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  • Canadian Cultural Policy in Transition

    Series series Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of Canadian cultural policy and research, at a time of transition and redefinition, to establish a dialogue between conventional and emerging foundations. Taking a historical view, the book informs insights on current trends in policy and explores global debates underpinning cultural policy studies within a local context.The book first acknowledges what ... Read more

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  • Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity

    Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia

    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

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    Cities and States as Global Players

    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

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  • Accounting for Culture

    Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship

    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

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  • Building the Federal Schoolhouse

    Localism and the American Education State

    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

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    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and ... Read more

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    Controlling Chaos

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  • Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The book consists of three parts, the first addresses a number of conceptual and theoretical perspectives on public sector reform. It shows how ... Read more

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