest group- and bureaucracy-based elites can interact positively to extend political timeframes beyond short electoral terms and foster reasoned long-term planning for democratic decision-making.Focusing on Finland within a broader analytic framework and comparative context, it unearths institutions and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

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  • Confronting Capitalism

    How the World Works and How to Change It

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Series series Jacobin
    A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian futureWhy is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society?Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of ... Read more

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  • Affluence and Influence

    Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

    by Martin Gilens ...
    Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Reclaiming Populism

    How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters

    by Eric Protzer, Paul Summerville ...
    Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: that opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to contribution.This forensic book draws on original research, cited by the UN and IMF, to demonstrate that illiberal populism strikes ... Read more

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  • Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures

    Engaging with Others in a Changing World

    by Ronald Fischer, Peter B Smith, Vivian L. Vignoles, Michael H. (Harris) Bond ...
    Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes, self and identity, intergroup relations. Themes of contemporary relevance including migration, ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • International Differences in Well-Being

    by Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman, John Helliwell ...
    Series series Oxford Positive Psychology Series
    This book brings together the best of current global research on the measurement and understanding of international differences in well-being ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

    by Sami Moisio ...
    We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a ... Read more

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  • Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care And Development In Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Garcia Marito H.; Pence Alan; Evans Judith ...
    This book, the first of its kind, presents a balanced collection of articles written by African and non-African authors ranging from field practitioners to academicians and from members of government organizations to those of nongovernmental and local organizations.Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge compiles the latest data and viewpoints on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa's children. Topics ... Read more

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  • The Wealth Paradox

    Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of Attitudes

    by Frank Mols, Jolanda Jetten ...
    The West is currently in the grip of a perfect storm: a lingering economic recession, a global refugee crisis, declining faith in multiculturalism, and the rise of populist anti-immigration parties. These developments seem to confirm the widely held view that hardship and poverty lead to social unrest and, more specifically, scapegoating of minorities. Yet in this provocative new book, Mols and ... Read more

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  • Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law

    Fighting for Social Justice

    by Felicity Callard, Norman Sartorius, Peter Bartlett, Hanfried Helmchen, Heather Stuart, Graham Thornicroft, Julio Arboleda-Flórez, José Taborda ...
    This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward and practical, it provides useful information on how to address disabilities so these people may enjoy full citizenship. It presents the key issues succinctly and illustrates these with legislative examples from around the world. This book documents ... Read more

    $114.00 USD