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  • Radical Municipalism

    The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services

    by Ismael Blanco, Ricard Goma, Laura Roth, Matthew Thompson, Lorenzo Vidal-Folch, Carlos Delclós, Mara Ferreri, Anaïs Varo, Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi, David Palomera, Angelina Kussy, Keir Milburn, Kai Heron, Ana Dzokic, Dragan Djunda, Marc Neelan, Dona Geagea, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Maria Francesca De Tullio, Giuseppe Micciarelli, Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Tim Wihl, Thomas Hanna, Aaryaman Singhal, Nasya Razavi, Gabriel Silvestre, Marilin Lopez, Karin Friedric, Brian Burke ...
    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Radical Municipalism offers a fresh perspective on the democratizing capacity of the politics of the common in the transformation of public services, aiming to foster social change at the local level and beyond.Building on a strong theoretical foundation and featuring 14 original case studies from Europe and the Americas, the chapters explore the challenges and possibilities of implementing common ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • New Developments in Urban Governance

    Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity

    by Jonathan S. Davies, Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan ...
    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

    $41.39 USD

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    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    by Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Read more

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  • The Evolving Physiology of Government

    Canadian Public Administration in Transition

    Edited by O. P. Dwivedi, Tim A. Mau, Byron M. Sheldrick ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public services. This volume brings together some of the leading Canadian and international scholars of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • A Globalizing World?

    Culture, Economics, Politics

    Edited by David Held ...
    Series series Understanding Social Change
    Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments?A Globalizing World? examines these and other key questions in a highly accessible fashion, offering a clear and intelligent guide ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey, Diana C. Mitlin ...
    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

    $32.39 USD

  • Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

    by Verity Burgmann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their ... Read more

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  • The Business of Human Rights

    An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility

    by Klaus Dieter Wolf, Doctor Fiona Harris, Doctor Keren Bright, Professor John Hatchard, Mark J. Smith, Doctor Piya Pangsapa, Olufemi Amao, Gary Slapper, Lois Muraguri ...
    In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg.This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Global Labour Studies

    by Marcus Taylor, Sébastien Rioux ...
    Series series Work & Society
    From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these processes are unleashing profound social and environmental tensions, as well as new political movements. As a means to address these crucial themes, Global Labour Studies ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Governance

    The Centrality of the State in Modern Society

    by Stephen Bell, Andrew Hindmoor ...
    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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  • Stakeholders

    Government-NGO Partnerships for International Development

    Edited by Ian Smillie ...
    This unique study from the OECD Development Centre presents a comprehensive review by independent experts of the relationships and division of responsibility between the 22 member governments of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and NGOs from these donor countries, working in international development. Additional chapters cover the roles of the European Union and the World Bank ... Read more

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  • A Different Kind of State?

    by Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch ...
    A large factor in the appeal of neo-conservatism in the early 1980s was its sustained attack on the welfare state. Even those most dependent on public services were frustrated by a system that allowed them no say in decisions directly affecting their lives. A decade later, the alternative offered by the new right—free market competition—has only deepened the need for effective state assistance. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD