Towards A Democratic Division Of Labour In Europe

Author : Van Dongen, Walter
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847422941

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Towards a Democratic Division of Labour in Europe? by Van Dongen, Walter Pdf

In past decades, most democratic European countries sought to achieve a more equal division of labour between men and women, both within families and organisations. At the same time, they wanted to offer individuals and families sufficient freedom to determine their own roles. But how far can the basic values of 'equality' and 'freedom' be realised in the daily division of labour in a complex modern society? How can they be linked with other principles, such as 'solidarity' and 'efficiency'? Towards a democratic division of labour? starts from the challenge of balancing these values in all sections of modern society, introducing the Combination Model as a scientific tool for studying the division of professional and family work. Following an integrated conceptual approach, the book explains the historical evolution of the division of labour in modern welfare states. Three policy models are developed to illustrate how a democratic division of labour can be conceived in the long-term and the Complete Combination Model is presented as the most suitable for the development of an integrated policy programme. Towards a democratic division of labour? offers inspiration to all scientists, policy makers, representatives of societal organisations and managers who are searching for new theoretical, empirical and policy perspectives.

Author : W. van Dongen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Division of labor
ISBN : 1447304020

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Towards a Democratic Division of Labour in Europe? by W. van Dongen Pdf

How far can the basic values of 'equality' and 'freedom' be realised in the daily division of labour in a complex modern society? This book starts from the challenge of balancing these values in all sections of modern society, introducing the Combination Model as a scientific tool for studying the division of professional and family work. Following an integrated conceptual approach, the book explains the historical evolution of the division of labour in modern welfare states.

Author : Michael Barratt Brown
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021846475

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European Union by Michael Barratt Brown Pdf

Author : Angela B. Cornell,Mark Barenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108839884

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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy by Angela B. Cornell,Mark Barenberg Pdf

Social scientists and legal scholars from different disciplines and perspectives explore the intersection of labor and democracy.

Author : Beata Klimkiewicz
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786155211850

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Media Freedom and Pluralism by Beata Klimkiewicz Pdf

Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.

Author : John Loughlin,Frank Hendriks,Anders Lidström
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191628245

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The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe by John Loughlin,Frank Hendriks,Anders Lidström Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. It places subnational democracy in the context of the distinctive Anglo, the French, the German and Scandinavian state traditions in Europe asking to what extent these are still relevant today. The Handbook adapts Lijphart's theory of democracy and applies it to the subnational levels in all the country chapters. A key theoretical issue is whether subnational (regional and local) democracy is derived from national democracy or whether it is legitimate in its own right. Besides these theoretical concerns it focuses on the practice of democracy: the roles of political parties and interest groups and also how subnational political institutions relate to the ordinary citizen. This can take the form of local referendums or other mechanisms of participation. The Handbook reveals a wide variety of practices across Europe in this regard. Local financial systems also reveal a great variety. Finally, each chapter examines the challenges facing subnational democracy but also the opportunities available to them to enhance their democratic systems. Among the challenges identified are: Europeanization, globalization, but also citizens disaffection and switch-off from politics. Some countries have confronted these challenges more successfully than others but all countries face them. An important aspect of the Handbook is the inclusion of all the countries of East and Central Europe plus Cyprus and Malta, who joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. This is the first time they have been examined alongside the countries of Western Europe from the angle of subnational democracy.

Author : Philippe C. Schmitter,Alexandre H. Trechsel,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287155704

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Avenir de la Démocratie en Europe by Philippe C. Schmitter,Alexandre H. Trechsel,Council of Europe Pdf

This publication examines a number of challenges and opportunities for democracy and democratic institutions throughout Europe, and makes 28 recommendations for reforms intended to improve government efficiency, transparency and accountability. Topics discussed include the impact of forces such as globalisation, European integration, migration and technological change; as well as issues such as citizenship (political discontent, cultural identity and protest), representation (political parties and civil society) and decision-making.

Author : Line Rennwald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030462390

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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class by Line Rennwald Pdf

This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on multiple fronts for their core electorate – and not only from radical right parties. Starting from a reflection on ‘working-class parties’ and using a sophisticated class schema, the book paints a nuanced and diversified picture of the trajectory of social democracy that goes beyond a simple shift from working-class to middle-class parties. Following a detailed description, the book reviews possible explanations of workers' new voting patterns and emphasizes the crucial changes in parties' ideologies. It closes with a discussion on the role of the working class in social democracy's future electoral strategies.

Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521643821

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Paths Toward Democracy by Ruth Berins Collier Pdf

Examining the experiences of Western Europe and South America, Professor Collier delineates a complex and varied set of patterns of democratization.

Author : Martin Conway
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691204598

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Western Europe’s Democratic Age by Martin Conway Pdf

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe—and how this democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Conway describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new political forces—primarily Christian and social democratic—that espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship that reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous society. This democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s, and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the late twentieth century. Western Europe's Democratic Age is a compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its future.

Author : Lawrence Pratchett,Vivien Lowndes,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287155798

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Developing Democracy in Europe by Lawrence Pratchett,Vivien Lowndes,Council of Europe Pdf

Published as part of the integrated project "Making democratic institutions work"

Author : Sheri Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199373208

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman Pdf

At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time in history. But within a decade, this story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent's newer democracies slid back towards dictatorship, while citizens in many of its older democracies began questioning democracy's functioning and even its legitimacy. And of course it is not merely in Europe where democracy is under siege. Across the globe the immense optimism accompanying the post-Cold War democratic wave has been replaced by pessimism. Many new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia began "backsliding," while the Arab Spring quickly turned into the Arab winter. The victory of Donald Trump led many to wonder if it represented a threat to the future of liberal democracy in the United States. Indeed, it is increasingly common today for leaders, intellectuals, commentators and others to claim that rather than democracy, some form dictatorship or illiberal democracy is the wave of the future. In Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, Sheri Berman traces the long history of democracy in its cradle, Europe. She explains that in fact, just about every democratic wave in Europe initially failed, either collapsing in upon itself or succumbing to the forces of reaction. Yet even when democratic waves failed, there were always some achievements that lasted. Even the most virulently reactionary regimes could not suppress every element of democratic progress. Panoramic in scope, Berman takes readers through two centuries of turmoil: revolution, fascism, civil war, and - -finally -- the emergence of liberal democratic Europe in the postwar era. A magisterial retelling of modern European political history, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe not explains how democracy actually develops, but how we should interpret the current wave of illiberalism sweeping Europe and the rest of the world.

Author : Robert Cliquet,Dragana Avramov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319730905

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Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium by Robert Cliquet,Dragana Avramov Pdf

The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality. It also traces pathways for knowledge-based choices to be made about directions for future long-term biological evolution and cultural development in view of adaptation to the expected, probable and possible future and the ecological sustainability of our planetary environment The authors discuss ethical challenges associated with the major biosocial sources of human variation: individual variation, inter-personal variation, inter-group variation, and inter-generational variation. This book approaches the long-term challenges of the human species in a holistic way. Researchers will find an extensive discussion of the key theoretical scientific aspects of the relationship between evolution and morality. Policy makers will find information that can help them better understand from where we are coming and inspire them to make choices and take actions in a longer-term perspective. The general public will find food for thoughts.

Author : Svein S Andersen,Kjell A Eliassen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 076195113X

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The European Union: How Democratic Is It? by Svein S Andersen,Kjell A Eliassen Pdf

Taking as its starting point the major issues of democracy which are the ongoing concerns of every liberal Western political system, this volume offers a wide-ranging review of democracy in the European Union. It treats the EU as a new type of political system within the tradition of parliamentary democracies, a system which is neither federal nor intergovernmental, and which consequently has unique problems of how to handle democratic requirements. Part One deals with the two major challenges of interest articulation in the EU, political parties and lobbying. The second part discusses how democracy becomes the key element in the linkage between the EU and its member states, focusing on France, Italy and Belgium where the r

Author : Aldo Madariaga
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691182599

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Neoliberal Resilience by Aldo Madariaga Pdf

The puzzling resilience of neoliberalism -- Explaining the resilience of neoliberalism -- Neoliberal policies and supporting actors -- Neoliberal resilience and the crafting of social blocs -- Creating support : privatization and business power -- Blocking opposition : political representation and limited democracy -- Locking-in neoliberalism : independent central banks and fiscal spending rules -- Lessons. Neoliberal resilience and the future of democracy.