Public Policy

Competing Claims in Work and Family Life

Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Pascale Peters

Competing claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. As households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, and as job expectations and parenting standards intensify, ma...

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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...

Hardback (October 2007)

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Hardback (September 2007)

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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Hardback (September 2007)

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...

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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 ...

Hardback (May 2007)

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The Political Economy of Regulation

Edited by Thomas P. Lyon

This volume collects a set of important articles that provides a wealth of broad insights into the causes and consequences of regulation. They show beyond doubt that this field of study is remarkably lively and filled with controversy.

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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...

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The Economics of Leisure

Edited by Clem Tisdell

This authoritative two-volume collection presents a comprehensive set of key articles that address the economics of leisure, arranged in a manner that facilitates the understanding of the subject. The editor’s perceptive introduction hig...

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Work, Leisure and the Environment

Tim Robinson

This significant book explains how work–life balance is being destroyed because individuals fail to link their work effort with its adverse environmental effects and the personal costs they impose.

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