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Regulating Work in Small Firms: Perspectives on the Future of Work in Globalised Economies
by Ida RegaliaExploring the diversity of small firms, this contributed volume focuses on the crucial topic of work and the ways in which it is regulated, and offers reflections on the future of labour more generally. Traditionally managed through informal and adaptive processes, small firms allow us to understand the challenges and opportunities facing larger companies within an increasingly fragmented global production system. Analysing the case of Italy, a country characterised by a high number and wide variety of small firms, the authors draw on the results of a survey involving over 2,300 firms and face-to-face interviews with owner-managers working in 60 small and micro firms across several different sectors. Providing detailed analysis which will be useful for scholars of human resource management and small business, as well as managers, practitioners and policy-makers, the book enables a better understanding of the world of work in a globalised economy.
Regulating Statehood: State Building and the Transformation of the Global Order (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)
by S. HameiriShahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes the politics of state building and the implications for contemporary statehood and the global order.
Regulating Social Life: Discourses on the Youth and the Dispositif of Age (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
by Helena OstrowickaThis book presents the original concept of the ‘dispositif of age’, combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life. Making use of examples from sources including scientific and media statements, youth policy programmes, and strategies at international (European) and local (Polish) levels, the author shows how this concept of youth supports processes of social regulation and contributes to the implementation of political goals as specific responses to issues such as radicalization and violence, unemployment, and economic crisis. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of discourse and youth studies, but also to all post-Foucauldian researchers with an interest in going beyond simple 'applicationism'.
Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Perspectives on Gender)
by Elizabeth Bernstein Laurie SchaffnerRegulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives.
Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Perspectives on Gender)
by Elizabeth Bernstein Laurie SchaffnerRegulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives.
Regulating The Risk Of Unemployment: National Adaptations To Post-industrial Labour Markets In Europe
by Jochen Clasen Daniel CleggRegulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns, as well as plentiful employment opportunities even for those with low skills. Over the past two to three decades they have faced the challenge of an accelerating shift to a primarily service-based economy, accompanied by demands for greater flexibility in wages and terms and conditions in low-skill segments of the labour market as well as pressures to maximise labour force participation given the more limited potential for productivity-led growth. The book develops an original framework for analysing adaptive reform in unemployment protection along three discrete dimensions of institutional change, which are termed benefit homogenization, risk re-categorization, and activation. This framework is then used to structure analysis of twenty years of unemployment protection reform in twelve European countries. In addition to mapping reforms along these dimensions, the country studies analyse the political and institutional factors that have shaped national patterns of adaptation. Complementary comparative analyses explore the effects of benefit reforms on the operation of the labour market, assess evolving patterns of working-age benefit dependency, and examine the changing role of active labour market policies in the regulation of the risk of unemployment.
Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe (Critical Issues in Social Justice #1)
by James T. RichardsonRegulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers.
Regulating Refugee Protection Through Social Welfare: Law, Policy and Praxis
by Peter BillingsThis book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. Offering an unparalleled critique of the regulation and deterrence of protection seekers via the denial or depletion of social welfare supports, the book includes contributions from legal scholars, social scientists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers, in tandem with the critical insights and knowledge supplied by refugees. It is organised in three parts, each framed by a commentary that serves as an introduction, as well as offering pertinent comparative perspectives from Europe. Part One comprises three chapters: a rights-based analysis of Australia’s ‘hostile environment’ for protection seekers; a searing critique of welfare policing of asylum seekers as ‘necropolitics’; and a unique philosophical perspective that grounds scrutiny of Australia’s policing of asylum seekers. Part Two contains five chapters that uncover and explore the lived experiences and adverse impacts of different social welfare restrictions for refugee protection seekers. Finally, the chapters in Part Three offer distinct views on human rights advocacy movements and methods, and the scope for resistance and change to the status quo. This book will appeal to an international, as well as an Australian, readership with interests in the areas of human rights, immigration and refugee law, social welfare law/policy, social work, and public health.
Regulating Refugee Protection Through Social Welfare: Law, Policy and Praxis
by Peter Peter BillingsThis book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. Offering an unparalleled critique of the regulation and deterrence of protection seekers via the denial or depletion of social welfare supports, the book includes contributions from legal scholars, social scientists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers, in tandem with the critical insights and knowledge supplied by refugees. It is organised in three parts, each framed by a commentary that serves as an introduction, as well as offering pertinent comparative perspectives from Europe. Part One comprises three chapters: a rights-based analysis of Australia’s ‘hostile environment’ for protection seekers; a searing critique of welfare policing of asylum seekers as ‘necropolitics’; and a unique philosophical perspective that grounds scrutiny of Australia’s policing of asylum seekers. Part Two contains five chapters that uncover and explore the lived experiences and adverse impacts of different social welfare restrictions for refugee protection seekers. Finally, the chapters in Part Three offer distinct views on human rights advocacy movements and methods, and the scope for resistance and change to the status quo. This book will appeal to an international, as well as an Australian, readership with interests in the areas of human rights, immigration and refugee law, social welfare law/policy, social work, and public health.
