Berthold Dietz & Bernhard Frevel 
Sozialpolitik kompakt [PDF ebook] 

The old rules of Left and Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade and the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The ”progressive” B …

The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision into the spotlight. This book examines the governance of fin …

Successive Enlargements to the European Union membership have transformed it into an economically, politically and culturally heterogeneous body with distinct vulnerabilities in its multi-level gover …

On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union (EU). This book examines why these two countries joined at such a moment and studies their accession against the structural background …

The book analyzes the presidencies of three neighboring Central European countries – Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – in the context of their interactions with cabinets (and prime ministers) …

By 2022 an increasing number of Britons were asking themselves "what has gone wrong?"Great Britain – a nation with an imperial history, a nation of profound innovators, a nation steeped in …

This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu. The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in internatio …

What causes Anti- Americanism and where are its historical roots? What is the impact of 9/11 on America”s sense of itself and its role in the world? Is America paradoxically a victim of its own poli …

International organizations have once more become subjects of investigation for a whole range of scholars: political scientists, international relations specialists, organization theorists, and polic …

This book examines the Europeanization of the polity and politics of a new EU Member State. Using social network analysis in a comparative research design, it provides a systematic analysis of the ef …