The author\"s exploration of marriage draws on a post-structural epistemology to interrogate ‘the truths’ of marriage, to foreground the interplay between the institution and society as the site of poetic and political struggle, and in particular psychology’s influence (on marriage) as a dominant knowledge system....

In this book, Dr Ellen Vos analyses the emergence of EC product safety regulation, which is explained as a reaction both to spill-over effects of the internal market policy, and to growing societal concerns regarding health and safety protection....

One of the striking features of the European Community’s regulatory regimes is the role assigned to committees at all stages of the preparation of new measures and the implementation of its policies. Despite their obvious importance in the European polity, the ‘comitology’ of the EC has been understudied and poorly understood....

The recent corporate scandals have placed the corporate governance systems under closer scrutiny than ever. Many companies have plunged in recent years reducing shareholders value drastically in most cases and investment as a result. This has negatively affected both developed and less developed economies....