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  • Reclaiming Participatory Governance

    Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation

    Edited by Adrian Bua, Sonia Bussu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Democratic Innovations
    Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance.One of the most interesting political developments of the past decade has been the adoption by social movements of strategies seeking to change political institutions ... Read more

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  • New Developments in Urban Governance

    Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity

    This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.An international collaborative from across the ... Read more

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    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Read more

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    Balancing the Social and the Economic

    Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient ... Read more

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  • International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
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  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

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  • Local Partnership and Social Exclusion in the European Union

    New Forms of Local Social Governance?

    Edited by John Benington, Mike Geddes ...
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    This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth, cross-national research from areas across Europe it provides a uniquely authoritative account of the ... Read more

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    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

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