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  • Whistleblowing and Freedom of Expression in Working Life

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by David Lewis, Sissel C. Trygstad, Wim Vandekerckhove ...
    Series Book 38 - Comparative Social Research
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read onlineWhistleblowing and Freedom of Expression in Working Life examines how the right to blow the whistle is regulated across various national contexts. With contributors from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa, the chapters focus on factors that influence how different countries design and implement their ... Read more

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  • Dualisation of Part-Time Work

    The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders

    by Roy Nilsen, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Kristine Nergaard, Heejung Chung, Jonas Felbo-Kolding, Anna Ilsøe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenneth Hudson, Min Young Song, Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee, Belinda Hewitt, Mara Yerkes, Thordis Reimer, Sissel C. Trygstad, Margarita León, Lara Maestripieri, Ghailani Dalila ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea.This ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class

    Corporate Power in the 21st Century

    by William K. Carroll ...
    Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda

    Contested Collaboration

    Edited by Sachin Chaturvedi, Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel, Xiaoyun Li, André de Mello e Souza, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Dorothea Wehrmann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The ... Read more

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  • Mediation in Collective Labor Conflicts

    Edited by Martin C. Euwema, Francisco J. Medina, Ana Belén García, Erica Romero Pender ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation are discussed as effective prevention and regulation tools for different types of collective labor conflicts. These interventions fit in a new developed five-phase model of ... Read more

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  • Who Governs the Globe?

    Edited by Deborah D. Avant, Martha Finnemore, Susan K. Sell ...
    Series Book 114 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Transparency in International Law

    Edited by Andrea Bianchi, Anne Peters ...
    While its importance in domestic law has long been acknowledged, transparency has until now remained largely unexplored in international law. This study of transparency issues in key areas such as international economic law, environmental law, human rights law and humanitarian law brings together new and important insights on this pressing issue. Contributors explore the framing and content of ... Read more

    $64.99 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

  • Stakeholders

    Government-NGO Partnerships for International Development

    Edited by Ian Smillie ...
    This unique study from the OECD Development Centre presents a comprehensive review by independent experts of the relationships and division of responsibility between the 22 member governments of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and NGOs from these donor countries, working in international development. Additional chapters cover the roles of the European Union and the World Bank ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Governance and the Democratic Deficit

    Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices

    by Victor Bekkers, Geske Dijkstra, Menno Fenger ...
    It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical, network-like structure through negotiation and cooperation between public and private actors at one ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Understanding Policy Change

    How to Apply Political Economy Concepts in Practice

    by Cristina Corduneanu-Huci, Alexander Hamilton, Issel Masses Ferrer ...
    How does the social and political context in which decision-makers find themselves in affect their ability to realize their reform goals? How does this context facilitate or inhibit specific reform agendas and projects? How can we operationalize and evaluate these risks and opportunities in order to decide what reforms and projects are feasible given the circumstances? This book provides the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD