Politics and Public Policy
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Self-Employment as Precarious Work
Edited by Wieteke Conen, Joop Schippers
Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on In-Work Poverty
Edited by Henning Lohmann, Ive Marx
There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, acknowledging that across the world a large number of the poor are ‘working poor’. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, ...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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Handbook on Science and Public Policy
Edited by Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm, Weert Canzler
This Handbook assembles state-of-the-art insights into the co-evolutionary and precarious relations between science and public policy. Beyond this, it also offers a fresh outlook on emerging challenges for science (including technology a...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Logic of Public–Private Partnerships
Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve
This book examines Public–Private Partnerships (PPP), and tracks the movement from early technical optimism to the reality of PPP as a phenomenon in the political economy. Today''s economic turbulence sees many PPP assumptions changed: w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Public Policy
Peter K. Spink
Public policy is an expression that has come to dominate the way people talk about doing government and public administration and is seen as a central component of the modern democratic order. Adopting an innovative ‘public action langua...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance
Edited by Andrew Geddes, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj Abdou, Leiza Brumat
This book analyses the dynamics of regional migration governance and accounts for why, how and with what effects states cooperate with each other in diverse forms of regional grouping on aspects of international migration, displacement a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities
Edited by Richard D. Knowles, Fiona Ferbrache
This book provides new dimensions and a contemporary focus on sustainable transport, urban regeneration and development in eight countries spanning four continents at different stages of development. It examines the role of transit orien...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Higher Education and the Future of Graduate Employability
Edited by Ruth Bridgstock, Neil Tippett
This book challenges the dominant ‘employability skills’ discourse by exploring socially connected and networked perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. Both learning and career development happen naturally and optimal...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit
Trent J. MacDonald
Territorial political organisation forms the backbone of western liberal democracies. However, political economists are increasingly aware of how this form of government neglects the preferences of citizens, resulting in dramatic conflic...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland
Franziska Ehnert
By opening a new dialogue between scholars of public policy and those of public administration, Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland offers a timely contribution to climate policy analysis. This innovative book explores...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Human Rights in China
Edited by Sarah Biddulph, Joshua Rosenzweig
This Handbook gives a wide-ranging account of the theory and practice of human rights in China, viewed against international standards, and China’s international engagements around human rights. The Handbook is organised into the followi...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China
Edited by Teresa Wright
Featuring contributions from top scholars and emerging stars in the field, the Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China captures the complexity of protest and dissent in contemporary China, while simultaneously exploring a number of u...eBook:Find out more$65.00