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Public Pensions and Immigration
Tim Krieger
The rapid ageing of societies in many industrialized countries threatens the stability of unfunded public pension systems. An immigration policy that accepts young workers would appear to be a simple solution to the challenge, by increas...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Challenge of Public–Private Partnerships
Edited by Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve
The aim of the book is to investigate how PPP reforms function in comparison to the more traditional methods of providing public sector services and infrastructure and who typically experiences the successes and failures of these reforms.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital
Gunnar L.H Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, eco...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Controlling Modern Government
Edited by Christopher Hood, Oliver James, B. Guy Peters, Colin Scott
Controlling Modern Government explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies – US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case and varian...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Globalisation, Convergence and European Telecommunications Regulation
Peter Humphreys, Seamus Simpson
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between technological change, globalisation, ‘Europeanisation’, national institutional structures, and the transfer of ideas in the reform of Euro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalisation, Policy Transfer and Policy Research Institutes
Stella Ladi
This significant new book presents a comparative study of the role of policy research institutes within policy transfer, and the subsequent impact policy transfer has upon the processes of Europeanisation and globalisation.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Aid, Power, and Privatization
Benedicte Bull
This book provides a comparative study of the telecommunication reform process in three Central American countries – Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras – focusing on the roles of the local private sector and international financial insti...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Networks, Security and Complexity
Sean P. Gorman
Networks, Security and Complexity goes on to address specific concerns such as determining criticality and interdependency, the most effective means of allocating scarce resources for defense, and whether diversity is a viable strategy. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Lessons on Leadership by Terror
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in ...eBook:Find out more$40.76
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Political Crises, Social Conflict and Economic Development
Edited by Andrés Solimano
The contributors to this authoritative volume analyze the impact of political crises and social conflict on economic performance in the Andean region of Latin America.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Politics of Regulation
Edited by Jacint Jordana, David Levi-Faur
This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulati...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation and Development
Edited by Paul Cook, Colin Kirkpatrick, Martin Minogue, David Parker
The book draws together contributions from leading experts across a range of disciplines including economics, law, politics and governance, public management and business management. The authors begin with an extensive overview of the is...eBook:Find out more$71.96