Politics and International Relations - Research
Subversive citizens
Power, agency and resistance in public services
Citizens' everyday conduct is shaped by governmental action, yet there is much evidence that both front-line public service staff and service users can sometimes act in ways that modify or disrupt intended policy outcomes. This book presents a highly original examination of how policy objectives can be 'subverted' through the actions of citizens.
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Studying Political Parties as Organizations
Four Perspectives on Denmark’s Alternative Party
This book unveils the evolution of the Alternative Party in Denmark, a young political entity that defied traditional structures. Dissecting the unprecedented organisational dynamics of this novel party through a cultural lens, the author opens a new area of enquiry to scholars in the field of management and organization studies.
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Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions
In this book, street-level bureaucracy scholars from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America analyse the conditions that shape frontline work and citizens´ everyday experience of the state.
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Strategic Management of the Transition to Public Sector Co-Creation
First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics journal, this book lays out important stepping-stones for the development of new research into the ongoing transition to co-creation as a mode of governance.
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States and Welfare States
Government for the People
Most governments in the world have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and discusses views about government responsibility for social welfare services.
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Spectacle and Trumpism
An Embodied Assemblage Approach
This book advances new perspectives for critical thought by exploring the links between consumer culture and the post-truth politics of Trumpism, and how Trump embodies the frightening potential of capitalism to intersect with and enable fascistic forms of power.
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South Asian Regionalism
The Limits of Cooperation
Tracing the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and explaining its outcome and effects, this book draws lessons about the dynamics of regionalism. Engaging key IR perspectives, it charts the limits of regional cooperation and calls for fresh perspectives on the issue.
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The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of the South Asia to Gulf migration corridor. The conclusions drawn enable readers to better understand migration in this region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.
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Social work, politics and society
From radicalism to orthodoxy
This original and stimulating book examines contemporary issues in social work, particularly exploring the politicisation of the profession from the 1970s onwards.
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Social welfare and religion in the Middle East
A Lebanese perspective
The original analysis in this book presents a new and comprehensive narrative of social welfare in the Middle East through an examination of the role of religious welfare.
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Social policy in challenging times
Economic crisis and welfare systems
Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context.
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Social Murder?
Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK
Combining robust evidence with real-life stories, this book reveals the shocking impact of austerity policies on life expectancy and offers an optimistic vision of what can be done to restore life expectancy and reduce health inequality.