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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leaving Japan Observations on a Dysfunctional USJapan Relationship Observations on a Dysfunctional USJapan Relationship East Gate Book
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Challenges of the USJapan Military Arrangement Competing Security Transitions in a Changing International Environment
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Taylor & Francis Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem The Provision of Education and Social Services Routledge Studies on the ArabIsraeli Conflict
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Swedens Pandemic Experiment
Book SynopsisThis book considers Sweden's pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world: it provoked intense and wide-reaching interest, curiosity and criticism. Trans-disciplinary Swedish authors from the humanities, life sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies use a variety of tools to mine deeper into some of the central elements and dimensions in their country's pandemic management such as understandings of freedom, the execution of power, denialism, exceptionalism, patriotism, the role of expertise and trust in the national state to give a deeper understanding of Sweden's decisions, failures, successes, and the lessons to be learned.Aimed at readers with interest in global health and politics it will also be of interest in disciplines such as virology, epidemiology, history, cultural studies, ethics, media studies, medicine and economics.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has beeTrade Review"Detailed narrative accounts are essential for learning lessons from the global tragedy of Covid-19. Sweden’s approach—which became famous for all the wrong reasons—is meticulously documented here. It should be essential reading for those involved in planning for future public health emergencies." - Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, GP and Public Health academic, University of Oxford, UK"For many reasons this book is a unique and special contribution to public health coming at a unique time. There are many reasons why "herd immunity" is not applicable in a pandemic. This book will tell why. There are more reasons why government as medical scientific leader is also not applicable. The COVID-19 pandemic proved that ,and this book tells why. Which government should we follow (many differed one from another)? Why should we limit expertise where we know it is limited or even lacking?"- Robert Gallo, MD, Gudelsky Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology and Founding Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md., and Co-Founder and Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the Global Virus Network"From the earliest months of the coronavirus pandemic, international observers have been taken aback by Sweden’s policy choices in responding to COVID-19. Countering its long history of leadership in public health, the Swedish state has advanced a laissez-faire approach in which the population is allowed to be exposed to the virus in a manner that experts believed would remain controlled. To date, it has remained difficult for outsiders to understand Sweden’s permissive attitude towards the pandemic, the unwillingness of national leaders to revisit counterproductive policies, the state's controversial trafficking in misinformation, and ultimately a lack of reflection on highly disparate rates of infection and death.Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment resolves these puzzles by offering a rich account of the context informing Sweden’s COVID-19 response. Its interdisciplinary contributors illuminate a wide array of inputs—sociological, historical, cultural, and political—to the so-called "Swedish way." As they show, Sweden’s pandemic failures have drawn on a constellation of institutional failures: in media, in crisis management, in health care, in public health, and in national scientific research institutes.Presented without fear or favor, Sweden's Pandemic Experiment should prompt a reckoning in Swedish society. This meticulously documented account will also be a model for researchers elsewhere, inspiring comparative analysis of pandemic strategies that have underperformed in other global settings."- Martha Lincoln, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University and author of Epidemic Politics in Vietnam: Public Health and the State (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). "This volume is one of the first to provide an interdisciplinary critical assessment of the Swedish response to the pandemic of COVID-19. This is a timely and welcome contribution to study the interplay of scientific, political and public discussion about a ‘Swedish puzzle’ that has triggered essential moral questions while deeply affecting the social compact."- Yohann Aucante, Associate professor at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS); author of The Swedish Experiment. The COVID-19 response and its controversies (Bristol University Press, 2022)."Different national states launched different medical-political strategies to combat the Covid pandemic. If nations are willing to learn from each other how to cope with such unusual situation that, however, may repeat with an other infectious disease, such strategies must be comprehensibly assessed and evaluated according to ethical standards. Bergmann and Lindström present such critical assessment for the specific Swedisch case. I see this interdisciplinary volume as paradigm case for a holistic survey which is of interest far beyond the Swedish case as such. It is a "must read" for all persons and organizations worldwide even if it may remind doubtful whether there are final "lessons learned". - Konrad Ott, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Kiel University. "It is a must-read. It contains highly referenced and detailed descriptions of public health strategies and misrepresentations in Sweden. A very different narrative is told than the one which is being used to shape much of our pandemic policy."-Kevin Kavanagh, MD, founder of the patient advocacy group Health Watch USA and a frequent contributor to Infection Control Today."The detailed timelines and supporting evidence that provided a very thorough critique of Sweden’s response are especially impressive. It is fascinating to read about how resistant the public health authorities were to change the direction of their advice despite evidence to the contrary. The book does well to explore the concept of herd immunity and why it should never be our goal unless we properly understand the infection, have safe and effective vaccines, and a vaccine non-hesitant population."- The Lord Ara Darzi of Denham, current member of the House of Lords, Academic surgeon, holding the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London; Chair of Institute of Global Health Innovation, St Mary's Hospital.Table of ContentsIntroduction Sweden Stumbles along the Third Way 1. In the rupture between this and another world to come: introductory remarks on pandemic emergency and Sweden’s response 2.A timeline of events: December 2019 to February 2022 3. On the virology of SARS-CoV-2 and an expert authority without real experts: was there a deliberate disinformation from the Public Health Agency of Sweden on theSARS-CoV-2 infection’s spread in the population? 4.The COVID-19-pandemic and the Swedish strategy: central aspects of the strategy in relation to evidence-based medicine criteria 5.The Swedish COVID-19 response: from poorly judged utilitarianism to history revisionism and the tragedy of the commons 6.Learning from failure: mastering a pandemic in the triad of science, politics and trust 7.Epidemiology and COVID-19: why numbers are important and can be misleading 8.The political economy of estimating immunity levels 9.Children at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic 10.The biopolitics of herd immunity 11.Collaborators, supporters, and science judges: how trust in the Public Health Agency’s messaging was achieved 12.Sweden unmasked: reading state and society through the pandemic 13. A drastic end to a long story of success in Swedish preventive medicine
