Central / national / federal government policies Books

Face aux politiques actuelles, rongées par les intérêts partisans, la TUP propose une vision universaliste qui s'attache au bien être local dans un esprit désintéressé.  La démocratie politique est devenue un vaste canular pour les peuples du monde...

One of the unfortunate by-products of our current approach to diversity has been the creation of an enclave society. Since the benefits of diversity are apportioned by group identity, diversity encourages us to find our own group and then "stick...

Military technology is highly advanced in terms of technology being used in the field, computer applications, artificial intelligence, and software applications. These high-performance technologies range from weapons to communications technology to...

Over time, public goods, services, and policies have been developed for the welfare of people all over the world, and public finance in particular focuses on challenging issues that are significantly important for the common good of humanity. It is a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries around the globe into lockdown, imposing trade and travel restrictions with devastating economic impacts on all sectors of the economy. In working toward greater economic stability, Australia has been...

As healthcare, culture, and the environment remain crucial aspects of modern society, the current issues and opportunities within each sector must be examined and considered in order to ensure their success in the future. These critical fields should be...

Despite several idealistic efforts towards a united Africa, the term remains a hypothetical concept symbolizing a desired federal state on the continent. While globalization and interconnectedness have brought prosperity in some parts of the world,...

Innovative strategic planning is an important step toward achieving economic stability and global sustainability. This can best be achieved through effective international cooperation and digitalization of activities. Societal and global processes...

Three of Keynes' classic works in a single volume.

In A Better Bargain, Martin Manley delivers a compelling case for a modern form of income bargaining to grow America’s vital middle class. He describes why investments in education, technology, or trade are unlikely to raise the pay of...

Dr. Mary Scandrett Red Stilettos and a Diet Coke is a hands-on guide for educators and parents on how to improve our public school educational system in the age of Covid. Dr. Mary Scandrett was an educator for 30 years. She began her teaching career as a...

A true story about love, grief, resiliency, faith, and transformation despite daunting odds.California wildfires burned more than 4.2 million acres in 2020-more than double the previous record. Approximately 500,000 people have died from an...

Today, when India is certainly once more emerging as one of the most important social experiments in the world, it is more than ever incumbent to explore and re-discover the underlying reasons and philosophy that marginalized the Indian consciousness in...

*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn).With the consolidation of the Russian state under the rule of Vladimir Putin, Russia has begun to assert itself on the...

*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn).The Office of Net Assessment (ONA) was responsible for carrying out three programs in the Department of Defense from November 1973 until...

*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Dr. Geoffrey R.H. Burn)Few books have had a wider sustained impact than Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. More than 2,500...

*This book is in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series (General Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn).This book seeks explanation for the making and implementation of American foreign policy—the decisions and actions the United...

My book demonstrates how classical liberalism was the foundation upon which Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and others wrote the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and the Bills of Rights; however, it was rolled back by...

These are challenging times, and perhaps it is here that humans are viewed at their best and their worst. Everyone is accountable for what they say and do. And since government at all levels and its officials are not exempted, and who operate in a more...

Explore the Shadows of the American Justice SystemDelve into the unspoken transgressions deeply embedded in the very fabric of America's legal landscape. "America's Silent Crimes: What Justice Doesn't Speak Of" is a gripping exploration of the systemic...

Das Buch ""Die Drei Fragen Des Grundbesitzes Und Seiner Zukunft"" wurde 1881 von Lorenz Jacob von Stein ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine wirtschaftliche Abhandlung, die sich mit den Fragen des Grundbesitzes und seiner Zukunft auseinandersetzt...

Das Buch ""Die Deutsche Sozialgesetzgebung"" von Konrad Bornhak wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt von der deutschen Sozialgesetzgebung und beschreibt die verschiedenen Gesetze und Verordnungen, die im Laufe der Zeit erlassen wurden, um...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence...

In the past few decades, the change in China's welfare system has been characterised by a balanced distribution of benefits across social sectors and the institutionalization of welfare redistribution. This process has occurred without significant...

Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most of the literature has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge...

Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The...

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerging powers, China has demanded reform to global governance, and taken new initiatives using its new...

Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression provides a much-needed engagement with questions of justice and reform within the current phase of global capitalism, one that is marked not only by significant social inequality, but also political bifurcation...

This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in socially oriented NGOs and...

How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public...

This work provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of civil-military relations in China. It reflects the significant changes taking place in Chinese society and their impact on the civil-military dynamic, with particular attention to how the...

The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries today, including a poor work environment in the public sector, a growing democracy deficit, and demographic obstacles. In this new book, Victor A. Pestoff argues that...

This book examines the link between Islamic thought/jurisprudence on the one hand and political action on the other. It shows how reformism is deeply rooted in Islamic tradition and how Sunni scholars have become activists for change in Saudi Arabia.

This book is an examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through psychoanalytic, sociopsychological, and nationalistic lenses, highlighting the successes and the hurdles faced by one organization, Healing Across the Divides (HATD), in its mission...

Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively...

Sporting mega events are playing an increasingly important role in the governance of community regeneration and development across the globe. This book examines the ways in which sporting organisations engage with local communities through projects that...

This is an up-to-date, authoritative account of the development of U.S. policy toward the New International Economic Order Nieo from its inception in 1974 through the Eleventh Special Session of the General Assembly in August-September 1980. Mr. Olson...

Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic peacebuilding programmes with, and international interventions in, people's lived realities in...

This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social...

Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods. Street vending is one such thriving source of...

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from...

In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of...

In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and...

An economic policy blueprint/prescription to support small businesses for the next global economic crisis."We were in absolute crisis, and we were risking a major, major meltdown of financial conditions, economic conditions and health conditions...