A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety of interest groups. Yet, much policy making is based on similar policy developed in other jurisdictions, both domestic and international and in the major international organizations such as the WTO and the OECD. In other words, significant aspects of nationally developed policies are copied from elsewhere in what is described as a process of policy transfer and learning.
Hence, studies of...
A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their m...
In the burgeoning work on global health governance, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) role as an influential think-tank and transmission belt for health policy ideas remains unexplored. Global Health Governance and the OECD is a unique and in-depth study of the development of the OECD in relation to global health governance. It traces how the OECD's predecessor, the OEEC, commenced work in health in the 1950s; work that slowly grew over the years and was expanded by the OECD into a variety of health-related areas, in the last decade into the leading source of...
In the burgeoning work on global health governance, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) role as an influential think-tan...
A young man is abducted and mutilated for talking out of turn, and a policeman is murdered as a result - all in a day's work for Danny O'Neill, Scotland's most notorious gangster. Meanwhile, small-time drug dealer and shop worker Davie Argyle has just crossed O'Neill's path. Davie has been waiting a long time for this. He needs to swallow his pride and convince O'Neill to trust him. Thing is, can he stay alive long enough for his plan to work? Torture, murder, rock n roll and bloody revenge ensue as pasts unfurl and long-held secrets reveal themselves. In many ways, it was only a matter of...
A young man is abducted and mutilated for talking out of turn, and a policeman is murdered as a result - all in a day's work for Danny O'Neill, Scotla...
Two clandestine world's have collided with disastrous consequences - a fighting dog, kidnapped and used in a top secret experiment is free, carrying a virus, like nothing that has gone before. Soon this virus begins to spread through Scotland unchecked. As society implodes and people refuse to die a normal death, the fates of a small boy, a young woman, a soldier and the very country that they live in will hang in the balance. A whole new evil has been unleashed on the world and it might just be too late to put the lid back on this particular box... Indie Book of the Month August 2012...
Two clandestine world's have collided with disastrous consequences - a fighting dog, kidnapped and used in a top secret experiment is free, carrying a...
