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Integrating Environment and Economy: Strategies for Local and Regional Government
ISBN: 9780415168304 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating Environment and Economy provides a detailed and accessible examination of how integrated approaches enable economic and social activities to support environmental objectives. This is a key text for the many taught Masters courses covering the issues of environmental management and economic development
Features of the book: * covers strong areas of undergraduate and postgraduate study * detailed practice-based case studies at both local and regional levels * up-to-date theory using real-life examples Integrating Environment and Economy provides a detailed and accessible examination of how integrated approaches enable economic and social activities ...
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302,37 zł |
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Economic Citizenship in the European Union: Employment Relations in the New Europe
ISBN: 9780415170512 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Teague explores the macro-economic, productive and institutional pressures faced by Europe's social model and assesses a number of economic and political programmes aimed at resolving the crisis. It also considers the role of the European Union building a social dimension to the European economy.
The findings suggest that the future of traditional institutions of Social Europe is under threat. However, they also stress that we are not on the threshold of the 'Americanisation' of European life. This study finds that the influential political forces that reject the dismantling of... Paul Teague explores the macro-economic, productive and institutional pressures faced by Europe's social model and assesses a number of economic and p...
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634,12 zł |
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Public Policy Disasters in Europe
ISBN: 9780415170703 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study presents case studies of recent and often spectacular failures of policy, including the BSE crisis, the Arms to Iraq affair, the Poll Tax fiasco, the German currency union and the EU's common fisheries policy. Using contrasting and theoretical frameworks, this work asks what is meant by policy disaster, and looks at the different forms that disasters take and why they have occurred. It concludes with a new model for classifying the success or failure of government policy.
This study presents case studies of recent and often spectacular failures of policy, including the BSE crisis, the Arms to Iraq affair, the Poll Tax f...
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707,28 zł |
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Gun Culture or Gun Control? : Firearms and Violence: Safety and Society
ISBN: 9780415170864 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents a substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom. It provides a non-partisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their control in Britain and in the United States. Amongst the topics the...
In 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Wi...
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707,28 zł |
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Reinventing Government in the Information Age : International Practice in IT-Enabled Public Sector Reform
ISBN: 9780415190374 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including practical guidance and analytical insights, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform. The dicussion of topics is complemented by case studies from the US, UK, Europe and developing countries.
Including practical guidance and analytical insights, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform. The dicussion of topi...
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731,67 zł |
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The Science of Public Policy : Essential Readings in Policy Sciences I
ISBN: 9780415195935 / Angielski / Twarda / 1536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the literature on the science of public policy, this text offers a comprehensive collection of papers on this discipline. Published in two parts, areas covered include the historical development, basic philosophies, approaches, methods and problems of the policy sciences and new sciences of public policy. With new introductions to the individual volumes by the editor, this collection provides the reader with a detailed source of reference, which should make the set a valuable tool for those researching aspects of this interdisciplinary area.
Examining the literature on the science of public policy, this text offers a comprehensive collection of papers on this discipline. Published in two p...
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3414,44 zł |
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The Science of Public Policy : Essential Readings in Policy Sciences II
ISBN: 9780415195973 / Angielski / Twarda / 1976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the literature on the science of public policy, this text offers a comprehensive collection of papers on this discipline. Published in two parts, areas covered include the historical development, basic philosophies, approaches, methods and problems of the policy sciences and new sciences of public policy. With new introductions to the individual volumes by the editor, this collection provides the reader with a detailed source of reference, which should make the set a valuable tool for those researching aspects of this interdisciplinary area.
Examining the literature on the science of public policy, this text offers a comprehensive collection of papers on this discipline. Published in two p...
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4268,05 zł |
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Green Politics in Japan
ISBN: 9780415199384 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A breakthrough into the political mainstream seems unlikely for Japan's green political parties. Increasing concern about the environment has yet to manifest itself in a fashion similar to the rise of Green parties in Europe. For Japan the well-oiled party machines of the established political groupings continue to dominate the social networks that are crucial for electoral success. Lam Peng-Er examines the strengths and organization of Japan's greenest party NET (The Network Movement) as well as the older parties such as the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) and JCP (Japan Communist Party) he...
A breakthrough into the political mainstream seems unlikely for Japan's green political parties. Increasing concern about the environment has yet to m...
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463,34 zł |
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Constructing Local Environmental Agendas: People, Places and Participation
ISBN: 9780415201186 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Constructing Local Environmental Agendas draws on original contributions from specialists worldwide to argue that there is scope for local areas to improve their environments, provided local people are involved. International case studies, from UK, Europe, Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, demonstrate the importance of respect for indigenous knowledge and the need to remove layers of bureaucracy from policy making.
Constructing Local Environmental Agendas draws on original contributions from specialists worldwide to argue that there is scope for local ar...
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282,86 zł |
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Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415235327 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last 100 years. Case studies, from pasteurization in Britain to the Ecoli outbreak offer material for those interested in science policy and the role of expertise in modern political culture.
This volume offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last 100 years. Case studies, from pasteurization i...
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707,28 zł |
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Direct Action in British Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780415242455 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Direct action has become a key part of the strategy of the radical environmental movement since the early 1990s, used to address issues such as road building and car culture, genetically modified foods, consumerism and global finance institutions. It has helped shape the political climate and has transformed the way people view political action, undermining the assumption that the power of politicians and big businesses cannot be contested. At the same time it is highly controversial, often illegal, and, partly due to its move towards greater militancy, may be included in new Prevention of...
Direct action has become a key part of the strategy of the radical environmental movement since the early 1990s, used to address issues such as road b...
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707,28 zł |
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Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland: Theory and Methods
ISBN: 9780415282420 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed specifically for students of Irish politics and public administration, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to public policy and administration in Ireland, thereby bridging the gap between general texts on public policy and books on Irish politics. Each chapter examines one of the key issues or frameworks in policy analysis, such as rational choice or corporatism, and includes a review of recent developments in the field and its major criticisms. It is then illustrated with an empirical Irish case study. In this way the editors highlight the wide variety of alternative...
Designed specifically for students of Irish politics and public administration, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to public policy a...
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107,26 zł |
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The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform
ISBN: 9780415282727 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform develops the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making the rules. Approaching policy issues from the point of view of rule circumvention provides a perspective that illuminates a wide variety of phenomena:
* implicit tolerance of extensive illegal behaviour, treadmills of reform, delays of major policy changes * the complexity of rules * potential for perverse outcomes from policy reforms * corruption of enforcers * trade-offs between a rule-based and a discretionary policy. This... The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform develops the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making t...
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195,06 zł |
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Chinese Space Policy: A Study in Domestic and International Politics
ISBN: 9780415365826 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program. It opens by tracing out the earlier development of the space program and identifying the successes and problems that plagued this initial effort, later focusing upon its development over the past decade and into the future. As China is now able to reach into outer space with its machines and, since 2003, with its humans, the authors examine how... This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the inte... |
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780,44 zł |
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Us Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry
ISBN: 9780415413756 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the geographic displacement of the illicit drug industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. To reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin from abroad, the US has relied on coercion against farmers, traffickers and governments, but this has only exacerbated the world's drugs problems. US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs develops and applies a causal mechanism to explain the displacement, analyzing US anti-drug initiatives at different times and in various regions. The findings clearly show that American foreign policy has been a major driving force... This book examines the geographic displacement of the illicit drug industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. To reduce the supply ... |
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731,67 zł |
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The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform
ISBN: 9780415771207 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform develops the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making the rules. Approaching policy issues from the point of view of rule circumvention provides a perspective that illuminates a wide variety of phenomena:
* implicit tolerance of extensive illegal behaviour, treadmills of reform, delays of major policy changes * the complexity of rules * potential for perverse outcomes from policy reforms * corruption of enforcers * trade-offs between a rule-based and a discretionary policy. This... The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform develops the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making t...
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112,14 zł |
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Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the Us: Academics, Advisors and Advocates
ISBN: 9780415772280 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume chronicles and analyzes the development of think tanks and public policy research organizations, while exploring the impact think tanks have on politics, public policies, and governance in the US. Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the US investigates the distinctive nature of thirty leading think tanks in America, while capturing the political and intellectual ecology of the more than 1,500 think tanks in the US. Presidents from twenty think tanks have contributed insightful essays that examine the role, value, and impact of these organizations on a national and... This volume chronicles and analyzes the development of think tanks and public policy research organizations, while exploring the impact think tanks... |
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731,67 zł |
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Making Public Policy: A Hopeful View of American Government
ISBN: 9780465043354 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A political scientist at Harvards Kennedy School of Government analyzes how public policy is made in this countryand why the system works so much better than most observers believe.
A political scientist at Harvards Kennedy School of Government analyzes how public policy is made in this countryand why the system works so much bett...
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97,50 zł |
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Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion Among the American States
ISBN: 9780472069682 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Observers have long marveled at the spread of ideas and policies from state to state in American democracy. But why and how do politicians, professionals, and citizens in one state take inspiration from national policy debates and imitate, resist, and rework legislative models from other states? For the first time in this important new book, Andrew Karch analyzes in depth the process of policy 'diffusion' across the states, offering a nuanced and powerful framework to explain one of the most important and recurrent features of U.S. politics."
---Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor... "Observers have long marveled at the spread of ideas and policies from state to state in American democracy. But why and how do politicians, professio...
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128,11 zł |
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Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System
ISBN: 9780472110209 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy preferences with the preferences of their constituents, but they must consider the impact of actions taken by both the federal government and competing states. Glenn Beamer uses a series of in-depth case studies in eleven states to show how legislators made decisions dealing with taxation, economic development, education financing, and Medicaid.
Beamer identifies six factors that influence legislators' decisions: accountability,... State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy ...
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297,30 zł |
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