Governing as governance

The concept of 'governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing and Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of contemporary ...

Encyclopedia of juvenile justice

Understandig Democratic Politics

An introduction.

This textbook is designed for first-time students of politics. It provides an ideal introduction and survey to the key themes and issues central to the study of democratic politics today. The text is structured around three major parts: concepts, institutions and political behaviour; and ideologies ...

Advertising cultures

gender, commerce, creativity

Understanding the consumer

Organizing for community controlled development

renewing civil society

Contemporary theories of liberalism

public reason as a post-enlightenment project

Contemporary Theories of Liberalism provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key tenets of liberalism developed through Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Rawls to present day theories and debates. Central to recent debate has been the idea of public reason. The text introduces and explores ...

Global shift

reshaping the global economic map in the 21st century

This fourh edition of Global Shift has been completely updated and thoroughly revised. It provides: -a detailed account of the theories informing the globalization debate -comprehensive discussion of the interplay between transnational corporations, states, and changing technologies -sectoral case studies, including services, each of which ...

Applyng E-Commerce in busines

This book is about understanding e-commerce by deconstructing it into its main constituents and explaining how they fit together. The objective is to introduce some consistency to the often contradictory views about e-commerce, bringing together different academic and management theories and frameworks into a coherent ...

Democracy and the European Union

theory, practice and reform

Restorative justice

critical issues

Services, marketing and management

Leadership

theory and practice

The Third Edition of this bestselling text reviews and analyzes the foremost leadership theories, giving special attention to how each theoretical approach can be applied in real-world organizations

Remaking the global economy

economic-geographical perspectives

Remaking the Global Economy offers a state -of-the-art survey of geographical perspectives on the restructuring and reorganization of the global economy. With contributions from leading figures in the globalization debate, the book explores the latest thinking and research, as well as the enduring controversies, across ...

New steps with SPSS

Compensation

theory, evidence and strategic implications

Regression analysis

a constructive critique

Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved. Regression is most useful for data reduction, leading to relatively simple but rich ...

Hate crimes

causes, controls, and controversies

Justice in the risk society

challenging and re-affirming 'justice' in Late Modernity

INDICE PART ONE: CHALLENGING LIBERAL JUSTICE Justice in the Liberal Tradition Risk and the Politics of Safety Justice Endangered The Communitarian Challenge Identity and Difference Feminist and Postmodernist Critiques of Liberalism PART TWO: RE-AFFIRMING JUSTICE Re-affirming Modernity Habermas and Discourse Ethics Giving Difference its Due ...

An introduction to Contemporary Political Theory