Michael Karlsson, "9/11 and the Design of Counterterrorism Institutions"
English | ISBN: 1138272434 | 2016 | 208 pages | PDF | 9 MB
How did the North European states react to the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001? Michael Karlsson argues that 9/11 led to a considerable pressure to strengthen rules and practices for counterterrorism and security, but that this pressure was mediated by several other conditions. The reforms were also affected by, among other things, how the threat of global terrorism was perceived, pressure from international institutions such as the UN, EU, and NATO, the domestic political context, and pre-existing rules and practices. His analysis uses the new institutionalism framework, tested through case studies of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The book offers a unique lens on the study of counterterrorism from a new theoretical and regional perspective.

Hye Jee Cho, "Institutions, Partisanship and Credibility in Global Financial Markets "
English | ISBN: 113821485X | 2017 | 184 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Increasingly integrated global financial markets have been shaken by a series of severe shocks in recent decades, from Mexico's Tequila crisis to the upheavals in the Eurozone. These crises have demonstrated that signs of uncertain local economic and political conditions can result in market fluctuations which in turn cause economic, social, and political instability. Such instability is particularly severe for developing countries that rely heavily on international financial markets for their financial needs. Building credibility in these markets is therefore important for national governments who wish to prevent market panic and capital flight and, ultimately, to achieve stable economic growth.

Economies, Institutions and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032042338 | 355 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB

Parties, Institutions and Preferences: The Shape and Impact of Partisan Politics by Erik Baltz
Deutsch/English | EPUB | 2022 | 460 Pages | ISBN : 3658351322 | 8 MB
The book focuses on the traditional view of party-voter representation, parties and their respective positions, and party systems as central actors, the role of governmental institutions as well on policy inputs, outputs, and outcomes and the agenda setting process. The fundamental characteristics of the political actors such as political parties and the party system and their ideological composition are dealt with. The role governmental institutions play in the policy making process are exemplified covering the characteristics of the agenda-setting power and the consequences for the government's survival. The results of these mechanisms are analyzed while focusing on some classical policies of comparative research such as social and environmental policy.

Islamic Financial Markets and Institutions
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367336723 | 372 Pages | PDF True | 4.22 MB
The rapid pace of progress in the Islamic financial market and investment space, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath and recovery, has provided the necessary challenges to build a strong case for Islamic investment. This timely and unique book focuses on the foundations of Islamic financial markets and institutions in the context of various products, their market application, Islamic asset management, and regulation.

Rachel Endo, "Experiences of Racialization in Predominantly White Institutions "
English | ISBN: 0367376989 | 2020 | 190 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Centered on the narratives from ethnically and racially diverse scholars of color with experience studying and working in predominantly White institutions in the United States, this volume offers critical reflection on common assumptions, policies, and practices which limit or preclude racial diversity and inclusion in various types of educational contexts and settings.

Patrick Olivelle, "Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions"
English | 2011 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 0857284320 | PDF | 2,4 mb
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian religions and philosophies. Most of the major religions, such as Buddhism and Jainism, and religious philosophies both within these new religions and in the Brahmanical tradition, were created by world-renouncing ascetics. Yet ascetical institutions and ideologies developed in a creative tension with other religious institutions that stressed the centrality of family, procreation and society. It is this tension that has articulated many of the central features of Indian religion and culture. The papers collected in this volume seek to locate Indian ascetical traditions within their historical, political and ideological contexts.

Translating Institutions: An Ethnographic Study of EU Translation By Kaisa Koskinen
2008 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 1905763085 | PDF | 2 MB
Translating Institutions outlines a framework for research on translation in institutional settings, using the Finnish translation unit at the European Commission as a case study. Because of their foundational multilingualism, the institutions of the European Union could be described as both translating and translated institutions. The European Commission alone employs nearly two thousand translators, and it is translators who draft the vast majority of outgoing EU messages. Translating Institutions sets out to explore the organizational role and professional identity of this group of cultural mediators, a group that has remained relatively invisible despite its size and central institutional role, and to use the analysis of this data to elaborate broader methodological and theoretical issues. Translating Institutions adopts an ethnographic approach to explore the life and work of the translators at the centre of this study. In practice, this entails employing a number of different methods and interrogating various types of data. The three-level research design used covers the study of the institutional framework, the study of translators working in specific institutional settings, and the study of translated documents and their source texts. This is therefore a study of both texts and people in their institutional habitat. Given the methodological focus of the volume, the different methods and data are outlined in independent chapters: the institutional framework of translation (institutional ethnography), the physical location of the unit (observation), translators' own views of their role (focus group discussions), and a sociologically-oriented text analysis of a sample document (shifts analysis). Translating Institutions constitutes a valuable contribution to the sociology of translation. It opens up new avenues for research and offers a detailed framework for the study of institutional translation.

Globalization, Labour Market Institutions, Processes and Policies in India: Essays in Honour of Lalit K. Deshpande by K.R. Shyam Sundar
English | EPUB | 2019 | 544 Pages | ISBN : 9811371105 | 6.3 MB
This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India. India has over the years liberalized its economy through a broad range of reforms concerning the product market and complementing these it has also sought to reform the labour market and the industrial relations system. The book assesses the impact of these reforms on both the formal and informal labour markets in India, critically examines the labour processes and uncovers/describes precarious conditions of labour in various industries and occupations, and analyzes the dynamics involved in the making of industrial, employment and labour policies in contemporary India.

Peter Lynan, "British Music, Musicians and Institutions, c. 1630-1800: Essays in Honour of Harry Diack Johnstone "
English | ISBN: 1783276479 | 2021 | 316 pages | PDF | 25 MB