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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lavinia bifulco”
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  • Social Policies and Public Action

    by Lavinia Bifulco ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    The concept of public action is a magnifying lens for shedding light on the plurality of institutional and social actors interacting in policies. Taking into account a changing social world that is redefining the State and its instruments, it is well suited for picking out transformations that have been affecting European social policies for some twenty years or so now: the territorial ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Facing Trajectories from School to Work

    Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth Policy in Europe

    Edited by Roland Atzmüller, Lavinia Bifulco, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Valerie Egdell, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Marek Kwiek, Regine Schröer, Josiane Vero, Hans-Uwe Otto, Thierry Berthet, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Björn Halleröd, Marianna Zieleńska ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Edited by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Helen Lawton-Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Economic Geography
    The impact of economic geography both within and beyond the wider field of geography has been constrained in the past by its own limitations. Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its future direction. In doing so, the contributors show how economic geographers have offered explanations that ... Read more

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  • Social Movements

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    by Donatella della Porta, Mario Diani ...
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  • Globalizing Education Policy

    by Fazal Rizvi, Bob Lingard ...
    Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing on globalisation this book stands out and will become a basic text in education policy courses ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

    Edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Renate E. Meyer, Thomas B. Lawrence ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and an array of top academic contributors.Now in its Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganised, with all chapters updated to maintain a mix of theory, how to conduct institutional organizational analysis, and contemporary empirical work. New chapters ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Europe’s New Scientific Elite

    Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area

    by Barbara Hoenig ...
    Series series Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
    Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, ... Read more

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  • The Network Society

    A New Context for Planning

    Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:models of the Network Societythe ... Read more

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  • Comparative Governance

    Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing

    by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre ...
    Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist ... Read more

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  • Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise

    Governance and Democracy

    Edited by Jean-Louis Laville, Philippe Eynaud, Dennis Young ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the prominence of the third sector, the emergence of social enterprises and other solidarity hybrid forms. The concept of civil society organisations (CSOs) spans this diversity and addresses this new complexity.The first part of the book highlights ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies

    Edited by Mats Alvesson, Todd Bridgman, Hugh Willmott ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established social practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges prevailing systems of domination and promotes the development of alternatives to them. CMS draws upon diverse critical traditions. Of particular importance for its initial ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe

    From Myth to Action

    by Giliberto Capano, Luca Verzichelli ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data, as well as offering reflections on the future structure of the discipline. In the middle of a delicate phase of changes marked by the effects of pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we need to pay attention to the factors that are ... Read more

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