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  • The Weight of the Social Economy

    An International Perspective

    Edited by CIRIEC, Marie J. Bouchard, Damien Rousselière ...
    Series Book 6 - Économie sociale et Économie publique / Social Economy and Public Economy
    What is the weight of the social economy? How should we measure it? Throughout the world, cooperatives, non-profit and mutual benefit organizations, foundations and other social enterprises play an important role in job creation, social cohesion, social innovation, regional development and environmental protection. Observations tend to confirm the ability of the social economy to contribute to ... Read more

    $67.19 USD

  • Public Enterprises Today: Missions, Performance and Governance – Les entreprises publiques aujourd’hui : missions, performance, gouvernance

    Learning from Fifteen Cases – Leçons de quinze études de cas

    Edited by CIRIEC, Luc Bernier ...
    Series Book 5 - Économie sociale et Économie publique / Social Economy and Public Economy
    Over thirty years, privatization of public enterprises was in the air. Before and during this period of neo-liberalism, and since the 2008 crisis, public enterprises were nonetheless created: they did what they were set up for and they frequently managed to get interesting results, as much on their public mission as regarding profitability. How is this possible? This book looks at public ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Social and Solidarity-based Economy and Territory

    From Embeddedness to Co-construction

    Edited by CIRIEC, Xabier Itçaina, Nadine Richez-Battesti ...
    Series Book 7 - Économie sociale et Économie publique / Social Economy and Public Economy
    The articulation between the social and solidarity-based economy (SSE) and territory is not self-evident. For the contributions to this volume, the challenge was one of disentangling these interrelations by avoiding two pitfalls. The first, the idealist perspective, sees SSE as the magic answer to all neoliberalism-related ills. The demystifing perspective, by contrast, emphasizes the relentless ... Read more

    $62.69 USD

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  • The Effectiveness of Conflict of Interest Policies

    A Comparative Study of Holders of Public Office in the EU Member States

    by Christoph Demmke, Jari Autioniemi, Florian Lenner, Maros Paulini ...
    Neither instruments nor methodologies are available to measure the development of CoI over long periods of time. Therefore, it is impossible to state whether CoI increase or decrease. The Member States of the EU have no statistics and figures about the development of Conflicts of Interest (CoI). However, ever new scandals, growing media attention and changing concepts of governance create ever new ... Read more

    $56.19 USD

  • The Deconstruction of Employment as a Political Question

    'Employment' as a Floating Signifier

    Edited by Amparo Serrano-Pascual, Maria Jepsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of ‘work’ and the category of ‘worker’. Changes in the production models, economic downturn and increasing digitalisation have triggered a breakdown in the terms and assumptions that previously defined and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Comparative Corporate Governance

    Legal Perspectives

    by Veronique Magnier ...
    Comparative Corporate Governance considers the impact of globalization on corporate governance issues and highlights how, despite the effect it has clearly had, predictions of legal convergence have not come true. By adopting a comparative legal approach, this book explores the tensions that exist between convergence attempts and the persistence of local models of governance in the US, Europe and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Ending Poverty

    A Basic Income for all Canadians

    by Francois Blais ...
    As Canada's social safety net continues to be eroded and the gap between rich and poor in our society continues to grow, it becomes increasingly urgent to confront the problems of poverty in fresh and creative ways.Political scientist François Blais offers a bold new proposal to assist the poorest and most disadvantaged in our society: a guaranteed basic income, or allowance, to be paid to every ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Educational Planning

    by Dr. Vijender Sharma ...
    Different philosophers and educationists have defined education differently. Froebel defined education as the unfoldment of what is already enfolded in the germ. It is the process by which the child makes internal external. For Swami Vivekananda, education is the manifestation of the divine perfection already existing in man.Organized: means pianned in a pattern or sequence with explicit or impies ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Root-Cause Regulation

    Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    by Michael J. Piore, Andrew Schrank ...
    Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S. workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory practices to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Aftermath

    The Cultures of the Economic Crisis

    Edited by Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, João Caraça ...
    The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the social and economic conditions that characterized the rise of global, informational capitalism in the preceding three decades. The policies ... Read more

    $26.59 USD