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This title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse. The author examines the effects of existing drug policies and proposes drug use legalisation within a regulated market as a viable alternative...

This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name...

This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Using information collected from the media and from international practitioners in the public...

This book  finds that the R&D and technological innovation of a country is not a result, but a factor, of sustained economic growth. Bazhal develops Schumpeter's theory to argue that genuine economic growth - especially in transitioning and...

This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory. According to representative bureaucracy theory, demographic correspondence between government employees and the local population can lead to more...

This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of...

This book uses role theory to analyze the judicial decisions made by state supreme court judges. Grounded in the fields of anthropology, business management, psychology, and sociology, role theory holds that, for each position an individual occupies in...

This book focuses on innovations in culture having the potential to drive overall development. It analyses public policies and offers inspiring examples of innovations in culture which solve various societal problems as well as recommendations for public...

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels. First, at the level of zoonosis, to which HIV and Ebola, as well as H1Nn, MERS-CoV, and SARS belong, and which promise to continue to emerge. Second, at...

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration. Each year, thousands of Central Americans leave their countries and walk across Mexico, seeking to reach the United States. The author explores the...

This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either...

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...

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions. This book considers new,...

This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for...

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to...

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization. The author emphasizes the horizontal...

The book reveals how the 'social value of art' may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist - and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of...

This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according to their actor constellation and shared characteristics. Though the importance of functioning public...

This book is an innovative and critical contribution to the study of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the context of Europe. Combining legal and Foucauldian approaches, it investigates the...

In this book, distributional justice theories developed by John Rawls and Amartya Sen are applied to the governance of today's media, proposing a fresh,  and innovative assessment of the potential role for media in society. Three case studies...

This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created.  It focuses specifically on the...

This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa. The chapters focus on policy making issues in three critical areas that are of major importance in the...

This second edition of the authoritative resource summarizes the state of consumer finance research across disciplines for expert findings on-and strategies for enhancing-consumers' economic health. New and revised chapters offer current research...

This book is an applications-orientedtext designed for individuals who desire a hands-on approach to analyzing theeffects of fiscal and monetary policies. Significantly updated to provide anunderstanding of the post-financial crisis economy, the third...

In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "transit," "destination," "European," "Muslim" and "safe." This book brings into focus seemingly disparate actors involved in...

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health. Despite this, however, a significant degree of health inequality is emerging among different socioeconomic groups. Assessment-of-need procedures and eligibility rules define the...

The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models. To...

The late Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, once said: “You almost never hear about the New York Power Authority, but you should. It would do us all a lot of good: you can see government at its very best.” Natural Power: The New York...

Doomsday headlines warn that the age of “killer robots” is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. What’s fact and what’s fiction? In The...

Cities throughout the West face rising crime, soaring housingcosts, a sprawling homelessness crisis and devastateddowntown areas following two years of COVID restrictions andthe aftermath of destructive protests. Policymakers typicallyaddress these and...

Development study of Guyana, suggestions for economic and social reform, Third World development model. Author is of Caribbean (Trinidadian) and Canadian citizen, a development geographer, economist. Study of Guyana post-colonial, possibilities and...

Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants' employment, housing and social exclusion...

The journey towards a sustainable world is our greatest challenge. This book includesreports, analysis, and discussion of cutting-edge approaches to incorporatingsustainability importantly in the mix of organizational strategic elements. It...

The global economic crisis that closed the first decade of the 21st century has demonstrated that the contradictions of capitalism cannot be overcome. The challenge for socialist analysis is to reveal both the nature of these contradictions in the...

It is difficult to find an area of public policy more plagued by misunderstanding than energy policy. Even worse, every time the subject is raised, we are obligated to get mired in pointless arguments about the weather. This book helps set the record...

Racism has permeated the workings of the U.S. Constitution since ratification. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, supporters of slavery ensured it was protected by rule of law. The federal government upheld slavery until it was abolished by the...

Richard Nixon's election to the presidency in 1968 was an improbable vindication for a man branded as a loser after unsuccessful presidential and gubernatorial campaigns. Yet during the 1966 mid-term elections, he emerged as the critical figure who...

This book outlines the developments taking place in the energy sector. The main focus remains on hydrogen, but a discussion on the other en-ergy sources that exist provided a comparative analysis on the possibil-ity of use of hydrogen globally. There is...

E-government promises efficient communication, streamlined operations, citizen involvement, improved services, and increased transparency. However, despite huge investments in e-government, evidence suggests numerous e-government projects are late, over...

Das Buch ""Der Kampf gegen den Chorepiskopat des fr�����nkischen Reichs im neunten Jahrhundert"" von Julius Weizs�����cker aus dem Jahr 1859 besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Konflikt zwischen den Chorepiskopen und den Bisch������fen im fr�����nkischen Reich...

""Della Monarchia E Della Nazionalit������ In Italia"" ����� un libro in due volumi scritto da Paolo Boetti nel 1855. Il libro tratta della questione della monarchia e della nazionalit������ in Italia, esaminando la storia politica e sociale del paese...

Het boek ""De Tweede Kamer En De Verzoekschriften Of De Beraadslaging Van 28 April 1856 (1856)"" is geschreven door Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer en beschrijft de beraadslagingen van de Tweede Kamer op 28 april 1856 over verzoekschriften. Het boek geeft...

Das Buch ""Das Historisch-Diplomatische Verh�����ltnis des K������nigreichs Kroatien (1861)"" von Eugen Kvaternik besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte und den diplomatischen Beziehungen des K������nigreichs Kroatien im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Autor...

Le livre ""Conf�����rences sur le Congo (1900)"" de Laurent, Emile est un recueil de discours prononc�����s par l'auteur lors de conf�����rences sur le Congo ������ la fin du XIXe si�����cle. Ces conf�����rences ont eu lieu ������ l'�����poque o����� la...

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of public policy. In keeping with prior editions, author Tom Birkland...

In the late 1980s, despite the fact that the vast majority of women now had a dual role - in paid work and in the domestic realm - the world of work, the welfare state, and the domestic sphere were all still organized as though women's place were...