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The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life.

The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life.

Beyond devolution and decentralisation compares the politics, policies and polity-building dynamics of devolution in Wales and decentralisation in the French region of Brittany.

Sweden is seen as a forerunner in environmental and ecological policy.

Mutualism and health care, newly available in paperback, presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS.

This systematic study considers how international environmental agreements are transformed into political action in Russia, using three illuminating case studies on the implementation process in the fields of fisheries management, nuclear safety and air pollution control.

This book is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - monthly informal meetings between euro area finance ministers, the Commission and the European Central Bank.

Mutualism and health care, newly available in paperback, presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS.

The Bush Administration, sex and the moral agenda considers White House policy towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage.

The renewable and alternative energy markets and energy policy have evolved rapidly in recent years.

Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one.

Advanced Trading Rules is the essential guide to state of the art techniques currently used by the very best financial traders, analysts and fund managers.

Exploring how the U.

A Brookings Institution Press and Asian Development Bank InstituteAlthough emerging economies as a group performed well during the global recession, weathering the recession better than advanced economies, there were sharp differences among them and across regions.

In A People's War on Poverty, Wesley G.

Developing countries in Asia have expanded their social protection programs.

Infrastructure projects sometimes physically displace households and disrupt income sources and livelihoods.

An integrated national identification (ID) system offers a means to fast-track the development process by providing the most efficient way to identify people in developing countries.

This publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity.

Indonesia has adopted community-driven development as a major strategy for poverty reduction, and replicated the approach nationwide through a number of programs.

Policy makers in the People's Republic of China have been experimenting with new approaches to environmental management, resulting in a wide array of policy and program innovations under the broad heading of eco-compensation.

Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough.

What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece?

Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?

Most people do not know that already enacted in current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax.

Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter bring fresh perspective, deep scholarship, and a real and actionable solution, Final Five Voting, to the grand challenge of our broken political and democratic system.

"e;Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans .

Let's talk about agriculture, or the science of farming.

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.

These are challenging times, and perhaps it is here that humans are viewed at their best and their worst.

A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change.

"e;This masterful collection illuminates many of the all-important interfaces between culture and economy.

Can there be good social policy?

Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts.

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken.

In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D.

With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades.

The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity.

This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism.

The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women's reform.

Declaring a War on Poverty in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaimed: We shall not rest until that war is won.

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britains most humiliating defeat as an imperial power.

The euro crisis, Japan's sluggish economy, and partisan disagreements in the United States about the role of government all have at least one thing in common: worries about high levels of public debt.

Desde octubre de 2019, el debate sobre una nueva Constitución se ha polarizado entre los críticos extremos y los defensores a ultranza del modelo político y económico.

Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades.

Die in zunehmenden Maße vernetzte, schnelllebige, unüberschaubare und unvorhersehbare Welt bringt eine nie dagewesene Vielfalt an bekannten und noch unbekannten Herausforderungen sowie Risiken mit sich.

This concise yet comprehensive volume gives a compelling introduction to the politics, society, economy and culture of France.

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day.