Political science and theory

The crisis in trade unionism is now a prevailing concern in the United States, as well as in Europe.

This book is the result of a three day workshop on "e;Evaluation in theory and practice in spatial planning"e; held in Ramsey Hall, University College London, in September 1996.

Modern statistics consists of methods which help in drawing inferences about the population under consideration.

What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy?

How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy implementation?

The study of natural law theories in the early Enlightenment continues to be one of the most fruitful areas of research in early modern intellectual history.

In order to determine whether two participants in a discussion are in real dis/agreement, one must compare their propositions.

The intertwinement of EC law and national law may create unforeseeability in situations where EC law invades the national cases, which gives rise to the very question of legal certainty in EC law.

This book contains six studies on various national environmental policies and environment -oriented technology policy systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, sandwiched between this introductory and a concluding chapter.

Catriona McKinnon and Dario Castiglione It is not an overstatement to say that toleration is one of the most important issues for the defmition of a moral and political theory with application to modem globalised societies.

Policy issues relating to forestry have been the subject of much debate in recent years, and many countries and international agencies have recently, or are currently in the process, of revising their policies for forestry.

When did man discover nuclear waste?

Over the last decades higher education has gone through an unprecedented growth period, and as a result the average university or college has now more students and a larger output than ever before.

Nicolas Buclet Waste management issues can be approached in several ways.

During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing.

The theoretical claims for eco-tariffs are rigorously analyzed within a unified framework formed of an international trade model enriched with both a domestic and a global externality.

There is a complex relationship between the environment and the development of tourism, which this book discusses in a thorough and informative manner.

Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in Research & Development (R&D) policy.

This chapter introduces key themes from the book, reflecting the topics of the 'Awareness of the Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies' Seminar, in Kos, Greece.

Recent years have witnessed a substantial change in both the organisation and substance of environmental policy, both national and international.

This book is the immediate result of the co-operation of a great number of scholars in the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG).

Nicolas Buclet and Olivier Godard In terms of economic scale, waste management is one of the two most important environmentally oriented sectors.

In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence.

No theory is more passionately and widely defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

The book focuses on the negotiation process leading up to the creation of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the domestic implementation of this international agreement.

Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled.

Although the illicit arms trade has evolved over recent years, despite the end of the Cold War it appears to be as vibrant as ever.

By their adoption of Agenda 21, most of the world's governments have acknowledged the need for sustainable development.

More than 200 major river basins are shared by two or more countries and, together, these basins account for about 60% of the earth's land area, constituting a significant portion of the world's fresh water resources.

Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate.

This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body.

When the socialist regime in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was overthrown around the end of the eighties, beginning of the nineties, an overall transforma- tion of whole societies started.

Controversies concerning the siting of facilities for the disposal and treatment of hazardous but also domestic waste are widespread in all of the industrialized countries.

All industrial countries have developed regulatory systems to assess and manage the risk of chemical substances to the working and natural environment.

Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond- heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War.

This book consists of a significant and valuable reappraisal of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by a number of outstanding, international Hegel scholars.

Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought presents a challenging alternative theory of legal philosophy.

During the last years international cooperation on environmental issues has increased, especially after UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

The theory of practical rationality does not belong to one academic discipline alone.

An Approach to Rights contains fifteen previously published but mostly inaccessible papers that together show the development of one of the more important contemporary theories of the nature, grounds and practical implications of rights.

In the last decade the techniques of social choice theory, game theory and positive political theory have been combined in interesting ways so as to pro- vide a common framework for analyzing the behavior of a developed political economy.

The discipline of public administration and public policy is experiencing a renaissance of research in which explicit attention is paid to political insti- tutions.

Since the onset of modernisation the world population has doubled several times and will soon reach 6 billion of people.

This book is th e result of a collaborative research project involving the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and the Centre for Defence Economics at the University of York in England .

Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation.

Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely.

This Report contains a Consensus Report and the papers submitted to the April 6 -10, 1995 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Strategic Stability In The Post-Cold War World And The Future Of Nuclear Disarmament, held in Washington D.

Stephen Martin* The fourteen essays that constitute this work provide a coherent review of the past and present of the European Community, and consider some of its possible futures.

Government and Markets is the first book to tackle systematically and in a multidisciplinary fashion the role of democratic governments during and after the transition from plan to market.

Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap- plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.