Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …

The importance of information and communications technology (ICT) for economic growth
and development is widely researched and seemingly well understood, but the effect of such …

In Hungary, as in all of" new Europe," liberalization is troubled. Using Hungary as an in-
depth case study, Korkut demonstrates that, in squandering popular goodwill, credibility, and …

This article develops and tests a model of conditional status quo bias and American
inequality. We find that institutional features that bias policy outcomes toward the status quo …

“This handbook brings together an unprecedented number of experts in the emerging field
of critical European Union studies. Their contributions collectively provide a masterful …

This book sets out political economy explanations for higher education policy reform in
Europe in the initial decades of the 21st century. With a sustained focus on the national level …

Critical Social Theory (CST), in its broadest sense, is a transdisciplinary approach to the
social sciences that applies critique to the status quo in order to emancipate humans and the …

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in
particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has …

By recent estimates, the developing world's share of people in extreme deprivation has been
reduced by half in the past two decades. In the meantime, the population just above the …

This research provides the political economy explanations for higher education policy reform
in the region Europe in the initial decades of the 21 st century. The concept of a Europe of …