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Auditing Good Government in Africa: Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse by Maria Gustavson 9781349448692
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit... -
Latin America and the International Court of Justice: Contributions to International Law by Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida 9781138613744
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93This book aims to evaluate the contribution of Latin America to the development of international law at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This contemporary approach to international... -
A Matter of Style: Organizational Agency in Global Public Policy by Louisa Bayerlein
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £76.40International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global governance, contributing to what some have described as the 'bureaucratization of world politics'. While we do... -
Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico by Arlene Davila
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14"Now everybody loves Puerto Rican culture," says a Puerto Rican schoolteacher and festival organizer, "but that's exactly the problem." Thus begins this major examination of cultural nationalism as a... -
Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts Patrick Dias 9780805821482
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site... -
Building Security in Post-Conflict States: The Domestic Consequences of Security Sector Reform by Fairlie Chappuis 9781138085381
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Support for security and justice institutions has become a crucial instrument of international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states. In attempts to shore up security as a precondition... -
The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700 by Joseph P. McDermott 9781107658615
Booksplease Price: £31.54This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's... -
Forensic investigation: Legislative principles and scientific practices by S. Dintwe 9780702186479
Booksplease Price: £44.53The field of forensic investigation has grown significantly in South Africa over the past few years. This growth in the field is mostly due to the fact that investigations are now also undertaken by... -
The Psychology of Cybersecurity: Hacking and the Human Mind Tarnveer Singh 9781041005704
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73This book takes a fresh look at the underappreciated role of human psychology in cybersecurity and IT management, discussing the role of cognitive bias and human factors on critical decisions.Written... -
Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia by Alexander D. King
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21What does it mean to be a traditional Koryak in the modern world? How do indigenous Siberians express a culture that entails distinctive customs and traditions? For decades these people, who live on... -
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding by Shelley X. Liu 9780197696705
Booksplease Price: £68.73Governing After War explores how wartime processes affects post-war state-building efforts when rebels win a civil war and come into power. Post-war governance is a continuation of war--although... -
All the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education by George Dennis O'Brien 9780226616575
Booksplease Price: £26.61This is a cogent analysis of higher education institutions in America. In this exploration, George Dennis O'Brien argues that to debate intelligently about the future of education, it is necessary to... -
The Governance Report 2019 by The Hertie School of Governance 9780198821502
Booksplease Price: £15.39Health promotion and protection for all citizens and health care for patients represent some of the most important policy challenges worldwide. Virtually every single area of life-professional... -
Aging and Health in Africa by Pranitha Maharaj 9781489973658
Booksplease Price: £90.56Population aging is a matter of global concern. It often occurs in tandem with changes in the health profile of the population. In Africa, many countries are already facing a high burden of... -
Aging and Health in Africa by Pranitha Maharaj 9781441983565
Booksplease Price: £90.56Population aging is a matter of global concern. It often occurs in tandem with changes in the health profile of the population. In Africa, many countries are already facing a high burden of... -
Rethinking Decentralization: Mapping the Meaning of Subsidiarity in Federal Political Culture by Jacob Deem 9780228017356
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £82.90Federal countries face innumerable challenges including public health crises, economic uncertainty, and widespread public distrust in governing institutions. They are also home to 40 per cent of the... -
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen by Lisa Wedeen
Booksplease Price: £24.80The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its... -
The Enactment of Strategic Leadership: A Critical Perspective by Darko Tipuric 9783031038013
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £21.38This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership... -
Bureaucracy and Representative Government Jr. Niskanen 9780202309590
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This is the first book to develop a formal theory of supply by bureaus. Niskanen develops an original and comprehensive theory of the behavior of bureaus with the institutions of representative... -
Multilayered Migration Governance: The Promise of Partnership by Rahel Kunz 9780415662420
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Multilayered Migration Governance explores the emerging concept of 'migration partnerships' in political management and governance of international migration flows. The partnership approach to... -
Money in International Exchange: The Convertible Currency System by Ronald I. McKinnon 9780195024098
Booksplease Price: £58.61Focusing on monetization of international trade per se, the text analyses common financial practices of merchants and manufacturers, commerical banks and central banks.Reviews"Ronald McKinnon is a... -
