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  • Europeanisation of Public Policy in Southern Europe

    Comparative Political Economy from the 2000s to the Crisis

    Edited by Canan Balkir, H. Tolga Bolukbasi, Ebru Ertugal ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Large or small, old EU member or new, and even EU member state or not – political economies across Southern Europe have been increasingly but distinctively ‘Europeanised’. In political, public and scholarly debates on processes of Europeanisation, Southern Europe invariably features as the area of concern. These concerns have been all the more heightened when the current sovereign debt crisis ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Times They Are Changing?

    Crisis and the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series Book 12 - Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
    The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world.Provides comprehensive and in depth coverage of changes in welfare states as a result of the financial crisisReveals how the financial crisis is changing our perception of the welfare ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Challenges of Globalization

    Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance

    Edited by Andrew Sobel ...
    This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Organizing Leviathan

    Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government

    by Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente ...
    Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government worldwide, this book argues that the organization of bureaucracy is an often overlooked but critical factor. Countries where merit-recruited employees occupy public bureaucracies perform better than those where public employees owe their ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

    Towards "Embedded Liberalism"?

    Edited by Shahra Razavi ...
    Series series Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
    In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Institutional Pathways To Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps

    by Walton Michael; Bebbington Anthony J.; Dani Anis A.; de Haan Arjan ...
    Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    by Bronwen Morgan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Africa's Return Migrants

    The New Developers?

    Edited by Lisa Åkesson, Maria Eriksson Baaz ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to 'return' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • State of the World's Cities 2010/11

    Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide

    by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat) ...
    The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures?Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

    Edited by Roberta Malee Bassett, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis to include the global drivers behind higher education policy, including a full array of influential ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Andy Sumner, Alicia Ely Yamin ...
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD