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The third sector as a renewable resource for Europe : concepts, impacts, chal…
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic devel…
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- 9783319714738
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- xv, 196 p.
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- 361.61 ENJ t
Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance
‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion…
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- 9783642280092
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- 344.046 MEU t
Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Manageme…
This volume focuses on describing the social dialogue system in organizations from an Human Resources Management perspective. Based on the NEIRE model for industrial relations, key factors are determined contributing to creative social dialogue in European organizations. Actual data from surveys and interviews from more than 700 CEO and HR managers in eleven European countries give insights in …
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- 9783319086057
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- 358.30094 EUW p
Social democractic parties and the working class : new voting patterns
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on mul…
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- 9783030462390
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- xvii, 111p. : ill.
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- 324.2174 REN s
International Labour Organization and global social governance
This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest agency, founded in 1919, on the transforming world of work in a global setting, providing insights into the unique history and functions of the ILO as an organization and the…
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- 9783030554002
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- 331.88 INT i
Multiculturalism and conflict reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific : migration,…
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.
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- 9781137403605
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- xiv, 237p. : ill.
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- 305.80095 MUL m
Islam and politics in Indonesia : the Masyumi Party between democracy and int…
The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a literalist application of Islamic doctrine but rather inspired by the values of Islam. It set out moderate policies which were tolerant towards other religious communities in I…
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- 9789814722568
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- 324.2598 MAD i
The dynamics of opportunity in America : evidence and perspectives
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
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- 9783319259918
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- 379 DYN d
Disruption in the arts : textual, visual, and perfomative strategies for anal…
The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic str…
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- 9783110580082
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- XVI, 382 p.
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- Culture & Conflict, 11
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- 700.103 DIS d
Public Policy: Why ethics matters
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, …
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- 9781921666759
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- 170 BOS p
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