Search Results - "governance"

Reining in the competition for capital

Table of Contents: “…Bartik -- Negotiating the ideal deal: which local governments have the most bargaining leverage? / Rachel Weber -- Do better job creation subsidies hold real promise for business incentive reformers? …”
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Tonga a new bibliography / by Daly, Martin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Map of Tonga -- The country and its people -- Geography and environment -- Tourism and travel guides -- Travellers' accounts -- Flora and fauna -- Prehistory and archaeology -- History -- General Pacific -- General Tonga -- Mission and church -- Pre-1900 -- Post-1900 -- Language -- Religion -- Society -- Kava -- Health and welfare -- Politics and government -- Constitution and legal system -- Foreign relations -- Economy, trade and labour -- Population, migration and remittances -- Industry, commerce and agriculture -- Fisheries -- Education -- Literature -- Material culture -- Performance arts -- Books, media and communications -- Academic journals -- Encyclopaedias and reference works -- General bibliographies -- Web sites -- Addendum: Recently published.…”
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Diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond advances and setbacks in the last two decades /

Table of Contents: “…The diffusion of gender quota laws in Latin America / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- (Argentina) Melida Archenti and Maria Ines Tula (University of Buenos Aires) -- (Brazil) Clara Araujo (State University of Rio de Janeiro) -- (Mexico) Jennifer Piscopo (University of California, San Diego) -- (Mexico, Sub-national) Pär Zetterberg, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden -- (Peru) : Greg Schmidt (University of Texas, El Paso) -- (Costa Rica) : Ana Isabel Garcia Quesada- Costa Rica -- (Dominican Republic) Jacqueline Polanco (Bronx Community College -- Gender quota laws in Latin America : from diffusion to the end of a wave?…”
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Economic and political reform in Africa : anthropological perspectives / by Little, Peter D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : what it means to be "reformed" -- "They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business -- "Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique -- "We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya -- "They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya -- "The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia -- "Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya -- "A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism -- Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.…”
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Developing fish landing centres : experiences and lessons from Sri Lanka / by Diffey, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Infrastructure asset database -- 6. Government officer training courses and workshops -- 7. …”
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Reproductive justice : the politics of health care for Native American women / by Gurr, Barbara Anne

Table of Contents: “…Reproductive oppression, reproductive justice, and the reproductive body -- The ruling relations of reproductive healthcare -- Producing the double discourse : the history and politics of Native-U.S. relations and imperialist medicine -- To uphold the federal government's obligations . . . and to honor and protect : the double discourse of the Indian Health Service -- Resistance and accommodation : negotiating prenatal care and childbirth -- One in three : violence against Native women -- Genocidal consequences : contraception, sterilization, and abortion in the fourth world context -- Community knowledges, community capital, and cultural safety -- Conclusions : Native women in the center.…”
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Structure, culture and agency : selected papers of Margaret Archer / by Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Realism's explanatory framework -- Thinking and theorizing about educational systems -- On predicting the behaviour of the educational system -- The myth of cultural integration -- The vexatious fact of society -- Morphogenesis versus structuration -- For structure : its reality, properties and powers -- The private life of the social agent -- The ontological status of subjectivity -- Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life -- A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative -- Self-government & self-organization as misleading metaphors -- The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity -- How agency is transformed in the course of social transform -- Trajectory of the morphogenetic approach -- Interview with Maggie -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.…”
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Research Universities in Africa / by Cloete, Nico, Bailey, Tracy, Amito, Helen, Van Schalkwyk, François, Bunting, Ian, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…The role of the research university -- Tensions between functions in the research university -- Incentivising research performance at African universities -- Evidence-based planning and governance -- Knowledge and networks -- part 3. Academic core profiles of eight African universities. …”
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Constitution-Making and Human Rights in the Sudans by Oette, Lutz

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Mirrors of justice law and power in the post-Cold War era /

Table of Contents: “…Beyond compliance : toward an anthropological understanding of international justice / Sally Engle Merry -- Postcolonial denial : why the European court of human rights finds it so difficult to acknowledge racism / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour -- Proleptic justice : the threat of investigation as a deterrent to human rights abuses in Côte d'Ivoire / Mike McGovern -- Global governmentality : the case of transnational adoption / Signe Howell -- Implementing the International Criminal Court treaty in Africa : the role of nongovernmental organizations and government agencies in constitutional reform / Benson Chinedu Olugbuo -- Measuring justice : internal conflict over the World Bank's empirical approach to human rights / Galit A. …”
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Water law and cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris region : a comparative and interdisciplinary approach /

Table of Contents: “…/ Katrin Tiroch -- Sovereignty revisited-examining the rules of international law that govern transboundary water resources with a focus on upstream/downstream state practice-possible lessons learned for the Euphrates-Tigris / Patricia Wouters.…”
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Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting : linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation /

Table of Contents: “…A corpus-based CDA on government interpreters' metadiscursive (re)construction of truth, fact and reality (Chonglong Gu) 4. …”
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North American Arctic : Themes in Regional Security /

Table of Contents: “…Reconciling the North: Transit pipelines and the pursuit of self-sufficient self-government in the Yukon -- 14. 'That happens up there?' …”
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Dictators, democracy, and American public culture envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / by Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America.…”
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Democracy as problem solving civic capacity in communities across the globe / by Briggs, Xavier de Souza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Democracy and public problems -- Managing urban growth : the problem and its civics -- Rethinking the American West : a civic intermediary and the movement for "quality growth" in Utah -- The grassroots-to-grasstops dynamic : slum redevelopment and accountability in Mumbai -- The civics of economic restructuring -- The hyper-organized region : leading the next "new economy" in Pittsburgh -- Progressive regionalism and entrepreneurial government : democratization and competitive restructuring in the greater ABC, Brazil -- Leading change in child and youth well-being -- From the ballot box to better results : cross-sector accountability in the San Francisco children's movement -- Rights, conflict, and civic capacity : meeting the needs of poor children and families in postapartheid Cape Town -- Conclusion.…”
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Contagion the financial epidemic that is sweeping the global economy--and how to protect yourself from it / by Talbott, John R., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…-- The U.S. economy was not in great shape to begin with -- U.S. enters a long recession -- The global economy catches the contagion -- Too big to fail : the $400 trillion derivatives market -- Our local governments feel the pinch -- From Wall Street to Main Street -- Demographics magnify contagion -- Which investments and which countries will weather the storm the best? …”
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The accidental playground Brooklyn waterfront narratives of the undesigned and unplanned / by Campo, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 - Discovering and Engaging a Waterfront -- Chapter 2- The Rise and Fall of Shantytown Skatepark -- Chapter 3- March and Burn: Practice, Performance and Leisure without a Plan -- Chapter 4- Outside Art: Exploring Wildness and Reclamation at the Water's Edge -- Chapter 5- Local Tales: Hanging Out and Observing Life on the Waterfront -- Chapter 6- Residential Life: Hardship and Resiliency on the Waterfront -- Chapter 7- Neighbors Against Garbage: Activism and Uneasy Alliances on the Waterfront -- Chapter 8- Unplanned Postscript: Dogs, Sunsets, Rock Bands and the Governance of a Waterfront Park -- Chapter 9- Planning for the Unplanned.…”
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Legal aspects of mental capacity : a practical guide for health and social care professionals / by Dimond, Bridgit

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anatomy of the Mental Capacity Act and its terms -- Background to the legal system and the Mental Capacity Act -- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making -- Definition of mental capacity -- Making decisions in the best interests of others -- Lasting powers of attorney -- Court of Protection, court appointed deputies, the Office of the Public Guardian and visitors -- Independent mental capacity advocates -- Advance decisions -- Research -- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability -- Children and young persons -- Mental capacity and mental disorder -- Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) -- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use -- The informal carer -- Implementation, resources, and code of practice -- Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland -- The future.…”
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"Crossover" children in the youth justice and child protection systems / by Baidawi, Susan, 1982-, Sheehan, Rosemary

Table of Contents: “…Child protection and youth offending: a cross-national concern / Susan Baidawi -- Government and policy developments related to crossover children / Rosemary Sheehan -- The characteristics and pathways of crossover children: the study explained / Susan Baidawi -- Court records: the profile of "crossover kids" / Susan Baidawi -- Crossover kids: professionals' perspectives on offending and desistance / Rosemary Sheehan -- Culture and indigeneity: risk and responses for indigenous crossover children / Rosemary Sheehan -- The nature and contexts of offending among crossover children / Susan Baidawi -- Crossover children: where criminogenic risk meets systemic disadvantage / Susan Baidawi -- Disrupting the pipeline: decriminalising child protection-involved youth / Susan Baidawi.…”
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