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Taming the Regulatory State
Noralv Veggeland
Taming the Regulatory State incisively analyses the regulatory top-down regimes that are currently dominant and in crisis. Taking a critical perspective, the book offers an account of the inherent vulnerability of the regulatory state ca...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Foreign Policy Challenges in the 21st Century
Edited by Michael Heazle, Martin Griffiths, Tom Conley
This book explores the emerging challenges to foreign policymaking in liberal democracies and the adequacy of the ‘marketplace of ideas’ in responding to the challenges. Looking at foreign policy challenges as diverse as democratisation,... -
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Health Care and Public Policy
David Reisman
Health Care and Public Policy is a comprehensive and intelligible cross-disciplinary account of the objectives of health care policy (medical, social, economic) and of the policy-tools that government can employ (cost–benefit analysis, e...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Regulatory Capitalism
John Braithwaite
Contemporary societies have more vibrant markets than past ones. Yet they are more heavily populated by private and public regulators. This book explores the features of such a regulatory capitalism, its tendencies to be cyclically crisi...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Non-market Entrepreneurship
Edited by Gordon E. Shockley, Peter M. Frank, Roger R. Stough
As defined by the editors of this book, ‘non-market entrepreneurship’ consists of all forms of entrepreneurship not being undertaken solely for purposes of profit maximization or commercialization, and encompasses entrepreneurial activit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Theory and Practice of Local Government Reform
Edited by Brian E. Dollery, Lorenzo Robotti
The Theory and Practice of Local Government Reform explores the entire spectrum of local government reform and focuses specifically on the question of structural reform in local government. It presents new theoretical models in an area l...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland
This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Applied Benefit–Cost Analysis
Edited by Andrew Schmitz, Richard O. Zerbe Jr.
Benefit–cost analysis reduces all of the impacts of a proposed policy change to a common unit of measurement. It is used in a wide variety of fields including agriculture, life and health, transportation and the environment. In this sin... -
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The State at Work, Volume 1
Edited by Hans-Ulrich Derlien, B. Guy Peters
Representing the most extensive research on public employment, this volume explores the radical changes that have taken place in the configuration of national public services due to a general expansion of public employment that was follo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The State at Work, Volume 2
Edited by Hans-Ulrich Derlien, B. Guy Peters
Representing the most extensive research on public employment, this volume explores the radical changes that have taken place in the configuration of national public services due to a general expansion of public employment that was follo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Benefit–Cost Analysis
Edited by Richard O. Zerbe Jr.
Benefit–cost analysis is at heart a subject of practicality and usefulness. With this in mind, the editor has chosen the most relevant previously published articles for these volumes. Having explored the theoretical and ethical underpinn... -
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Regulatory Impact Assessment
Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick, David Parker
Better state regulation is a key component of economic reform. This is the first book to comprehensively explore international experience in the use of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), which involves assessing the potential benefits a...eBook:Find out more$49.56