Conceptualising cash for care : the origins of contemporary debates -- Care allowances and the formalisation of care arrangements -- Cash for care in the French welfare state : a skilful compromise? -- The commodification of care - the Italian way -- Contracting one's family members : the Dutch...

Modern conservatism versus social democracy -- The new radicalisms -- Agency, community and class -- Insecurities -- Information and society -- Genes and environments -- Social psychologies, emotions, bodies -- Governance, crime and surveillance -- Culture and media

Path dependence as a concept in institutional theories has become increasingly popular in economics and other social sciences. The key idea is that in a sequence of events, the latter events are not (completely) independent from those that occurred in the past. Yet, common usage of the concept...