Troubled Regions and Failing States

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 27
• Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit ... Lees meer

Multicultural Challenge

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 22
• Cultural pluralisation - reinforced by immigration - has had major consequences for the political agenda in recent years in liberal democratic states.... Lees meer

Comparative Studies of Culture and Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 21
• The "cultural turn" in sociology created a new interest in power questions. This has led to a renewed interest in conceptual discussions of power in t... Lees meer

Methodological Issues in Comparative Social Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 16
• Focusing upon the area of social methodology, this volume examines diverse approaches toward sociological research. These include case-orientated rese... Lees meer

Regional Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 17
• This analysis of regional cultures is the 17th part in a series on social research. Topics covered include: the emergence of Wales and Saxony as moder... Lees meer

Comparative Perspectives on Universities

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 19
• Despite the growing awareness of globalization, the main bulk of empirical work in the social sciences remains within the frames of what Stein Rokkan ... Lees meer

The Nordic Varieties of Capitalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 28
• This is the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the political economy of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and S... Lees meer

Social Democracy in the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 35
• Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elabora... Lees meer

Class and Stratification Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 30
• This volume of "Comparative Social Research" emphasizes unsolved issues and new developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both... Lees meer

Childhood

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 25
• Demographic and societal changes are strongly affecting the contexts of childhood and the experience of being children. At the same time, across socia... Lees meer

Childhood

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 25
• Drawing both on micro and macro, national and comparative studies, this volume traces some of the trends and analyzes in comparative perspective how t... Lees meer

Elites and People

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 34
• This volume contains an Open Access chapter. The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, st... Lees meer

The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 20
• This volume contributes to the comparative study of military conscription. Issues discussed include: a conceptual clarification of conscription as dis... Lees meer

Normative Social Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 2
• Focusing particularly upon normative social action, this text is divided into five sections, each with a theme. The first section deals with collectiv... Lees meer

Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 29
• During the last decade gender equality in business life has become a hot topic. One impetus is the recent reform in Norway, prescribing gender quotas ... Lees meer

Capitalisms Compared

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 24
• Over the last decade, political economists and other macro-oriented scholars have increasingly focused on the comparative specificities of distinct ca... Lees meer

Comparative Studies of Social and Political Elites

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 23
• How can the existence of elites be compatible with democratic governance? Any democratic society is inevitably confronted by this basic question. This... Lees meer

Bureaucracy and Society in Transition

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 33
• Despite criticism of inefficiencies and unlimited growth, bureaucracies still fill crucial positions in modern societies. This volume examines 'variet... Lees meer

Family Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 18
• The yearbook Comparative Social Research aims at furthering the international orientation in the social sciences. Each volume is concentrated on a spe... Lees meer

Labour Mobility in the Enlarged Single European Market

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 32
• The 2004 reunification of Eastern and Western Europe and the subsequent economic crisis caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility and a profoun... Lees meer

Civil Society in Comparative Perspective

Bernard Enjolras, Karl Henrik Sivesind

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Social Research | nr. 26
• This book presents a collection of comparative studies of civil society around two main issues: the comparison and analysis of civil society regimes i... Lees meer