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In the Name of the Nation - M. Laruelle - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In the Name of the Nation - M. Laruelle - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book deconstructs the equation of nationalism with the extreme right in Russia. Nationalism now extends throughout all ofthe countryand can not be seen as a phenomenon confined to the margins of society. This study rejects the interpretation that understands Kremlin-backed patriotism as simply part of a fascist trend in Russia and as a rapprochement between the political authorities and the extreme right. A simplistic analysis of such a paradoxical phenomenon addresses neither the basic issue of social consensus nor that of the inherent relationship between national identity and citizenship.

DKK 423.00
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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015 - Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Mutual Insurance 1550-2015 - Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance from 1550 to the present, examining provisions for burial, sickness, unemployment, old age, and widowhood. The author seeks to address such topics as the type of risks micro-insurance covered between 1550 and 2015; how it was organized throughout its history; who provided the coverage; and how contributions, benefit levels, and conditions have changed. Importantly, the author explores why this system has worked through, and endured, the test of time. Mutual insurance can, for instance, overcome classic insurance problems such as adverse selection and moral hazards. The author demonstrates that the study of the position micro-insurance historically assumed in mixed economies of welfare presents interesting lessons for today’s insurance market, as well as for today’s mutualism.

DKK 646.00
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Value-Based Consulting - F. Czerniawska - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Value-Based Consulting - F. Czerniawska - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book will complement the author''s book on the future of Management Consultancy. While that book examined the structure and trends in the industry this book tackles the more micro questions about how consultants understand what clients value and create value for clients. The author is a leading expert on management consulting and this book will help management consultants to do their jobs successfully.

DKK 434.00
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Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World - P. Lloyd Sherlock - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World - P. Lloyd Sherlock - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Many countries in the developing world are facing a rapid acceleration in population ageing. To date, this problem has generated little interest either from academics or policy-makers. Studies which focus exclusively on social security are of little relevance for the majority of elderly in these regions, for whom the possibilities of saving or making pension contributions are remote. This book takes a more comprehensive approach, combining analysis of social security issues in all developing countries with micro-level case studies of poor urban elderly survival strategies in Buenos Aires.

DKK 423.00
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The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public''s perception of the role of ''finance'' in society. Since 2008, a plethora of books and newspaper articles have been produced accusing the academic community of being unable to produce valid models which can accommodate those extreme events. This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academics in the areas of banking, mathematics, and law to present original research on the key issues affecting financial modelling since the 2008 financial crisis. As well as exploring themes of distributional assumptions and efficiency the Handbook also explores how financial modelling can possibly be re-interpreted in light of the 2008 crisis.

DKK 391.00
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The American West and the Nazi East - Carroll P. Kakel - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The American West and the Nazi East - Carroll P. Kakel - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The American West and the Nazi East is a unique exploration of the conceptual and historical relations between the Early American and Nazi-German national projects of territorial expansion, racial cleansing, and settler colonization in their respective ''western'' and ''eastern'' empires, along with their associated campaigns of extreme political violence against ''native'' indigenous peoples. Kakel locates the Early American national project in ''the West'' as a central part of the histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide, and offers a unique window on to the colonial origins, content, and context of the Nazi national project in ''the East'', including the Holocaust. By asking new questions of supposedly familiar historical events and periods, this book brings to light the unexpected and unsettling connections between the ''American West'' and the ''Nazi East'', and links histories previously thought of as totally unrelated.

DKK 855.00
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Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment - Lise Kjolsrod - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment - Lise Kjolsrod - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena. Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents these people as producers, who conduct micro-processes of social protection, become informed and skilled, and achieve influence via complex leisure. Through an in-depth analysis of a range of leisure practices, this book demonstrates where players belong in the political landscapes of modern democracies. Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment will be of interest to students and scholars of leisure, recreational, and cultural studies, as well as sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists studying identity construction, emerging social worlds, and novel channels of political participation in contemporary society.

DKK 986.00
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Safe, Sane and Consensual - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Safe, Sane and Consensual - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Psychological and medical perspectives on sadomasochism (SM) have historically been concerned with understanding it as a form of psychopathology. In the past (but still often today) studies of SM have been concerned with extreme and most often non-consensual acts. More recently, however, there has been growing interest in exploring the meaning of sadomasochism in non-pathological ways.Safe, Sane and Consensual includes work from across the social sciences exploring a variety of aspects of SM from a non-pathological perspective. There are discussions of the history and culture of SM, medical and legal understandings, along with theory and original research on the topic. There are also sections on SM and psychotherapy and writing on bridging the academic/activist divide. This book, now in paperback with a new introduction, includes contributions from an international group of academics, practitioners and activists and represents some of the most recent cutting edge work in the field by leading scholars

DKK 476.00
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Explaining News - C. Archetti - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Explaining News - C. Archetti - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time - 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of governmental discourses and news coverage of eight elite newspapers across the US, France, Italy and Pakistan. It develops a new multidisciplinary framework to explain news that brings together previously distinct levels of analysis: the micro level of the individual decisions made by journalists, the organizational environment of the news organization, national social and political contexts, the macro level of international relations. The book is going to be of interest primarily to academics and researchers, postgraduate students across communications, media studies, journalism, politics and international relations, as well as journalists, media practitioners and officials involved in public communication.

