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Devolution eBook Series

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  • Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system

    by Eve Hepburn ...
    Series series Devolution
    This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to pursue their strategies across multiple territorial levels. This book constitutes the first attempt to unravel the complexities of how nationalist ... Read more

    R1 987,76

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  • Ruling the Void

    The Hollowing of Western Democracy

    by Peter Mair ...
    The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form.First published in 2013, Ruling the Void presciently observed that the widening gap between citizens and their political leaders posed a crisis of legitimacy for the governing class, and ... Read more

    R149,49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Western European Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by Gisela Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Contemporary Western European Feminism is a ground-breaking history of feminism. Gisela Kaplan invites a critical analysis of current ideas, terms and assumptions about our modern world.Written confidently and with compassion, this is the story of a long revolution that has set out to change predominant attitudes and transform value hierarchies and human lifestyles. By outlining the postwar ... Read more

    R846,58

  • The Extreme Right in Europe

    by Paul Hainsworth ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise introduction to one of the most persistent facets of late twentieth-century history, politics and society.The legacy of the Nazi era and the increasingly unacceptable face of extremism all militated against the success of far right-wing parties after World War Two. Nevertheless, contemporary problems and the solutions offered to ever more difficult ... Read more

    R1 045,84

  • Policing European Metropolises

    The Politics of Security in City-Regions

    Edited by Elke Devroe, Adam Edwards, Paul Ponsaers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
    Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing. This book argues that national and international governing arrangements are being outflanked by various transnational threats, including the cross-border terrorism of the attacks on Paris in 2015 and Brussels in 2016; trafficking in people, narcotics and armaments; cybercrime; ... Read more

    R1 270,00

  • Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration

    by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how ... Read more

    R1 095,65

  • Parliaments and Pressure Groups in Western Europe

    Edited by Philip Norton ...
    Pressure groups are fundamental to pluralist societies. But what is the relationship between those groups and parliaments? This work explores the links between parliaments and pressure groups, assessing the extent and impact of the contact that occurs. Is pressure group activity beneficial to parliament? And what are the implications for the political system? ... Read more

    R1 718,32

  • Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning

    Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions

    Edited by Anton Kreukels, Willem Salet, Andy Thornley ...
    Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed.Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and ... Read more

    R1 543,97

  • Immigration and Conflict in Europe

    by Rafaela M. Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Contemporary debates give the impression that the presence of immigrants necessarily spells strife. Yet as Immigration and Conflict in Europe shows, the incidence of conflict involving immigrants and their descendants has varied widely across groups, cities, and countries. The book presents a theory to account for this uneven pattern, explaining why we observe clashes between immigrants and ... Read more

    R831,21

  • The Hegemony of Growth

    The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

    by Matthias Schmelzer ...
    In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations, Schmelzer offers the first transnational study to chart the history of growth discourses. He ... Read more

    R689,99

  • Asylum Seekers and the State

    The Politics of Protection in a Security-Conscious World

    by Claudia Tazreiter ...
    Highly topical in subject matter, Asylum Seekers and the State reveals immigration policy as a political process which has social consequences not only for the newcomer group, but also for the wider receiver society. This work considers the obligations which receiver societies have for considering refugee claims, but at the same time assesses contemporary security concerns; it also provides an ... Read more

    R1 344,72

  • Youth in Contemporary Europe

    Edited by Jeremy Leaman, Martha Wörsching ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current context of economic, social and political change affecting youth in the critical transition from dependence to independence. The volume provides the reader with a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary view of youth cultures, drawn from a variety of recent ... Read more

    R1 045,84