This book is an ambitious undertaking - a research documentation that describes a wide variety of approaches to knowledge production relevant to development policy, and illustrates the diverse possibilities of transdisciplinary development research within 25 projects in 15 countries.
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics - from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities - we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body.
Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those seeking safety and security.
Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around ''embedded cohesiveness''.
An introduction to African history and politics since decolonization, emphasising the political, economic and socio-economic diversity of the continent.
Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered.
El siglo XXI es considerado un momento de definición para la humanidad, si bien la mayoría de nosotros podría estar de acuerdo con esta idea, tal vez, en lo que no todos estaríamos de acuerdo es en la respuesta a la pregunta sobre ¿quién guiará a la sociedad por el camino que tendrá que recorrer para llegar al bienestar?
An introduction to the European Union from a comparative politics perspective, systematically analysing its functioning through comparison with national political systems.
Die Geschichtswissenschaft wirft derzeit mit Hilfe verschiedener Historikerkommissionen einen zweiten Blick auf die personellen und institutionellen Kontinuitäten und Brüche im Nachkriegsdeutschland.
DAS STANDARDWERK ÜBER SÜDTIROL* mit einem Beitrag über den neuen Landeshauptmann von Südtirol Arno Kompatscher* verständlich und kompakt dargestellt* mit Personenregister und einer ausführlichen ZeittafelEin vollständiger, kompakter Überblick über die Geschichte Südtirols: Teilung und Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Hitler-Mussolini-Abkommen, Option und Umsiedlung, Gruber-De Gasperi-Abkommen und Scheinautonomie, Attentate und Paket und schließlich eine Autonomie, die für viele Modellcharakter hat.
Individual chapters highlight the unique issues related to policy making in this field - the important role of diverse Aboriginal organizations, the need to address Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right to self-government, and the lack of governmental leadership - revealing a complex jurisdictional and programming maze.
This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date.
Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often blamed for the country's failure to develop coordinated policy responses to key issues.
