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Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risks
ISBN: 9781349334223 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and preventive policy in both the academic literature and public debate.
Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, ...
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Changing State Feminism
ISBN: 9781349354504 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.
Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have ...
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Developing Countries in the Wto
ISBN: 9781349429196 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization means that today, more than ever before, growth in developing countries and the reduction of poverty depend on world trade and a well functioning trading system. This volume reviews developing countries trade policies and institutions, and the challenges they face in the World Trade Organization - where the rules that govern the international trading system are set.
Globalization means that today, more than ever before, growth in developing countries and the reduction of poverty depend on world trade and a well fu...
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The Public Understanding of Political Integrity: The Case for Probity Perceptions
ISBN: 9781349465842 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding citizen disaffection with politicians. It shows that perceptions of public probity are coherent, substantively meaningful, responsive, and, most importantly, that they do matter.
Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding...
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The Politics of Information: The Case of the European Union
ISBN: 9781349459377 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic environment characterized by many different modes of information gathering and processing, the EU forms a particularly interesting case to test the politics of information approach.
This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic environme...
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Value and Virtue in Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781349314546 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways ...
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Models of Local Governance: Public Opinion and Political Theory in Britain
ISBN: 9781349418749 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1979 to 1997 Britain was a laboratory for experiments in local governance as the control and delivery of local services was switched from elected councils to appointed boards (quangos), private companies or self-management. This book is about four models of local governance: the traditional 'localist' model, the New Right's 'individual' model, the New Left's 'mobilisation' model, and government's own 'centralist' model. It tests them against public opinion as expressed in 2203 interviews with ordinary citizens, 788 with councillors, and 902 with members of appointed boards.
From 1979 to 1997 Britain was a laboratory for experiments in local governance as the control and delivery of local services was switched from elected...
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State Failure
ISBN: 9781349320172 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Taylor provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and impact of state failure since the 1990s. Avoiding quickly outdated country-based case studies, he focuses on failure as a process rather than an event, putting contemporary usage in a wider historical context.
Andrew Taylor provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and impact of state failure since the 1990s. Avoiding quickly outdated country-based cas...
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The Europeanization of French Foreign Policy: France and the Eu in East Asia
ISBN: 9781349544868 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security relations and human rights to establish if there has been a trend of converging 'European' politics and collective European conceptions of interest and identity. It argues that the utility and impact of EU institutions on French foreign policy behaviour is more significant than is commonly imagined or admitted, and that foreign policies of EU member states tend over the long term towards convergence.
This study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security rela...
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The Migration of Power and North-South Inequalities: The Case of Italy and Libya
ISBN: 9781349320745 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines negotiations on migration in the Mediterranean. It argues that migration is a bargaining chip which countries in the South use to increase their leverage versus their counterparts in the North. This proposition opens up new understandings reframing relations of inequalities among states.
This book examines negotiations on migration in the Mediterranean. It argues that migration is a bargaining chip which countries in the South use to i...
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Governance of Public Sector Organizations: Proliferation, Autonomy and Performance
ISBN: 9781349315369 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories.
Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects....
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Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Governance
ISBN: 9781349443574 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By exploring the anti-corruption strategies in six countries, this book is the first detailed, cross-national analysis on techniques to address corruption. It highlights the importance of understanding that quality of governance is critical to tackling corruption and that only when this link is truly appreciated can inroads into corruption be made.
By exploring the anti-corruption strategies in six countries, this book is the first detailed, cross-national analysis on techniques to address corrup...
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Designing Case Studies: Explanatory Approaches in Small-N Research
ISBN: 9781349320851 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study methodology and integrate these insights into coherent approaches. They highlight the core features of each approach and provide advice on each step of the research process.
The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on established practices as well as on recent innovations in c...
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The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics: Data and Research Methods
ISBN: 9781349329618 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involvingpolitically relevant groups. Distinguished contributors report on data from around the world and at different levels of political decision making from 'below the radar' in local communities to global negations at the World Trade Organization."
Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involvingpolitically relevant groups. Distinguished contributors...
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Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent?
ISBN: 9781349490127 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as something adverse and, in the European context routinely related to xenophobic politics. What populism exactly is and who its main representatives are, however, often remains unclear. This text has two main aims: to identify populist parties in 21st century Europe and to explain their electoral performance. It argues that populist parties should not be dismissed as dangerous pariahs out of hand but rather that their rise...
Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism ...
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The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in Eu Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781349692163 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/2004. By critically examining EU action and inaction in the framework of the 2011 ENP, it also puts the ENP's most recent review of 2015 in perspective.
This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/200...
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The Politics of Austerity: A Recent History
ISBN: 9781349695249 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the relationship between public spending and public deficit and the varying successes and difficulties governments have had in recent years to balance the two.
This book considers the relationship between public spending and public deficit and the varying successes and difficulties governments have had in rec...
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American History, Race and the Struggle for Equality: An Unfinished Journey
ISBN: 9789811019760 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Little Red Dot, The: Reflections by Singapore's Diplomats (Volume I & II)
ISBN: 9789814280617 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Outsourcing Border Control: Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
ISBN: 9781137469830 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Focusing on the case of outsourcing three Schengen states visa services in Morocco (Belgium, France, and Italy consular posts), the author analyzes the processes leading to public/private governance of the Schengen visa policy as well as the effective policy-making of state and private actors. Drawing from public policies, implementation studies, new public management, and migration control for her...
This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular ...
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