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  • Buying and Selling the Poor

    Inside Australia's Privatised Welfare-to-Work Market

    by Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann, Mark Considine ...
    Series series Public and Social Policy Series
    Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Careless State

    Reforming Australia's Social Services

    by Mark Considine ...
    The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve. In the 1980s Australian governments faced rapidly increasing demand for services in areas like ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Democratic Accountability and International Human Development

    Regimes, institutions and resources

    by Mark Considine, Kamran Afzal ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health. However, many states still neglect these considerations in favour of competing priorities, such as expanding their armies. This book examines how states arrive at these decisions, analysing how democratic accountability influences public spending ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Contracting-out Welfare Services

    Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

    by Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine ...
    Series series Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
    Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subjectContributors ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

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  • Comparative Competition Law and Economics

    by Roger J. Van den Bergh ...
    Offering a concise and critical comparison of EU competition law and US antitrust law from an economic perspective, this is the ideal textbook for international and interdisciplinary courses combining law and economic approaches.The book provides thorough coverage including the definition of market power, the use of horizontal and vertical restrictions, mergers and the unilateral conduct of ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Corporate Governance

    by Bob Tricker ...
    Series series Elements in Corporate Governance
    In this Element the origins of corporate governance are reviewed, recognising that corporate entities have always been governed, that important developments took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the huge significance of the invention of the joint-stock limited liability company. The development of corporate governance in the twentieth century around the world is explored, ... Read more

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  • Commercial Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution

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    Commerce is inherently complex and the sums of money involved can be astronomical, so it is no surprise that conflicts and disputes are all too common. There are numerous techniques designed to resolve these problems, and this book summarizes the most important of these, as well as alternative dispute resolution methods. The reader seeking a deeper understanding of these procedures will also find ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

    Edited by Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Corporate Governance Ethics and CSR

    by Justine Simpson, John R Taylor ...
    The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is creating a paradigm shift in contemporary corporate culture and organizational behaviour with shareholder and stakeholder activism on the rise as international banking crises and global corporate scandals dominate the headlines.Through accountability and transparency, fiduciary capitalism is being challenged to tie sustainability and corporate ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Public Sector Management

    by Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer ...
    The seventh edition of the bestselling Public Sector Management is a rich and insightful description, analysis and critique of the management of the public sector by the UK government.NEW to the seventh edition:Now set in an international context with comparative global examples throughoutThree new chapters covering: strategy and planning in the public sector; transparency, accountability and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • The Other Invisible Hand

    Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition

    by Julian Le Grand, Alain Enthoven ...
    How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the ... Read more

    $52.59 USD