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Regulatory Worlds
Mark Findlay, Lim Si Wei
This ambitious book takes up the grand challenge to design regulatory thinking for a global future beyond wealth and growth, and towards social sustainability. Assuming a ‘South World’ perspective on market regulation and social sustaina...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Asian Security and the Rise of China
David Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo, M. L.R. Smith
East Asia is without question a region of huge economic, political and security significance. Asian Security and the Rise of China offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the international politics of the Asia-Pacific since the...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
Jeroen van der Heijden
Cities, and the built environment more broadly, are key in the global response to climate change. This groundbreaking book seeks to understand what governance tools are best suited for achieving cities that are less harmful to the natura...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Size and Local Democracy
Bas Denters, Michael Goldsmith, Andreas Ladner, Poul Erik Mouritzen, Lawrence E. Rose
How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector refo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Innovation in Public Services
Edited by Stephen P. Osborne, Louise Brown
Leading researchers from across the globe review the state of the art in research on innovation in public services, providing an overview of key issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Topics explored include: context for innovatio...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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The Politics of River Basin Organisations
Edited by Dave Huitema, Sander Meijerink
Can River Basin Organisations (RBOs) actually improve water governance? RBOs are frequently layered on top of existing governmental organisations, which are often reluctant to share their power. This, in turn, can affect their performanc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Juridification and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State
Edited by Henriette Sinding Aasen, Siri Gloppen, Anne-Mette Magnussen, Even Nilssen
The concept of juridification refers to a diverse set of processes involving shifts towards more detailed legal regulation, regulations of new areas, and conflicts and problems increasingly being framed in legal and rights-oriented terms...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventio... -
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State and Local Financial Instruments
Craig L. Johnson, Martin J. Luby, Tima T. Moldogaziev
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital fi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and Diversity
Edited by Steven Vertovec
Processes of social change brought about by international migration usually entail multiple kinds of diversification affecting ethnicities and identities, languages, gender balances, social statuses, skills and more. Compiled and introdu... -
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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Edited by Robert Kolb, Gloria Gaggioli
This fascinating Handbook explores the interplay between international human rights law and international humanitarian law, offering expert analysis on the increasingly complex issues surrounding their application in conflict areas acros...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition
Edited by William F. Shughart II, Laura Razzolini, Michael Reksulak
The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision...eBook:Find out more$67.96