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  • China's Rise to Power

    Conceptions of State Governance

    Edited by J. Lee, L. Nedilsky, S. Cheung ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of domestic discontent. This essay collection balances policy analysis with detailed investigation of escalating popular unrest to anticipate the future of Chinese governance & society. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Converts to Civil Society

    Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong

    by Lida V. Nedilsky ...
    Series series Studies in World Christianity
    Lida V. Nedilsky captures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith at the time of Hong Kong’s pivotal political turmoil. From 1997 to 2008, in the much-anticipated reintegration of Hong Kong into Chinese sovereignty, she conducted detailed interviews of more than fifty Hong Kong people and then followed their daily lives, documenting their involvement at the intersection of church ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

    by Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie ...
    Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Financing Education in China

    by T. Lin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Reforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh

    The City Corporation

    by Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates. Along with a discussion of the scale and magnitude of urbanization, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the reform agendas of CCs including their functional assignments, local political ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • China Engages Global Health Governance

    Responsible Stakeholder or System-Transformer?

    by L. Chan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime. ... Read more

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  • Japan Decides 2014

    The Japanese General Election

    Edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Ethan Scheiner, Steven R. Reed ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Collecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major political parties, central policy issues, campaign practices, and considers how the results were used as a mandate for massive policy reform. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Microfinance

    Financializing Poverty

    by Philip Mader ...
    Series series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
    According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty. By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new lands of opportunity for the crisis-ridden global capital markets. This book raises fundamental concerns about this widely-celebrated tool for social development. ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Observing Policy-Making in Indonesia

    Edited by Erhard Friedberg, Mary E. Hilderbrand ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes policy-making and implementation in Indonesia. Conducted at the School of Government and Public Policy (Indonesia), the research presented here provides original insights into the country’s public policy processes by exploring the conditions on the ground that shape implementation.The studies brought together in this volume are based on fieldwork involving interviews with ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Presidents, Assemblies and Policy-making in Asia

    Edited by Y. Kasuya ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors assess the constitutional and partisan powers of Asian presidents, and analyse how they are used in actual policy-making processes. Country case studies on Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan analyze how their constitutional and partisan powers are used in actual policy-making processes. ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China

    by Silvia Menegazzi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today’s Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices. By providing an in-depth analysis of their roles, functions and transformation in the last decade, this study explains how they differ from their Western counterparts and how they have developed during Hu Jintao’s and Xi Jinping’s mandates. Think tanks are often ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Public Service Innovations in China

    Edited by Yijia Jing, Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China’s public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD