Politics and Public Policy

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...

Hardback (2006)

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Traditional Classics on Leadership

Edited by J. T. Wren, Douglas A. Hicks, Terry L. Price

Leadership might be thought of as the process that facilitates the achievement of group or societal objectives. As such, it has been at the centre of learned reflection and debate from earliest times. Philosophers, religious leaders, pol...

Paperback (2006)

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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...

Hardback (January 2006)

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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.

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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...

Paperback (2005)

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Hardback (2004)

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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...

Paperback (2005)

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Hardback (2004)

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Governance and the Public Sector

Edited by Ron Hodges

This authoritative collection reprints in book form some of the most important research papers on the principles and practice of governance in the public sector.

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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...

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Governance: An International Perspective

Edited by Diane K. Denis, John J. McConnell

This insightful collection presents key papers by leading financial economists on the subject of corporate governance across the world.

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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.

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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...

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