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Networks, Security and Complexity
Sean P. Gorman
Networks, Security and Complexity goes on to address specific concerns such as determining criticality and interdependency, the most effective means of allocating scarce resources for defense, and whether diversity is a viable strategy. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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America’s Changing Coasts
Edited by Diana M. Whitelaw, Gerald R. Visgilio
Following a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume’s expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated with coastal resource management, as well as the most significan...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Soft Law in Governance and Regulation
Edited by Ulrika Mörth
A rising interdependence among the members of international society and of global civil society has led to an increasing demand for governance without government. The new regulatory mode is characterized as a ‘soft law’ framework. -
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Globalization and Marketization in Education
Ka-Ho Mok, Jason Tan
Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book focuses on its impact upon Hong Kong and Singapore, and how these two East Asian Tigers have responded to the strong glo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trends in Infrastructure Regulation and Financing
Edited by Christian von Hirschhausen, Thorsten Beckers, Kay Mitusch
This book provides a balanced presentation of international trends in infrastructure regulation and financing. Based on recent developments in microeconomic theory, it comprehensively discusses the role of the state and the private secto... -
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Pension Policy in an Integrating Europe
Edited by Onorato Castellino, Elsa Fornero
This book focuses on pension policies in Europe and interestingly includes comparisons both within the EU and between EU countries and the US. The authors show how different countries are confronted with similar problems and that compari... -
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Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies
David Rooney, Greg Hearn, Thomas Mandeville, Richard Joseph
The purpose of this book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are identified and analysed through new conceptual frameworks. Such frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of knowledge-based economie... -
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Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage
Edited by Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough
This book analyses the conception of economic development in modern regions, which has gone through a fundamental change since the early 1980s. Regions are today increasingly looked upon as independent market places that are connected vi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Analytical Transport Economics
Edited by Jacob B. Polak, Arnold Heertje
Analytical Transport Economics opens with a critical examination and overview of the scope of transport economics. Next, the production of transport, travel demand, transport externalities and transport markets are thoroughly analysed. T... -
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Public Subsidies and Policy Failures
Cees van Beers, André de Moor
Public Subsidies and Policy Failures provides extensive analysis of the theory and political economy of public support policies, demonstrating how subsidies can harm the environment, distort trade, and benefit those in society who do not... -
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Public Policy and Local Governance
Peter Bogason
Traditional policy analysis takes as its starting point national legislation and then traces the public policy process through the hierarchical chain of agencies which implement directives. In this book, Peter Bogason takes a postmodern ... -
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Good Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Herman W. Hoen
The implementation of a democratic order embedded in a market economy environment has proved immensely difficult. Furthermore, this process is subject to tremendous variety within Central and Eastern Europe. Ten years after the collapse ...eBook:Find out more$40.00