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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book deals with the relationship between the competitiveness of countries in Europe and the analysis of macroeconomic imbalances. It focuses mainly on a European analysis, along with special studies of the German economy, which is rarely considered to be a cause for the current crisis. The book...
Social Partnership at Work
Workplace Relations in Post-Unification Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book, originally published in 1999, provided the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in east and west Germany. The collapse of communism and the ensuing process of reform means that East Germany provides a particularly interesting case, having experienced rapid and radical...
Reactions to the Market
Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
It is manifest in developing countries around the world that the “shock” therapy administered to their economies by the neoliberal model of structural adjustment has failed, leaving much social and economic destruction in its wake. In Latin America this failure has led to a resurgence of interest...
The Judge and the Proportionate Use of Discretion
A Comparative Administrative Law Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book examines different legal systems and analyses how the judge in each of them performs a meaningful review of the proportional use of discretionary powers by public bodies.
Although the proportionality test is not equally deep-rooted in the literature and case-law of France, Germany,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
The emergence of EU Private Law as an independent legal discipline is one of the most significant developments in European legal scholarship in recent times. In this 2010 Companion, leading scholars provide a critical introduction to the subject's key areas, while offering original and thought-provoking...
by Peter Sloane, Paul Latreille, Nigel O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Labour economics as a discipline has changed dramatically in recent years. Gone are the days of a "job for life". These days, firms and employees are part of a less regulated, more fluid, and more international labour market. Knowledge, training, human resource development and human capital are all...
Economic Governance in Europe
Comparative Paradoxes and Constitutional Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Union (EU). Going beyond the existing literature, Federico Fabbrini's book takes a broad look and examines how the crisis and its aftermath have changed...
New Order and Progress
Development and Democracy in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. As more than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet...
The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions
A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker’s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the...
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion is a major resource for courses in Religious Studies. It begins by explaining the most important methodological approaches to religion, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology and comparative study, before moving on to explore a wide variety...
Blood That Cries Out From the Earth
The Psychology of Religious Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world. What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address this increasingly urgent question. Research...
by Steven Rosefielde
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more. These high crimes against humanity constitute a Red Holocaust that exceeds the combined carnage of the French Reign of...