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Social Transnationalism
Lifeworlds Beyond The Nation-State
Series: International Library of Sociology
In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-states is fading, and this is...
Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Moral Economy of Welfare States
Britain and Germany Compared
Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral...
Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge