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This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state. It compares for-profit firms as providers of hospital services and pensions and investigates the new private actors in social policy provision, whether they become political actors,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-23
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?This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-19
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This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since the beginning of space travel itself. Twelve...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-11
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This book offers an extensive review of market-oriented economic reforms since 1970, and considers the question of whether more liberal economic policy yields greater social welfare. The author demonstrates that, despite the widespread uniformity of economic policy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book studies the developments of the Brexit process between June 2016 and June 2017. The British electorate’s decision to leave the European Union in June 2016 marks a major point in post war British politics, for it overturns the core policy of all preceding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan’s innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-29
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This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration. Focusing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-28
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This book presents pioneering work on a range of innovative practices, experiments, and ideas that are becoming an integral part of urban climate change governance in the 21st century. Theoretically, the book builds on nearly two decades of scholarships identifying the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
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The Urban Book Series
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From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2017-09-26
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This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-22
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This book illustrates how global economic progress has reached its upper limit under the current economic paradigm, and how the next major revolution in global progress will rely on our ability to tap into the collective knowledge of the “everyday genius” to drive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-30
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This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” led by social entrepreneurs and/or social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-28
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This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon of inside activism has been shown to be crucial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book investigates the basic theoretical framework and conducts a logical analysis of China’s new supply-side economics, while also providing a strategic path to remedy the plight of China’s economic development. From the perspective of connotation, theory and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-16
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This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region. Globally, the palm oil industry is associated with practices that fit the most conventional definitions and perceptions of crime,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-16
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National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation. Climate change, tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss, ozone depletion, hazardous wastes, and ocean pollution are among...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-14
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