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Cover Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Editor:
Bent Greve
This innovative Handbook presents the core concepts associated with austerity, retrenchment and populism and explores how they can be used to analyse developments in different welfare states and in specific social policies. Leading experts highlight how these concepts have influenced and changed welfare states around the globe and impacted specific areas including pensions, long-term care, the labour market, taxation, social activism and gender equality.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
11 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906745
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Debt and Austerity
Debt and Austerity
Implications of the Financial Crisis
Editors:
Jodi Gardner
,
Mia Gray
, and
Katharina Moser
This book explores the complex interactions between debt and austerity, analysing the social, economic, and legal implications of governments’ responses to the 2008 financial crisis.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
13 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104350
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Law 2020
Cover Global Justice, Markets and Domination
Global Justice, Markets and Domination
A Cosmopolitan Theory
Fausto Corvino
This thought-provoking book analyses the process of labour commodification, through which the individual’s ability to earn a basic living becomes dependent on the conditions of the market relationship. Building on the premise that the separation of a group of individuals from the means of production is an intrinsic element of capitalism, Fausto Corvino theorises that this implies a form of domination in a neo-republican sense.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
10 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102561
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Editor:
Jacques Charmes
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972802
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income
A Modern Guide to Citizen’s Basic Income
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Malcolm Torry
Debate on the desirability, feasibility and implementation of a Citizen’s Basic Income – an unconditional, nonwithdrawable and regular income for every individual – is increasingly widespread among academics, policymakers, and the general public. There are now numerous introductory books on the subject, and others on particular aspects of it. This book provides something new: It studies the Citizen’s Basic Income proposal from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives: the economics of Citizen’s Basic Income, the sociology of Citizen’s Basic Income, the politics of Citizen’s Basic Income, and so on. Each chapter discusses the academic discipline, and relevant aspects of the debate, and asks how the discipline enhances our understanding, and how the Citizen’s Basic Income debate might contribute to the academic discipline.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117876
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
Editors:
Robin Hickman
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Beatriz Mella Lira
,
Moshe Givoni
, and
Karst Geurs
With social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, The Elgar Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastructure investment can lead to inequitable travel behaviours, with certain socio-demographic groups using particular parts of the transport system and accessing particular activities and opportunities.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
25 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119825
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Towards Convergence in Europe
Towards Convergence in Europe
Institutions, Labour and Industrial Relations
Editor:
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers of convergence? Why do some countries lag behind, while others experience continuous upward convergence? Why are these trajectories not always linear? Particular attention is paid to the role of institutions, actors and industrial relations – focusing on the resources and strategies of governments, employers and trade unions – in nudging EU countries onto an upward convergence path.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Apr 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978071
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Economics 2019
Cover Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
How People Who ‘Give’ Make Better Communities
Lorna Zischka
‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues that a person’s willingness to ‘give' is not only influenced by social cohesion; it also helps to generate social cohesion. For thriving communities, we therefore need to consider our ‘giving’ as well as our ‘getting’.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Mar 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114202
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being
Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being
Editor:
Conchita D’Ambrosio
The past decade has been characterized by a burgeoning interest in new concepts of individual and social well-being. The impetus for this new research has stemmed from increased demand from policy makers and civil society for measures of progress that go beyond the traditional measures of GDP, as well as improved datasets allowing individuals and households to be tracked over their life course. The aim of this Handbook is to chart these developments and provide extensive surveys of many of the recent themes that have emerged in the research literature. Some of the topics addressed include poverty. relative deprivation and satisfaction, economic insecurity, social exclusion and inequality, income and social polarization, and social fractionalization and diversity. Each topic is first analyzed from a theoretical perspective, followed by detailed empirical discussion.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781953716
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Economics 2018
Cover The Home
The Home
Multidisciplinary Reflections
Editor:
Antonio Argandoña
In the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786436573
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Social and Political Science 2018