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e-Governance for Development
A Focus on Rural India
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of eGovernance for Development projects. Drawing on evidence from three longitudinal case studies of rural eGovernance projects this book shows that improving systems of governance is fundamentally a social rather than managerial or technological activity.
A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain
Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced.
by David Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to determine if a set of shared underlying pathologies exist to create this collective crisis.
Nation, Class and Resentment
The Politics of National Identity in England, Scotland and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors...
Municipal Policing in the European Union
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The book applies a model of municipal policing to compare a number of police systems in the European Union suggesting that in the future local communities will have some form of police enforcement mechanism that will not always include the sworn police officer.
The Future of Union Organising
Building for Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
While 'union organising' has developed over time and in many different environments, it has become apparent that a number of key problems have developed. Evaluating its efficacy in terms of union strategies, tactics, styles and resources, this title outlines a number of strategies for improving these deficiences.
Gender, Class and Power
An Analysis of Pay Inequalities in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today. By analysing organisation processes within the workplace, the author considers the unequal allocation of power resources that generate...
The Politics of Private Security
Regulation, Reform and Re-Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
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.
by D. Birrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book makes one of the first systematic and detailed comparisons of the operation of the devolved institutions and machinery of governance. It uses a comparative approach to explore the key workings of government.
Tribal Marketing, Tribal Branding
An expert guide to the brand co-creation process
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Tribal branding allows marketers to benefit from greatly enhanced levels of consumer devotion to brands. Richardson incorporates the approach of ethno-marketing to expertly explain the opportunities for marketing and branding professionals to co-create brands with, and develop new ways of marketing to, tribal groups and brand communities.
European Union Delegations in EU Foreign Policy
A Diplomatic Service of Different Speeds
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This first comprehensive study of the EU's diplomatic representation in the world, the EEAS, this book seeks to understand why it has failed to formulate a centralised policy towards external states. It also analyses why the EEAS has more success in centralising diplomatic structures in developing countries than with some economic partners.
Africa Toward 2030
Challenges for Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the continent's future development prospects.
by Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Co-published with The Graduate Institute, this book examines how energy issues have intensified with modern development, how they shape geopolitics and access to energy in Africa, and how inconsistent energy governance really is. It discusses energy policy options in developing and emerging countries and questions the role of development aid.
Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World
Afro-Asian Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book – through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia – offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the ‘Rise of the South’, it documents the entanglements and the...