Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Global warming policy in Japan and Britain
Interactions between institutions and issue characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first book to attempt a systematic comparative analysis of Japanese and British climate policy. It also provides a conceptual roadmap for further cross-national studies on sustainable development/climate policy.
by Neil Collins, David O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
China’s rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the world’s second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequalled in human history. The world today pays more attention to China, looks to it with more admiration than perhaps any other time. Yet, this rise also...
by Peter Triantafillou
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This book examines contemporary public administration reforms seeking to promote accountability, credibility and evidence.It is argued that a particular form of constructivist neoliberalism play a pivotal role in these reforms.
The advocacy trap
Transnational activism and state power in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China.
Managing labour migration in Europe
Ideas, knowledge and policy change
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book provides an authoritative account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance. It reveals the impacts of ideas and knowledge on policy change in two of the major labour importing countries in the EU: the UK and Spain.
Tolerance, regulation and rescue
Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300–1800
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment at the hands of charities and the law. It looks at prostitutes and women engaged in sexual relationships outside formal marriage, and foundlings, many...
Ireland, West Germany and the New Europe, 1949-73
Best friend and ally?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A pioneering study of the seminal period from the declaration of the Republic of Ireland, and the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), in 1949 until Ireland and Britain entered the EEC in 1973. Draws on unexploited original sources from Ireland and Germany. Dramatically re-envisions the foundations of contemporary Ireland.
Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism
Marx's Economy and Beyond' and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and power in contemporary societies.
It provides a new analysis of what generates inequalities in rights...
Groups, representation and democracy
Between promise and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Whether called pressure groups, NGOs, social movement organisations or organised civil society, the value of ‘groups’ to the policy process, to economic growth, to governance, to political representation and to democracy has always been contested. However, there seems to be a contemporary resurgence...
The European Union's policy towards Mercosur
Responsive not strategic
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union’s relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the motivations that determine the EU’s policy towards Mercosur.
by David Arter
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This second completely revised edition of Scandinavian politics today analyses and compares the contemporary politics and international relations of the five-nation states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the three Home Rule territories of Greenland, Faeroes and Åland that together make up the Nordic region.
Capital and popular cinema
The dollars are coming!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Popular cinema has mostly been discussed from a 'cult' perspective that celebrates uncritically its 'transgressive' qualities. Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by...
The European debt crisis
The Greek case
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece. Greece was the first Eurozone country to face an enormous deficit, which reached 15% of GDP in 2009. As the Greek crisis unfolded, other Eurozone countries displayed...
Pauper policies
Poor law practice in England, 1780–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and...