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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Investor Politics: New Force Transform American
Book Synopsis The most explosive economic and political force of the last decade of the twentieth century has been the growth of personal investment. About half of all Americans now own stocks and bonds through IRAs, 401(k)s, and other financial devices. Polls show that personal investment in corporations changes one’s view of the economy, world events, and public policy toward taxes, government spending, regulation, and protectionism. Much of the growth of personal investing has been facilitated by innovations in the financial services and information technology arena—such as mutual funds and online trading—as well as accidental public policies creating tax-deferred employee benefits and personal investment vehicles. This book represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of public policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. To gain a clear understanding of the investor politics of the twenty-first century, the book looks backward to human history and even to prehistory to examine the origins of capital formation. As the facts demonstrate, politics has always been intimately linked with investment, understood in the broadest sense of the word. “Over the next few decades, Americans must stop looking to Washington as a source of the money they need to take care of themselves—there is no alternative. They will need instead to look to investment and wealth creation on Wall Street and Main Street as the guarantors of their retirement security, their health security, their job security, and their children’s futures.” —from the introduction Table of Contents Introduction / 1 1. A Short History of Saving and Investment / 10 2. American Political Realignment and the Origins of Welfare / 35 3. Wall Street and the Second Economic Revolution / 54 4. Depression and the New Deal / 86 5. The Great Social Security Debate / 110 6. The New Health-Care Imperative / 142 7. Houses, Highways, and Physical Capital 8. Education, Training, and Human Capital / 217 9. The Savings Strategy for Shrinking the Welfare State / 258 Conclusion / 277 Notes / 285 Index / 303
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ACA Publishing Limited Shanghai - the 'Pacesetter' of China's Reform and
Book SynopsisShanghai was the economic center of the far east in the early 20th century, when it was known as the ‘Paris of the orient’. Decades of relative decline followed until the start of China’s reform and opening-up policy and the decision to develop Pudong. Since then, Shanghai has regained its status as the country’s leading industrial and commercial center, and emerged as a key city in the Asia-Pacific region.Today, it is focusing on a four-pronged development approach with the target of becoming not only one of the world’s top financial centers by 2020 but also a global economic, trade and shipping hub. In 2015, Shanghai’s financial sector grew by 23%, contributing 16.2% to the city’s GDP. In shipping, it has supplanted Hong Kong and Singapore to become the busiest container port in the world with a total throughput of more than 37m TEUs in 2016. Shanghai, the Pacesetter of China’s Reform and Opening Up provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, cultural and social characteristics of Shanghai, its national and global status, and its development before and after reform and opening up. It charts the transformation of Shanghai’s economy, and goes on to assess its pioneering national role in terms of social administration and cultural development. Lesser-known aspects of the city, including the ecological environment and administrative operations, are also analysed in depth. The book concludes with a look at the future development of Shanghai, the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the vision to create a cosmopolitan city with the capability to allocate global resources.
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University Press of Kentucky Smokescreen
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Hachette Livre - BNF Oeuvres Militaires de Guibert. Tome 1
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Hachette Livre - BNF Considérations Sur l'Armée Haïtienne
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Hachette Livre - BNF Théorie Du Notariat Pour Servir Aux Examens de
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Hachette Livre - BNF Guide de l'Immigrant À Madagascar Tome 3
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Hachette Livre - BNF Le Siège de Huningue, Par Un Officier de la
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Travaux Publics de la France: Routes Et
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Monda Asembleo Socia La rajto je pigro
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Beyond the Knowledge Crisis: A Synthesis
Book SynopsisIn the face of complex, interwoven, planet-scale problems, many cite the need for more integrated knowledge—especially across the natural and social sciences. Excessive specialization, they argue, gets in the way of knowing what we know, much less being able to use it to address urgent socio-environmental crises. These concerns, it turns out, go back centuries. This book picks up where most leave off, exploring the history of how we got here and proposing a way forward. Along the way, readers find that the synthesis long called for depends on theoretical advancements in social science. Fortunately, the author argues, we have everything we need to achieve those advancements, thanks largely to the contributions of Norbert Elias. Integrating his insights with history, science, sociological theory, and more, this book neatly packages the upgraded paradigm we need to be able to meaningfully address complex socio-environmental problems and more intentionally shape humanity’s collective future.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Crisis of the LibrarianChapter 2: Moving Toward SynthesisChapter 3: A Science of Human Social Life? Present State, Future Prospects Chapter 4: Mapping the TerritoryChapter 5: The Medium of Human Social LifeChapter 6: The Human ConditionChapter 7: Second NatureChapter 8: Actions and ReactionsChapter 9: The Only ConstantConclusion: Insights, Applications, and Possibilities
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Education in Central Asia: A Kaleidoscope of Challenges and Opportunities
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Energy Use in Cities: A Roadmap for Urban Transitions
Book SynopsisIn an era of big data and smart cities, this book is an innovative and creative contribution to our understanding of urban energy use. Societies have basic data needs to develop an understanding of energy flows for planning energy sustainability. However, this data is often either not utilized or not available. Using California as an example, the book provides a roadmap for using data to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions by targeting programs and initiatives that will successfully and parsimoniously improve building performance while taking into account issues of energy affordability. This first of its kind methodology maps high-detail building energy use to understand patterns of consumption across buildings, neighborhoods, and socioeconomic divisions in megacities. The book then details the steps required to replicate this methodology elsewhere, and shows the importance of openly-accessible building energy data for transitioning cities to meet the climate planning goals of the twenty-first century. It also explains why actual data, not modeled or sampled, is critical for accurate analysis and insights. Finally, it acknowledges the complex institutional context for this work and some of the obstacles – utility reluctance, public agency oversight, funding and path dependencies. This book will be of great value to scholars across the environmental sectors, but especially to those studying sustainable urban energy as well as practitioners and policy makers in these areas. Trade Review“This book covers a remarkable breadth of topics across a compact seven chapters. ... The content covered will be of interest to a wide readership, particularly policymakers and researchers in the energy, built environment and policy domains. It is accessible enough to be read by non-specialists and would be of interest to anyone working or interested in the built environment or planning and the role of individuals and individual buildings in the wider transition to net zero.” (Dominic Humphrey, Buildings & Cities, buildingsandcities.org, December 3, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Larger Context, Cities, Smart and Big Data.- Chapter 3: Building Energy Data Access and Aggregation Rules. Chapter 4: Building an Energy Atlas.- Chapter 5:User Design and Functionality.- Chapter 6: Data Analytics.- Chapter 7: Case Studies.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Economics and Sustainability: Social-Ecological Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability. It synthesises economic, ecological and interdisciplinary sustainability research and by applying an integrated social-ecological and economic framework, demonstrates how this research can be improved and implemented in practice. Split into three parts, the book begins by introducing a range of topics forming the basis of knowledge needed to understand the varying sustainability discourses in economics, ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Chapters cover the political context of sustainability; the history of sustainability in European environmental discourses dating back to the seventeenth century; as well as various problems and forms of interdisciplinary knowledge integration and synthesis in the sustainability process. Part II reviews the core economic themes relevant to sustainable development including natural resource management, environmental economics and ecological economics. Also highlighted are often neglected issues such as conflicts, disasters and interrelated crises on the way towards sustainability. The chapters in Part III discuss the future of the sustainability process. They argue for the necessity of overhauling the relationship between science and practice; explore failures and the unforeseen difficulties of sustainability transformation; and discuss how to enable a long term sustainability process that reaches into the distant future.An innovative resource for a broad range of interdisciplinary programmes on sustainability. The book will be an invaluable reference for master and PhD students, instructors, researchers and practitioners in sustainability governance.Table of ContentsPart I: The sustainability process - context and scope.Chapter 1: The policy context of the sustainability discourse.Chapter 2: The historical context - sustainability in the modern society.Chapter 3: The knowledge context of the sustainability discourse.Part II: Economic and ecological knowledge in the sustainability process.Chapter 4: Economics outright - management of natural resources.Chapter 5: Environmental economics - orthodox perspectives.Chapter 6: Ecological economics - critical perspectives.Chapter 7: Conflicts, relapse and failure in the sustainability process - neglected problems.Part III: The future - sustainability transformation.Chapter 8: Changing relations of science and practice in the sustainability process.Chapter 9: Re-thinking temporal perspectives of the sustainability transformation.Chapter 10: Recreating sustainability – conjectures and conclusions.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care: An
