Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Fiscal Policies in Federal States
1st Edition
By Dietmar Braun
February 06, 2018
This title was first published in 2003.Investigating the impact of federal structure on fiscal policy-making in four country cases, this book answers the question as to what extent federal structures hinder or, on the contrary, enhance a state's decision and co-ordination capacity in the field of ...
Public Management and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Military–Bureaucracy Relationship
1st Edition
By Robert Dibie
February 06, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. How was public policy and economic development in Nigeria affected under the period of military control between 1966 and 1999? What is the nature and scale of change that Nigeria will have to undergo in order to achieve its current development goals? ...
State, Culture and Life-Modes: The Foundations of Life-Mode Analysis
1st Edition
By Thomas Højrup
February 06, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. This book offers a challenging new approach to social theory, building on the concept of life-modes. Thomas Hojrup invites us to look at cultural analysis within a state perspective. He develops a mode of analysis based on principles of structural dialectics ...
Sweden and the 'Third Way': A Macroeconomic Evaluation
1st Edition
By Philip Whyman
February 06, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. The creation of a 'Third Way' between unfettered capitalism and old-style Keynesian-corporatist forms of social democracy has become the driving force behind the policy programmes of many left-of-centre political parties in the industrialised nations of the ...
Work Behavior of the World's Poor: Theory, Evidence and Policy
1st Edition
By Mohammed Sharif
February 06, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics brushes off this tendency to increase labour supply as wages fall as perverse because it does not fit the ...
Gender Democracy in Trade Unions
1st Edition
By Anne McBride
January 31, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. Detailed interviews with activists and case studies of decision-making bodies show how different membership groups exploit equal opportunities strategies to facilitate or impede women. These case studies expose the conundrum of understanding women as a ...
A Clash of Paradigms: Response and Development in the South Pacific
1st Edition
By Suan Maiava
January 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. This study indicates that researchers have far to go in understanding and assessing how development projects work. The author shows that, often, the perception of failure is not shared by those whom were intended to benefit. She uses a case study of Samoan ...
Future Visions of Urban Public Housing (Routledge Revivals): An International Forum, November 17-20, 1994
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfgang Preiser, David P. Varady, Francis P. Russell
January 22, 2018
First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on ‘Future Visions of Urban Public Housing’ held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Participants included public housing officials, academics, practitioners and public housing residents who ...
Designing for Designers (Routledge Revivals): Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture
1st Edition
By Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Jack Nasar, Thomas Fisher
January 19, 2018
First published in 2007, this book examines the designs of seventeen architecture and design schools and answers questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools discernible types of designs and what are their effects on those who ...
Doomsday or Deterrence?: On the Antinuclear Issue
1st Edition
By Hans H. Landsberg, Agnes Heller
January 19, 2018
Doomsday or Deterrence? argues against the majority of premises and conclusions of the antinuclear argument as existed in 1986 when this study was first published. Fehér and Heller’s study claims that social changes are important to curb technology trends that lean toward the construction of ...
Espionage and Secrecy (Routledge Revivals): The Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989 of the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Rosamund Thomas
January 19, 2018
This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. In particular, the Espionage section (s.1) of this criminal law is analysed carefully, illustrated by leading cases of UK spies prosecuted under this ...
Party and Professionals: The Political Role of Teachers in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Hans H. Landsberg
January 19, 2018
Originally published in 1981, this study fits into a wider context of works analysing the impact of the social revolution on the structure of Chinese society since 1949. Party and Professionals focuses on the teaching profession in relation to social ranking. As a part of the intelligentsia, the ...