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Gender and the Politics of Gradual Change
Social Policy Reform and Innovation in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile. Focusing on four major reform episodes — health, pensions, childcare, and maternity leave — Silke Staab unveils the complex interplay of factors that have shaped the successes and failures of actors pursuing positive gender...
by Davide Vampa
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book is a study of the increasing territorial variations in the development of sub-national welfare systems that have occurred as an effect of the decentralization of health care and social assistance policies in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. The author examines the political factors that underlie...
by Carol Soon, Gillian Koh
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Set within the context of growing political pluralism and the increasing use of new communication technologies for social mobilisation, the Institute of Policy Studies organised a national conference on civil society in November 2013. This collection of the essays that were presented at or inspired...
by E. Donald Briggs, Walter C. Soderlund, Tom Pierre Najem
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to Protect...
Climate Change
IPCC, Water Crisis, and Policy Riddles with Reference to India and Her Surroundings
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Notwithstanding denials by climate-skeptics, the global scientific community considers the world environment is rapidly worsening. They argue that failure to adopt measures to reduce CO2 gas emission in the atmosphere could lead to disastrous social-economic, politico-security and environmental consequences....
Timing and Turnout
How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elections, that means the majority of officials in...
Gender Equality Policy in the European Union
A Fast Track to Parity for the New Member States
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
One of the solutions proposed by the European Union to remedy the effects of the 2008 economic crisis is to increase female labour participation. This book explores the policy changes in four new member states that may reduce the gender employment gap and improve women's equal participation in the labour force.
Humanity Enhanced
Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity...
Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies
Lessons from European, North American and Asian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to ‘next-generation’ rules and regulatory processes linked to challenges originating in a wide variety of new technological processes and applications. Can lessons learned...
Politics and Quality of Life
The Role of Well-Being in Political Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior. Using carefully collected, granular data, the authors create a measurement of quality of life for each county in the United States. After applying the index to each county and calculating scores, the results...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production. The poor's inability to afford adequate diets remains the biggest constraint to solving hunger, but the dynamics of global food insecurity are complex and demand...
A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies
Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The United States' electrical grid is an antique. It was built to serve a 20th-century economy and designed in an era when the negative environmental impacts of electricity production were poorly understood. It must be upgraded and modernized. The proposed solution is a "smart grid"—a...
A Political Economy of Arab Education
Policies and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The failure of reform policies in areas of critical importance to Arab populations such as health and education played a central role in igniting the Arab Awakening, yet this policy perspective has been largely absent from recent studies of the region. Arab regimes most reliant on repression to guarantee...
The Dilemmas of Ethnic Policy
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The Dilemmas of Ethnic Policy: A Global Perspective argues that ethnic conflict increases or decreases in relation to changes in the social structure and the location and distribution of political power. Ethnic grievances derive from lack of access to valued resources, and elites play a crucial role...