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"Far-Right Ecologism explains how the ongoing mainstreaming of the far right has prompted greater engagement with a range of topics, including the environment. Behind the façade of vote-winning strategies, the far right has provided a substantive ideological engagement with the natural environment. Building on the nationalist bent of early green thought and the perceived nexus of pristine nature and cultural purity, Far-Right Ecologism has ideologically adopted the green elements of other ideologies, such as conservatism and fascism, but also of those considered to be 'thin-centred', such as nationalism and populism. Through an authentic experience of learning from the Eastern European, post-socialist realms, this book explores the ideology, ecological discourse, and policy proposals behind the increasing impact of far-right actors on environmental politics in Hungary and Poland. Each chapter begins with stories from the interviewees to illustrate how the far right in Hungary and Poland attempts to permeate environmental politics and even forge partnerships with green actors through specific, local-based policy contributions. Drawing on the findings from a range of sources, such as electoral programs, ideological texts and manifestos, social media and public speeches, policy proposals, and more than forty in-depth interviews with far-right representatives, this book also assesses epistemological and methodological challenges in examining the environmental dimension of far-right, post-socialist politics. The book will be valuable reading for researchers with an interest in the far right, environmental politics and Central Eastern Europe"--

"Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on methodology when planning, writing and submitting your dissertation thesis. Written by two methodology experts in the social sciences, the book provides a step-by-step guide through each stage of the dissertation process. It covers all aspects of the methodological considerations needed from choosing a topic or research question, literature review, identifying research gaps, accessing potential study participants, utilizing the right sampling strategies, ways to analyze data, and writing up findings. Readers are introduced to the main research methods normally used in dissertations, and their characteristics, and are guided to choose an appropriate research method for their study, provide substantial description of the selected method, and articulate strong arguments supporting the method. The book is filled with templates, exemplars and tools to help students to write about methodology in their thesis, and to equip readers to successfully trouble shoot methodology challenges they may face. This compact book will be of use to all undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences, Education and behavioural sciences looking for a guide to working with robust and defensible methodological principles in their dissertation research and theses"--

"The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together the some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions"--

"This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold-War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya. These cases reveal the operation of diverse modalities of punishment in extending the ambit of international liberal governance. The argument starts from an analysis of these discourses to trace the historical arc in which military interventions have increasingly been launched through reference to both the human rights discourse and humanitarian sentiments, and a desire to punish the perpetrators. The book continues with the analysis of practices involved in the post-intervention phase, looking at the ways in which states have been established as modes of governance (Kosovo), how punitive atmospheres have animated soldiers' violence in the conduct of war (Iraq), and finally how interventions can expand moral control and a system of devolved surveillance in conjunction with both border control and the engagement of the International Criminal Court (Libya). In all these case, tensions and ambiguities emerge. These practices underscore how punitive intents were also present in the expansion of liberal governance, demonstrating how the rhetoric of punishment was useful in legitimating Western state powers and recomposing the borders of the liberal world at the periphery. War as Protection and Punishment ends with a number of critical comments on the diffusion of the punitive discourse in the international arena, considering how issues of crime and justice have also animated, at least in part, the current engagement with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, politics and those interested in how penal discourses are used to legitimise military conventions"--

This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. Drawing from a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a comprehensive overview of the major developments that defined the evolution of Brazil. Beginning with the original human settlements in pre-Colombian society, it moves on to discuss the Portuguese Empire and colonization, specifically the importance of slave labor, sugar, coffee, and gold in shaping Brazil's economic and societal development. Finally, it analyzes the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the past half century, transforming Brazil from a primarily rural and illiterate society to an overwhelmingly urban, literate, and industrial one. Sweeping and influential, Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna's synthesis is the first of its kind on Brazil

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Part I: Conceptual generalization -- Chapter 1: Conceptual generalizations -- 1.1 What is a conceptual model? -- 1.2 How can we develop a conceptual model? -- 1.2.1 Various conceptual models -- 1.2.2 Case studies -- 1.2.3 Empirical causal models -- 1.2.3.1 Generalization -- 1.2.3.2 Association -- 1.2.3.3 Attribution -- 1.3 A typology and strategy for the development of conceptual models -- 1.4 A strategy for the development of a conceptual model -- Concluding comments -- Practical implications -- Theoretical implications -- Part II: How to write a winning conceptual thesis -- Chapter 2: General considerations -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Driving forces in the research process -- 2.3 Knowledge development -- 2.4 The study wheel -- Concluding comments -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Research problems and questions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Thorough preparation is half the solution -- 3.3 Problems -- 3.4 Problem system -- Concluding comments -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Analysis of the research problem -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The start of the process of asking questions -- 4.3 Problem relationships -- 4.4 Problem solutions -- Concluding comments -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Our mental tools -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Constructs -- 5.2.1 Concepts -- 5.2.2 Propositions and theories -- 5.3 Use of constructs in research -- Concluding comments -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: Suggestions for developing research strategies -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The first step in a research strategy -- 6.3 What is a scientific method? -- 6.4 The different approaches to research -- Concluding comments -- Exercises -- Note -- Chapter 7: The main types of errors -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Problem formulation -- 7.3 Models -- 7.4 Analysis -- 7.5 Synthesis.

This book demonstrates how the Green New Deal and its Systemic alternative, the Red New Deal, could influence the course of three systemically linked global crises - economic inequality, the environmental crisis and the climate crisis - all within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sapiential rulership in the Carolingian Renaissance and its Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian continuators (c. 800-1000) -- The Salian Reich and frontier Europe: the reception of sapiential sacral rulership around the Year Thousand -- The king as miles literatus: literacy, knighthood, and feudal rulership -- The twelfth-century Renaissance: culture and statecraft -- The clerk king: administrative kingship and royal knowledge in the Norman kingdoms and Capetian France (c. 1050-1250) -- The Hohenstaufen emperors: empire and wisdom in the twelfth century -- Two philosopher-kings in the thirteenth century: Frederick II of Sicily and Alfonso X of Castile -- Bibliography.

Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and US foreign relations. A key mechanism of international hierarchy, indirect rule involves an allied group within a client state adopting policies preferred by a dominant state in exchange for the dominant state's support. Drawing on the history of US involvement in the Caribbean and Central America, Western Europe, and the Arab Middle East, David A. Lake shows that indirect rule is more likely to occur when the specific assets at risk are large and governance costs are low. Lake's conceptualization of indirect rule sharpens our understanding of how the United States came to occupy the pinnacle of world power. Yet the consequences of indirect rule he documents - including anti-Americanism - reveal its shortcomings. As US efforts at democracy promotion and other forms of intervention abroad face declining support at home, Indirect Rule compels us to consider whether this method of rule ultimately advances US interests.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: peech -- Part 1: The Campaign -- 1. The Players and Process -- 2. Taking Campaign Finance Reform to Court -- 3. Charting a Better Path -- 4. Winning in the Roberts Court -- Part 2: Themes and Implications -- 5. Strange Bedfellows? -- 6. Different Constitutional Universes -- 7. Issues of Accountability -- 8. Continuing Battles -- Conclusion: Big Money Unleashed -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Power is a broad and complex concept that cuts across all fields in humanities and social sciences. Written by a leading historian of economic thought, Power and Inequality presents a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary analysis of power as an economic and social issue. Its aim is not to formulate a new abstract theory of power but rather to illustrate the different ways in which power is used to exacerbate social and economic inequality. Issues such as division of labour and its evolution, different forms of capitalism up to the money-manager economy, the role of networks (from the family to mason lodges and the mafia), the state and the international arena, culture and the role of the masses are considered. The analysis of these elements, causing inequalities of various kinds, is a prerequisite for devising progressive policy strategies aiming at a reduction of inequalities through a strategy of reforms.

"Using a theoretical and comparative perspective, Aileen Kavanagh argues that protecting rights in a constitutional democracy is a collaborative enterprise between all three branches of government: the Executive, legislature, and courts. With examples from multiple jurisdictions, this book documents the dynamics of collaborative constitutionalism"--

"This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China. Based on extensive field investigations, residents' surveys and analyses by local policy experts and practitioners it provides a comparative analysis of the marketization of public policy in China in contrast to those in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Germany. The book highlights system-specific issues of the centrally planned economy (CPE) during economic reform, such as alienation of entitlements from funding and historically rooted obligations in the realm of public policy, and as such fills the gap in research on the Chinese government's public financial management. Public Policy and Health Care in China will appeal to students, academics and researchers interested in public policy and health care in China, as well as Chinese society and economics more broadly"--