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  • Corruption in Developing Countries

    by Ronald Wraith, Edgar Simpkins ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1963, this study of corruption in the developing countries of Africa takes as its point of comparison Britain, pre-1880, as the authors question whether Britain’s experience in overcoming corruption can throw any light the means of overcoming corruption in contemporary developing countries. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Struggle for Iraq's Future

    How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy

    by Zaid Al-Ali ...
    Many Westerners have offered interpretations of Iraq’s nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war and the eventual withdrawal of American troops from the country, but little has been written by Iraqis themselves. This forthright book fills in the gap. Zaid al-Ali, an Iraqi lawyer with direct ties to the people of his homeland, to government circles, and to the international community, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • World Heritage

    Benefits Beyond Borders

    Edited by Amareswar Galla ...
    Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and regionally diverse World Heritage sites illustrating their benefits to local ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Cooperate?

    The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

    by Scott Barrett ...
    Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa

    Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress

    Edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo ...
    Series series Africa in the New Millennium
    Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations are included in this volume are that democratic form and democratic substance are two different things ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Who Counts? eBook

    The power of participatory statistics

    Edited by Jeremy Holland ...
    Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes. Statistics are being generated in the design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reimagineering the Nation

    Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden

    Edited by Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Anders Neergaard ...
    Series Book 4 - Political and Social Change
    This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European perspective. It addresses changing frameworks of citizenship, welfare and democracy, migration ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Child and Youth Migration

    Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization

    Edited by A. Veale, G. Donà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and youth short-term and micro movements within major migration fluxes that occur in response to migration and global change. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Agendas for Sustainability

    Environment and Development into the 21st Century

    by Mary MacDonald ...
    Series series Routledge/SEI Global Environment and Development Series
    Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the book presents similarities and differences in problem definition, objectives, principles, priorities ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence

    The Art of Active Resistance

    by M. Branagan ...
    Militarism is the elephant in the room of global warming. Of all government sectors, 'Defence' has the highest carbon footprint and expenditure, yet has largely been exempt from international scrutiny and regulation. Marty Branagan uses Australian and international case studies to show that nonviolence is a viable alternative to militarism for national defence and regime change. 'Active resistance ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan

    Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses

    Edited by Mark R. Mullins, Koichi Nakano ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. This international, multi-disciplinary group of scholars examines the state and societal responses to the disasters and social crisis. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD