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International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting
Ambassadors of Participation, International Institutions and Transnational Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the action of a group of individuals called “Ambassadors of Participation” was crucial to make PB part of...
From Network Structure to Policy Design in Water Protection
A Comparative Perspective on Micropollutants in the Rhine River Riparian Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The book examines a new concern in water quality policy, namely aquatic micropollutants. Micropollutants are chemicals detected in small concentrations in waterbodies today, originating from pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, or detergents, among others. Since the regulation of micropollutants is a fairly...
The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems
Interests, Cultures and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions...
National Policy, Global Memory
The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of “Righteous among the Nations” to individuals who risked their lives sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments began developing their own national...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Ontario is the most populous of Canada's provinces, contains the country's largest city, and continues to be the centre of finance, IT, and media. It is also experiencing significant changes and upheavals. The Politics of Ontario is the first comprehensive book on Ontario's politics, government, and...
Borderlands
Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2007
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy...
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
Mid-term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), India's biggest rural health programme. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data...
Climate Change and Poverty
A New Agenda for Developed Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Climate change is the main challenge facing developed countries in the 21st century. To what extent does this agenda converge with issues of poverty and social exclusion? Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the ‘ecosocial’ understanding of the causes and symptoms of,...
Governing Animals
Animal Welfare and the Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare? What principles should policy makers draw on as they try to balance animal welfare against human liberty? Much has been written in recent years on our moral duties towards animals, but scholars and activists alike have neglected the important...
Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations
Innovative Government in Southeast Asia and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration. Focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines,...
Politics and Policy in Greece
The Challenge of 'Modernisation'
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This rare focus on the politics of contemporary Greece explores in particular the country’s processes of public policy-making.
It is more than thirty years since the restoration of democracy in Greece and in this period the country has undergone a number of major changes. Domestic political...
Energy and the Quality of Life
Understanding Energy Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
As the supply/cost crunch tightens, issues related to energy become increasingly compelling. This is a guide for the general public to the fossil fuel crisis facing Canada, and Ontario in particular. It is also about other long-term matters of greater importance: the economic, socio-political, and...
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Environmental problems – particularly climate change – have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social policies and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been missing from such debates...
Early Start
Preschool Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and...