Book SynopsisThis Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of open adoption from care in Australia. It contributes to the international debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face post adoption contact with birth families.The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long-term foster care for abused and neglected children in care who cannot safely return to their birth families. They also explore whether open adoption can avoid some of the detrimental consequences of past policies in which adoption was shrouded in secrecy and children frequently grew up with a conflicted sense of identity. The book will appeal to policy makers, practitioners and students of social policy, social work, the law, psychology and psychiatry. It should also be of interest to adult adoptees and adoptive parents, whose experiences it reflects. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Part One: Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents and Children When They Entered their Adoptive Homes.- Chapter 2. Issues Facing the Birth Parents and their Implications for Open Adoption. - Chapter 3. The Children.- Chapter 4. The Adoptive Parents.- Part 2: Outcomes of Open Adoption From Care.- Chapter 5. Permanence.- Chapter 6. Post-Adoption Contact and Relationships with Birth Family Members.- Chapter 7. Progress After Placement.- Chapter 8. Adult Outcomes.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Practice.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Politics of Health Promotion: In the European
Book SynopsisMuch has been written about policy efforts to achieve ‘Health in All Policies’: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as implementing impact assessments. In contrast, and focusing on the European Union, this book argues that ‘Health in All Policies’ is essentially a political project shaped by institutional power, competing ideas, and discourses. We can only really understand the failure to realise its ambition through political analysis. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What is 'Health in All Policies'?.- Chapter 3: Where is ‘health’ in EU governance?.- Chapter 4: How can we research ‘Health in All Policies’ in the EU?.- Chapter 5: Setting the scene: Are EU institutions ‘HiAP-friendly’?.- Chapter 6: Going deeper: Is it about more than institutions?.- Chapter 7: Shifting focus: Why did ‘Health in All Policies’ still reach the EU?.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis edited volume offers a critical, thorough, and interdisciplinary examination of arguments for eliminating the minimum democratic voting age. As children and youth increasingly assert their political voices on issues such as climate change, gun legislation, Black Lives Matter, and education reform, calls for youth enfranchisement merit further academic conversation. Leading scholars in childhood studies, political science, philosophy, history, law, medicine, and economics come together in this collection to explore the diverse assumptions behind excluding children from voting rights and why these are open to question. While arriving at different and sometimes competing conclusions, each chapter deconstructs the idea of voting as necessarily tied to age while reconstructing a more democratic imagination able to enfranchise the third of humanity made up by children and youth. Thus, this book defines and establishes a new field of academic study and public debate around children's suffrage. Chapter “The Reform that never happened: a history of children's suffrage restrictions” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Children’s Suffrage Studies Part I Theoretical Frameworks 2 Silence Is Poison: Explaining and Curing Adult “Apathy” 3 How Low Can You Go? The Capacity to Vote Among Young Citizens 4 The Case for Children’s Voting Part II Historical Contexts 5 The Enfranchisement of Women Versus the Enfranchisement of Children 6 De-Colonizing Children’s Suffrage: Engagements with Dr B R Ambedkar’s Ideas on Democracy 7 The Reform that Never Happened: A History of Children’s Suffrage Restrictions Part III Practical Considerations 8 Generational Economics 9 Legality of Age Restrictions on Voting: A Canadian Perspective 10 A View from Paediatric Medicine: Competence, Best Interests, and Operational Pragmatism
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Springer International Publishing AG Cycling Through the Pandemic: Tactical Urbanism and the Implementation of Pop-Up Bike Lanes in the Time of COVID-19
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Palgrave Macmillan Voices of Gen Z
Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 2 Theory.- 3 Study 2022: Young people in Schilderswijk, Laakkwartier, and Moerwijk.- 4 Study 2023: Conflicting Perceptions of SDG16 and EU Climate Policies.- 5 Study 2024: Bringing the Groups Together: Youth groups in dialogue with policymakers.- 6 Discussion and Conclusions.
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De Gruyter Viral Lobbying: Strategies, Access and Influence
Book SynopsisPandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert authors from across the social and natural sciences analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on elite surveys and focus group interviews with selected groups, the book provides new evidence on the lobbying strategies used during the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as the resulting access to and lobbying influence on public policy. The empirical analyses reach across eight European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom), as well as the EU-level. In particular, the book draws on responses from approximately 1,600 interest organisations in two waves of a cross-country survey (in 2020 and 2021, respectively). This quantitative data is supplemented by qualitative evidence from a series of 12 focus groups with organised interests in Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands conducted in spring 2021.
