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Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Mobility in the U.S.
Donald J. Bogue, Gregory Liegel, Michael Kozloski
This book provides an important assembly of research findings for all who are interested either in changing or reinforcing present immigration policy. Both comprehensive and up-to-date, the study of the demographic, economic, and social ... -
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Foreign Policy Challenges in the 21st Century
Edited by Michael Heazle, Martin Griffiths, Tom Conley
This book explores the emerging challenges to foreign policymaking in liberal democracies and the adequacy of the ‘marketplace of ideas’ in responding to the challenges. Looking at foreign policy challenges as diverse as democratisation,... -
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Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland
This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...eBook:Find out more$52.76
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Local Government Reform
Edited by Brian E. Dollery, Joseph Garcea, Edward C. LeSage Jr
The book is unique in that it provides a systematic comparative analysis of municipal reform by using an analytical framework that focuses on structural, functional, financial, jurisdictional and organizational/managerial reform in each ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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North American Freight Transportation
Mary R. Brooks
Heightened awareness of North America’s vulnerability to terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 has precipitated a crisis for transport suppliers and cargo owners, one that jeopardizes economic prosperity. Mary Brooks examines one industry s... -
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Taxing Reforms
Richard Eccleston
Using an institutional approach, the analysis in this book is animated by contemporary theoretical debates. These concern the dynamics of institutional and policy change and the roles of economic forces, policy ideas and political actors...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains
Edited by David Burch, Geoffrey Lawrence
This book analyses the gradual shift in the distribution of power in agri-food supply chains, away from the manufacturers of branded food products to the global supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart and Tesco. This transformation has had a... -
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Private Institutions and Global Governance
Philipp H. Pattberg
This book analyses the recent emergence of transnational forms of environmental regulation within the larger conceptual context of global governance research and institutional theory. Increasingly, private policies at the transnational l... -
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Fiscal Reform in Spain
Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, José F. Sanz-Sanz
This book provides an insightful and in-depth analysis of the fiscal reform process experienced in Spain over the last 30 years. -
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Reform and Leadership in the Public Sector
Joe L. Wallis, Brian E. Dollery, Linda McLoughlin
The authors provide a fresh and accessible multi-disciplinary perspective on public management reform in this study. The work includes a broad survey of the paradigms and patterns that have shaped and differentiated the reform process in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Governance of Food Production and Consumption
Peter Oosterveer
The provision of food is undergoing radical transformations throughout the global community. Peter Oosterveer argues that, as a consequence, conventional national governmental regulations can no longer adequately respond to existing and ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Sector Enterprise Resource Planning
Edited by Rainer A. Sommer
Worldwide, public sector organizations are implementing commercial packaged software solutions, or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, to increase productivity and customer service as well as to deploy manageable business process...