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Are you familiarizing yourself with a new subject or topic and need reliable and comprehensive information quickly? Would you like to know the essential facts about concepts, cases, and areas of activity and application in social work, learn about examples of good practice in this field and receive guidance in taking practical action in this respect? The series ‘Compendiums of Social Work’ contains works with direct practical relevance. Its volumes are aimed at professionals, career starters and career changers as well as students, especially with regard to their internship semester and probationary year.

In an increasingly globalized World, transnational interactions in its various forms have a significant impact on the problem-solving capacity of democratic politics, the development of pluralistic societies as well as the reform capacity of political systems and highly-industrialized economies. Growing transnationality is mirrored in policy processes that are more and more organized across different territorial levels of government, in the engagement of non-state actors that provide expertise and organizational support for the solution of global problems, and in societal and economic change that is caused, inter alia, by international migration flows, the trans-border distribution of knowledge and technologies or the intense interconnectivity in the areas of trade and investments. This book series offers edited volumes and monographs that present original research on the different patterns of transnationality and the impact on national political systems and societies. It welcomes disciplinary and trans-disciplinary studies in the fields of social sciences and humanities. It is open for qualitative, comparative or case-study analyses that focus on different actor types, institutional configurations or policy fields. Contributions are invited which have a regional focus on Europe, but also on countries or regions beyond the OECD World.

This series of publications explores issues arising at the point where the media and education overlap. Its individual volumes examine the forms the media can take and what it offers with a view to reflecting their relevance to socialisation, education and upbringing. The series welcomes contributions from a variety of fields written in different languages.