This book expounds the idea of a disenchanted world composed of nation states and global functional systems. The nation state is losing some of its regulatory prerogatives and, at the same time, extending its legitimacy base in 'chains of legitimacy' to transnational institutions. There is...

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Heritage -- 1: Capitalism, Civil Society and Development in Russia (to 1917 and from 1989) -- 1 Return to the Transition -- 2 Poverty, Survival Strategies and the...

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...

This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle...

Struggling Collectively for Truth and Justice -- Defamilisation and the Welfare State -- Elder Rights in the Context of the New Human Rights Discourse -- Active Aging and Citizenship -- The Political and Legal Contexts of Eldercare in Mexico -- Labor Unions and the Struggle for Political Power...

"A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways that matter for educational and economic...