One-way Europe? institutional guidelines, emerging regimes of justification, and paradoxical turns in European welfare capitalism

European Journal of Social Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 321-341

  Borghi, Vando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

activation; individualization; network capitalism; publicness; regimes of justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961193194     PISSN: 13684310     EISSN: 14617137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368431011412348     Document Type: Article

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