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  • Political Science in the Shadow of the State

    Research, Relevance, Deference

    Edited by Rainer Eisfeld, Matthew Flinders ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What is the link between scholarship and democracy? What role do academics play in sustaining democratic values? Why should concerns about the ‘hollowing-out’ of democracy include a focus on the changing governance of higher education? Offering the first comparative analysis of how both democratic and autocratic politicians are seeking to control the research funding landscape, this book reveals a ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Empowering Citizens, Engaging the Public

    Political Science for the 21st Century

    by Rainer Eisfeld ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive study to respond to the ongoing debates on political sciences’ fragmentation, doubtful relevance, and disconnect with the larger public. It explores the implications of the argument that political science ought to become more topic-driven, more relevant and more comprehensible for "lay" audiences. Consequences would include evolving a culture of public ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias

    Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism

    by Andrew Griffith ...
    Canada is known for its inclusive citizenship and multiculturalism policies that have been largely successful in integrating an increased diversity of Canadians. In contrast to the previous approach, in 2007, the Conservative government initiated a fundamental change to make citizenship more meaningful and emphasize integration in multiculturalism. Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Public Administration

    Key Issues Challenging Practitioners

    by Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

    Edited by Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters ...
    The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry.Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

    Edited by Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy ...
    Series Book 6 - Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social, and cultural consequences. Contributors draw on theory and empirical research to offer diverse perspectives on the local, national, regional, and global forums in which policy debate occurs. ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Knowledge for Sale

    The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education

    by Lawrence Busch ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Europe in the Global Age

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for example, remains ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Higher Education

    by Philip G. Altbach ...
    The single best book on higher education as a global phenomenon.Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Paradoxes of Aid Work

    Passionate Professionals

    by Silke Roth ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and tracing the pathways into and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

    by Olga Bain ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Logics of Hierarchy

    The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its ... Read more

    $12.39 USD