{"title":"Risto Heiskala","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"policy-design-in-the-european-union-book-risto-heiskala-9783319648484","title":"Policy Design in the European Union","description":"This edited collection addresses a paradox at the heart of the European Union: if it is a constantly enlarging empire of governance, how can almost thirty member states design policies as an administrative whole, whilst narrowly approaching all political issues from one economic point of view? The contributors to this collection approach this by studying knowledge production, policy formation and policy implementation in the union. The topics covered include the history of the union, its nature as an empire in the making compared to historical successors as well as current USA and China, formation of union level statistical data and policy documents, paradoxes of fiscal governance, social innovation policy, youth and education policy, energy policy and foreign policy with particular regard to Russia. The concluding chapter outlines five alternative future scenarios for the union extending from collapse and marginalization to the emergence of a federal empire.    The book is essential reading for anybody interested in the EU, including students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, international relations, economics, management studies, public and social policy, science and technology studies, and environmental policy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738203365649,"sku":"NGR9783319648484","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121097568529,"sku":"NLS9783319648484","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3319648489.jpg?v=1751284970"},{"product_id":"semiotic-sociology-book-risto-heiskala-9783030793692","title":"Semiotic Sociology","description":"Semiotic Sociology provides solid ground for cultural analysis in the social sciences by building up a mediation between structuralist semiology (Saussure), pragmatist semiotics (Peirce), and phenomenological sociology (Schutz, Garfinkel, Berger and Luckmann).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52148545880337,"sku":"NLS9783030793692","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030793692.jpg?v=1757603904"},{"product_id":"policy-design-in-the-european-union-book-risto-heiskala-9783319878867","title":"Policy Design in the European Union","description":"This edited collection addresses a paradox at the heart of the European Union: if it is a constantly enlarging empire of governance, how can almost thirty member states design policies as an administrative whole, whilst narrowly approaching all political issues from one economic point of view? The contributors to this collection approach this by studying knowledge production, policy formation and policy implementation in the union. The topics covered include the history of the union, its nature as an empire in the making compared to historical successors as well as current USA and China, formation of union level statistical data and policy documents, paradoxes of fiscal governance, social innovation policy, youth and education policy, energy policy and foreign policy with particular regard to Russia. The concluding chapter outlines five alternative future scenarios for the union extending from collapse and marginalization to the emergence of a federal empire.    The book is essential reading for anybody interested in the EU, including students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, international relations, economics, management studies, public and social policy, science and technology studies, and environmental policy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52482700411153,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52482701754641,"sku":"NLS9783319878867","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319878867.jpg?v=1759853618"},{"product_id":"semiotic-sociology-book-risto-heiskala-9783030793661","title":"Semiotic Sociology","description":"Semiotic Sociology provides solid ground for cultural analysis in the social sciences by building up a mediation between structuralist semiology (Saussure), pragmatist semiotics (Peirce), and phenomenological sociology (Schutz, Garfinkel, Berger and Luckmann).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52533156348177,"sku":"NLS9783030793661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030793661.jpg?v=1760663878"},{"product_id":"society-as-semiosis-book-risto-heiskala-9783631398289","title":"Society as Semiosis","description":"Action theory, phenomenological sociology, pragmatism and (post)structuralism are often seen as mutually exclusive currents of meaning analysis. This book shows that these traditions are actually complementary, and builds a neostructuralist synthesis on this finding. It also outlines the implications of this cultural theoretical synthesis for the field of social theory. What emerges is a variant of the theory of practice, habit and structuration of society. It shares the contemporary common belief that social theory should be based on cultural theory. Its distinctive mark is that this is done in systematic semiotic terms within a conception which provides mediation between the two most influential schools of semiotics, namely Charles Peirce's American pragmatism and Ferdinand de Saussure's French structuralism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52682972070161,"sku":"NLS9783631398289","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783631398289.jpg?v=1762319472"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-risto-heiskala.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}