Regulating Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in the United States: The Limits of Unlimited Selection (Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy)
by M. Bayefsky B. JenningsReproductive technology allows us to test embryos' genes before deciding whether to transfer them to a woman's uterus. Embryo selection raises many ethical questions but is virtually unregulated in the United States. This comprehensive study considers the ethical, medical, political, and economic aspects of developing appropriate regulation.
Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America
by Eran Ben-Joseph Terry S. SzoldTracing how codes arose when they did, and how they were adapted over time, the authors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning in the past century.
Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America
by Eran Ben-Joseph Terry S. SzoldTracing how codes arose when they did, and how they were adapted over time, the authors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning in the past century.
Regulating Human Research: IRBs from Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy
by Sarah BabbInstitutional review boards (IRBs) are panels charged with protecting the rights of humans who participate in research studies ranging from biomedicine to social science. Regulating Human Research provides a fresh look at these influential and sometimes controversial boards, tracing their historic transformation from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies: non-governmental offices where specialized staff define and apply federal regulations. In opening the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, author Sarah Babb argues that compliance bureaucracy is an adaptive response to the dynamics and dysfunctions of American governance. Yet this solution has had unforeseen consequences, including the rise of a profitable ethics review industry.
Regulating Football: Commodification, Consumption and the Law
by Steve Greenfield Guy OsbornFootball in Europe has undergone massive changes over the last decade. Regulating Football gets behind the headlines to look at the impact of ever increasing commercialisation and the commodification of football.*BR**BR*The essence of the book is football as it is played, refereed, managed, bought, sold and consumed: the authors capture the life and action of the game as seen from the perspective of the numerous participants and place these experiences within a sociological, economic and legal context which reflects the increasing commodification of the sport. *BR**BR*Exploring the ways in which the game is regulated, the authors question whether we have reached the point where commercial issues have superseded the club – and even the game of football itself. The role of players, agents, officials, governing bodies, and the media are all explored. The authors pay attention to levels of violence and racism both on and off the field in both the professional and amateur forms of the game.
Regulating Capitalism?: The Evolution of Transnational Accounting Governance (Transformations of the State)
by J. Zimmermann J. WernerBy exploring how financial, legal and wider socio-economic systems can accelerate or decelerate the harmonization in financial markets, this book connects issues both of contemporary political science and accounting research.
Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology
by Professor Bryan Turner Bryan S. TurnerBryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
Regulating Bodies: Essays in Medical Sociology
by Professor Bryan Turner Bryan S. TurnerBryan Turner is generally acknowledged to have been the key figure in opening up the sociological debate about the body. In this coruscating and fascinating book he shows how his thinking on the subject has developed and why sociologists must take the body seriously.
Regressionsmodelle zur Analyse von Paneldaten (Studienskripten zur Soziologie #1)
by Marco Giesselmann Michael WindzioIn dem Lehrbuch werden grundlegende Methoden zur Analyse von Paneldaten vorgestellt. Die Autoren diskutieren dabei die unterschiedlichen Motive zur Verwendung von Paneldaten und leiten dann für unterschiedliche Variablentypen, Fragestellungen und Motive die jeweils passende Regressionsmethode ab. Die Mechanik und Funktionsweise der verschiedenen Methoden wird dabei auf der Basis replizierbarer Beispiele verdeutlicht, das Buch ist somit gleichzeitig Lehr- und Übungsbuch. Neben der Darstellung zentraler Analysetechniken (Fixed Effects, Random Effects, Hybride Ansätze) bieten die Autoren den Leserinnen und Lesern konkrete Entscheidungsstrategien zur Auswahl des geeigneten Verfahrens in unterschiedlichen Analysesituationen.
Regressionsmodelle für Zustände und Ereignisse: Eine Einführung (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)
by Michael WindzioIn den letzten 20 Jahren hat die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung vermehrt ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf Ereignisse gerichtet, die entweder im Zeitverlauf oder in definierten Zeitintervallen eintreten. Die für die statistische Analyse dieser Ereignisse entwickelten Regressionsverfahren werden in diesem einführenden Lehrbuch anschaulich und anwendungsorientiert dargestellt. Gemeinsam ist diesen Verfahren, dass sie für abhängige Variablen entwickelt wurden, die nicht stetig normal verteilt sind – was bei Ereignissen eher die Regel ist. Die lineare Kombination von erklärenden Variablen und geschätzten Koeffizienten wird über je spezifische Linkfunktionen transformiert, um die letztlich interessierenden zu erklärenden Größen vorherzusagen.
