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  • High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines

    Patronage, Emotion and Democracy

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare, and constitutes formal organizations. So intimately connected is it with the health of democracy and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Emotional Bureaucracy

    Edited by Rupert Hodder ...
    This study casts doubt on the classic model of bureaucracy and its relevance to developing areas. In particular, Hodder challenges the Weberian distinction between the role of emotion and a modern bureaucracy's impersonal and rational qualities. He suggests that bureaucracies function differently, and offers a different perspective. The focus is the Philippines, but Hodder's conclusions are ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Small Business, Big Society

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book considers how small businesses stir up changes in social relationships and what these changes mean for wider society. From this emerges a challenging and provocative discussion on the problems facing both the developing and developed worlds. Development, it argues, is written into social relationships and growth follows attempts to avoid the market’s degenerative effects. What this ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Development Geography

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    Development Geography is an informative and vibrant introductory level text, with a wealth of contrasting case-studies and illustrations. Written to stimulate critical thought and discussion about development, it does not assume any clear-cut distinction between 'developed' and 'developing' parts of the world. Case-studies highlight the problems and possible solutions at local, national and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Between Two Worlds - Society, Politics, and Business in the Philippines

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    This book considers the tensions and complementarities between two different attitudes towards social relationships - on the one hand, the attitude aspired to in the West, which emphasises individualism, institutional probity, and the rule of law, and which regards social relationships as ideals or absolutes; and, on the other hand, the attitude often found in Asia, where loyalties based on ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Having People, Having Heart

    Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

    by China Scherz ...
    This study of charity in Uganda "challenges current international development norms and standards . . . as . . . refusals to redistribute wealth" ( Washington Post).Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local ... Read more

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  • Employment Law

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In today's society, work takes up a vast proportion of the time and energy of ordinary people. Although use of the phrase 'work-life balance' is now commonplace in the media and ordinary conversation, people work longer hours than ever before. However, rather than purely a means to an end in terms of supporting oneself financially, the ... Read more

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  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

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  • Less is More

    How Degrowth Will Save the World

    by Jason Hickel ...
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  • Sociology

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    $7.99 USD

  • How to Think Seriously About the Planet

    The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

    by Roger Scruton ...
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