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Multilevel Constitutionalism for Multilevel Governance of Public Goods: Methodology Problems in International Law by Professor Dr Ernst Ulrich Petersmann 9781509909124
Booksplease Price: $236.10This is the first legal monograph analysing multilevel governance of global 'aggregate public goods' (PGs) from the perspective of democractic, republican and cosmopolitan constitutionalism by using... -
Governing China: 150-1850 by John W. Dardess 9781603843119
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.61Includes timelines, maps, suggested further readings, and an index.About the AuthorJohn W. Dardess is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Kansas.ReviewsThis compact narrative... -
Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia: Insiders and the State by Roman Frydman 9781858660356
RRP: $279.30Booksplease Price: $246.88The studies in this two-volume work shed new light on the range and viability of the emerging corporate governance institutions in the transitional economies of Central Europe. Regional specialists... -
Crisis Lawyering: Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations Ray Brescia 9781479835218
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39Shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first century In an increasingly globalized world, a complex and interlocking web of... -
Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia: Banks, Funds, and Foreign Investors by Roman Frydman 9781858660332
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $237.87The studies in this two-volume work shed new light on the range and viability of the emerging corporate governance institutions in the transitional economies of Central Europe. Regional specialists... -
Africa's Mineral Fortune: The Science and Politics of Mining and Sustainable Development by Saleem H. Ali
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to... -
Civil Society and Participatory Governance: Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil by Maureen M. Donaghy 9781138915749
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $56.55Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of... -
Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script by Prof.Dr. Tanja A. Borzel 9781137385635
Booksplease Price: $97.19This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance... -
Public Sector Reforms in Pakistan: Hierarchies, Markets and Networks by Abiha Zahra 9783030968274
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45This book provides a research-based analysis of public sector reforms in Pakistan. It offers a broad overview of reforms at different levels of government - including federal, provincial and local -... -
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain: Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition George Baca 9781845452353
RRP: $25.10Booksplease Price: $21.82As many scholars have argued, racism and its passions are created by and subordinated to the nation. This volume places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or... -
Reimagining our Futures Together: A New Social Contract for Education by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization 9789231004780
RRP: $89.25Booksplease Price: $67.73The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures. Education, long acknowledged as a powerful... -
Big Oil in the United States: Industry Influence on Institutions, Policy, and Politics by Professor Jerry A. McBeath 9781440837425
Booksplease Price: $128.84This book explains how and why large oil-producing corporations have affected government institutions, energy policy, and politics in the United States-and suggests how their influence can be reduced... -
Social Media (Collins Business Secrets) by Carolyn Boyes
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.97The social media secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of social media for business.Includes how to:* Plan*... -
From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China Lizhi Liu 9780691254098
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $164.87How the world’s largest e-commerce market highlights a digital path to developmentHow do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political... -
Female Ambition: How to Reconcile Work and Family by Nuria Chinchilla 9781403991782
Booksplease Price: $190.18Female Ambition traces the development of women in the workplace, and focuses on a host of critical issues such as current governmental legislation and the family unit, family-responsible companies,... -
Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals): International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945 Valerie Fildes 9780415834308
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at... -
Taylored Citizenship: State Institutions and Subjectivity by Char Miller 9780275972233
Booksplease Price: $159.20Miller shows how government institutions changed the meaning of American citizenship during the World War II era. He considers the state's role in creating concepts of citizenship and subjectivity by... -
The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921 by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9780521524384
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.95A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the... -
Presidential Leadership and Civil Rights Policy by James W. Riddlesperger 9780313296246
Booksplease Price: $160.67This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in the United States. Covering a broad... -
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh: Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity by Richard Pilkington 9780774861977
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.77In 1971, authorities in West Pakistan, now Pakistan, perpetrated mass atrocities in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The West and the Birth of Bangladesh explores responses in Washington, Ottawa, and... -
The Government and Politics of Ontario by Graham White 9780802078735
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.74Now in its fifth edition, this textbook is the standard authority on the government and politics of Ontario. Ideal for undergraduate students, it provides general background information, discusses... -
Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Finance: Proceedings from the 3rd Wroclaw International Conference in Finance by Krzysztof Jajuga 9783030094355
Booksplease Price: $193.16This volume includes a selection of the contributions presented at the Wroclaw conference in Finance, covering a wide range of topics in the area of finance. The articles reflect the extent,... -
Secular Power and Sacral Authority in Medieval East-Central Europe Kosana Jovanovic 9781041185871
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in... -
The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy by Bob Adamson 9789400792227
Booksplease Price: $190.18This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and... -
The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy by Bob Adamson 9789400758476
Booksplease Price: $190.81This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and... -
Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government by Carl Dahlstrom 9781137556271
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $214.62To a large extent, elite politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen hold the fortunes of their societies in their hands. This edited volume describes how formal and informal institutions affect elite... -
State Governments and Research Universities: A Framework for a Renewed Partnership by David J. Weerts
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $51.20Originally published in 2002, State Governments and Research Universities focuses on differences in unrestricted state appropriations for Carnegie Public Research I Universities during the 1990s... -
The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression by Daniel W. Drezner
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $51.56Global governance institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are little loved. They are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and... -
State Governments and Research Universities: A Framework for a Renewed Partnership by David J. Weerts 9781138330917
Booksplease Price: $171.57Originally published in 2002, State Governments and Research Universities focuses on differences in unrestricted state appropriations for Carnegie Public Research I Universities during the 1990s... -
Trade and Economic Development in Small Open Economies: The Case of the Caribbean Countries by Arnold Meredith McIntyre 9780275947453
Booksplease Price: $129.42The overall economic performance of Caribbean countries has declined markedly in recent times. The weak export performance of these trade-oriented economies is highlighted as the principal factor... -
Afghanistan: State Building, Sustaining Growth, and Reducing Poverty by 9780821360859
Booksplease Price: $113.36Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy. One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the... -
Science Diplomacy for South Asian Countries: Insights and Breakthroughs by Malti Goel 9789811630279
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $117.85This book provides a science diplomacy outlook as a new governance tool in international cooperation. It elaborates on India's current S&T collaboration with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,... -
Chief of Staff: The Rise of Political Craft in Westminster Democracies Heath Pickering 9781035340170
Booksplease Price: $183.33Spanning more than three decades, this timely book reveals the pivotal role played by prime ministerial chiefs of staff in shaping modern Westminster democracies. Heath Pickering's comparative... -
From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China Lizhi Liu 9780691254104
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94How the world's largest e-commerce market highlights a digital path to developmentHow do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political... -
European Approaches to United Nations Peacekeeping: Towards a stronger Re-engagement? by Joachim Alexander Koops
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of European approaches to United Nations peacekeeping by assessing past practice, present obstacles and future potentials related to nine core... -
Sex, Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography by Richard Phillips 9780719070068
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $157.92Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving... -
Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect by James B. Rule 9780520382626
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $118.52Other books remind us of what we already know-that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan to create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world. ... -
Beyond Westminster & Whitehall R. A. Rhodes 9780415079075
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $121.44Beyond Westminster and Whitehall provides the first comprehensive account of the range of sub-central government institutions that are responsible for the delivery of services to citizens. These... -
Asymmetric Engagement: The Community and Voluntary Pillar in Irish Social Partnership by Joe Larragy 9780719086502
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $158.55This book focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. It is the most thorough account of the dynamics of the Pillar to date and... -
mHealth Innovation in Asia: Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions by Emma Baulch 9789402415155
Booksplease Price: $97.19This open access book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives...