Title:The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries into the genesis and transformation of international relations
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Puzzles of Politics brings together for the first time a collection of his key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the last 30 years. It addresses topical ...
Title:Quality and Inequality of Education
Author(s):DRONKERS, JaapDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality ...
Title:Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan
Author(s):CULPEPPER, Pepper D.Date:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries – France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands – explores this fundamental question. It ...
Title:Re-imagining the Nation: Debates on immigrants, identities and memories
Author(s):ZOLNER, MetteDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Why are national identities imagined in one way rather than in another? The book analyses national imaginations as an on-going reconstruction process in a political and social context in which several imaginations of the ...
Title:Regionalism, Business Interests and Public Policy
Author(s):COLEMAN, William D.; JACEK, Henry J.; SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; CAWSON, AlanDate:1989Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book explores and assesses the importance of the relationship between regional protest movements and the territorial organization of business interests. Drawing on comparative research into business interest associations ...
Title:Regions and Regionalism in Europe
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2004Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:The International Library of Comparative Public Policy
Title:Regulating New Forms of Employment: Local experiments and social innovation in Europe
Author(s):REGALIA, IdaDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Using a comparative framework, this new volume focuses on how non-standard employment can be regulated in very different social, political and institutional settings. After surveying these new forms of work and the new ...
Title:Regulatory Reforms in Italy: A case study in Europeanisation
Author(s):KERWER, DieterDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The question this thesis attempts to answer is summarized as follows: what accounts for the amazing stability of Italian transport policy in the face of European challenges, given the fact that - as most national and ...
Title:Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible adjustment through corporatist concertation
Author(s):VAN WAARDEN, Frans; LEHMBRUCH, GerhardDate:2003Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and ...
Title:Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition
Author(s):GALLAGHER, Michael; LAVER, Michael; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With a total population of some 500 million, the unified countries of modern Europe constitute the world's largest collection of successful capitalist democracies. Yet within it, there are distinct clusters of states, each ...