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Changing France
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 38.00How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis? In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since the 1980s and develop an analysis of social change relevant to all democracies. more...
Revolutions in Development Inquiry
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 19.95Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future. This book breaks new ground by describing and analysing the evolution... more...
Recasting Welfare Capitalism
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 59.50In Recasting Welfare Capitalism, Mark Vail employs a sophisticated and original theoretical approach to compare welfare states and political-economic adjustment in Germany and France. He examines how and why institutional change takes place and what factors characterize economic evolution when moving from times of prosperity to more austere periods... more...
Strategie zur Förderung des technisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in Deutschland: Handlungsempfehlungen für die Gegenwart, Forschungsbedarf ... (acatech BEZIEHT POSITION) (German Edition)
Springer 2010; US$ 23.99Deutschland droht Nachwuchsmangel in den technischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Berufen. Dies kann die Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft gefährden ? mit bislang nicht absehbaren Folgen. Die Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech) stellt in dem Band Handlungsempfehlungen für die Gegenwart vor und formuliert... more...
Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary Germany
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a time of global recession, the existing democratic system is resilient enough to meet the challenges posed by the xenophobic and racist groups. more...
The Sociology of Elite Distinction
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 29.00This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods, challenge current understandings of elite distinction. more...
Beyond Political Correctness
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 81.00The articles assembled in this book discuss important questions about German society and the very notion of what being German means in the age of globalization and the vanishing of nation-states in a continuously strengthening European Union; the question about what is German culture in a postmodern era; and how the past affects and shapes the present... more...
Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 44.00A probing study of German village life between the early Reformation and the Thirty Years' War. more...
Rechtsaußenparteien in Deutschland
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 70.08Hauptbeschreibung Die extreme Rechte in Deutschland hat bislang keine dauerhaft erfolgreiche Partei hervorgebracht. In den letzten Jahren hat es zwar immer wieder spektakuläre Einzelerfolge von Rechtsaußenformationen gegeben. Allerdings scheitert die extreme Rechte bei Wahlen meist. Auch gegenwärtig ist zu beobachten, dass für die derzeit als am... more...
Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 155.00This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously... more...









