Politics and Public Policy
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Dealing with Terrorism – Stick or Carrot?
Bruno S. Frey
Emphasising a positive approach to dealing with terrorism (the carrot), this book provides a critique of deterrence policy (the stick) which can be ineffective and even counterproductive, and proposes three alternative and effective anti...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Globalization and Equity
Edited by Natalia Dinello, Lyn Squire
This book analyzes the links between globalization and equity from the perspectives of seven regions: the Commonwealth of Independent States, East Asia and South Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Money Laundering and the Proceeds of Crime
M. M. Gallant
The pursuit of the financial proceeds of criminal activity has become a central theme of contemporary crime control. Initially conceived to tackle the global trade in illegal drugs, these methods have been more recently employed in the c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The WTO and the Regulation of International Trade
Edited by Nicholas Perdikis, Robert Read
This book provides a critical overview and assessment of the WTO’s dispute settlement procedures in the context of several recent trade-related disputes between the EU and the US.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Policy Analysis and Public Choice
William A. Niskanen
Policy Analysis and Public Choice is an important selection of articles written by William A. Niskanen over the last thirty years. The volume represents two quite different disciplines to which Niskanen has made a major contribution: pol...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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Public Sector Information in the Digital Age
Edited by Georg Aichholzer, Herbert Burkert
This timely volume reviews key issues and developments in the controversial area of public sector information (PSI). It addresses the fundamental themes, challenges and conflicts surrounding the access to, and use of, PSI in the new digi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government
William A. Niskanen
This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes. William Niskanen... -
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Soft Law in Governance and Regulation
Edited by Ulrika Mörth
A rising interdependence among the members of international society and of global civil society has led to an increasing demand for governance without government. The new regulatory mode is characterized as a ‘soft law’ framework. -
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Welfare, Environment and Changing US–Chinese Relations
Edited by Maria Weber
By adopting a wide-ranging perspective, this book addresses the key issues relevant to contemporary China, providing a valuable tool with which to understand the challenges and opportunities facing political and economic actors, both dom...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
Edited by Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its ver...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property Rights, Planning and Markets
Chris Webster, Lawrence W.-C. Lai
This book represents a major innovation in the institutional analysis of cities and their planning, management and governance. Using concepts of transaction costs and property rights, the work shows systematically how urban order evolves...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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Terrorism in Western Europe
Jan O. Engene
This important book examines why terrorism prevails in the otherwise stable and advanced democracies of Western Europe and why some countries have been more severely hit than others.eBook:Find out more$40.00