DKK 423.00
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Directing for Stage and Screen - J. Stanley - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Directing for Stage and Screen - J. Stanley - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time-9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of governmental discourses and news coverage of eight elite newspapers across the US, France, Italy and Pakistan. It develops a new multidisciplinary framework to explain news that brings together previously distinct levels of analysis: the micro level of the individual decisions made by journalists, the organizational environment of the news organization, national social and political contexts, the macro level of international relations. The book is going to be of interest primarily to academics and researchers, postgraduate students across communications, media studies, journalism, politics and international relations, as well as journalists, media practitioners and officials involved in public communication.

DKK 328.00
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Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950 - - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people''s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.

DKK 476.00
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Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries - Yerengaip Omarov - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries - Yerengaip Omarov - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia and the UK. The authors situate LC policy within a framework of sustainability in the form of industrial diversification and innovation-led growth, and examine how effective LC policies are in facilitating sectoral and economy-wide catching up. Structured in five chapters, the book begins with an introduction and then presents an overview of LC definitions and situates LC policies within a framework of economic development. The third chapter compares specific examples of LC development and highlights variations in practice as well as learning across case countries. The fourth chapter focuses on macro-economic, micro-economic and institutional challenges conditioning LC development and the ability of LC policies to assist innovation-led growth. The authors conclude by examining what the future holds for LC policies and their role in promoting economic growth and addressing the wider social, political and economic challenges in resource-rich countries.

DKK 646.00
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Debt Reckoning - Jonathan B. Justice - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Debt Reckoning - Jonathan B. Justice - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the interplay of professional norms and political accountability in the process of making decisions about whether, how, and how much debt state and local governments should incur. The careful analysis of accountability in actual decisions, focusing particularly on whether and how individual and collective decision-making behavior responds to general (stipulated) norms and situational (negotiated) expectations in their broader social contexts, is a familiar approach in the study of management and public organizations generally, but has not been extensively applied to this area of public financial decision making. Political economists, especially those identified with the public-choice approach, have done extensive macro-level normative and theoretical analysis of public debt, but not in an empirically rich fashion. This book therefore constitutes a missing link that uses analyses of selected cases to advance conceptual understandings of organizational accountability spaces in general, and decisions to incur public indebtedness and the implications of those decisions specifically, by examining the intersection of the macro, meso, and micro levels of expectations for and practices of public financial decision making.

DKK 869.00
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Korea in the Cross Currents - R. Myers - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Korea in the Cross Currents - R. Myers - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the twentieth century - although it is generally out of the earthquake zone. Jutting off the extreme northeast edge of the Eurasian landmass, and with a combined population of nearly seventy million people, North and South Korea are situated among China, Japan and Russia. They are also profoundly influenced by the United States because of the circumstances of the Korean War (1950-1953). The issues of war and peace, left over from the Korean war, remain unresolved; these two separate states are the residue of the Cold War. This anomaly still poses ominous prospects for war or peace in Asia, and American national security interests. Focusing on the last hundred years of Korea''s long history, and its particular relationship with China, one is in a position both to understand and marvel at the events of this century on the Korean peninsula. At the same time, the complexity of the division of the country into North and South Korea - not just a perennial struggle between good and evil, although that is certainly part of the story - places the future at risk. There was one terrible war that divided the 20th century in half and there are threats of more trouble to come. This study of the history of the past century will provide some answers and open the way to informed speculations.

DKK 423.00
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International Immigration Policy - Eytan Meyers - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

International Immigration Policy - Eytan Meyers - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Numerous studies explore immigration policies of individual receiving countries. But these studies share several weaknesses. First and foremost, they are empirically orientated and lack a general theory. Second, most examine the policy of single country during a limited period, or, in a few cases, are contributed volumes analyzing each country separately. In general, immigration policy literature tends to be a-theoretic, to focus on specific periods and particular countries, and constitutes an array of discrete bits. This book is a response to this trend, offering a theoretical approach to immigration policy. It explains how governments decide on the number of immigrants they will accept; whether to differentiate between various ethnic groups; whether to accept refugees and on what basis; and whether to favour permanent immigration over migrant workers. The book also answers such questions as: How much influence do extreme-right parties have on the determination of immigration policy? Why do anti-immigration parties and initiatives enjoy greater success in local-state elections, and in the elections for the European Parliament, than in national elections? And under what circumstances does immigration policy become an electoral issue? Meyers draws on a wide array of sources on migration policy-making and using them derives proposed models in a way that few others have done before him. In addition, the book interrelates global and domestic factors that jointly influence government policy-making on international migration in a way that helps to clarify both spheres. Lastly, the work combines historical data with contemporary processes, in a way that draws lessons from the past while recognizing that changing circumstances usually revise governmental responses.

DKK 423.00
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