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• Represents the most comprehensive overview available in the field of political sociology

• Covers traditional questions as well as emerging topics including recent debates on gender, citizenship, and political identity

• Includes detailed editorial introduction, abstracts, further reading lists,...

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last 30 years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable. At the same time, the use of the term has become loose, vague, and over-extended, particularly in the extensive critical literature. Rather than engage in further critique, or in the reconstruction of the history of neoliberalism, this volume seeks to bring analytical clarity to the...

Montana, Warts and All is as big and wild and quirky as the state itself.

Don't look here for profiles of trophy homes. You won't find them. What you will find is the real deal: Montanans wrestling a living from hard ground, doing what they can to keep the place wild and livable for people and beasts, telling truths, helping each other, keeping their small towns alive against all odds.

Pulled from the first decade of Montana Quarterly, the state's most honored magazine, these are stories by veteran writers unafraid to grab a paddle, crawl in a hole, or stare down the ghosts...

Translated by Dr Matthew Harding, a biographical outline of Amyaut's life is provided by Dr Alan Clifford.

From the Translator’s Introduction

The work which you hold in your hand is priceless. It is priceless not because it is intrinsically more valuable than any other great work of the seventeenth century or beyond, or because it is a free book to you the interested reader—you have paid an exact, fair price in acquiring this copy no doubt—but this text is priceless rather because not everybody gets a second chance to be heard in this lifetime. For...

Over recent decades International Relations scholars have investigated norm dynamics processes at some length, with the norm entrepreneur concept having become a common reference point in the literature. The focus on norm entrepreneurs has, however, resulted in a bias towards investigating the agents and processes of successful normative change.

This book challenges this inherent bias by explicitly focusing on those who resist normative change - norm antipreneurs . The utility of the norm antipreneur concept is explored through a series of case studies encompassing a range...