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Springer International Publishing AG REACH Beyond Borders: Europeanization Towards Global Regulation
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VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K. The Andean Community in the International Context
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Der Untergang eines Imperiums
Book SynopsisDas Buch erklärt die Gründe für die Instabilität von Imperien und ihre Desintegration sowie die daraus entstehenden Probleme. Es analysiert die Krisenzeit der UdSSR, insbesondere die Ursachen und Begleitumstände ihres Auseinanderbrechens. Jegor Gajdar war unmittelbar an den damit zusammenhängenden Ereignissen beteiligt, er gehörte zu den Autoren der Beloweschsker Verträge, die den Zusammenbruch des letzten Imperiums im 20. Jahrhundert, der Sowjetunion, besiegelten. Mitte der 1980er-Jahre erlebte die UdSSR eine schwere Krise der Zahlungsbilanz und des Finanzsystems, die sich zu einer generellen Wirtschaftskrise entwickelte. Diese wiederum führte zu einem drastischen Produktionsrückgang, sinkenden Lebensstandards, politischer Destabilisierung und schließlich zu einem gesetzmäßigen Zusammenbruch des politischen Regimes und damit auch des sowjetischen Imperiums. Die Auswirkungen dieses Erbes auf die folgenden Jahre, nun bereits in der Russischen Föderation, werden einleuchtend und überzeugend dargestellt. Damit leistet das Buch einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu einer wichtigen Debatte. Table of ContentsGröße und Fall von Imperien.- Autoritäre Regime: Ursachen der Instabilität.- Der „Fluch des Erdöls“.- Risse im Fundament. Die Sowjetunion zu Beginn der 1980er-Jahre.- Die politische Wirtschaft externer Schocks.- Entwicklung der Krise des sozialistischen wirtschaftspolitischen Systems.- Auf dem Weg zum Staatsbankrott.- Der Zusammenbruch.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability in
Book SynopsisThis book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste disposal facilities, public participation and public discourse, voluntarism and compensation in siting as well as the role of advisory bodies and commissions. The volume reflects on the diverse factors that shape the debate on what can be considered an ”acceptable solution” and on various strategies adopted in order to minimise conflicts and possibly increase acceptability. The various theoretical and empirical contributions shed light on several mechanisms and issues touched upon in these strategies, such as the role of trust, voluntarism, economic interests at stake, compensation, ethics, governance, and participation. Table of ContentsHistorical Paths and Legacies.- Participation, Stakeholder Dialogue and Mediation.- Trust, Voluntarism and Compensation.- Between Science and Society: The Role of Experts and Commissions.- Planning and Socio-Technical Challenges.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Krisengeprüftes Europa: Wie wir die Solidarität
Book SynopsisDas Integrationsprojekt der Europäischen Union ist über seine wirtschaftlichen Erfolge noch nicht weit hinausgekommen, die ursprüngliche Idee einer politischen Union ist nach den Krisen des vergangenen Jahrzehnts in weite Ferne gerückt. Globalisierung, Migration, Nationalismus und Populismus machen der noch wenig verfestigten europäischen Identität zu schaffen. Bürgerschaft und Politik stehen vor der Wahl, die EU durch massive Reformen nicht nur wirtschaftlich, sondern auch politisch zu einer Weltmacht zu entwickeln oder sie zu einem Kerneuropa mit differenzierter Peripherie abschmelzen zu lassen. Für eine Weichenstellung bietet sich die Konferenz zur Zukunft Europas an.Table of ContentsDas Jahrzehnt der Krisen- Wirtschaftlich schwächelndes Europa- Globalisierung und Migration im Wechselspiel- Migrationspolitik der EU zwischen Abwehr und Integration- Gibt es eine „europäische Identität“?- Nationaler Populismus als Ideologie und Methode- Die EU auf dem Weg zur Konsolidierung?- COVID-19 deckt viele Schwächen der EU auf- Welche Zukunft hat die EU?
