Politics and Public Policy
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A History of American State and Local Economic Development
Ronald W. Coan
A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Hybridization of Food Governance
Edited by Paul Verbruggen, Tetty Havinga
Modern food governance is increasingly hybrid, involving not only government, but also industry and civil society actors. This book analyzes the unfolding interplay between public and private actors in global and local food governance. H...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge Borders
Kathrine E. Richardson
Key sections of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. Ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership
Marc Parés, Sonia M. Ospina, Joan Subirats
This book explores new forms of democracy in practice following the 2011 global uprisings; democracy that comes from below, by and for the ‘have-nots’. Combining theories of social innovation and collective leadership, it analyses how di...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy
Peter J. Glynn, Timothy Cadman, Tek N. Maraseni
This impartial study analyses the role of employer’s organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to cha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Policy Transfer
Edited by Magdaléna Hadjiisky, Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker
Contemporary policy making is deeply influenced by the borrowing, transfer and diffusion of ideas and models from other countries, levels of government and supranational institutions. This is the first book to analyze comparatively the m...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Art of Regulation
Christian Koenig, Bernhard von Wendland
Increasingly, EU market regulation measures have been introduced in the pursuit of economic justice and welfare. This book illustrates how regulation can help to prevent the abuse of dominance, in particular the abuse of public capital b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Policy, Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship
Edited by Gregory M. Randolph, Michael T. Tasto, Robert F. Salvino Jr.
This exciting book provides fresh insight into how institutions, governments, regulations, economic freedom and morality impact entrepreneurship and public policy. Each chapter contains a rigorous analysis of the consequences of public p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Future of Federalism
Edited by Richard Eccleston, Richard Krever
The crisis and its aftermath had a dramatic short-term effect on federal relations and, as the twelve case studies in this volume show, set in place a new set of socio-political factors that are shaping the longer-run process of institut...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trust in Regulatory Regimes
Edited by Frédérique Six, Koen Verhoest
Within political and administrative sciences generally, trust as a concept is contested, especially in the field of regulatory governance. This groundbreaking book is the first to systematically explore the role and dynamics of trust wit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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From Environmental Action to Ecoterrorism?
Gerald Nagtzaam
This book scrutinizes the growth of the ‘eco-terrorism’ movement operating on a global scale, focusing on the main groups and their more radical offshoots, both historically and those currently active. These include Earth First!, the Ear...eBook:Find out more$40.00