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This book studies the question of e-Government development from a multi-faceted perceptive. The first introductory chapter outlines the importance of public sector digitalisation. The second chapter clarifies the used e-Government terminology and divides the concept...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-08
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This book critically explores the role of two advocacy NGOs actively involved in processes of education policymaking during the recent education reforms carried out in Chile, the country known as the first laboratory of neoliberalism around the world. Based on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-04
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The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-04
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COVID-19 exposed the world's failure to prepare for the worst -- can we learn to build back better?
TheCOVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-04
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A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.
The emergence of genomic science in the last...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-03
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia. It is a rare moment in politics and policy making that an idea as revolutionary, ambitious and expensive as the NDIS...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-02
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This book provides a detailed examination of public service reforms in Malta. Focusing on both the trajectory and substance of the reforms, the volume provides a holistic treatment of the public sector in the European Union’s smallest member state. The book is divided...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-30
Collection :
Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
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Digital information drives participation in politics, the economy, and society. Yet great disparities exist as to which communities have access to the internet. In 2017, only half of residents of formerly industrial Flint, Michigan, had broadband or satellite internet...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-27
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Der Band lässt 30 Jahre Beschäftigung der Autorin mit der Ökonomik Sozialer Arbeit Revue passieren, die in der Entwicklung eines alternativen Ökonomiemodells mündet. Mit dem Ansatz einer Autonomie fördernden Meritorik wird ein Analyserahmen für Soziale Arbeit...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-23
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If art, and especially music, has been framed in cultural sociology as a collective production relying on a variety of actors, technicians have been mostly framed as “support personnel” marginally impacting the meaning of a cultural production. This book analyzes sound...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-23
Collection :
Musik und Gesellschaft
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As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase. Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme price...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-11
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This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. The author suggests that parents are pressured to be equal partners while also being asked to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-10
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This book explores the shift towards individual responsibility that is increasingly evident in welfare systems across the world. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, social policy, and political science, with a particular focus...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-08
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This volume analyses the process and structure of ecotaxes in India to bring forth its rationale, application and incidence on emerging environmental problems on the backdrop of the environmental issues confronted by the Indian economy. Being at infant stage in India,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-08
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This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
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This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
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For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-07
Collection :
Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
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This book examines the politics of renewable electricity policy in democratic Spain. It provides the first comprehensive political analysis of how and why successive Spanish governments have increased or reduced support for renewable power, especially wind and solar. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-01
Collection :
Environmental Politics and Theory
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This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism. Recent developments in global affairs are challenging assumptions and the basis upon which international relations, as a broad...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-25
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This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-24
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