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  • Higher Education and Development in Africa

    by Pedro Uetela ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book critically addresses concepts and analyses related to the higher education and development nexus in Africa. The study explores the expansion of higher education in Africa and its impact on development, modernization and the economy to situate Africa within global debates on higher education governance and investment. Using concrete indicators from economic, social and political domains, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Higher Education and Decolonization in Africa

    by Pedro João Uetela ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book investigates current debates shaping Higher Education development as a subsystem and higher education (HE) as a field of study in Africa. It applies meta-analysis, literature review methodologies and the lens of decolonization theories to examine both studies and key reforms characterizing the continent. The book unpacks how these remarkable and unintended transformations of universities ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • State-Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Development Aid Confronts Politics

    The Almost Revolution

    by Thomas Carothers, Diane de Gramont ...
    A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically.Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Working with the Grain

    Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies

    by Brian Levy ...
    The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the early 21st century. Working with the Grain draws on both innovative scholarship and Brian Levy's quarter century of experience at the World Bank to lay out an alternative-a practical, analytically grounded, "with-the-grain" ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

    Edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    by Hayley Stevenson, John S. Dryzek ...
    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Understanding Policy Change

    How to Apply Political Economy Concepts in Practice

    by Cristina Corduneanu-Huci, Alexander Hamilton, Issel Masses Ferrer ...
    How does the social and political context in which decision-makers find themselves in affect their ability to realize their reform goals? How does this context facilitate or inhibit specific reform agendas and projects? How can we operationalize and evaluate these risks and opportunities in order to decide what reforms and projects are feasible given the circumstances? This book provides the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Conundrum of Corruption

    Reform for Social Justice

    by Michael Johnston, Scott Fritzen ...
    Series series Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies
    This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best.Drawing on many years of experience and research, the authors critique many of the major strategies and tactics employed by anti-corruption actors, arguing that they have made the mistake of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD