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  • Risk Regulation in the United States and European Union

    Controlling Chaos

    by A. Luedtke, L. Svedin, Thad E. Hall ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Reagan Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gil Troy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    "They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Nearly two decades after that 1989 speech, debate continues to rage over just how revolutionary those Reagan years were. The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction ... Read more

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  • Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

    by Boon Siong Neo, Geraldine Chen ...
    In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a government of continual relevance and effectiveness if there is no capacity for learning, innovation ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Paradiplomacy

    Cities and States as Global Players

    by Rodrigo Tavares ...
    Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Subnational governments in Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa are changing traditional notions of sovereignty, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Accounting for Culture

    Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship

    Edited by Caroline Andrew, Monica Gattinger, M. Sharon Jeannotte, Will Straw ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Building the Federal Schoolhouse

    Localism and the American Education State

    by Douglas S. Reed ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system with common national expectations and practices-has fundamentally altered both education politics ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party

    An introduction to China's cadre management

    by Julia Marinaccio ...
    The ebook is an introduction into China's cadre management focusing on the institutional mechanisms and organizational processes that allow the CCP to exert control and power over its state apparatus. By means of selection and appointment, the Party continues to influence career mobility of its agents. Mobility patterns reflect first and foremost the political priorities of the party-state, but ... Read more

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  • Reassessing Lukashenka

    Belarus in Cultural and Geopolitical Context

    by G. Ioffe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What are the factors of Lukashenka's longevity at the helm of power? This question is addressed in the context of Belarusian history and identity, not as an outcome of a form of government deceitfully imposed on an allegedly benighted people whom better positioned and informed outsiders seek to enlighten and liberate. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy

    The Silent Victims of World War II

    by M. Itoh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece animals throughout Japan well before U.S. air strikes were anticipated, with international comparisons of the effects of the war on zoos in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity

    Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia

    by Devin Beauregard ...
    This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations–in particular, Québec, Scotland, and Catalonia–and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them. This represents a paradigm shift from the traditional discourse around ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government

    by George Amedee, Keenan Grenell, Christopher Hoene, Kenneth Penn, Irene Rubin, Don-Terry Veal, Sheila Smoot, John Thomas, Sandra Fabry Wirtz, Maria T. Folmar, Suzanne J. Piotrowski, William I. Sauser Jr., David Anderson, Richard Greene, Christa Slaton, Michael B. Smith, General Harold C. Moore, Juan Williams ...
    Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

  • Turkish Cultural Policies in a Global World

    Edited by Jean-François Polo, Muriel Girard, Clémence Scalbert-Yücel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the production of Turkish cultural policies in the context of globalization and of the circulation of knowledge and practices. Focusing on circulations, the book proposes an innovative approach to the transfer of cultural policies, considering them in terms of co-production and synchrony. This argument is developed through an examination of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD