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The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The world Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Control and Eastern Europe: North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
Politics and Social Visions
The starting point of this book is the 'civil war' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the European Union as a polity, with a number of right-wing populist formations openly advocating for exiting the Union. The sovereign debt crisis triggered a spiral of ideological decommunalization: national leaders seemed to have lost that sense of 'togetherness' and mutual bonds that had been laboriously developed over decades of integration. Politics and Social Visions explores this politically disruptive process from an ideational perspective, on the assumption that symbols and visions play a crucial role. In processes of polity formation, ideo...
Computers and Games
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2001, held in Hamamatsu, Japan in October 2000. The 23 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions and five reviews were carefully refereed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on search and strategies, learning and pattern acquisition, theory and complexity issues, and further experiments on game; the reviews presented are on computer language games, computer Go, intelligent agents for computer games, RoboCup, and computer Shogi.
Diminishing Returns
A set of state of the art empirical analyses at the country, regional, and global level that work from a new theoretical framework that analyzes the politics of growth and stagnation. As highlighted by the recent debate on 'secular stagnation, ' economic growth has slowed down considerably, and this has given rise to a host of new problems, from financial instability to the collapse of mainstream parties. What happens when growth--the main mechanism of capitalist legitimation--is harder to come by and less broadly shared? And how should we think about capitalist diversity in the context of global stagnation? In Diminishing Returns, Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson address these...
Between Voters and Eurocrats
Karremans investigates the concern that financial considerations are more important than people's demands through the comparative study of five countries - Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain - and explores how governments maintain a balance between institutional responsibility and democratic responsiveness.
Anti-system Politics
This book examines the electoral successes of anti-system forces in the rich democracies. It explains the rise of anti-system politicians and parties in terms of two separate but closely related developments: the rise of economic inequality and insecurity over the last four decades, and the failure of political elites to address them.
RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III
This book is the third official archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, Robo-Cup-99, held in Stockholm, Sweden in July/August 1999. The book presents the following parts - Introductory overview and survey - Research papers of the champion teams and scientific award winners - Technical papers presented at the RoboCup-99 Workshop - Team description of a large number of participating teams. This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source or reference and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.
The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties
The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the study of political parties provided by leading experts in the field. In an era of widespread political disillusionment, political parties are often the main targets of citizen dissatisfaction, yet they are the key institutions that make democracy work. Analysing political parties in unrivalled depth and breath, with comparative thematic chapters throughout, as well as a dedicated section on political parties and party politics in specific country and regional settings, this handbook examines and illuminates the key questions around: how parties organise; how their ideologies have evolved over time; their relationship with society; how they differentiate themselves and how they respond to new social, economic, and political developments. The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in and actively concerned about research in the study of political parties, party systems, and party politics.
Movement Parties of the Far Right
In an era of traditional political party decline, this book explores a new phase of nativist mobilization, in which street politics plays an increasingly important role. Pietro Castelli Gattinara and Andrea L. P. Pirro delve into the hybrid and transitional nature of far-right movement parties, i.e. collective actors that contest elections like political parties and mobilize in the protest arena like social movements. Movement parties offer an exceptional object of study since they challenge the conventional distinction between institutional and non-institutional politics. Examining the 'production structure' of ten movement parties across nine European countries, the authors identify key fa...
