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Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development
Edited by Jan-Peter Voß, Dierk Bauknecht, René Kemp
This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation – the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Governance for Sustainable Development
Edited by William M. Lafferty
This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Globalisation and the New Terror
Edited by David M. Jones
This rigorously analytical yet readable book examines trends in new terror – understood here to be the capacity of sub-state actors to secure religious or politically motivated objectives by violent means. The contributors argue that whi...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation
Maurice Mullard
This book deals with the nature of contemporary globalisation. Maurice Mullard aims to show that globalisation is not an inescapable, unstoppable process somehow beyond human control, rather that it represents, and is being shaped by, a ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Comparative Think Tanks, Politics and Public Policy
James G. McGann, Erik C. Johnson
Independent institutes conducting policy research, analysis and public dialogue, or ‘think tanks’ as they are more commonly known, are one of the leading catalysts for ideas and action in civil societies around the world. Examining the r...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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Human Rights and Capitalism
Edited by Janet Dine, Andrew Fagan
Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalisation debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies.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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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