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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jaimie bleck”
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  • Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention

    A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts

    by Henri Myrttinen, Angela Muvumba Sellström, Kathleen M Jennings, Katarina Kušić, Mateja Peter, Daniela Lai, Louise Clausen, Jesse Driscoll, Judith Verweijen, Jaimie Bleck, Boukary Sangaré0, Parviz Mullojonov1, John Heathershaw2, Francesco Strazzari3, Alessandra Russo4, Morten Bøås5, Markus Göransson7, Casey Mcneill8, Roland Kostić9 ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali

    by Jaimie Bleck ...
    Explores the connections between access to education and political engagement in Mali.Primary school enrollment has nearly tripled in Mali since 1991, when the country made its first transition to multiparty democracy. Jaimie Bleck explores the effect of this expanded access to education by analyzing the relationship between parents’ and students’ respective experiences with schooling and their ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990

    Continuity in Change

    by Jaimie Bleck, Nicolas van de Walle ...
    Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential elections were held in all but a handful of the region's countries. This book is the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the key issues, actors, and trends in these elections over the last quarter century. The ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Make or Break

    How the next three years will shape South Africa’s next three decades

    by Richard Calland ...
    The next three years will determine whether South Africa succeeds or fails in the long term.• Jacob Zuma’s term as president is due to end in 2019, though he could go earlier. Who will succeed him and what will be the impact on policy?• The ANC’s dominance has been significantly dented after opposition parties gained ground in the 2016 local government elections, but will the minority and ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • Governing Urban Africa

    Edited by Carlos Nunes Silva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores some of the key challenges confronting the governance of cities in Africa, the reforms implemented in the field of urban governance, and the innovative approaches in critical areas of local governance, namely in the broad field of decentralization and urban planning reform, citizen participation, and good governance. The collection also investigates the constraints that ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Auditing Good Government in Africa

    Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse

    by M. Gustavson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

    Edited by S.N. Nyeck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II

    The Modern Era

    by Mario J. Azevedo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Healthcare Policy in Africa

    Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present

    by Jean-Germain Gros ...
    A comparative study of healthcare policy in Africa, the book explores the impact of historical institutions, multilateral organizations, and informal norms, such as, respectively, colonialism, the World Health Organization, and the Western-inspired biomedical approach to disease on health policy choices, implementation, and results in Africa. In addition, it examines the role of international ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Doing Critical Educational Research

    A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney, Robert Hattam ...
    Series Book 7 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth’s version of critical research is his passion for ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Urban Planning in the Global South

    Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space

    by Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson ...
    This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South. The authors offer a Southern perspective on planning theory, explaining how the concept of conflicting rationalities complements and expands upon a theoretical tradition which still primarily speaks to global ‘Northern’ audiences. De Satgé and Watson posit that a significant change is needed in ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Power of Interdependence

    Lessons from Africa

    by D. Kuranga ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Power of Interdependence offers a convincing challenge to the dominant view among many observers of global affairs, that individual countries exert sole control over the international system. Author David Oladipupo Kuranga advances an alternative possibility: that, in fact, the influence of nations is now matched and at times is overtaken by that of supranational organizations. Drawing on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD