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  • Parliamentarians’ Professional Development

    The Need for Reform

    Edited by Colleen Lewis, Ken Coghill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the education and training of Members of Parliament (MPs). It examines existing training programs offered in various countries around the world, evaluates their strengths and weaknesses and makes recommendations for a new approach, which aligns the professional development of MPs to 21st century requirements. Contributors address the role of parliamentarians, how to prepare ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust

    This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations. The volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fiduciary duty and ... Read more

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    Series Book 13 - Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education
    Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own assumptions in ascertaining theory of VET. In this context, modernisation is a significant paradigm. It refers to new ideological, socio-economic, ... Read more

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  • The Applied Law and Economics of Public Procurement

    Edited by Gustavo Piga, Steen Treumer ...
    Series series The Economics of Legal Relationships
    This book explores Public Procurement novelties and challenges in an interdisciplinary way. The process whereby the public sector awards contracts to companies for the supply of works, goods or services is a powerful instrument to ensure the achievement of new public goals as well as an efficient use of public funds. This book brings together the papers that have been presented during the "First ... Read more

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  • Promoting, Assessing, Recognizing and Certifying Lifelong Learning

    International Perspectives and Practices

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life. Much of this interest is driven by key social and economic imperatives associated with the changing requirements of work and working life, the transformation of many ... Read more

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  • The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding

    Edited by Philip Alston, Sarah Knuckey ...
    Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments. Nevertheless, despite the prominence of fact-finding, it remains strikingly ... Read more

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  • Mimetic Learning at Work

    Learning in the Circumstances of Practice

    Series series Education (R0)
    The concept of mimetic learning at work is outlined and elaborated in this text. That elaboration consists of an account of how securing occupational capacities has been primary associated with learning processes and an explanation of those processes. Much, and probably most, of the learning and development across individuals working lives occurs outside of circumstances of direct guidance or ... Read more

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  • Of Doubt and Proof

    Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment

    Series series Juris Diversitas
    All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge’s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant - are necessarily directly concerned with the question of doubt. By putting ritual and judicial settings into comparative perspective, in ... Read more

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  • Continuing Professional Education in Australia

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    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a history of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Australian context. It presents an approach that links the development of CPD to a series of 'missed opportunities' and the identification of three key themes (mandatory CPD, competencies and regulation/registration) as well as with national regulation for select health professions. It not only relates the evolution of ... Read more

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  • Public Law

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    Series series Clarendon Law Series
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  • International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace

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    Edited by Christine R. Velde ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    As the world’s economy develops into a more dynamic, fast-moving, and unpredictable entity, it is crucial that the workers who create wealth have the ability to assess and respond to new and unforeseen challenges. In other words, the future will require a more competent workforce. What, though, does this mean in practice? In this, the fully revised second edition of Christine Velde’s book, a ... Read more

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  • Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies

    An Institutional Voice for the Poor?

    Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation for excluded sectors of society in contemporary democracies. With a focus on social rights litigation in post-authoritarian regimes or in the context of fragile state control, the authors assess the role of judicial processes in altering (or ... Read more

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