Publications
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How Welfare States Care
(2007)
A social revolution has taken place in Europe. Women's employment patterns changed drastically the last decades. But they are still different across Europe. Welfare state scholars often presume that diversity and change ...
Decline of the Corporate Community
(2007)
From its inception, big business in the western industrialised world has been organised in national business communities. Central elements of these business communities are corporate board interlocks that constitute the ...
Democratie door interventie
(2006)
Public administration; Political science
De obesogene samenleving
(2007)
Public administration; Sociology
Multiregionalism and Multilateralism
(2006)
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM, est. 1996) is an interregional forum which consists of the members of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan and South Korea. The main components ...
Het heilige huis
(2006)
Culture and history; Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Culture and institutions
Dynamic Entrepreneurship
(2006)
The nature of immigrant entrepreneurship is changing in Dutch society. Nowadays, many immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses in producer and personal services instead of more traditional sectors such as retail or hotel ...
Inleiding tot de Latijnse Syntaxis
(2007)
Latin Syntax is a concise overview of the Latin syntax, based on modern academic insights. This book offers clear understanding of the most important characteristics of Latin grammatical sentence structure. The emphasis ...
Inleiding tot de Latijnse syntaxis
(2008)
Latin Syntax is a concise overview of the Latin syntax, based on modern academic insights. This book offers clear understanding of the most important characteristics of Latin grammatical sentence structure. The emphasis ...
Chinese Women and the Cyberspace
(2008)
This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation ...
Interactive Logic
(2008)
Traditionally, logic has dealt with notions of truth and reasoning. In the past several decades, however, research focus in logic has shifted to the vast field of interactive logic - the domain of logic for both communication ...
Fabricating the Absolute Fake
(2008)
The pageantry of Oprah Winfrey's talk show, the Coca-Cola empire, Michael Jackson's turn from the King of Pop into an iconic global recluse: American pop culture - Hollywood cinema, television, pop music - dominates the ...
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
(2007)
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This ...
In Death's Waiting Room
(2008)
In Death's Waiting Room is a penetrating story about people suffering from dementia in a multi-cultural society, relevant to us all. Anne-Mei The carried out two years of ethnographic research in a nursing home in the ...
Europa in Nederland
(2007)
Political science
The Rhythm of Strategy
(2007)
This book provides a well-documented analysis of the strategy of the Salim Group, one of the largest family conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Using a multitude of sources, including interviews with the Salim family and Salim ...
Concepten en objecten
(2009)
Thirteen authors explore the different ways modern theatre and dance are being analyzed. This is the fourth volume in the Series 'Theatre Topics'.
The New Eurocrats
(2008)
Policies in the EU are largely made by national civil servants who prepare and implement decisions in Brussels as well as at home. Despite their important role, these national civil servants form a relatively hidden world ...
De Zin van Verhalen
(2007)
Dutch literature
Dynamism in Islamic Activism
(2006)
The increased tensions surrounding radical Muslims and radical movements in the political Islam are not only manifested in the Western countries but also in the Muslim world itself. Tendencies and political movements that ...
Policy, People, and the New Professional
(2006)
Engaging with the acclaimed American sociologist Eliot Freidson's argument about professionalism's 'third logic' (a viable alternative to bureaucracy and consumerism), Dutch, British, French and German contributors to this ...
Going Europe or Going Dutch?
(2006)
The European Union has a huge impact on the government and policies of its member states. It is thus surprising that the ways in which national governments attempt to shape EU policies is a topic seriously understudied. ...
From War to the Rule of Law
(2007)
As recent events in Iraq demonstrate, countries that have suffered civil war or rule by military regime can face a long, difficult transition to peaceful democracy. Drawing on the experiences of Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda and ...
Rituelen van beraadslaging
(2006)
Political science; Public administration; Philosophy; Sociology
The Immigrant Organising Process
(2006)
This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively ...
Migration and Citizenship
(2006)
Citizenship is frequently invoked both as an instrument and goal of immigrant integration. Yet, in migration contexts, citizenship also marks a distinction between members and outsiders based on their different relations ...
Klassieke sharia en vernieuwing
(2005)
Sociology
Crossing the Line
(2006)
For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal hazing in an elaborate ceremony at sea called 'crossing the line' (British-American) and 'Neptunusfeest' (Dutch). Typically ...
The Expansion of Tolerance
(2007)
This volume about religious tolerance in early modern Brazil comprises two articles. Jonathan Israel, in his contribution, argues that Dutch tolerance in Brazil was unprecedented in the seventeenth century. Catholics and ...
Tranen van bloed
(2008)
The Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch and the Campaign of 1629 is one of the most illustrious events of the Eighty Years' War in the history of the Netherlands. However, its image and interpretations have hardly changed in the ...
State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
(2018)
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public ...
Cities in Asia by and for the People
(2018)
This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods. The ...
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
(2018)
This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, ...
Global Diffusion of Protest. Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis
(2017)
Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original ...
Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers
(2018)
Central to this edited volume is the legal position and the labour situation of non-EU and EU low-waged migrant workers. <i>Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers</i> presents ground breaking research ...
Stories
(2018)
Stories are central drivers of media today-not only do they propel plot-driven entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theatre, but also social media. Telling and having a story is widely deemed essential, both ...
The Impact of Losing Your Job
(2016)
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering ...
Places of Engagement
(2018)
In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large ...
Productive Fandom
(2018)
This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.
Fascism, Liberalism and Europeanism in the Political Thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce
(2017)
Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This book explores the political ...