The territorial politics of welfare

Since the mid-1970s, European states have been reassessing the welfare state and reconfiguring their relationships with each other. The inter- linkages between these phenomena, however, have never been comprehensively examined. This innovative volume situates the expansion and ongoing development of the welfare state within the ...

The United Nations and Human Rights

a guide for a new era

This is a comprehensive and timely guide to the United Nations (UN) human rights machinery. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. "The United Nations and Human ...

Globalization, governmentality and global politics

regulation for the rest of us?

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of nations with accelerating force. This book delivers a keen assessment of how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Transnational social regulation is increasingly becoming the ...

Understanding international art markets and management

Network access, regulation and antitrust

Greats architects of international finance

The Bretton Woods era

Exchange rates, capital flows and policy

The experiment in the history of economics

Until recently, there was long resistance to the idea that economics can lend itself to experimentation. Going back at least as far as John Stuart Mill and continuing until very recently, it was widely held that economics was not an experimental discipline. The contributions in ...

The future of social security policy

women, work and citizens' basic income

The purpose of the book is to critically assess current welfare reform agendas with specific reference to the world of paid work and social security policy from a feminist economics perspective. It has four main themes: * To explore the concept of social security and analysing ...

Urban geography

a global perspective

Multiculturalism, Muslims and citizenship

a European approach

European challenges to multicultural citizenship : Muslims, secularism and beyond / Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood, Ricard Zapata-Barrero -- Multiculturalism, citizenship and Islam in problematic encounters in Belgium / Hassan Bousetta & Dirk Jacobs -- British Muslims and the politics of multiculturalism / Tariq Modood -- French secularism and Islam: France's headscarf affair ...

Race, ethnicity and social theory

theorizing the other

An examination of how theory informs the study of race and ethnicity, this volume examines such areas as: race, ethnicity and social theory; race and racism; anti-semitism and modernity; race, difference and social theory; and feminism.

Race and ethnicity

identity, culture and society

Law and the beautiful soul

What is law? How is legal responsibility defined? How does law reflect moral judgment? Why are law's definitions uncertain and conflicted? Basic questions for liberal law and criminal justice - what could they have to do with the forgotten historical figure of the Beautiful Soul ...

Enciclopedia of new religious movements

An essential companion to both research and scholarship upon which undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers and researchers can all be expected to draw.

Location and competition

aLocating economic concentration / Jeroen Hinloopen and Charles van Marrewijk -- Transport costs, location and the economy / Jan Osterhaven and Piet Rietveld -- Agglomerations in equilibrium? / Jan G. Lambooy and Frank G. van Oort -- Policy competition in theory and practice / Ruud A. Mooij, Joeri Gorter and Richard Nahuis ...

Genetic testing and the Criminal Law

"Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law" is a unique international treatment of the dynamic and established criminal investigation technique of DNA testing. Gathering together expert practitioners, judges and researchers from 12 countries, each chapter deals with the specific criminal law of the jurisdiction in its ...

Civil penalties, social consequences

The issues surrounding parole and the concept of 'the community and the offender' continue to be of huge interest to criminologists, policy-makers and advocates of safe communities. This book is a fascinating exploration of these issues. It will find a welcome audience with scholars in ...

Archaeology

the key concepts

From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method. Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written ...

Class, culture and conflict in Barcelona 1898-1937

This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of ...