Publicaties

Een bloemlezing van boeken die zijn geschreven door wetenschappers van de Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen.

• Women on board: Female board membership as a form of elite democratization

  Corporate elites have been all-male bastions until the twenty-first century. The recent inclusion of women in the corporate elite needs explanation because it is an abrupt change in recruitment practices.

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• Regional Powers as Leaders or Rambos? The Ambivalent Behaviour of Brazil and South Africa in Regional Economic Integration

  The behaviour of regional powers towards their own regions is often volatile in the developing world, which leads to unstable integration processes. We argue that this volatility is due to limited intraregional gains from regional integration in ...

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• Religious Minorities in Turkey

  This monograph presents the situations of three main religious minority groups in Turkey (Alevi, Armenians, and Assyrians), as they have evolved over the past 13 years, since the beginning of Turkish EU candidacy.

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• Theory of Optimum Financial Areas: retooling the debate on the governance of global finance

  What are the real conditions necessary for the provision of financial stability? How do we know?

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• The New Barbary Wars: Forecasting Maritime Piracy

  This article assesses the robustness and forecasting ability of various correlates of maritime piracy.

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• The Emerging Post-Crisis Financial Architecture: the path-dependency of ideational adverse selection

  How far and how well has the financial reform process proceeded so far? Is there really a sea-change underway, or is it business as usual?

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• The unstable core of global finance: contingent valuation and governance of international accounting standards

  Accounting standards are the foundations of the financial regulatory edifice. Yet up to this day, no international accounting rule for financial instruments – the bulk of banks' balance sheets – has emerged that was more than a temporary fix.

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• The flaws of fragmented financial standard setting: why substantive economic debates matter for the architecture of global governance

  Is the way global financial governance currently organized appropriate for the task? No, our research argue.

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• An Ever Wider Gap in an Ever Closer Union: Rising Inequalities and Euroscepticism in 12 West European Democracies, 1975-2009

  This article asks whether the trend towards greater inequality in European countries has led to an increase in euroscepticism.

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• Human Beings in IR Theory

  By developing the analytical framework of an International Political (Post-)Anthropology, this volume becomes the first to comprehensively organize the debate about the human in world politics.

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• Global Labour-Standards Advocacy by European Civil Society Organizations: Trends and Developments

  This article discusses trends in contemporary global labor standards advocacy by European civil society organizations, showing how their changes in focus affect the strength of campaigning for worker rights globally.

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• Fragmented or cohesive transnational private regulation of sustainability standards? A comparative study

  This article answers the question of why in some industrial sectors various private regulators compete for the governance of sustainable conditions of production, while in other sectors one private regulator predominates.

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• Assembling an Experimentalist Regime

  The paper demonstrates how an increasingly comprehensive transnational regime can be assembled to protect deforestation by linking together distinct EU and private regulatory initiatives.

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• Corporate elite community structure of global capitalism

  A key debate on the merits and consequences of globalisation asks to what extent we have moved to a multipolar global political economy. In order to answer this question we analyse the community structure of the global corporate elite: how are ...

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• China, autocratic patron? An empirical investigation of China as a factor in autocratic survival

  Critics frequently accuse China of acting as a patron for autocratic states. But does Chinese engagement actually increase the stability of authoritarian clients?

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• All Quiet on Election Day? International Election Observation and Incentives for Pre-Election Violence in African Elections

  Do governments strategically adapt the use of electoral manipulation when international election observers monitor elections?

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• De ideologie van Sharia4Belgium online

  De overheid heeft met het Actieprogramma Integrale Aanpak Jihadisme (AIAJ) aangegeven de (hernieuwde) dreiging van het jihadisme zeer serieus te nemen. Dit onderzoeksvoorstel kan het actieprogramma aanvullen in de informatievoorziening over ...

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• Programmeren als Ruimtelijk Sturingsvraagstuk

  Dit project doet onderzoek naar de rol van de provincies in relatie tot programmeren in verleden, heden en toekomst, inclusief de afstemming tussen de bouwprogramma’s van gemeenten. De bestaande inzichten over programmeren schieten te kort en de ...

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• Ontwikkeling van de rechtvaardigheid van de Amsterdamse woningmarkt

  Dit project omvat twee deelonderzoeken binnen het promotieonderzoek van Arend Jonkman (UvA) naar de rechtvaardigheid van de Amsterdamse woningmarkt.

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• Publications in July 2014

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• Publications in June 2014

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• Publications in May 2014

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• Publications in April 2014

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• Publications in March 2014

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• Publications in February 2014

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• Publications in January 2014

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• Publications in December 2013

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• Publications in November 2013

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• Publications in October 2013

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• Publications in September 2013

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• Publications in August 2013

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• Publications in March 2013

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• The Rise of the European Corporate Elite

  The emerging European corporate network is becoming increasingly established. Eelke Heemskerk compares the network of board interlocks among the largest stock listed European firms in 2005 and 2010.

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• Publications in February 2013

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• Publications in January 2013

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• At Work in the Informal Economy of India: A Perspective from the Bottom Up

  Informal labour translates as labour or employment that is not regular. Labour in the informal sector is casual, insecure, and unprotected. This book brings to light the plight of the landless and land-poor peasants in the informal economy in India.

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• The long road to social security: Assessing the Implementation of National Social Security Initiatives for the Working Poor in India

  This book is about social security, or the lack of it, for the labouring poor in India. It is a critical study of the workings of two flagship national social security schemes initiated by the Government of India—the National Rural Employment ...

