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  • Consolidation Policies in Federal States

    Conflicts and Solutions

    Series series Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
    The Global Financial Crisis has led to a renewed attention for the management of public debt and deficits of advanced and developing industrial states. To successfully deal with such problems of public finances raises particular concerns in federal states where fiscal competencies are split between two levels of government.This book offers comparative in-depth knowledge of political struggles ... Read more

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  • Fiscal Policies in Federal States

    by Dietmar Braun ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003.Investigating the impact of federal structure on fiscal policy-making in four country cases, this book answers the question as to what extent federal structures hinder or, on the contrary, enhance a state's decision and co-ordination capacity in the field of fiscal policy. It questions the common assumption that federal structures restrain the co-ordination ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Delegation in Contemporary Democracies

    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Delegation is an ubiquitous social phenomenon linked to the growing differentiation of modern societies. Delegation is one of several different modes of organisation that exist to make collective action successful, but has been overlooked and under-researched.Using a rational choice institutional analysis and principal agent models, this book brings literature on delegation to bureaucracy, ... Read more

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    In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course of government through elections and if a change in government cannot translate into different ... Read more

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  • Fair Trade for All

    How Trade Can Promote Development

    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key ... Read more

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  • Unholy Trinity

    The IMF, World Bank and WTO

    by Richard Peet ...
    Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it?The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet they operate undemocratically and aggressively promote a particular kind of neoliberal capitalism. ... Read more

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  • Fiscal Federalism

    A concise introduction to the ways in which the world's federations manage their finances. Topics covered include the distribution of taxation powers among different levels of government; regional equalization schemes; authority over natural resource revenues; and the impact of federal systems of government on pension, welfare, and income assistance programs. The book targets second-, third-, and ... Read more

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  • The Group of Seven

    Finance Ministries, Central Banks and Global Financial Governance

    by Andrew Baker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this co-operation for US power and the abilities of the other six states to exercise leadership? What role do the G7 play in global financial governance? How much authority do they possess and how is that ... Read more

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  • Politics in the New Hard Times

    The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on ... Read more

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  • Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development

    The Law and Economics of International Investment Agreements

    Series series Routledge Research in International Economic Law
    This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals. The hope of countries signing such treaties is that foreign capital will accelerate transfers of technologies, create employment, and ... Read more

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  • Globalization For Development, Revised Edition: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration, And Policy

    Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. By considering what helps ... Read more

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  • Forging an Integrated Europe

    Series series Michigan Studies In International Political Economy
    As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically. How fast and how far European integration will proceed are critical issues for scholars and policymakers in Europe and the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD