Sociology & Social Policy

The Supreme Court on Trial is a classic examination of the place of the Supreme Court in the American political system. The purpose of the book is to examine critically the place of the Supreme Court in our political system and to improve the public understanding of what the Supreme Court does, how ..

The Supreme Court on Trial is a classic examination of the place of the Supreme Court in the American political system. The purpose of the book is to examine critically the place of the Supreme Court in our political system and to improve the public understanding of what the Supreme Court does, how ..

This book examines the role that business and governments play in shaping and promoting the growth of surveillance in societies today. A series of articles by internationally known surveillance scholars set out the implications, both positive and negative, of the massive surveillance complexes that ..

The Synchronization of National Policies makes a contribution to current understanding on how national policies are synchronized with each other. Unlike mainstream research that treats international organizations as the creators of such global governance, this book underlines the role of local actor..

This book provides a comprehensive account of the work of Bernard Stiegler, focusing on his thought on hyperindustrial societies and the development of technological systems through which the social, economic and political life of human beings has been transformed. Exploring the reciprocal developme..

This title was first published in 2000:  This volume discusses the impact of the transfer of undertakings regime upon the public sector, particularly focusing on the interaction between the protection of employee rights and the restructuring and modernization of public services. The crux of the book..

Against the background of both manifest and ideological processes the book looks at if citizenship has lost the basis it has rested upon for decades, or if the institution itself is in a process of being fundamentally transformed and restructured, thereby changing its meaning and the significance of..

Today, in the context of citizenship we face processes of inclusion and exclusion on national and supranational level but no less on the level of groups and individuals. The book addresses these different levels and discusses processes of inclusion and exclusion with regard to spatial, social and sy..

This volume Struggle, Resistance, and Violence examines the fact that all over the world the rights of citizens have come under enormous pressure and addresses the many way in which people are ‘making claims’ against both autocratic and democratic authority. The book takes up a conflict perspective ..

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shapin..

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shapin..

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care - a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research. While some work on health care expenditure exists, health care rights have not been systematically studied since social rights have exclusively focuse..