The massification of education in European countries over the last 100 years has produced cultures and societies that have benefited greatly from state investment in education. However, to maintain this level of social and ...
Despite the proclaimed allegiance of most countries to the principles of equality enshrined in the UN Declaration on Human Rights, inequality is a pervasive feature of the global order. Yet, it is important not to be ...
Erne, Roland(UCD Dublin European Institute, 2011-05)
The economic and financial crisis has discredited the idea of a self-regulating market.Yet, it remains to be seen what measures society will be taking to protect itself against future fallouts of global markets. There is ...
Erne, Roland(UCD Dublin European Institute, 2011-05)
The economic and financial crisis has discredited the idea of a self-regulating market.
Yet, it remains to be seen what measures society will be taking to protect itself against future fallouts of global markets. There ...
The decade of the 1990s saw the beginning of a new phase of globalisation and
continuing European integration, the collapse of socialism and the triumph
of neo-liberalism, the mainstreaming of cultural postmodernism and ...
Len Barton is acutely aware of the power of the academy to either enhance critical thinking or to depress it. He is a true academic, never accepting the received wisdom or perspective of any given sociological standpoint, ...
Hardiman, Niamh(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2004)
The growing integration of international markets raises the question of how, and to what extent, domestic political processes within states continue to matter. The thesis that markets force a 'race to the bottom' and the ...