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The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy...

Critical Condition tackles several issues in our country today for which the lack of using common sense has simply taken us down a road of bureaucratic nonsense, leaving fears of offending someone if our laws do not fit into the far lefters expectations and laws being circumvented by our courts today....

Scottish independence is one of the most significant political debates that has taken place within the UK nation's three hundred year history. There shall be an independent Scotland, one day. In all the talk of the 'dust settling' on the issue following the result of the #Indyref in...

La monnaie locale Histoire Une vieille loi du moyen-âge autorise les villes à créer leur propre monnaie. Et celle-ci n'a pas été abrogée. Ce qui quelque part est merveilleux, mais qui occasionne des soucis multiples, comment la créer? Pièces ou billets? Coupons ou disques en...

„Wer gehört zum deutschen Wir?“ „Eine ethnische Identität kann nicht erworben werden." Teutonen Kimbern Ambronen Germanen Jütland Nordfriesland Deutsche Deutsch (Etymologie) Fränkisches Reich Angeln (Volk) Friesen Furor Teutonicus Hunnenrede Zeit des...

Herr vergebe Ihnen den sie wissen nicht was sie tun… Es waren meist nichtige Gründe, die zur Einweisung in die Erziehungsanstalten führten – Gründe, die ein gesellschaftliches Kartell bestimmte, zu dem Jugendbehörden, Gerichte, Lehrer, Nachbarn, Eltern und vor allem...

With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through...

The Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 is widely seen as a revolutionary legal response to the failures of the earlier common law regime, which had governed air pollution in the United States for more than a century. Noga Morag-Levine challenges this view, highlighting striking continuities between the...

A forensically critical and scholarly assessment of the most important utopian writings from Plato’s ‘Republic’ to Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. What is ‘utopian’? Is it the desire for a ‘just’, equitable and cooperative society free of moral and physical compulsion, or the economists’,...

In the light of global and domestic developments since his 2009 publication Zumanomics, Raymond Parsons now reassesses the economic prospects for South Africa post-Mangaung and following the 2014 general election. While the original book was a collective effort with other contributors, this is an...

This work presents a detailed picture of the divergent socio-economic trends in divided Korea since its 1945 partition. It also covers the social and political situation in the North and South today, and the domestic and international challenges to a successful Korean reunification.

Una mirada a las fallas estructurales del gobierno y la corrupción de las instituciones. La coincidencia con el temblor de 1985: el mismo día y mes, no podía ser menos macabra y triste; pero, ¿qué dejó a los mexicanos este fenómeno de la naturaleza? ¿Cómo reaccionaron los gobiernos...

"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new...

What are the driving forces behind Smart Cities? What are the ramifications of increasing the minimum wage? What are the causes of aging infrastructure and how should they be addressed? These are just some of the provocative questions that are considered in the new edition of Urban Issues....