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How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

By: Philip Rathgeb

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How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

By: Philip Rathgeb

Combining insights from comparative politics, party politics, comparative political economy, and welfare state research, the book provides novel insights into how the radical right manufactures consent for authoritarian rule.

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0192866338

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How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

By: Philip Rathgeb

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How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

By: Philip Rathgeb

Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across the Western world. This book shows how they have used their political power to reform economic and social policies in Continental Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the USA. In doing so, it argues that the radical right's core ideology of nativism and authoritarianism informs their socio-economic policy preferences. However, diverse welfare state contexts mediate their socio-economic policy impacts along regime-specific lines, leading to variations of trade protectionism, economic nationalism, traditional familialism, labour market dualism, and welfare chauvinism. The radical right has used the diverse policy instruments available within their political-economic arrangements to protect threatened labour market insiders and male breadwinners from decline, while creating a racialized and gendered precariat at the same time. This socio-economic agenda of selective status protection restores horizontal inequalities in terms of gender and ethnicity, without addressing vertical inequalities between the rich and the poor. Combining insights from comparative politics, party politics, comparative political economy, and welfare state research, the book provides novel insights into how the radical right manufactures consent for authoritarian rule by taming the socially corrosive effects of globalised capitalism for key electoral groups, while aiming to exclude the rest from democratic participation.

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Oxford University Press

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0192691384

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Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization

By: Philip Rathgeb

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Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization

By: Philip Rathgeb

Why do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers ("outsiders") from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb’s study of labor market policy change in three somewhat-similar small states—Austria, Denmark, and Sweden—explores this fundamental question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two lines of research—trade unions and party politics—that, with few exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange. Inclusive trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment into their representational outlook. Yet, the impact of union preferences has declined over time, with a shift in the balance of class power from labor to capital across the Western world. National governments have accordingly prioritized flexibility for employers over the social protection of outsiders. As a result, organized labor can only protect outsiders when governments are reliant on union consent for successful consensus mobilization. When governments have a united majority of seats, on the other hand, they are strong enough to exclude unions. Strong Governments, Precarious Workers calls into question the electoral responsiveness of national governments—and thus political parties—to the social needs of an increasingly numerous group of precarious workers. In the end, Rathgeb concludes that the weaker the government, the stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social protection of precarious workers.

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ILR Press

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1501730592

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Psycho Paths

Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction

By: Philip L. Simpson

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Psycho Paths

Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction

By: Philip L. Simpson

Philip L. Simpson provides an original and broad overview of the evolving serial killer genre in the two media most responsible for its popularity: literature and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. The fictional serial killer, with a motiveless, highly individualized modus operandi, is the latest manifestation of the multiple murderers and homicidal maniacs that haunt American literature and, particularly, visual media such as cinema and television. Simpson theorizes that the serial killer genre results from a combination of earlier genre depictions of multiple murderers, inherited Gothic storytelling conventions, and threatening folkloric figures reworked over the years into a contemporary mythology of violence. Updated and repackaged for mass consumption, the Gothic villains, the monsters, the vampires, and the werewolves of the past have evolved into the fictional serial killer, who clearly reflects American cultural anxieties at the start of the twenty-first century. Citing numerous sources, Simpson argues that serial killers’ recent popularity as genre monsters owes much to their pliability to any number of authorial ideological agendas from both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Serial killers in fiction are a kind of debased and traumatized visionary, whose murders privately and publicly re-empower them with a pseudo-divine aura in the contemporary political moment. The current fascination with serial killer narratives can thus be explained as the latest manifestation of the ongoing human fascination with tales of gruesome murders and mythic villains finding a receptive audience in a nation galvanized by the increasingly apocalyptic tension between the extremist philosophies of both the New Right and the anti-New Right. Faced with a blizzard of works of varying quality dealing with the serial killer, Simpson has ruled out the catalog approach in this study in favor of in-depth an analysis of the best American work in the genre. He has chosen novels and films that have at least some degree of public name-recognition or notoriety, including Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, Manhunter directed by Michael Mann, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer directed by John McNaughton, Seven directed by David Fincher, Natural Born Killers directed by Oliver Stone, Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates, and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

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SIU Press

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0809323281

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9780809323289

Habitat Rehabilitation for Inland Fisheries

Global Review of Effectiveness and Guidance for Rehabilitation of Freshwater Ecosystems

By: Philip Roni,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Habitat Rehabilitation for Inland Fisheries

Global Review of Effectiveness and Guidance for Rehabilitation of Freshwater Ecosystems

By: Philip Roni,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This technical paper reviews current information on the effectiveness of habitat rehabilitation techniques for inland fisheries, based on published evaluations of projects including studies on roads improvements and sediment reduction, riparian and floodplain rehabilitation, placement of habitat structures in lakes and streams, and the addition of nutrients to increase aquatic production. It also sets out information on planning, prioritising and monitoring rehabilitation projects.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251053545

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9789251053546

The Abridgement of the Gardener's Dictionary

By: Philip Miller

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The Abridgement of the Gardener's Dictionary

By: Philip Miller

The 1771 sixth edition of the abridged version of an influential horticultural text, ranging widely from agriculture to winemaking.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108068510

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The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

By: Philip K. Howard

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The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

By: Philip K. Howard

The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?” What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think. Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship. Rules have replaced leadership in America. Bureaucracy, regulation, and outmoded law tie our hands and confine policy choices. Nobody asks, “What’s the right thing to do here?” Instead, they wonder, “What does the rule book say?” There’s a fatal flaw in America’s governing system—trying to decree correctness through rigid laws will never work. Public paralysis is the inevitable result of the steady accretion of detailed rules. America is now run by dead people—by political leaders from the past who enacted mandatory programs that churn ahead regardless of waste, irrelevance, or new priorities. America needs to radically simplify its operating system and give people—officials and citizens alike—the freedom to be practical. Rules can’t accomplish our goals. Only humans can get things done. In The Rule of Nobody Philip K. Howard argues for a return to the framers’ vision of public law—setting goals and boundaries, not dictating daily choices. This incendiary book explains how America went wrong and offers a guide for how to liberate human ingenuity to meet the challenges of this century.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393242110

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9780393242119

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization

By: Philip Rathgeb

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Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization

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How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

Psycho Paths

Psycho Paths

Habitat Rehabilitation for Inland Fisheries

Habitat Rehabilitation for Inland Fisheries

The Abridgement of the Gardener's Dictionary

The Abridgement of the Gardener's Dictionary

The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers

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