Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise.
This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subjected to systematic comparative analysis. It shows that overall the incidence of broad policy concertation in Western Europe can be...
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues...
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize...
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly t...
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise.
This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subjected to systematic comparative analysis. It shows that overall the incidence of broad policy concertation in Western Europe can be...
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues...
Writing History 2ed provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of history as a discipline and of the major theoretical developments that have informed historical writing. Instead of focusing on theory, the book uses key historical texts to explain key concepts and demonstrate the ways they have informed practical work.
This new edition is fully revised, including new chapters on history and the social sciences, history and anthropology and the Annales and history. It is an invaluable introduction to the central debates that...
Writing History 2ed provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of history as a discipline an...
..".an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting 'nationhood.' There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a 'transitional formulation' in Jaspers's sense of the term... The volume] can thus be seen as a watershed book for our time, opening an avenue for a global historiography of 'in-common historiographical premises, ' even as it insists on discerning the diverse and complex perspectives that constitute any particular study." - H-Net Habsburg...
..".an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting 'nationhood.' There is a shared point of view...
Die deutsche Kultur der Mitbestimmung ist integraler Bestandteil eines Verständnisses von sozialer Demokratie als Ergänzung der politischen Demokratie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Sie wird in dem hier vorgelegten Band von ihren Anfängen in den Jahren der Weimarer Republik bis zu unserer Gegenwart in ihren unterschiedlichen Facetten untersucht. Dabei wird deutlich, wie sehr mitbestimmte Unternehmen nicht nur wirtschaftlich effizienter waren und sind, sondern auch demokratische Teilhabe ihrer Beschäftigten versprechen. Als Labore der Demokratie sind sie die Grundlage eines...
Die deutsche Kultur der Mitbestimmung ist integraler Bestandteil eines Verständnisses von sozialer Demokratie als Ergänzung der politischen Demo...
