Title:Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social policy and political economy in Europe, Japan, and the USA
Author(s):EBBINGHAUS, Bernhard; MANOW, PhilipDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies. With approaches ranging from historical case studies to cross-national analyses, the contributors ...
Title:Comunità e razionalizzazione : ricerca sociologica su un caso di sviluppo industriale
Author(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Alessandro Pizzorno alla fine degli anni cinquanta fu incaricato di condurre una ricerca all'interno della comunità di Rescaldina, diventata allora una vera e propria company town, centrata sugli stabilimenti Bassetti, al ...
Title:Conflitti in Europa : lotte di classe, sindacati e stato dopo il '68
Author(s):CROUCH, Colin; PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1977Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il libro contiene una selezione dei testi (la cui pubblicazione completa in inglese è in preparazione da Macmillan) di una ricerca condotta in sei paesi europei sui problemi delle nuove lotte operaie, dei mutamenti nei ...
Title:The Consolidation of Democracy: Comparing Europe and Latin America
Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.Date:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century. The theoretical approach developed combines the ...
Title:Constitutionalising the European Union
Author(s):REH, Christine; CHRISTIANSEN, ThomasDate:2005Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:The European Union Series
Title:Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition
Author(s):WYDRA, HaraldDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book deals with continuities in Poland's transition. A book on continuities may be a surprise to the reader familiar with the social science literature on Eastern Europe. Politics and societies in Eastern Europe are ...
Title:Controlling a New Migration World
Author(s):GUIRAUDON, Virginie; JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recent migration control policies and, in turn, sheds light on the unintended consequences of policies for the new character of migration. This book asks ...
Title:Defending Democracy: Reactions to extremist parties in interwar European democracies
Author(s):CAPOCCIA, GiovanniDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia ...
Title:Democracy and Dictatorship: The nature and limits of state power
Author(s):BOBBIO, NorbertoDate:1989Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements ...
Title:Democracy in Social Movements
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This collection explores how principles and practices of democracy are elaborated and implemented within the global justice movement, both in their internal organization and in experiments of public decision-making. The ...