Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.
Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe.
The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords.
For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals.
In Search of the Federal Spirit examines federal theory in the context of the new federal models that have sprung into existence since the end of the Cold War.
Life After Privatization offers a refreshing and original theoretical conceptualization of what happened to stateowned enterprises after they were privatized from the late 1970s onwards.
Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey critically analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and institutions from the West to Turkey.
Providing a legal history of counter-terrorism in colonial and neo-colonial eras, this book examines the relationship between Western influence and counter-terrorism law.
This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland).
Originally published in 1982, this was the first in-depth study of the labour system of the South African gold mining industry during the crucial years 1886 to 1906.
The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century.
Despite its recognized significance in social life, leadership is a notoriously elusive subject that generates a host of different points of explanatory focus.
The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries.
This book presents a rich analysis of modern democracy protests globally, using qualitative and quantitative evidence to describe trends in causes and consequences.
This volume is a series of original articles analyzing eleven case studies (from Africa and the Americas) of revolutionary movements that have reconstituted themselves into formal political parties.
Love is a Journey is the remarkable story of Albino Luciani, known to the world as Pope John Paul I, from his harrowing birth to his tragic death just 33 days into his 1978 pontificate-the shortest pontificate in history.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung erschließt mit der evangelischen Gefängnisseelsorge in der SBZ und der frühen DDR ein bislang nicht erforschtes Feld im Schnittbereich von Kirchen- und allgemeiner Geschichte.
This fully revised fourth edition of a well-respected textbook seeks to build social workers' confidence in legal interpretation and implementation - practitioners must not only know the law; they must also have a critical appreciation of its implications for human rights, civil liberties and social justice.
This research monograph examines presidential constitutional conventions and the role they play in the political systems of four Central European countries - the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
This book examines the unintended consequences of top-down reforms in Iran, analysing how the Iranian reformist governments (1997-2005) sought to utilise gradual reforms to control independent activism, and how citizens responded to such a disciplinary action.
Reasonable and Holy addresses the conflict over homosexuality within the Anglican tradition, demonstrating that the church is able to provide for and support faithful and loving relationships between persons of the same sex, not as a departure from that tradition, but as a reasonable extension of it.
KonstantinKehl geht der Frage nach, weshalb es trotz Reformbedarfs und langjährigerDebatten bisher nicht gelungen ist, die Versorgungsstrukturen für pflege- undunterstützungsbedürftige Menschen im Sinne einer sozialinvestiven Politikweiterzuentwickeln, die die Vereinbarkeit von Pflege und Beruf verbessert undzivilgesellschaftliche Strukturen fördert.
Fast drei Jahrzehnte lang – 1949 bis 1977 – nahm Hermann Kunst als Bevollmächtigter des Rates der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) in Bonn die Interessen seiner Kirche in den staatlichen und politischen Institutionen der Bundesrepublik wahr.