Stanford University: 1318 books
Stones of Hope
How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools— reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations—have proven ineffective. Increasingly, social justice advocates are looking to social and economic rights strategies as promising...
Conservatives Versus Wildcats
A Sociology of Financial Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force. Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying...
Spectacular Speculation
Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture. Informed by the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Simmel and Deleuze, it looks at how speculation was translated into...
Improving Learning Environments
School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Improving Learning Environments provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates. In this volume, leading international social science researchers explore nine national case studies to identify the institutional determinants of variation in school discipline,...
The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight
How Place Still Matters for the Rich
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residents, there is a palpable concern that these high rollers will board their private jets and fly away,...
The Strategic Career
Let Business Principles Guide You
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
We often hear that finding the work we are meant for will multiply our accomplishments and enable us to attain new levels of personal satisfaction. Yet, many who are planning their careers find that the job market has shifted to the advantage of employers, whether as a result of the recession, globalization,...
Law Mart
Justice, Access, and For-Profit Law Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
American law schools are in deep crisis. Enrollment is down, student loan debt is up, and the profession's supply of high-paying jobs is shrinking. Meanwhile, thousands of graduates remain underemployed while the legal needs of low-income communities go substantially unmet. Many blame overregulation...
The Library and the Workshop
Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism. In particular, it challenges the idea that social democracy has gone "neoliberal," arguing that so-called Third Way policies seem to have brought out new aspects of a thoroughgoing social...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since...
China's Futures
PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
China's Futures cuts through the sometimes confounding and unfounded speculation of international pundits and commentators to provide readers with an important yet overlooked set of complex views concerning China's future: views originating within China itself. Daniel Lynch seeks to answer the simple...
Busted Sanctions
Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are imposed....
Dividing the Domestic
Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
In Dividing the Domestic, leading international scholars roll up their sleeves to investigate how culture and country characteristics permeate our households and our private lives. The book introduces novel frameworks for understanding why the household remains a bastion of traditional gender relations—even...
Making the Transition
Education and Labor Market Entry in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education systems in preparing students for the "real world" changed. Though young people were freed from coercive state institutions, the shift to capitalism made the transition from school to work much more precarious...
Squandered Opportunity
Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Its leadership attempted to exploit this window of opportunity by assertively seeking to expand Iran's interests throughout the Middle East. It fell far short, however,...