Latin America. A New Developmental Welfare State in the Making?, 1st ed. 2007, Paperback - Manuel Riesco

The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social p...

The book is necessary reading for political theorists and scholars interested in democracy and the welfare state, providing a new analysis of the r...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

Processing data streams has raised new research challenges over the last few years. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of ...

This book offers a comprehensive, region-wide examination of the politics of taxation in Latin America, one of the most pressing issues to confront...

Reducere. The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across th...

Using ethnographic data gathered in violent locations across Latin America, Eduardo Moncada shares new insights into the widespread problem of crim...

Publisher: TSOAuthor(s): Great Britain: Department for TransportIllustration(s): col. ill.; col. ill.Number of pages: 144Publication date: 2007Dime...

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domi...

Reducere. One of the most tragic train accidents in the history of the world occured in a picturesque valley in the Urals of Russia in 1989. Thousands of peo...

The State of Loyalism in Northern Ireland examines the changes and developments within parliamentary loyalism throughout the Northern Ireland peace...

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social...

Reducere. After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of...

Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, cont...

One of the most tragic train accidents in the history of the world occured in a picturesque valley in the Urals of Russia in 1989. Thousands of peo...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jennifer (Professor of History, Professor of History, Yale University) KleinIllustration(s): 12 il...

This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982. 1790 entries cove...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On th...

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Highlighting both change a...

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Reducere. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories...

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

This is a book about making choices based on the evaluation of alternatives. This book discusses the major problems in evaluating courses of action...

Although there is a consensus in Europe that it is the government's responsibility to ensure the welfare of its citizens, there are calls to roll b...

Introduces the main theories and authors on mediatization from Europe and Latin America in the last two decades. It frames these theories within th...

Written in an accessible language, this book is a fully updated and revised edition of Latin American Development, a text which provides a comprehe...

NEW EDITION FOR THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The classic and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and u...

This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 13 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Tables, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-makingof the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive role of crisis-riddenglobal...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Luis (Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, ...

Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin LessingOver the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well...

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

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