Regressionsanalyse: Theorie, Technik und Anwendung (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)
by Dieter Urban Jochen MayerlDas Skript erläutert die Durchführung und Interpretation von klassischen Regressionsanalysen (nach der OLS-Methode). Zudem gibt das Skript eine Einführung in die logistische Regressionsanalyse mit Maximum-Likelihood-Schätzverfahren (ML-Methode). In der Darstellung wird insbesondere auf die Überprüfung der Anwendungsvoraussetzungen von Regressionsschätzungen eingegangen. Auch werden typische Fehlschlüsse und häufig anzutreffende Fehlinterpretationen verdeutlicht (u.a. bei Determinationskoeffizienten und standardisierten Regressionskoeffizienten).
Regressionsanalyse: Theorie, Technik und Anwendung (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)
by Dieter Urban Jochen MayerlDas Buch erläutert die Durchführung und Interpretation von Regressionsanalysen (nach der klassischen OLS-Methode) sowie die Überprüfung ihrer Anwendungsvoraussetzungen. Dabei wird auch auf typische Fehlschlüsse sowie häufig anzutreffende Fehlinterpretationen eingegangen (u.a. bei Determinationskoeffizienten und standardisierten Regressionskoeffizienten). Über das bi- und multivariate Grundmodell der Regressionsanalyse hinaus werden erweiterte Verfahren wie z.B. Teststärkeanalysen, Regression mit Dummy-Variablen sowie sequenzielle Analysemethoden vorgestellt. Zusätzlich werden Modellschätzungen mit Moderator- und Mediatorvariablen erläutert. Die Form der Darstellung ist praxisorientiert. Alle Verfahren werden an Beispielen erläutert (inkl. der dazu erforderlichen SPSS-Anweisungen).
Regressionsanalyse: Theorie, Technik und Anwendung. (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)
by Dieter Urban Jochen MayerlDas Skript erläutert die Durchführung und Interpretation von Regressionsanalysen (nach der klassischen OLS-Methode) sowie die Überprüfung ihrer Anwendungsvoraussetzungen. Dabei wird auch auf typische Fehlschlüsse sowie häufig anzutreffende Fehlinterpretationen eingegangen (u.a. bei Determinationskoeffizient und standardisierten Regressionskoeffizienten). Über das bi- und multivariate Grundmodell der Regressionsanalyse hinaus werden erweiterte Verfahren wie z.B. Teststärkeanalyse, Regression mit Dummy-Variablen und mit Moderator-Variablen sowie sequenzielle Analysemethoden vorgestellt. Die Form der Darstellung ist praxisorientiert. Alle Verfahren werden an Beispielen erläutert (inkl. der dazu erforderlichen SPSS-Anweisungen).
Regressionsanalyse in der empirischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung Band 2: Komplexe Verfahren
by Matthias-W. StoetzerDieses Lehrbuch ist der Folgeband zu „Regressionsanalyse in der empirischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung Band 1“. Es richtet sich an Studierende und Wissenschaftler, die im Rahmen einer Forschungsarbeit Daten analysieren oder vorhandene empirische Publikationen auswerten müssen. Regressionsanalysen stellen die wichtigsten Verfahren zur Untersuchung empirischer Fragestellungen in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften dar. Im Unterschied zu anderen ökonometrischen oder statistischen Lehrbüchern verzichtet der Autor auf abschreckende mathematische Ausführungen. Alle Aspekte werden verbal und grafisch erläutert. Die Kapitel sind so aufgebaut, dass ein selbständiges Studium problemlos möglich ist. Lesende werden Schritt für Schritt in komplexere Verfahren eingeführt.Dabei sind sämtlichen Kapiteln die wichtigsten Lernziele und Schlüsselbegriffe vorangestellt. Jedes Kapitel schließt mit einer Reihe von Übungsaufgaben einschließlich Lösungen. Praxisorientiert werden alle Regressionsverfahren und Tests anhand der Statistikprogramme SPSS und Stata sowie mittels Screenshots erklärt. Zusätzliche Fragen per AppLaden Sie die Springer Nature Flashcards-App kostenlos herunter und nutzen Sie exklusives Zusatzmaterial, um Ihr Wissen zu prüfen.