Research & Theory

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University-Industry Relations in the United States: Serving Private Interests

University-Industry Relations in the United States: Serving Private Interests

From: Academic Freedom in Conflict

Risa L. Lieberwitz traces some of the history of the tightening university-industry embrace and explores the actual merger of university and corporate interests in the case of the Cornell … 28 $2.80 Add
Unravelling Research
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Unravelling Research

The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences

Unravelling Research is about the ethics and politics of knowledge production in the social sciences at a time when the academy is pressed to contend with the historical inequities associated … 241 View
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Web Giants

Web Giants

From: Share the Wealth!

Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter explores solutions for taxing massive online corporations, who have hisotrically proved … ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Welcome to the Revolution
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Welcome to the Revolution

Part I: The Big Lie

From: Has Populism Won?

The authors address the question of why populist movements have become so convincing. The chapter discusses several aspects including the everyman narrative, nationalism and nativism, cultural … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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What If?

What If?

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

looks at three different sources influence on the creation of how to address when a higher ethical consideration would lead a researcher to violate a confidence ; 17 $1.70 Add
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What is a good political decision?

What is a good political decision?

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter Three examines what makes a good political decision. This chapter focuses the process rather than the Outcome of “good” political decision. 26 $2.60 Add
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What is the Consulting Trap?
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What is the Consulting Trap?

From: The Consulting Trap

In Chapter One, the authors define TPSFs (transnational professional service firms), including where they are located, what services they provide, how they have been able to influence … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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What is the Link Between Food and Finance?

What is the Link Between Food and Finance?

From: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies

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What the Dickens?

What the Dickens?

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

Since the beginning of the debate on limited confidentiality, we have drawn attention to the ethics committee’s lack of due diligence because, in the process of imposing its doctrine on SFU … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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What We Could Build, and How We Can Address Inequality

What We Could Build, and How We Can Address Inequality

From: Share the Wealth!

Readings in part 3 of this title explore the disticition between income inequality and wealth inequaltiy and methods for building shared wealth for Canadians. This reading explores what Canada … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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When Conventions Fail: Constitutional Governance Without Clear Rules

When Conventions Fail: Constitutional Governance Without Clear Rules

From: Democratizing the Constitution

Discussion of uncertainty and disagreement over features of constitutional conventions, particularly prorogation, the confidence convention, and dissolution of a parliament. 36 $3.60 Add
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Who Are We?

Who Are We?

Identity and Intersections

From: Making Sense of Society

In Chapter 4, Khasnabish digs into the power-laden process of identification as a collective rather than individual phenomenon. In this chapter, topics include: an examination of how a society’s … 25 $2.50 Add
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Will We Share the Wealth

Will We Share the Wealth

From: Share the Wealth!

Readings in part 3 of this title explore the disticition between income inequality and wealth inequaltiy and methods for building shared wealth for Canadians. ; 7 $0.70 Add