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Cover Handbook of Digital Higher Education
Handbook of Digital Higher Education
Edited by Rhona Sharpe, Sue Bennett, and Tünde Varga-Atkins

With the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalating higher education’s move online, this timely Handbook offers holistic conceptualisations of digital higher education which consider personal, pedagogic, and organisational level change. Key findings from digital education research are aligned with case studies of institutional practices, to consider the current and future role of digital technologies in higher education.

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Handbook
Published:
10 Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888494
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover The Politicisation of Social Europe
The Politicisation of Social Europe
Conflict Dynamics and Welfare Integration
Francesco Corti
While for some scholars the Euro crisis dashed the dream of Social Europe, this thought-provoking book proposes a more nuanced assessment, challenging the notion of austerity as the only way forward. Tracing the evolution of the political debate on European social integration and its interplay with the European economic governance after the Euro crisis, it sheds light on the conflict dynamics and political conditions that enabled the progressive shift away from the initial post-crisis EU ‘conservative reflex’, towards a new European holding environment for flourishing welfare states.
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Monograph Book
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14 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885264
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Living with Pandemics
Living with Pandemics
Places, People and Policy
Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy, and Louise Reardon
Providing an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations, and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.
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Monograph Book
Published:
17 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373594
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Basic Income
Basic Income
A History
Malcolm Torry
Presenting a truly comprehensive history of Basic Income, Malcolm Torry explores the evolution of the concept of a regular unconditional income for every individual, as well as examining other types of income as they relate to its history. Examining the beginnings of the modern debate at the end of the eighteenth century right up to the current global discussion, this book draws on a vast array of original historical sources and serves as both an in-depth study of, and introduction to, Basic Income and its history.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102417
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income
Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income
Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017-2018
Edited by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen, and Minna Ylikanno
This discerning book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nationwide randomised Finnish basic income experiment 2017 to 2018, from planning and implementation through to the end results. It presents the background of the social policy system in which the experiment was implemented and details the narratives of the planning process alongside its constraints, as well as a final evaluation of the results.
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Monograph Book
Published:
06 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104855
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe
Constraining Democratic Governance in Southern Europe
From ‘Superficial’ to ‘Coercive’ Europeanization
José M. Magone
In this thought-provoking book, José M. Magone investigates the growing political, economic and social divisions between the core countries of the European Union and the southern European periphery. He examines the major hindrances that are preventing the four main southern European countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece) from keeping up with the increasing pace of European integration, and the effects that this is having on democratic governance.
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Monograph Book
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11 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788111348
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Edited by Bent Greve
This innovative Handbook presents the core concepts associated with austerity, retrenchment and populism and explores how they can be used to analyse developments in different welfare states and in specific social policies. Leading experts highlight how these concepts have influenced and changed welfare states around the globe and impacted specific areas including pensions, long-term care, the labour market, taxation, social activism and gender equality.
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Handbook
Published:
11 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906745
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Global Youth Unemployment
Global Youth Unemployment
History, Governance and Policy
Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates
This timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments. The authors present substantial new evidence spanning a century pointing to the strong relationships between youth unemployment, globalisation, economic crises and consequent harms to young people’s social and economic welfare worldwide. The book notably encompasses data and analysis spanning the Global South as well as the Global North.
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Monograph Book
Published:
20 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900422
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being
The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being
Repairing the Social Fabric of European Societies
Giovanni Bertin, Marion Ellison, and Giuseppe Moro
This timely book critically examines the European Social Model as a contested concept and concrete set of European welfare and governance arrangements. It offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of new economic models and existing European investment strategies to address key issues within post-Covid-19 Europe.
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Monograph Book
Published:
16 Feb 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378070
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
Edited by Marie Boost, Jennifer Dagg, Jane Gray, and Markus Promberger
Poverty remains a problem in Europe, raising the need for new solutions. In this thought-provoking book the contributors delve deeply into the everyday lives of poor households to see which practices and resources they apply to improve their situations. One of the book’s key findings is that social resilience requires a functioning welfare state operating at an increased level. In addition to sufficient welfare transfers, there is a need for low-commodified common goods to be made available not only for the registered poor but all low-income households.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973205
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020