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This book examines the ways in which the welfare state impacts levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support in Western democracies. Going beyond the traditional contextual accounts of political behavior, which primarily focus on political institutions or the socio-economic climate, this book looks specifically at the impact of public policy on a variety of political behaviors and attitudes. Drawing on the theoretical insights from the policy feedback approach, the author argues and empirically demonstrates that generous social policy offerings can not only foster democratic citizenship by promoting a more inclusive political culture, but are most beneficial to citizens who are otherwise excluded from political life in many other societies. This book will appeal most to scholars in the fields of political science and sociology who are especially interested in the welfare state, public policy, political sociology, and inequality. .

Political sociology --- Social policy --- Public administration --- sociologie --- welvaartsstaat --- politiek --- sociale ongelijkheid --- burgerschap --- Western world

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In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. In particular, social democracy engaged in significant policy change under the Third Way paradigm and broke with its traditional reputation on welfare that had built the ties with the core constituency in the 20th century. The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms: Social Democracy's Transformation and its Political Costs provides a comparative study of the electoral consequences of Third Way welfare state reforms. The book demonstrates that Third Way reforms went against the social policy preferences of social democracy's core voters and indeed produced an electoral setback for social democrats at the ballots. Moreover, and accounting for cross-national variation, the analysis shows that the nature of the setback is contingent on the electoral system and the party competition social democrats face when reforming the welfare state.

Welfare state --- Mixed economy --- Economy, Mixed --- Third way (Economics) --- State, Welfare --- Capitalism --- Socialism --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- E-books --- Labor policy --- Labor --- State and labor --- Government policy --- Europe --- Social policy. --- Political sociology --- Western world

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Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism. For twenty years now, the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (University of Amsterdam) has been at the forefront of international scholarship in this domain. This anniversary volume seeks to make the modern study of Western esotericism known beyond specialist circles, while addressing a range of misconceptions, biases, and prejudices that still tend to surround it. Thirty major scholars in the field respond to questions about a wide range of unfamiliar ideas, traditions, practices, problems, and personalities that are central to this area of research. By challenging many taken-for-granted assumptions about religion, science, philosophy, and the arts, this volume demonstrates why the academic study of esotericism leads us to reconsider much that we thought we knew about the story of Western culture.

Occultism. --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Occultism --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Spirituality. --- Western esotericism. --- Esoteric sciences --- Western world

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"The Cultural History of the Senses set delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach which provides a broad understanding of the life of the senses from antiquity to the modern day. Each of the volumes explores the following topics: The Social Life of the Senses; Urban Sensations; The Senses in the Marketplace; The Senses in Religion; The Senses in Philosophy and Science; Medicine and the Senses; The Senses in Literature; Art and the Senses; and Sensory Media. Superbly illustrated, this six-volume set is the most authoritative and comprehensive historical survey of the senses available."--Page 4 of cover.

Cognitive psychology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Antiquity --- Sensation. --- Perception --- Cultural Characteristics --- Western World --- History of Medicine --- history --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 500-1499 --- senses --- History of Europe --- History of civilization --- Aesthetics of art --- History of Medicine. --- history. --- Perception. --- Psychische functies --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- Geschiedenis van Europa --- Senses and sensation --- Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Civilization, Greco-Roman --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Supraliminal perception --- Cognition --- Apperception --- Thought and thinking --- Greco-Roman civilization --- Civilization, Classical --- Ancient civilization --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- MAD-faculty 17 --- opleiding art sense(s) lab --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- moderne tijd --- antieke wereld --- Verlichting --- Ancient history --- 15.10 subdisciplines of history. --- 20.08 art psychology. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Greco-Roman. --- Senses and sensation. --- History. --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis