| |
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-19
PDF
|
A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses. Focuses on the methods of identifying children at risk and details what happens at each stage of the social work process Presents a fully...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-11-18
Collection :
Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series
PDF
|
The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care. While many observers had thought the right to refuse medical treatment was well established, this case split a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-10-29
PDF, ePub
|
This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-29
PDF
|
Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-09
PDF
|
This study applies policy network theory to major technological, economic, environmental and social trends to generate propositions about the future of public policy. Among the findings are that we should expect more business-friendly policies, more intrusive law...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-09-30
PDF
|
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions."
So writes David Orr in Down to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-09-17
PDF
|
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions."
So writes David Orr in Down to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-09-17
ePub
|
Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact. The EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has often been the source of conflict between the EU and its trade...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-09-03
PDF
|
A critical and evidence-based review of current and future child protection policy and practice. Provides evidence-based perspective with an up-to-date overview of policy and practice Covers several disciplinary boundaries Goes beyond mere description to enable...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-08-20
PDF
|
A critical and evidence-based review of current and future child protection policy and practice. Provides evidence-based perspective with an up-to-date overview of policy and practice Covers several disciplinary boundaries Goes beyond mere description to enable...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-08-20
PDF
|
The role of the media has become a central part of politics and policy in the twenty-first century. That dominance has led many to suggest a trend of 'dumbing down': the privileging of style over content. In this provocative new book, Maarten Hajer takes issue with the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-08-06
PDF
|
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-08-06
PDF, ePub
|
This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes, examining in detail to what degree, and under what circumstances, do these transnational regimes truly influence industrial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-03
PDF
|
Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks. As the age of the euro reaches its 10th anniversary, it is timely to reflect on what it means for central banks, which have been at the forefront of the establishment of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-07-30
PDF
|
Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions;...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-06-18
PDF
|
The book examines the patterns of co-option and collaboration between the ethical and political traditions of the humanitarianism in various world political spectacles: September 11th, Iraq and Afganistan, Darfur, SARS and Avian Flu, and US transformational HIV/AIDS...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-08
PDF
|
While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-08
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
PDF
|
It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades. There is now a dense EU interest group system. This entirely new volume, inspired by Mazey & Richardson's 1993 book Lobbying in the European Community, seeks to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-06-04
PDF
|
It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades. There is now a dense EU interest group system. This entirely new volume, inspired by Mazey & Richardson's 1993 book Lobbying in the European Community, seeks to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-06-04
ePub
|