This volume explores where, how and why the cooperative model is having a distinctive, transformational impact in driving socio-economic changes in a post-pandemic 21st century world. Drawing from a diverse range of examples, the book sheds light on how today’s cooperatives and a co-operative way of organising might serve new societal demands. It examines organisational structures and governance models that develop socio-economic resilience in cooperatives. The book’s contributors reveal how the very pursuit of cooperative values and principles challenges market fundamentalism and promotes participatory democracy. This is a timely contribution to recent debates around transformative economies and an invaluable resource for scholars and activists interested in alternative ways of organising.

hese Proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 13th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance, ECMLG 2017, hosted this year by the Cass Business School, City, University of London on 11-12 December 2017. The Conference Chair is Dr Martin Rich. The conference will be opened with a keynote address by Dr Helen Rothberg from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA with a speech entitled Everything I Know about Leadership I Learned as a Bartender. On the second day the keynote will be delivered by Dr Amanda Goodall from City, University of London on the topic of Why we need core business experts as leaders. ECMLG is a well established platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual advances in many different branches of Management, Leadership and Governance. At the same time it provides an important opportunity for members of the community to come together with peers, share knowledge and exchange ideas. With an initial submission of 160 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 61 academic papers, 8 PhD Papers and 2 Work in Progress papers in these Conference Proceedings. These papers reflect the truly global nature of research in the area with contributions from, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia,

Examining the uncertainty of the role and scope of traditional political rights in the 21st-century's threat of terrorism, this book reflects on the appropriate scope and strength of protection of political rights, and analyses issues such as party closures, political rights of minorities, and democratization.