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Corporatizing Canada
Making Business out of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated around three dimensions of corporatization that prioritize markets over social relations. A must-read for those interested...
by Jacob Torfing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations...
by National Social Watch India
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Every year, the Citizens' Report on Governance and Development examines the performance of the institutions of governance-Parliament, Judiciary, Policy and the Local Self Governments-through the lenses of fundamental economic and social values such as rights, development, freedom and security.
The...
Goh Keng Swee
A Legacy of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major...
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change.
This volume is the first to...
Private Communities and Urban Governance
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the complex interplay between private versus public forms of organization and governance in urban residential developments. Bringing together top experts from numerous disciplines, including law, economics, geography, political science,...
Oil, Illiberalism, and War
An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism.
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct...
by Greg M. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This revealing work focuses on the politics surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), explaining how and why supporters and opponents have approached the issue as they have since the act's passage in 2010. The first book to systematically examine public knowledge of the ACA across time, it also documents...
Juvenile Justice
Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"The lessons in this book remind us that we can—and that we must—do better, for the sake of our children, their futures, and the sake of our nation. . . . This volume is a call to action, and I encourage everyone who reads it to take steps to ensure that all America's children are given an equal...
Pesticide Policy and Politics in the European Union
Regulatory Assessment, Implementation and Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book explores the regulation of pesticides in the European Union in order to reveal the complex, controversial, and contested nature of an assessment system proudly declared by the EU to be ‘the strictest in the world’. The current regulatory framework is based on Regulation 1107/2009,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors...
The Disparity of European Integration
Revisiting Neofunctionalism in Honour of Ernst B. Haas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This new study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.
With his seminal book, The Uniting of Europe Haas laid the foundations for one of the most prominent paradigms of European integration – neofunctionalism....
by Immaculate Wamimbi Tumwine BA MA PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
PUSH PULL IMMIGRATION FACTORS: TRACKS OF AN AFRICAN IMMIGRANT - Confronting Integration Failure is a story of an accomplished African woman who leaves work on her continent.
With a PhD and a Postgraduate Diploma from Sheffield Hallam University (U.K.), an MA from Lyon II University (France),...
The New Economic Populism
How States Respond to Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Donald Trump's 2016 victory shocked the world, but his appeals to the economic discontent of the white working class should not be so surprising, as stagnant wages for the many have been matched with skyrocketing incomes for the few. Though Trump received high levels of support from the white working...