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This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in...
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Springer
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2022-11-15
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Introducing the institutional logics perspective to street-level analysis, this book examines how street-level workers deal with the institutional logics that guide their organization – whether they follow or challenge them. While doing so, the book develops a...
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Springer
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2022-11-14
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The problem of banks being 'too big to fail' was the defining regulatory issue of the global financial crisis. However, attempts to tackle the problem by separating retail banking from higher risk trading activities - known as structural reform - proved to be highly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-14
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This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-09
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The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain. In recent decades, local governments in Europe have increasingly found themselves under pressure from a multitude of new challenges, such as demographic change, climate change, fiscal austerity policies,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-08
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The problem of banks being 'too big to fail' was the defining regulatory issue of the global financial crisis. However, attempts to tackle the problem by separating retail banking from higher risk trading activities - known as structural reform - proved to be highly...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-29
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An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health
Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-10-28
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This volume addresses the rapid growth of China’s cultural industry and its significant cultural and economic impact on the country. It considers what exactly constitutes the cultural industry, defining the basis for discussions on issues as the internal tensions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-26
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The global Basic Income debate is now widespread, diverse, and relatively well resourced by academic and more popular literature: but that does not mean that there is universal agreement about every topic of discussion. In fact, there is still a quite heated debate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-25
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Public innovation is distinctive from private sector innovation by being set in a political system rather than a market. The roles of citizens and elected politicians as well as public servants and other stakeholders are frequently relevant.Public organizations can be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-22
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In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond?...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-12
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Advocacy has become a key part of public health degree programs across the country. Many programs have added policy and advocacy courses into curricula in response to new emphases in accreditation requirements, yet few public health textbooks comprehensively cover the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-10-11
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Our world is changing fast. Countries’ transport systems, which have long been shaped by project-by-project considerations, must help achieve higher-level goals for the well-being of mankind, as embodied by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-11
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The countries in the Western Balkans have been severely affected by the wars and conflicts that led to the breakup of former Yugoslavia, by political instability and the effort of creating new states, weak economies and high levels of unemployment, poverty and social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-10
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Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public policy. This book offers a new account of collaboration’s appeal to human actors drawing on empirical examples across time and space. It provides a novel and comprehensive framework for analysing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-02
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This book provides a comprehensive study of the notion of responsibility in environmental governance. It starts with the observation that, although the rhetoric of responsibility is indeed all-pervasive in environmental and sustainability-related fields, decisive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-02
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This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South. The book argues that the degree of benefits from this new technology depends heavily on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-29
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This book provides a framework of protest handling which redirects our attention away from the strength of protesters and towards the constraints of state power, drawing on detailed case studies randomly collected in 7 provinces in China over the last decade. It finds...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-28
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