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Examining the complexities and tensions in relations between party members and parliamentarians through an in-depth analysis of the processes that shape the development of party policy in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, this book Presents new evidence on the challenges facing parties in encouraging citizen participation in policy development.

This is the first in-depth conceptual and empirical analysis of the political issues, processes and themes associated with private security provision and its growth in the postwar era, examining why private security has become so prominent, what its relationship to the state is and how it can be controlled.

Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what...

Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in...

This innovative book identifies socio-economic processes which transform the stock of genetic resources and ecosystems and discusses sustainability issues raised by variations in this stock. It focuses subsequently on the socio-economics of the conservation and change in the stock of human developed...

In this volume, originally published in 1972, the author discusses the conflict between the historian’s own expressed political views and the judgements he makes on political events in history.

The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples...

Leaders of matrix organizations ask, What can we do to ensure success? What are the most common matrix management pitfalls that we need to avoid? What changes in policies, systems, behavior and culture are required to complement and strengthen our matrix structure? This book lays the foundation for matrix...

George Eastman's inexpensive, popular camera ushered in the modern age. Here, in this essay by award-winning historian Bernard Weisberger, is his amazing and ultimately tragic story.

HOPE in JESUS! illustrates God in creation and human relationships. The heavens, the earth, our human bodies, our various relationships: husband-wife, parent-child, sibling, friendship, are all designed and purposed by God, in order for us to fulfill His will in the earth. Relationships are also designed...

This book analyses and confronts the functioning of guarantee systems for SMEs in countries where these schemes had an important development. The book also highlights how the current financial crisis is modifying the guarantees schemes, through policy maker interventions.

The nation's best influential sourcebook on the best baby clothes, newborn clothes, gender neutral baby clothes, baby clothes boy, baby clothes girl, baby clothes 0-3 months and more.

This book considers the distribution of power in the national government and explores how the constitutional scheme of separation of powers and checks and balances grants and controls power. It examines how the American Constitution and its amendments oblige the national and state governments.