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Taylor & Francis Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability
Book SynopsisWhat happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made âcitizenship inclusionâ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this book untangles the current state of Western intellectual disability politics following the replacement of state institutionalisation by independent and supported living, individual rights, and self-determination. Taking its cue from Foucaultâs conception of âbiopoliticsâ, denoting the government of the individuals and the totality of the population, its overarching argument is that the ambiguous positioning of people with intellectual disabilities with respect to the ideals of citizenship results in a regime of government that simultaneously includes and excludes people of this group. On the one hand, its members are projected to become ideal-citizens via the cultivation of citizenship capacities. On the other, the right to live independently and by their own choices is curtailed as soon as they are seen as failing with respect to the ideals of reason and rationality. Therefore, coercion, restraints, and paternalism, which were all supposed to end with deinstitutionalisation, are still ingrained in services targeting the group. In equal parts a theoretical work, advancing debates of critical disability theory, social theory, and post-structural philosophy, as well as an empirical engagement with the history of intellectual disability politics and the ways in which present day politics target the group, this book will be of interest to all students and scholars of disability studies, disability politics, and political theory.Trade Review'Making no humanist friends, Altermark's outstanding book disseminates the very ideals of citizenship that are peddled in the name of social inclusion but are revealed to be of the most pernicious kinds of thought that render people with intellectual disabilities surplus to requirements. Read this. Read it now.' - Daniel Goodley, Director of Research, The Universtiy of SheffieldTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Post-Institutional; Chapter 2. Pathology; Part II: Citizenship; Chapter 3. Philosophy; Chapter 4. Discourse; Chapter 5. Control; Part III: Resistance; Chapter 6. Vulnerability; Chapter 7. Representation; Chapter 8. Ethics; Conclusions: Post-Institutional Critique; Appendix 1 References; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform
Book SynopsisTheory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The book consists of three parts, the first addresses a number of conceptual and theoretical perspectives on public sector reform. It shows how different ways of looking at reform reveal very different things. The second part addresses major changes in specific areas of public sectors ''objects of reform.' Part three focuses on the study of public sector reform.Aimed at academics, researchers and advanced students; this edited collection brings together many of the most eminent academics in the area of Public Policy and Management seeking to link to theory in part one and insights into specific thematic areas in part two, offering readers a display of theoretical perspectives to look at public sector reform.Trade Review"This book fills a gap in thought leadership on public sector reform. It consolidates current theory, themes, and perspectives from leading scholars, thereby raising consciousness of the too neglected reform pulse of public management." –John K. Wilkins, York University, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction: Theory and Practice of Public Sector ReformSteven Van de Walle and Sandra GroeneveldPart 1: Perspectives on Public Sector Reform2. An Institutional PerspectiveJohan P. Olsen3. A Transformative PerspectiveTom Christensen and Per Lægreid4. A Principal-Agent PerspectiveSandra Van Thiel5. An Innovation PerspectiveVictor Bekkers and Lars Tummers6. A Change Management PerspectiveJoris van der Voet, Ben S. Kuipers and Sandra Groeneveld7. A Cultural Theory PerspectiveChristopher Hood8. An Interpretive PerspectiveR.A.W. RhodesPart 2: Objects of Reform9. Reforming Organizational StructuresSteven Van de Walle10. Bureaucrats and Politicians: Reform Begets ReformB. Guy Peters11. The Shift toward Network Governance: Drivers, Characteristics and ManifestationsErik-Hans Klijn and Joop Koppenjan12. Management of Human Resources: Trends and VariationSandra Groeneveld and Bram Steijn13. Public Management Reform and Public ProfessionalismMirko Noordegraaf14. Recent Shifts in Public Financial ManagementTiina Randma and Geert BouckaertPart 3: Studying and Practicing Reform15. Public Sector Reform amidst Societal and Administrative ShiftsKim Putters16. Two Varieties of Administrative Reform: US vs. EuropeRichard Stillman17. Becoming a Student of ReformFrans-Bauke van der Meer, Christoph Reichard and Arthur Ringeling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Destiny Atlantic Transformations
Book SynopsisWith the fall of its centuries-old empire in 1974-1975, Portugal embarked on a transitional period that reconciled a long tradition of acting out national interests overseas with the need to integrate itself into Western Europe. The result has been a deemphasis on various Atlantic and colonial linkages and the forging of a new and highly successful European identity within the framework of the European Community. In European Destiny, Atlantic Transformations Scott B. MacDonald offers a comprehensive analysis of Portugal''s foreign policy and its highly successful venture in economic and political transformation.Although Portugal is firm in its committment to a European destiny, it has not turned its back on relations with the United States and its former colonies hi Africa and Asia. MacDonald traces the evolution of U.S.-Portuguese cooperation along economic, cultural, and military lines and shows how NATO has played a pivotal role in the process. This was most recently underscored wheTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Portugal Since 1974, 3. The Second Republic’s Foreign Policy: Coping with the Revolution, 1974-1976, 4. Portugal and Europe, 5. Portugal and the Americas, 6. The Past Shapes the Present: Portugal and Africa 7. The Sun Sets on the Empire: Portugal and Asia and the Middle East, 8. Conclusion: Future Options, Concerns, and Capabilities
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