Distrust American Style: Diversity and the Crisis of Public Confidence by Sheila Suess Kennedy 9781591027089
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.83Political scientists have accumulated a significant amount of data suggesting that over the past decades, Americans have become less trusting of each other, and that as our population's diversity... -
Opening Education: Policies and Practices from Open and Distance Education by Terry D. Evans 9780415141833
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89We live in a society with ever-changing needs and expectations. Education practitioners and policy makers need therefore to face the challenges of new economic, social and technological conditions in... -
White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community by Ronald W. Walters 9780814330203
Booksplease Price: £27.71The rise of the Conservative movement in the United States over the last two decades is evident in current public policy, including the passage of the Welfare Reform Act, the weakening of affirmative... -
Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPVS): Performance and Modeling Under Outdoor Conditions by Andres Julian Aristizabal Cardona 9783319891224
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.22This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace... -
Nigeria's 2015 General Elections: Continuity and Change in Electoral Democracy by Ladi Hamalai 9783319540955
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book examines the significance of the 2015 elections in consolidating Nigeria's democracy, in the context of the difficulty of routinizing democracy since the attainment of nationhood in 1960... -
The State of Democracy in America by Michael Dukakis 9780878408610
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80In this wide-ranging assessment of democracy in America today, fifteen respected scholars of American politics chart the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's democratic mechanisms and outline the... -
Opening Education: Policies and Practices from Open and Distance Education by Terry D. Evans 9780415141826
Booksplease Price: £46.49We live in a society with ever-changing needs and expectations. Education practitioners and policy makers need therefore to face the challenges of new economic, social and technological conditions in... -
Parliament in the Twenty First Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles by John Halligan 9780522851861
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £23.21In the first half of the twentieth century, the power of parliaments around the world declined. More recently a revival has occurred, and parliaments have responded to the challenge with new... -
Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPVS): Performance and Modeling Under Outdoor Conditions by Andres Julian Aristizabal Cardona 9783319719306
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace... -
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan: Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites by Elena Dodge Corbett 9781477309902
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01An examination of archaeology in Jordan and Palestine, Competitive Archaeology in Jordan explores how antiquities have been used to build narratives and national identities. Tracing Jordanian... -
The Kurdistan region of Iraq: assessing the economic and social impact of the Syrian conflict and ISIS by The World Bank 9781464805486
Booksplease Price: £28.57The Kurdistan region of Iraq is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis as a result of the influx of Syrian refugees which began in 2012 and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 2014. The ... -
Register–based Statistics – Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes by A Wallgren 9780470027783
RRP: £105.95Booksplease Price: £95.21There is a growing interest in developing register-based surveys; that is surveys based upon already available administrative data. Since huge amounts of such data are generated within various... -
Becoming Europeans?: Attitudes, Behaviour, and Socialization in the European Parliament by Roger Scully 9780199284320
Booksplease Price: £56.24An almost universal point of agreement in contemporary political science is that 'institutions matter'. But the governing institutions of the European Union are widely presumed to matter more than... -
Strengthening the Human Right to Sanitation as an Instrument for Inclusive Development by Pedi Chiemena Obani 9781138618480
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.97Over a third of the current 7.3 billion people worldwide are burdened with poor sanitation services. The resulting social, relational and ecological exclusion make the realisation of the human right... -
Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crises in Turkey: Perspectives from Actors by Emrah Atar 9781666915761
Booksplease Price: £81.99Refugee and migration crises are among the most heartrending and troubling humanitarian issues of this century. These crises are particularly evident in the case of Syria, where, since 2011, civil... -
Health Management 2.0: Transformational Leadership for Challenging Times by Usman Khan 9781800433458
Booksplease Price: £49.91From precision medicine to pandemics, from value-based healthcare to stakeholder engagement, European health systems are facing unprecedented change. How can health managers cope with these... -
Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context: A Comparative Study of Policy Transfer in Samoa and Tonga by Timothy Philip Fadgen 9789811564789
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the... -
Contingent Capital: Short-term Investors and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in France and Germany by Michel Goyer 9780199578085
Booksplease Price: £114.88Corporate Governance has become a major topic of interest for both academics and policy-makers in recent years. The advent of major financial scandals in the early 2000s (Enron, WorldCom, Ahold,... -
The Mayflower by Kate Caffrey 9781442242487
Booksplease Price: £20.01The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to...