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Recovering from Earthquakes
Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Earthquakes come without warming, and often cause massive devastation, resulting not only in the loss of property but also of lives. Many of the survivors suffer from intense and lasting psychological trauma. This book covers the experience of recent earthquakes in India, and what has been learnt...
by John Geesman
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Take one of America's largest utilities...a delusional, error-prone CEO...a $46.5 million war chest filched from customers...California's squalid, pay-to-play ballot initiative process...what results? Hubris, overreach and venality upended by truthiness. Over-torqued battlefield dispatches create...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Digital technology and the Internet have greatly affected the political realm in recent years, allowing citizens greater input and interaction in government processes. The mainstream media no longer holds all the power in political commentary. Transforming Politics and Policy in the Digital Age provides...
Shaping EU Policy from Below
EU Democracy and the Committee of the Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book looks at the way in which the Committee of the Regions (CoR) can influence EU policy making from below, despite its relatively weak position in the decision-making process. Bringing together theoretical arguments about the central role of the formation of judgment in addition to the more conventionally...
by Dean Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
REVITALIZATION
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by G Palanithurai
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment is a milestone in the modern history of India and it has taken democracy to the grassroots. It aims to transform the characteristics of our democracy from representative to representative and participatory democracy. Before going into the details of the process of...
Evaluating the Complex
Attribution, Contribution and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will be evaluated. Due to the complexity of many of the initiatives, the ways of evaluating are becoming...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward...
The Other Japan
Democratic Promise Versus Capitalist Efficiency, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashion, major social, environmental, and feminist issues and conflicts that have attended to Japan's postwar economic miracle.
by George M. Guess
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Efforts by governments to promote sustained domestic economic development have been mixed. Success depends on many factors including location, geography, climate, external competition, human resources, natural resources, timing, political and governmental institutions, government capacity, implementation,...
Crisis Leadership
Dealing with Disasters from Asia to Africa and America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Terrorism. Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Epidemics. What do they have in common? Each is a crisis. Each requires an urgent response. Each demands leadership—crisis leadership—to recover and rebound. But what is crisis leadership? When does it succeed? What makes it fail? Crisis Leadership: From Asia...
by John P. Hardt, Richard F. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This volume makes JEC-commissioned expert studies of economic developments in East-Central Europe available to business people, educators and students. Coverage includes economic, political and social reform issues, regional relations, and the impact of Western assistance programmes.
Brazil and China: Leadership, economic growth and future
How are Brazil and China facing their fight against poverty and inequality?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin, course: 2010-2011, language: English, abstract: During the last decade the world has changed. We started the current century with a...
Demokratie in der Krise Die politische Philosophie des Existentialismus heute
Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir im Zwiegespraech mit Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault und Butler
Language: German
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Unsere Demokratien stehen vor großen politischen Herausforderungen, nicht zuletzt durch populistische Bewegungen und die Rückkehr nationalistischer Trugbilder. Die Autoren des Bandes befragen das kritische philosophische, emanzipatorische Denken der Existentialisten Sartre, Camus und Beauvoir...