Politics and Public Policy
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Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative
James M. Buchanan
Nobel Laureate James Buchanan collects in this volume original and recent hard-to-find essays exploring liberalism and conservatism as distinct ways of looking at and thinking about the realm of human interaction. Classical liberalism is...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Growth and Climate Change
Edited by Matthias Ruth
This invaluable book brings together two strands of applied research that to date have only been carried out in isolation from each other – ‘smart growth’ research and research into adaptation to climate change and variability. Both enta...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Anarchy, State and Public Choice
Edited by Edward Stringham
The book reprints the main articles from the 1972 volume Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, and contains a response to each chapter, as well as new comments by Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Peter Boettke. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regulation through Agencies in the EU
Edited by Damien Geradin, Rodolphe Muñoz, Nicolas Petit
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of regulatory agencies at both the national and the EU level. This coherent and clearly structured book is the first of its kind to analyse in equal measure, and interdependently, both nation...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Refining Regulatory Regimes
Edited by David Coen, Adrienne Héritier
With regulation seeking to foster competition at the same time as also having to protect essential services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape acces...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Endogenous Time Preferences in Social Networks
Marianna A. Klochko, Peter C. Ordeshook
Marianna Klochko and Peter Ordeshook address an under-studied issue from rational choice theory – the common assumption that individual time preferences are exogenous and fixed. They then present empirical evidence to suggest that this i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Pensions and Immigration
Tim Krieger
The rapid ageing of societies in many industrialized countries threatens the stability of unfunded public pension systems. An immigration policy that accepts young workers would appear to be a simple solution to the challenge, by increas...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Challenge of Public–Private Partnerships
Edited by Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve
The aim of the book is to investigate how PPP reforms function in comparison to the more traditional methods of providing public sector services and infrastructure and who typically experiences the successes and failures of these reforms.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital
Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Controlling Modern Government
Edited by Christopher Hood, Oliver James, B. Guy Peters, Colin Scott
Controlling Modern Government explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies – US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case and varian...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Globalisation, Convergence and European Telecommunications Regulation
Peter Humphreys, Seamus Simpson
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between technological change, globalisation, ‘Europeanisation’, national institutional structures, and the transfer of ideas in the reform of Euro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalisation, Policy Transfer and Policy Research Institutes
Stella Ladi
This significant new book presents a comparative study of the role of policy research institutes within policy transfer, and the subsequent impact policy transfer has upon the processes of Europeanisation and globalisation.eBook:Find out more$40.00
