Sociology & Social Policy

This title was first published in 2001. This text addressses the variations in democratic institutional design and seeks to determine not only if these differences matter, but also to explain how they matter...

This title was first published in 2000. By comparing how two local authorities deal with the risks involved in Germany's environmental waste policy, this text questions how organizations deal with making decisions in situations of risk in general. Using a combination of risk sociology and institutio..

This title was first published in 2000. This text is part of the "International Library of Management", which aims to present a comprehensive core reference series comprised of significant and influencial articles by the authorities in the management studies field. The collection of essays is both i..

This title was first published in 2000. This text analyzes the problems of managing large-scale technology projects. It addresses the contrast between projects' hoped-for benefits and the optimism with which they are promoted, and the high human, economic or environmental costs of their operation. T..

This collection will present works that offer illuminating perspectives on the remarkably diverse Asian American populations of the United States. As a population that is neither black nor white, the range of experiences of these groups, many of whom arrived as refugees, presents other perspectives ..

This title was first published in 2001. A depiction of the decollectivization process of agriculture and the rebirth of capitalistic relations in Southern Estonia - with all their consequences at various levels of social structure and social relations...

This volume critically examines the various dimensions of the flexicurity concept and its uses in both in academics and politics, outlining various alternative and innovative approaches towards conceptualizing and analyzing employment and social policy in contemporary European societies...

This volume critically examines the various dimensions of the flexicurity concept and its uses in both in academics and politics, outlining various alternative and innovative approaches towards conceptualizing and analyzing employment and social policy in contemporary European societies...

Defining Drugs..

Looking back does not come easily to journalists, immersed as they are in breaking events. But there is good reason for those who practise and study journalism to consider the critical episodes in its evolution and in this collection, such authors describe in detail episodes of this kind...

Defying Dystopia..

Right-wing authoritarianism has emerged as a social psychological theory to explain conservative political and religious movements. Such authoritarianism is said to be rooted in the willingness of individuals to support authority figures who seek to restrict civil and human rights. George Yancey inv..