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超越左与右 : 激进政治的未来 = Beyond Left and Right : the future of radical politics
Anthony Giddens,惠斌 李,雪冬 杨 +2 more
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In this article, the authors discuss the social revolution of our time and two theories of Democratization: Generative Politics and Positive Welfare, Poverty and Life Values, and Modernity under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics.Abstract:
Preface. Introduction. 1. Conservatism: Radicalism Embraced. 2. Socialism: The Retreat from Radicalism. 3. The Social Revolutions of Our Time. 4. Two Theories of Democratization. 5. Contradictions of the Welfare State. 6. Generative Politics and Positive Welfare. 7. Positive Welfare, Poverty and Life Values. 8. Modernity under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics. 9. Political Theory and the Problem of Violence. 10. Questions of Agency and Values. Notes. Index.read more
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Constructing the citizen
TL;DR: In the past decade, different concepts of citizenship have arisen from emergent democracies, from societies in transition, from the dissolution of the left-right spectrum in Western society, and from a changing perspective in psychological theory that attends to language and social and cultural context as mentioned in this paper.
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“Asexy and we know it”: The Emergence of Asexual Activism as a Sexual and Gender Social Movement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the emerging character of asexual activism in Western societies, and consider how the staging, setting and scripting of Pride speaks to asexual activists in the West and how they speak back to Pride as actor-activists, audience and bystanders to its political theatre.
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Agency and wellbeing in the context of early marriage: A qualitative inquiry into the northern Nigerian context
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table of contents of the paper "Acknowledgements and acknowledgements of the authors" and Table of Contents of the conference proceedings.
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Working hard or hardly working? : Evaluating New Labour's active labour market policy.
TL;DR: In this paper, an evaluation of New Labour's active labour market policy (ALMP) is presented, focusing on the three central components of that policy agenda: the New Deal programmes, Tax Credit programmes and the National Minimum Wage.
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The political economy of co-ordination challenges in the National Health Service: a postpositivist evaluation of diabetes policy and governance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an approach to evaluation by combining postpositivist policy analysis with heterodox political economy, and applied an evaluative methodology to the evaluation of policy and governance in complex policy areas.
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The Political System of the European Union
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Theories of the Information Society
TL;DR: Webster as discussed by the authors examines what thinkers mean by an information society, and looks closely at different approaches to informational developments, concluding that, while there has undoubtedly been an information explosion, it is premature to conceive of an Information Society.
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Ecological modernisation theory in debate: A review
Arthur P.J. Mol,Gert Spaargaren +1 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed the various debates ecological modernisation ideas have been engaged in, focusing on more contemporary discussions, which only to some extent reflect similar topics, and respectively entered into discussions with constructivists and postmodernists on the material foundation of social theory, review and refine the controversies with eco-centrists on radical versus reformist environmental reforms and contribute to neo-Marxist understanding of social inequality.
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Coming to Terms With the Public-Private Partnership A Grammar of Multiple Meanings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the multiple meanings that the term public-private (P-P) assumes in contemporary discussions, and expose to scrutiny their underlying premises and ideological commitments.
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Collective and Reflexive Styles of Volunteering: A Sociological Modernization Perspective
Lesley Hustinx,Frans Lammertyn +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theory-guided examination of the changing nature of volunteering through the lens of sociological modernization theories is presented, where existing accounts of qualitative changes in motivational bases and patterns of volunteering are interpreted against the background of broader, modernizationdriven social-structural transformations.