Public Policy

Refining Regulatory Regimes

Edited by David Coen, Adrienne Héritier

With regulation seeking to foster competition at the same time as also having to protect essential services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape acces...

Hardback (2006)

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Member price $147.60

eBook:

$40.00

Regulation through Agencies in the EU

Edited by Damien Geradin, Rodolphe Muñoz, Nicolas Petit

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of regulatory agencies at both the national and the EU level. This coherent and clearly structured book is the first of its kind to analyse in equal measure, and interdependently, both nation...

Hardback (2006)

List price ~~$171.00~~

Member price $153.90

eBook:

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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)

List price ~~$137.00~~

Member price $123.30

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eBook:

$40.00

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.

List price ~~$186.00~~

Member price $167.40

eBook:

$40.00

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)

List price ~~$68.95~~

Member price $55.16

Hardback (2004)

List price ~~$142.00~~

Member price $127.80

eBook:

$55.16

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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eBook:

$40.00

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...

List price ~~$148.00~~

Member price $133.20

eBook:

$40.00

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. ...

List price ~~$134.00~~

Member price $120.60

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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...

Paperback (2005)

List price ~~$89.95~~

Member price $71.96

Hardback (2004)

List price ~~$181.00~~

Member price $162.90

eBook:

$71.96

America’s Changing Coasts

Edited by Diana M. Whitelaw, Gerald R. Visgilio

Following a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume’s expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated with coastal resource management, as well as the most significan...

List price ~~$154.00~~

Member price $138.60

eBook:

$40.00