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  • Location of Public Services

    Legitimacy, Challenges, and Solutions in Sweden

    by Jenny de Fine Licht, David Karlsson, Louise Skoog ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book assesses the challenges faced by local governments when deciding on the location of public services. Some physical signs of government presence are vital and generally welcomed within local communities. Schools, bus stops, care facilities, and public libraries are both crucial for the functioning and sustainability of communities, and symbolize governmental engagement. Conversely, other ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Swedish Local Democracy at the Crossroads

    Understanding the Past to Reform the Future

    by Gissur Ó Erlingsson, David Karlsson, Richard Öhrvall, Jessika Wide ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As democratic systems come under increasing strain worldwide, assessing their strength and resilience is more urgent than ever. Some argue that local democracy can serve as a bulwark against democratic backsliding—providing institutional resilience, political diversity, and grounded arenas for citizen engagement. But to fulfil this role, it must itself be strong, accountable, and responsive. ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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    The Rise of Political Meritocracy

    by Mark Bovens, Anchrit Wille ...
    Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualifications ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria

    A Survey of Indices of Transparency and Accountability

    by OBI KELVIN EZENYILI ...
    Over the last decades, the most striking changes made by the World Bank and other development institutions are their commitments to improve the quality of governance and most importantly fighting corruption and focusing more on the developing Countries. Driven by case studies that developmental deficiencies in the developing Countries are due to the crisis of governance (seeKhan, 2002); As a ... Read more

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  • Doing Good or Doing Better

    Development Policies in a Globalising World

    Edited by Monique Kremer, Robert Went ...
    Series series WRR Verkenningen
    The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad issue of development. What are the drivers of development? What new issues have arisen due to globalization? And what kind of policies contribute to development in a world that is ... Read more

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  • Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers

    Edited by Conny Rijken, Tesseltje de Lange ...
    Central to this edited volume is the legal position and the labour situation of non-EU and EU low-waged migrant workers. Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers presents ground breaking research on policies and practices in search of striking a right balance between the economic ambitions and the negative consequences thereof, for labour market dynamics such as down-ward wage ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Politics of the European Union

    by Herman Lelieveldt, Sebastiaan Princen ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Comparative Politics
    The European Union is a key player in determining policies and politics in Europe, and yet understanding how it works remains a challenge. The Politics of the European Union introduces students to its functioning by showing the similarities and differences between the EU and national political systems. Fully revised and updated in its third edition, this introductory textbook uses the tools of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Thinking Government

    Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition

    by David Johnson ...
    Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources management, and accountability and responsibility. Johnson explores the ways that the ideological ... Read more

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  • Academia, Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    by Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Canadian Federal Election of 2015

    by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan ...
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016Written by the foremost authorities, The Canadian Federal Election of 2015 provides a complete investigation of the election.A comprehensive analysis of the campaigns and the election outcome, this collection of essays examines the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties: the Conservatives, the Liberals, the New Democrats, the Bloc ... Read more

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