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This accessible text summarizes and explains the structure of British local government, focusing on key changes introduced during the Thatcher/Major years and initiatives …
Joel Krieger, one of America's most perceptive observers of British politics, provides an in-depth study of New Labour.
"e;A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."e; Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United …
What is the source of Obama s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly …
This volume identifies the main changes in the British state since 1945 and evaluates their consequences. It provides students and practitioners with an understanding of the …
Opens a dialogue between Ulrich Beck's sociology of "Risk Society", and key thinkers and opinion leaders from politics and policy-making. The book explores the way people perceive …
After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in …
Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and …
Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in our deeply unequal world have …
Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical …