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  • Bad Public Policy

    Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking

    Series series Elements in Public Policy
    Policy studies assume the existence of baseline parameters – such as honest governments doing their best to create public value, publics responding in good faith, and both parties relying on a policy-making process that aligns with the public interest. In such circumstances, policy goals are expected to be produced through mechanisms in which the public can articulate its preferences and policy ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of National Security

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary theory, practice and themes in the study of national security.Part 1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised and formulated within the disciplines international relations, security studies and public policy.Part 2: Actors shifts the focus of the volume from these disciplinary concerns to consideration of ... Read more

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  • The Architecture of Policy Transfer

    Ideas, Institutions and Networks in Transnational Policymaking

    by Tim Legrand ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the increasing circulation and transfer of public policy ideas between the UK, US and Australia since the 1990s. It argues that the upsurge in policy transfer amongst and between these states can be explained by a structural and shared commitment between these states to a distinctive institutional ideology of policy-making. This ideology, it is claimed, is partly a product ... Read more

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  • Banning them, securing us?

    Terrorism, parliament and the ritual of proscription

    Series series Manchester University Press
    Banning them, securing us? explores the proscribing – or banning – of terrorist organisations within the United Kingdom across a period of twenty years. The process of banning specific organisations, Jarvis and Legrand argue, is as much a ritualistic performance of liberal democracy as it is a technique for increasing national security from the threat posed by terrorism. Characterised by a ... Read more

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  • The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations

    Modern Blacklisting in Global Perspective

    Edited by Lee Jarvis, Tim Legrand ...
    Powers to outlaw or proscribe terrorist organisations have become cornerstones of global counter-terrorism regimes. In this comprehensive volume, an international group of leading scholars reflect on the array of proscription regimes found around the world, using a range of methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives from Political Science, International Relations, Law, Sociology and ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

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    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the ... Read more

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    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

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    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
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