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Governance of Welfare State Reform
Edited by Irene Dingeldey, Heinz Rothgang
Governance is now a major topic in political science. To date, analysts of governance have paid scant attention to social policy or welfare state reform. In this book, the concept of governance is used to analyse the outgoing variety of ... -
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Politicians and Public Services
Kate Jenkins
As a senior official in Mrs Thatcher’s government, the author describes in detail and from the inside the process of planning and introducing ‘executive agencies’, a major change in one of the largest governments in the world. She emphas...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Public Management Reform and Modernization
Edoardo Ongaro
Since the 1980s, a wave of reforms of public management has swept the world. The investigation into the effects of such major transformations has, however, been unbalanced: important countries have received only limited attention. This t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Explaining Civil War
Syed Mansoob Murshed
This book explores the pre-conditions for conflict in terms of growth failure and critically appraises the greed and grievance theories common to conflict literature. It is argued that various institutional mechanisms of restraint that c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics
Edited by Geoffrey Brennan, Giuseppe Eusepi
This book makes a rational and eloquent case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. It expands upon themes concerned with esteem, self-esteem, emotional bonding between agents, expressive concerns, and moral requirements.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Governance in a Disenchanted World
Helmut Willke
This book expounds the idea of a disenchanted world composed of nation states and global functional systems. The nation state is losing some of its regulatory prerogatives and, at the same time, extending its legitimacy base in ‘chains o... -
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Worlds in Transition
Joseph A. Camilleri, Jim Falk
The book’s detailed analysis of five strategic sectors (economy, environment, health, information and security) points to an intricate and rapidly evolving interplay of geopolitical, cultural and ecological spaces. It shows that the norm...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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Nations of Immigrants
Edited by John Higley, John Nieuwenhuysen, Stine Neerup
This timely book examines the immense surges in immigration since the mid-1990s in Australia and the United States, two of the world’s most important settler-receiving countries.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Development in the Era of Globalization
Edited by James K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Robert Pollin
Honoring Keith Griffin’s more than 40 years of fundamental contributions to the discipline of economics, the papers in this volume reflect his deep commitment to advancing the well-being of the world’s poor majority and his unflinching w...eBook:Find out more$71.16
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Delegation in the Regulatory State
Fabrizio Gilardi
During the past 25 years, independent regulatory agencies have become widespread institutions for regulatory governance. This book studies how they have diffused across Europe and compares their formal independence in 17 countries and se...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe
Edited by William M. Lafferty, Audun Ruud
This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES-E) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading r...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Greening the Car Industry
John Mikler
This ground-breaking book will be of great benefit to students and academics, particularly those with an interest in comparative politics, public policy and international political economy. It may also serve as a resource for courses on ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
