The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination
allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to …

In his study of popular contention in Great Britain during the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth century, Charles Tilly (1995) observed a basic shift in the means of popular …

Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies.
It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level …

“Diversity” is the focus of a wide-ranging corpus of normative discourses, institutional
structures, policies and practices in business, public sector agencies, the military …

The SAGE Key Approaches to Criminology series celebrates the removal of traditional
barriers between disciplines and, specifically, reflects criminology's interdisciplinary nature …

This paper provides a synopsis of current interpretations of the term “nongovernmental
organization”(NGO). Although NGOs have become recognized actors in international affairs …

This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …

The end of the Cold War and globalization processes have led to renewed interest in the
study of transnational relations and the impact of non-state actors on world politics. Some …

Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information
and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the …

" Della Porta has assembled a distinguished group of scholars who have made great strides
in illuminating the early phases of the movement. The book includes especially keen …