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This brief responds to the criticism that mainstream economics is currently facing due to its heavy reliance on models and narrow range of quantitative research techniques. It takes a broader view, identifying issues that are also relevant for heterodox and pluralist...
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Springer
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2014-08-27
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There are currently over 100 stateless nations pressing for greater self-determination around the globe. The vast majority of these groups will never achieve independence. Many groups will receive some accommodation over self-determination, many will engage in civil war...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-25
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This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overview of the culture-state relationships in East Asia, it provides an analysis of contemporary developments occurring in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-19
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By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-08
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The Shame of Poverty invites the reader to question their understanding of poverty by bringing into close relief the day-to-day experiences of low-income families living in societies as diverse as Norway and Uganda, Britain and India, China, South Korea, and Pakistan....
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-10
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Following the reforms undertaken in the last two decades, India’s economic landscape has been radically transformed. This book examines the new economic map, which is shown to be shaped by two intertwined currents: globalization and sustainability. Weaving extensively...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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Romania stands at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Since 1990, when the country experienced the bloodiest revolution of all of the Warsaw Pact members,Romania has gone through withering change. While the formal transition from a totalitarian,...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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The impact of digital technology on the musical economy has been profound. From its production, reproduction, distribution, and consumption, the advent of MP3 and the use of the Internet as a medium of distribution has brought about a significant transformation in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-26
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Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence the domestic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-25
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?Wohnungspolitik war das beherrschende Thema der Wirtschaftspolitik aller Bundesregierungen in den Nachkriegsjahren. Nach Jahrzehnten abnehmender Bedeutung wird Wohnungspolitik erneut zu einer zentralen Agenda der Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik und stellt die...
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Springer
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2014-06-24
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States, Debt, and Power argues for the importance of situating our contextually influenced thinking about European states and debt within a commitment to historically informed and critical analysis. It teases out certain broad historical patterns. The book also examines...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-19
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A welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-29
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In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-20
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ECPR Research Methods
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The Victorian era was one that teemed with multitudinous and sometimes opposing visions of polity yet rarely questioned the very existence of the State. What might be called the pragmatism of the elite gave rise to a form of democratic compromise, allowing the growth of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to regulation, rights and redistribution. It addresses the role of international actors in shaping social policy and discusses the problems and possibilities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-02
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The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of competing ideas about global health. They explore how this has affected the governance of specific...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-04-29
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Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-04-23
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Introducing you to the public policy making process in Britain today, this book adopts an empirical approach to the study of policy making by relating theory to actual developments in Britain since the 1980s. It covers:
Ideas, Problem Definition, Issues and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, public administration has not been used to understand how conflict is managed. This book explores the everyday management of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Formal approaches are those taken by government bodies through laws, court decisions and actions of government regulatory bodies. Informal approaches are those taken by individuals, non profit organizations, industries working at self-regulation, etc. Because the formal...
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Springer
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2014-04-17
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