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Biopolitics eBook Series

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  • Contraceptive Risk

    The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine

    by William Green ...
    Series Book 12 - Biopolitics
    The story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses.Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. Depo-Provera was tested on women since the mid-1960s without their informed consent until it was FDA ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    by Dieter Grimm ...
    Europe is in crisis. With rising unrest among citizens of EU member states exemplified by the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the growing popularity of anti-EU political parties, Dieter Grimm presents the argument that Europe has to change its method of further integration or risks failure. This book, containing essays many of which have not been published in the English language to date, ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Votes, Parties, and Seats

    A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Parliamentary Elections, 1962–2014

    by Vani Kant Borooah ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    'This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of the largest festival – the elections – of the world's largest democracy. Hailing from a political family, the author conveys his passion and knowledge on the intricacies, as well as the heat and dust of his national fête. All data and events have been methodically examined in this absorbing analytical work which is an indispensable and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Manufacturing Civil Society

    Principles, Practices and Effects

    Edited by T. Brandsen, W. Trommel, B. Verschuere ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Smarter as the New Urban Agenda

    A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City

    Edited by J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Theresa A. Pardo, Taewoo Nam ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book will provide one of the first comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city governments with theories and concepts for understanding and researching 21st century city governments innovative methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of smart city initiatives. The term “smart city” is now generally used to represent efforts that in different ways describe a comprehensive vision ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Accountability and Regulatory Governance

    Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation

    Edited by A. Bianculli, J. Jordana ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance ... Read more

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  • Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh

    Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes

    by Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, in Beijing, in which a Platform for Action signed by heads of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The European Union and the Council of Europe

    by M. Kolb ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Marina Kolb traces the relationship between the EU and the Council of Europe in the field of human rights. Applying an implementation literature and management studies-perspective, it argues that the biggest threat to interorganizational cooperation is organizational self-interest, despite a shared policy interest. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Local Government in Australia

    History, Theory and Public Policy

    by Bligh Grant, Joseph Drew ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems. Conceived in an international comparative context and primarily from within the discipline of political studies, it also incorporates elements of economics and public administration. Existing research tends to conceptualise Australian local government as an ... Read more

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  • Administrative Justice in Context

    Edited by Professor Michael Adler ...
    This book comprises a definitive collection of papers on administrative justice, written by a set of very distinguished contributors. It is divided into five parts, each of which contains articles on a particular aspect of administrative justice. The first part deals with the impact of 'contextual changes' on administrative justice and considers the implications of changes in governance and public ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

  • New Forms of Governing

    A Foucauldian inspired analysis

    by P. Triantafillou ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Triantafillou analyzes the changing ways of governing the public sector and the ways in which public organizations have become the target of interventions seeking to improve their efficiency and quality. He exposes how political and social science theories were adopted in often unpredictable ways in the process of reforming the public sector. ... Read more

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  • Regulatory Transformations

    Rethinking Economy-Society Interactions

    Edited by Dr Bettina Lange, Professor Fiona Haines, Dr Dania Thomas ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described as 'embedded liberalism': how capitalist countries have reconciled markets with the social community that markets require to survive and thrive. This collection, located in the wider debates about global capitalism and its regulation, tackles the challenge of finding ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD