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  • Deliberative Democracy and Ecological Transition

    The French Citizens' Convention for Climate

    Edited by Dimitri Courant, Bernard Reber ...
    Series series ISTE Invoiced
    Democracies are struggling to respond to the climate crisis. One promising approach to the ecological transition is based on innovations involving panels of citizens drawn at random. Many countries have experimented with this form of deliberative democracy at national and local levels. These citizens’ assemblies formulate public policy proposals.The French Citizens' Convention for Climate is the ... Read more

    $188.99 CAD

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  • The Rise of English

    Global Politics and the Power of Language

    by Rosemary Salomone ...
    A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "rise of English" ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • University Governance in Canada

    Navigating Complexity

    by Julia Eastman, Claude Trottier, Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Glen Jones ...
    Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    by Jane Philpott, Katherine Fierlbeck, Lorian Hardcastle, Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, Jeffery Hewitt0, Michelle Giroux1, David Robitaille2, Amir Attaran3, Adam R. Houston4, Bryan Thomas5, Carissima Mathen6, Alexandra Flynn7, Mel Cappe8, Grégoire Webber9, Tim Caulfield0, Jeffrey Simpson1, Paul Daly2, Marie-France Fortin3, Jennifer A. Quaid4, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair5, Kelly Bronson6, Jason Millar7, Vardit Ravitsky8, Daniel Weinstock9, Terry Skolnik0, Professor Martha Jackman1, Delphine Nakache2, Yves Le Bouthillier3, Martine Lagacé4, Linda Garcia5, Leilani Farha6, Kaitlin Schwan7, Adelina Iftene8, Jamie Chai Yun Liew9, Y. Y. Brandon Chen0, Anne Levesque1, Kwame McKenzie2, Jennifer A. Chandler3, Mona Gupta4, Yasmin Khaliq5, Simon Hatcher6, Olivia Lee7, Tess Sheldon8, Ravi Malhotra9, Pat Armstrong0, Hugh Armstrong1, Ivy Bourgeault2, Katherine Lippel3, Louise Bélanger-Hardy4, Professor Vanessa Gruben, Associate Professor; Vice-Dean (Academic)5, Sarah Berger Richardson6, Anis Chowdhury7, Jomo Kwame Sundaram8, Professor Sam Halabi, Professor; Director Centre for Transformational Health Law9, Kumanan Wilson0, Chidi Oguamanam1, Steven J. Hoffman2, Patrick Fafard3, Céline Castets-Renard4, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs5, E. Richard Gold6, Jeremy de Beer7, Matthew Herder8, Jason W. Nickerson9 ...
    The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Operating Law in a Global Context

    Comparing, Combining and Prioritising

    by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Geneviève Helleringer ...
    Lawyers have to adapt their reasoning to the increasingly global nature of the situations they deal with. Often, rules formulated in a national, international or European environment must all be jointly applied to a given case. This book seeks to make explicit the analysis the lawyer engages in every time he or she is confronted by the operation of several laws in different contexts.This reasoning ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Accessibility and Active Offer

    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Edited by Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard ...
    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Philip Booth, Michelle Breuillard, Charles Fraser, Didier Paris ...
    Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different modes of planning in terms of their structure, practical application and underlying philosophies.Drawing ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Migration Control in Practice

    Before and Within the Borders of the State

    by Djordje Sredanovic, Federica Infantino ...
    The book presents the results of several qualitative research project with different actors that put migration policies into practice. It shows the different ways in which day-to-day activities of organisations shape migration policies on the ground. This book offers a comprehensive exploration on how different migration policies are implemented day by day. Such an approach allows to show the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Making of Grand Paris

    Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

    by Theresa Enright ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Autonomous Public Bodies and the Law

    A European Perspective

    by Stéphanie De Somer ...
    Series series Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law
    This book aims to give readers an insight into two dynamics that influence the phenomenon of autonomous public bodies (APBs) in the European legal sphere today. Stephanie De Somer first studies both phenomena-EU impulse and national restraint-as standalone trends and then addresses the tensions between them. The first trend covers EU legislation that obliges Member States to entrust the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Swiss Public Administration

    Making the State Work Successfully

    Edited by Andreas Ladner, Nils Soguel, Yves Emery, Sophie Weerts, Stéphane Nahrath ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public ... Read more

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  • Artificial Democracy

    The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity

    Edited by Cecilia Biancalana, Eric Montigny ...
    Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed, for better or worse, as relations between citizens, political parties, governments, and corporations are being redrawn.Artificial Democracy explores the ways in which data collection and analytics, and their application, are changing political ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD