States of Liberalization

States of LiberalizationExplores the limits of economic liberalization within the European Union. As economic competition is introduced into areas formerly served by public sector monopolies, to what extent do governments lose discretion over their use of the public sector? States of Liberalization examines the impact of the European Union's rigorous single market competition policy on the abilities of Western European governments to use the public sector to achieve

This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance

from large plantation owners and managers to smallholder farmers throughout the world may benefit from the practical information in this chapter

since they may not all be as applicable as they might seem

Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021))

Film scholar Mark Browning examines Cronenberg’s literary aesthetic not only in relation to his films’ obvious source material

This collection reviews current advances in the breeding and cultivation of key tropical and subtropical fruits

Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association

The result is to show the often fallacious and easy generalizations made about literacy in Japan and to show that evidence exists to enable more robust empirical investigations to be undertaken

political and cultural concerns of the age

and nutrient transportation

Ron Athey is one of the most important

but also enhances our ability to realize the broader ends of advancing the prospects for social and psychological flourishing