Public Policy

The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies

Edited by Jaap de Koning

This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consid...

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Europe and Global Climate Change

Edited by Paul G. Harris

The core objective of this book is to better understand the role of foreign policy – the crossovers and interactions between domestic and international politics and policies – in efforts to preserve the environment and natural resources....

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Competitive Electricity Markets and Sustainability

Edited by François Lévêque

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between n...

Hardback (February 2007)

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Privatization and Market Development

Edited by Graeme A. Hodge

This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a global scale, and outlines a range of thinking on how these policy ideas have moved around the globe. Bringing toget...

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Public Sector Enterprise Resource Planning

Edited by Rainer A. Sommer

Worldwide, public sector organizations are implementing commercial packaged software solutions, or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, to increase productivity and customer service as well as to deploy manageable business process...

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The Economics of Leisure

Edited by Clem Tisdell

This authoritative two-volume collection presents a comprehensive set of key articles that address the economics of leisure, arranged in a manner that facilitates the understanding of the subject. The editor’s perceptive introduction hig...

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Work, Leisure and the Environment

Tim Robinson

This significant book explains how work–life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose.

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The Dynamics of Public Policy

Adrian Kay

In The Dynamics of Public Policy, Adrian Kay sets out the crucial methodological, theoretical and empirical implications of two important trends in the social sciences: a frequently expressed ambition for analysis of ‘movies not stills’ ...

Hardback (2006)

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International Perspectives on Household Wealth

Edited by Edward N. Wolff

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-fir...

Hardback (2006)

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The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment

Edited by Henk A. Becker, Frank Vanclay

This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in Social Impact Assessment (SIA). Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial developm...

Paperback (2006)

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Hardback (2003)

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Autonomy and Regulation

Edited by Tom Christensen, Per Laegreid

This book focuses on regulatory reforms and the autonomization and agencification of public sector organizations across Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The central argument of the book is that regulation and agencification occ...

Hardback (November 2006)

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