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Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform
Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have dominated the existing literature: 1) a power/policy...
Beyond Brexit?
How to assess the UK’s future
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
As the UK negotiates Brexit, what are the effects, implications and challenges that lie ahead? Janice Morphet takes a long term view on the range of institutional and operational options that may be deployed by the UK, EU and other international institutions seeking to influence the negotiations and...
Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi
The democratic dividend
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African democracies while they attempt to consolidate the benefits of democratisation.
Political...
The Guide to the Federal Budget
Fiscal 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1997
Rowman & Littlefield is proud to publish the 17th edition of what is now considered to be the most useful reference book available on the federal budget. In The Guide to the Federal Budget, Fiscal 1998, Stanley E. Collender, among a handful of people who have worked for both the House and Senate...
Nuclear Portraits
Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has become a hotly contested issue. In the face of climate change, and the search for alternative forms of energy, nuclear power continues to affect the lives of communities around the world.
In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement,...
Community, Democracy, and the Environment
Learning to Share the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
Insuring the continued integrity of the global environment may now be linked to the ability of humans to strengthen existing, and develop new, opportunities and institutions in which to democratically explore shared ethics about the future. The nature of the ties we have to one another in our communities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The EU has been the region of the world where the most climate policies have been implemented, and where practical policy experimentation in the field of the environment and climate change has been taking place at a rapid pace over the last twenty-five years. This has led to considerable success in...
Local Leadership in a Global Era
Policy and Behaviour Change in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book examines local leadership and policy changes as a result of globalisation. The author identifies what behaviours are facilitating the connection of local economies to the global economy and what local structures enable or inhibit the activity. It presents positive indicators from empirical...
Austerity
The Lived Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.
Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften...
by Snell, Carolyn, Haq
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Some have argued that the rate and scale of human-induced global environmental change is so significant that it now constitutes a new geological epoch in the Earth’s history called the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al, 2011; Steffen et al, 2011). More than ever, there is a need to have appropriate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the transfer of cultural policies, considering them...
Britain's Policy Towards the European Community
Harold Wilson and Britain's World Role, 1964-1967
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
Harold Wilson’s apparent volte-face on European Community membership in the autumn of 1966 has long puzzled commentators and Wilson’s colleagues alike. Based on interviews, private papers and recently released evidence from the National Archives, this book provides a fresh interpretation of Wilson’s...
Environmental Policy in Europe
The Europeanization of National Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The continuing development of the European Union (EU) is transforming policy and politics in its member countries, and possibly in an even larger number of potential members. This book offers a detailed investigation of the Europeanization of national environmental policy in ten western European countries...