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Product Description: A reborn collectivism has begun to challenge the neo-liberal orthodoxies of the last fifteen years. But this new collectivism is very different from the state-centred collectivism of the post-war period. It is outward-looking, pluralistic and internationalist...read more

A guide showing various ways to sharpen your attacking technique in chess. It shows how to exploit an opponent's weaknesses, when and how to exchange off into a winning endgame, describes how to launch attacks and handle desperate counterplay, and includes practical test positions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The volume brings together a range of disciplinary approaches not often found together in political debate. Competition and co-operation are usually considered to be incompatible within the market economy. Can co-operation among firms, individuals and groups mean anything other than restricting competitive forces? Is there any place for values and ethics in the pursuit of economic efficiency...read more

Product Description: Increasing integration in the west; disintegration in the east. The political map of Europe has changed more thoroughly and rapidly than perhaps ever before in peacetime. Are we witnessing the start of a new hegemony over the whole continent by the institutions of the European Community, as the old Soviet Union relinquishes its hold on the east, simultaneously reducing the dependence of the west on the US? The contributors to this volume address the issues raised by the extraordinary changes now in progress...read more

Product Description: This book considers the government of the United Kingdom and relationships with Ireland in the light of the sense of identity of each of the nations and regions. It examines the extent to which this receives satisfactory institutional expression and whether these institutions need reform, both internally in each case and in the totality of relationships and interrelationships; and analyzes the impact of 1992 and moves to European integration...read more

Product Description: The contributors to this volume examine the political questions raised by the concept of the Single European Market, and its likely impact. The idea of the Single European Market originally seemed to indicate a process of deregulation and political disengagement that would leave market forces supreme...read more

Product Description: During the 1970s, organized interests increasingly became involved in lobbying and advising the British government, often even administering public services. Known as "corporatism," this phenomenon involved professional organizations, trade associations, charities, and single-interest pressure groups, and was frequently the object of public hostility...read more

Product Description: In this volume a number of contributors consider the recent trends towards increased centralization of government experienced in Britain, as compared with patterns in other parts of Europe. How strong are these trends? Where do they originate? What are the reasons for them? The findings of "The New Centralism" are that the trend outside Britain is away from centralisation, and that in particular a regional level of economic policy-making is emerging in a number of different societies which is almost entirely absent in Britain...read more

Product Description: Leading experts discuss the major research and theoretical developments of organizational democracy, and describe the variety of interpersonal and structural arrangements which link organizational decision-making to the interests and influence of employees...read more