Political Sociology

Based on interviews with a wide spectrum of people who work with CSR in England, Denmark and in the EU Commission, the book argues that when CSR is linked to social exclusion it is a way of renegotiating responsibilities in mixed economies of welfare. By situating CSR within the conceptual framework..

The volume provides empirical research to show how people actually embrace cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes. It studies 'cosmopolitanism in practice', looking at the social and institutional environments in which cosmopolitanism shapes everyday life experiences and identities. Contributors to the vo..

The volume provides empirical research to show how people actually embrace cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes. It studies 'cosmopolitanism in practice', looking at the social and institutional environments in which cosmopolitanism shapes everyday life experiences and identities. Contributors to the vo..

This key volume examines the political, social and legal processes of the practice of secession, carefully illustrated by eight case studies. It systematizes our present knowledge of secession in an accessible way to readers not familiar with the phenomenon and its consequences...

The year 2011 marked the emergence of a series of mobilizations of the indignant that spread like wildfire around the world. The Spanish 15M was pivotal to the transnational diffusion of protest. This volume analyzes the features that turned the 15M into a beacon for international mobilization, and ..

With discourses of ’crisis’ and ’disaster’ featuring strongly in contemporary discourses on contemporary society, this book brings together critical perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the idea of ’crisis’ as inherently related to power dynamics and the formation o..

Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights and Globalization..

Within a few years the European Union will be enlarged from fifteen to twenty-eight member states including Turkey. Do the new countries fit into the European Union or does the enlargement lead to a cultural overstretch? Using survey data Cultural Overstretch describes the cultural differences betwe..

This second edition of a well-established text has been expanded and fully updated in line with new events. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics, and is a book that no serious scholar or student of politica..

This comparative volume looks at the track record of several defunct federalisms to identify options that have been overlooked and decisions that precipitated the collapse. Bringing together insights from the study of state failure and federal collapse, it examines the ways in which parallel assessm..

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company...

Published in 1999, this book offers a detailed, contemporary and holistic understanding of Hong Kong’s social and political development, this book will both complement existing works and provide the reader with a solid foundation for understanding future developments in the territory...