The only accessible, practical and discipline-specific qualitative methods textbook on the market. Introduces theoretical issues in parallel with step-by-step guidance on ‘how to do qualitative research’ and ‘how it has been done’ in seminal published research.

Het kabinet pakte Amsterdam hard aan. Via de wet dwong Den Haag af dat de hoofdstad in 2014 een streep trok door de inrichting van het stadsbestuur. Deze politieke keuze van de regering was een gerichte aanval op stadsdeelbestuur, een uitvoerige vorm van lokaal bestuur die alleen in Amsterdam bestond. Waarom liet Amsterdam dit gebeuren? Wat dreef het kabinet hiertoe? Daarover gaat De ban van bestuur: over wat er al langer speelde onder de oppervlakte van de wetswijziging en de keuzen van Amst...

In dit persoonlijke boek schetst Peter van der Vliet de contouren van de nieuwe democratie. Overheden die actief gemeenschappen ondersteunen die draaien op gedeelde waarden en leiden tot blijvende netwerken. Dit om de initiatiefkracht van burgers te erkennen. In Amsterdam Nieuw-West gebeurt dit en dat kan elders ook. De auteur pleit voor het ontwikkelen van de participatieve democratie. De doe-democratie waarbij de Trias Politica zich naar een volgend niveau begeeft: de Octa-Politica, die ach...

This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both "merit" and historical redress as principles for guiding public policy. It shows how "peace" movements have led to war and to needless casualties in those wars. It argues that "equality" is neither right nor wrong, but meaningless.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, h...

What are the markers of authoritarian and democratic states – and all those that fall somewhere in-between? How do principles, institutions and political processes differ from state to state? And what can we learn from political comparison on a global scale?Comparative Government and Politics offers a compelling and accessible introduction to the subject. This book will help you to understand the wide range of institutions and political cultures across the world, including: the common essen...

A comprehensive guide to understanding the complexities of Global Political Economy, emphasising the importance of context and a truly global range of perspectives in analysing global issues.

The Psychology of the Extreme provides an accessible introduction to extremism as a force that can affect all aspects of culture and people’s choices in everyday settings.

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This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover ...

A revised and updated introduction to the 8th edition of this classic text covers the election of the ninth Secretary-General, António Guterres; the burgeoning of “new nationalisms” worldwide, including Trump and Brexit; and the continuing proliferation of such non-state actors as ISIS and those in the “third UN.”