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The Leadership Dilemma in Modern Democracy
Kenneth P. Ruscio
It is impossible to imagine effective democracies without effective leaders. Yet leaders are often seen as the problem democratic governance is designed to solve, not the solution. Through a careful but lively critique of some of the cla... -
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EU Competition Enforcement and Human Rights
Arianna Andreangeli
This book discusses the procedural rights enjoyed by those being investigated under Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and of the Merger Control Regulation, and their right to challenge the Commission’s decision in the Community Courts....eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Goods, Redistribution and Rent Seeking
Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock, eminent political economist and one of the founders of public choice, offers this new and fascinating look at how governments and externalities are linked. Economists frequently justify government as dealing with extern...eBook:Find out more$40.76
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Local Government Reform
Edited by Brian E. Dollery, Joseph Garcea, Edward C. LeSage Jr
The book is unique in that it provides a systematic comparative analysis of municipal reform by using an analytical framework that focuses on structural, functional, financial, jurisdictional and organizational/managerial reform in each ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Business under Adversity
Edited by Gabriele Suder
What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization
Edited by Núria Bosch, José M. Durán
This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Political Economy of Northeast Asian Regionalism
Edited by Jehoon Park, T. J. Pempel, Gérard Roland
This book is an objective analysis combining both ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ (most notably US) perspectives of Northeast Asian regionalism. It also usefully applies regional integration theories to the realities of the Northeast Asian situ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation in Public Sector Services
Edited by Paul Windrum, Per Koch
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and dr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Civil Society and Governance in Europe
Edited by William A. Maloney, Jan W. van Deth
The contributors to this new book analyse the opportunities for civil society associations to contribute to European integration and decision-making from various perspectives. The research demonstrates that the Europeanization process – ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Government and Public Health in America
Ronald Hamowy
How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Pu...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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MicroFranchising
Edited by Jason Fairbourne, Stephen W. Gibson, W. Gibb Dyer
This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model ca...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Political Failure by Agreement
Gerhard Wegner
The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00