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  • Making Global Policy

    by Diane Stone ...
    Series series Elements in Public Policy
    Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public sector activities managed by transnational policy communities. Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of globalisation on the industrialised knowledge economies of OECD states, as well as on social and economic policy challenges faced by developing and transition states. But the focus has been on domestic politics and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Policy Learning and Policy Failure

    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer.Policy successes and failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy learning and failure and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration

    Edited by Diane Stone, Kim Moloney ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Banking on Knowledge

    The Genesis of the Global Development Network

    Edited by Diane Stone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    Banking on Knowledge is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'Knowledge Bank'. The book addresses how international organizations and governments are developing partnerships with think tanks, research institutes and other knowledge institutions in the hope of informing and improving policies for reform and development around the world.The book focuses on the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Capturing the Political Imagination

    Think Tanks and the Policy Process

    by Diane Stone ...
    Think tanks are proliferating. Although they are outside of government, many of these policy research institutes are perceived to influence political thinking and public policy. This book develops ideas about policy networks, epistemic communities and policy learning in relation to think tanks. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    The Centrality of the State in Modern Society

    Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the ... Read more

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  • Remaking Media

    The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication

    Series series Communication and Society
    Remaking Media is a unique and timely reading of the contemporary struggle to democratize communication.With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world today?Taking an innovative approach, Robert ... Read more

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  • Regionalisation and Global Governance

    The Taming of Globalisation?

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    The relationship between global governance and regionalization is fraught with ambiguity. Understanding regionalization in this context requires an understanding of its relationship, and reactive condition, with both the constellations of global governance and globalization.This book presents an overview and explores the distinctive but intersecting trajectories of regionalization and global ... Read more

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  • Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce

    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women. It examines the effect of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan and describes the actions women are taking individually and collectively to campaign for change in their working environment and the laws and practices regulating it. ... Read more

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  • Global Citizens

    Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization

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    The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered, questions about the ultimate significance of the challenges posed by global social movements ... Read more

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  • World Yearbook of Education 2008

    Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education

    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the organization and practices of higher education tend to travel from the ‘West to the rest’. Thus, ... Read more

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  • Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights

    The Role of Multilateral Organisations

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations - the World Bank and the UNDP - and two specific initiatives where ... Read more

    $67.99 USD