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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The corruption of public officials in the United States and its corrosive impact on public policy, political stability and democratic institutions, earns it a spot among the most critical public crises of the last decade. There have been scandals involving elected officials across the political spectrum...
Cultural Expertise and Socio-Legal Studies
Special Issue
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society aims to foster a dialogue that is inclusive, constructive, and innovative in order to lay the basis for evaluating the usefulness and impact of cultural expertise in modern litigation. It investigates the scope of cultural expertise as a...
After Imprisonment
Special Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact...
Special Issue
Law and the Imagining of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact...
The Sustainable Nation
Politics, Economy and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Drawing on almost 20 years of Liam Leonard’s research in the field, The Sustainable Nation: Politics, Economy and Justice provides a detailed case study of a modern European state’s tumultuous development through first decades of the Millennium. As the Republic of Ireland experienced an initial...
British Universities in the Brexit Moment
Political, Economic and Cultural Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This timely book provides an invaluable analysis of the impact the Brexit decision has had, and will have, on Britain’s universities. International by nature, British universities draw their students and staff from across the global community. Britain is a major beneficiary of EU-sponsored research...
Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms
Canadian and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This collection examines the ongoing shared struggles of diverse groups of women in Canada and beyond focusing on a diverse range of themes including movements, spaces and rights; inclusion, equity and policies; reproductive labour, work and economy; health, culture and violence; and sports and bodies....
The Stalled Revolution
Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream?
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women’s Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights. Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds draw upon historical perspectives and contemporary interviews to convey what it felt like to be in the heart of the campaigns—the...
Digital Materialism
Origins, Philosophies, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments may seem forbiddingly complex but they are based on simple mechanical principles which operate today on the subatomic scale, creating challenges for conventional...
Realignment, Region, and Race
Presidential Leadership and Social Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Trump presidency may well be the first phase of a new American political alignment deeply rooted in identity politics. Now more than ever, it seems especially important to understand how leaders compete to engage different human motivations—how presidents, presidential candidates, and other...
Brazil
Media from the Country of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States. Volume 13 provides an unparalleled...
Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management
Social and Environmental Accounting in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Vol 6 of Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and the accounting for these, including issues related to measurement, valuation, and disclosure. It is particularly relevant for accounting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
South Korea is renowned as one of the success stories of fast economic development. The Korean developmental state was a highly efficient, meritocratic, and fully monopolized coercive force. These resources were skilfully leveraged to shape the direction of private sector actors towards strategic...