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• Climate Change, Forests and REDD

  This book explores how an analysis of past forest governance patterns from the global through to the local level, can help us to build institutions which more effectively deal with forests within the climate change regime.

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• Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts

  What are the dynamics of civic activism in authoritarian regimes? How do new social actors—many of them informal, "below the radar" groups—interact with these regimes? What mechanisms do the power elite employ to deal with societal dissidence? ...

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• An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives

  This second volume in the IMISCOE Textbook Series, intended for advanced students of international migration, presents theoretical and empirical perspectives on a range of central topics. Its main focus is on European experiences, including ...

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• Two Sides of a Barricade

  In 'Two Sides of a Barricade' Christian Scholl Investigates how activists confront global powers with their street-level dissent. He argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously.

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• Intieme relaties

  Verliefd worden. Seks hebben. Een relatie koesteren. Kinderen krijgen. Deze fasen van het menselijk leven en de intieme relaties die daarbij horen zijn universeel, maar toch snappen we er nog lang niet alles van, en verlopen onze relaties niet ...

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• Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development

  Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social ...

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• Neoliberalism, Pedagogy & Human Development

  This book by M. Kontopodis outlines an innovative relational account of learning and human development

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• Trusting on the edge

  Trust is fundamental to everyday interactions and the functioning of society. This book explores a number of questions which are central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust.

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• The Globalization of Energy: China and The European Union

  Since the conclusion of the 1985 trade and cooperation agreement between the European Community and China, a new political dynamic has been set in motion between two emerging entities: industrializing China and integrating Europe.

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• Secure Oil and Alternative Energy: The Geopolitics and Energy Paths of China and the European Union

  The follow-on study to the well-received 'The Globalization of Energy: China and the European Union'. While intensive cooperation between China and the EU in the fields of energy use, environmental protection, and sustainability is highly needed, ...

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• Two volumes in COST Series on Health and Diversity

  Migrants and ethnic minorities form a growing part of the population of Europe. They often have higher than average exposure to health risks, while facing barriers to accessing appropriate health care. International bodies have called for policy ...

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• Saudi Arabia Between Conservatism, Accommodation and Reform

  Of all the countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia seems to have remained immovable since the beginning of the Arab Spring. What does conservatism mean, are reforms possible, and what is the pace of change?

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• From Resilience to Revolt. Making Sense of the Arab Spring

  The purpose of this paper is to provide a broadly-scoped understanding of the Arab uprisings, aggregating also what research has already been done, in an effort to pinpoint what factors or dynamic can be found to be useful in trying to make sense ...

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• National Models of Integration and the Crisis of Multiculturalism: A Critical Comparative Perspective

  The articles collected in this special issue set out to assess critically both aspects of national models from a comparative perspective, bringing together analyses of immigration countries in Europe (the Netherlands, France and Britain) and ...

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• The Problems with National Models of Integration: A Franco-Dutch Comparison

  This special issue provides analysis of national models of integration and discourses about how Western European countries address the presence and integration of immigrants and minority groups.

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• Crafting Citizenship. Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society

  According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighborhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms ...

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• Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities

  In 'Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities' Barak Kalir and Malini Sur examine how legality and other sources of authority intersect in the regulation of human mobility. The book focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the experiences and ...

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• "HIV is God's Blessing": Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia

  This provocative study by Jarrett Zigon examines the role of today’s Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

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• New Forms of Urban Governance in India

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• Sustainable Land Management in the Tropics

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• Authoritative Governance

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• The effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices: three cases from agricultural science

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• Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies

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• Selling ethnic neighbourhoods. The rise of neighbourhoods as places of leisure and consumption

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• Reflexive Planning as Design and Work: Lessons from the Port of Amsterdam

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• Provincial Globalisation: Transnational Flows and Regional Development

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• Promoting ethnic entrepreneurship in European cities

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• Migration Policymaking in Europe. The Dynamics of Actors and Contexts in Past and Present

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• Middling Migration: Contradictory Mobility Experiences of Indian Youth in London

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• Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets. A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios

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• ‘Indisch is een gevoel’

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• Spugen op kleine leiders

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• Etnisch geweld is zelden een spontane uitbarsting

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• Kindsoldaten centraal in 'Youngest recruits'

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• Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals

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• De zin en onzin van emoties

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• De vrije wil bestaat niet

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• Geheugendetectie als alternatief voor leugendetectie

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• Polarisatie, radicalisering en terrorisme

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• Gedrag in uitvoering: adviezen bij gedragsproblemen van kinderen en pubers

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• Het gemeenschappelijk offensief voor de Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie in de 21ste eeuw

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• Gevoel van dreiging

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• Report: Onderwijsstelsels en non-cognitieve uitkomsten van onderwijs

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• Onverwachte verdienste: Over activering en zelfrespect in een veeleisende samenleving

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• Koloniaal profijt van onvrije arbeid

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• De kredietcrisis, twee jaar verder

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• Bundeling van essentiële artikelen over migratie in Europa

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• De onbeholpen samenleving

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• Rondom de stilte

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• Extatische ontmoetingen in de wetenschap

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• De Tasjesdief. Nieuw booklet in de reeks: Project Buurten, Spanningen en Conflicten

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• Bewaar mij voor de waanzin van het recht

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