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Transcript Verlag Sustainable Development in Science Policy–Making
Book SynopsisNew knowledge, created in international cooperation, is essential for global sustainability. Set against this background, this study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, the book scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany. The author argues that science policy mainly aims at German economic benefits and technology development. This, however, negatively influences global sustainability. To counter existing path dependencies, the author provides recommendations for sustainability-oriented scientific practice and science policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Science in the context of sustainable development; Discourse analysis in a policy setting; Research design and methodology; Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany; Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency; Friends and foes in science policy; The heart of German science policy -- and its green lungs; Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives; Policy effects -- coining realities; Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography.
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Pentagon Press India`s Foreign Policy Modi 2.0: Challenges and
Book SynopsisIndo-Pacific has become the pivot of the global politics and the salience of the region is bound to increase in the foreseeable future. India`s profile has rapidly grown since the end of Cold War and now India is being considered an important country in shaping the power equilibrium within the Indo-Pacific in particular and at the global level in general. The security architecture has remained turbulent in the region and in this prevailing scenario India has the golden opportunity to maximize its national interests. The phenomenal rise of China in the region and its diverging interests with India and many other important countries within the region have further complicated the security situation. India had a coalition government from 1989 till 2014. The 2014 General elections gave a thumping majority to Modi-led BJP. This government has performed excellently on the foreign policy front in its first tenure and has contributed as a motivating factor in the return of Modi government with a bigger majority in May 2019. At this juncture, India needs to reformulate its policies to cope up with the emerging situation. PM Modi is considered a strong leader and has adopted a pro-active foreign policy. But now, India has to reformulate its foreign policy in a structural manner to cope up with changing global power structure. It offers both challenges and opportunities to the Narendra Modi–led NDA-3 government.
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De Gruyter Open Environmental Democracy at the Global Level::
Book SynopsisGiulia Parola’s Environmental Democracy at the Global Level: Rights and Duties for a New Citizenship can be seen as a manifesto that is both traditional and revolutionary at the same time. It calls for the construction of a new civilisation centred on the environment, while drawing on the traditional notions of democratic government. It adopts an approach that is focused on the power of individuals rather than governments, as ways to protect and improve the environment. It proposes that environmental rights and ecological duties are self-evident and inalienable, and should be treated as the cornerstones of a new democracy. Parola’s book is a thought provoking and intriguing work that will be of interest to scholars of environmental studies as well as to legal practitioners and non-specialists. Giulia Parola has studied Environmental Law at the University of Torino, at the University of René Descartes in Paris, (where she obtained PhD in Public Law) and at the University of Iceland ( LLM in Natural Resources Law and International Environmental Law). In 2011, she was appointed by the University of Laval (Canada, Quebec) as a researcher and a lecturer in Environmental Law.
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Springer Globalisation, Ideology and Neo-Liberal Higher Education Reforms
Book SynopsisThis book sets out to examine the neo-liberal dimensions of globalisation and market-driven economic imperatives that have impacted higher education reforms. It critiques the notions of accountability, efficiency, academic capitalism, quality of education, and the market-oriented and entrepreneurial university model, based on a neo-liberal ideology. The expansion of economic rationality into the educational sector is one the most ubiquitous dimensions of neo-liberalism and one of its most powerful ideological tools, resulting in the commodification, commercialization, and marketization of education and knowledge. The book critiques structural changes in education and the impact of neo-liberalism and globalisation on educational systems around the world. With this as its overall focus, the respective chapters present hand-picked scholarly research on major discourses in the field of global neo-liberal education reforms. The book draws upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation, neo-liberal education reforms, and the role of the state. It critically assesses the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current education and policy reforms and illustrates how these shifts in the relationship between the state and education policy are shaping current trends in education policy reform outcomes. Taken together, the chapters offer a timely analysis of current issues affecting neo-liberal education policy research, and outline future directions that education and policy reforms could take.Table of Contents1 Current Research Trends in Globalisation and Neo-Liberalism in Higher Education.- 2 Neo-liberalism in a globalized world: The case of Canada.- 3 Globalization, Nationalism, and Inclusive Education for All: A Reflection on the Ideological Shifts in Education Reform.- 4 Globalisation and Neo-liberalism in Higher Education.- 5 Neoliberal Education: A new citizenship education in a globalised world? Comparing citizenship education in Singapore and Australia.- 6 Neo-liberalism and configuring global citizenship in higher education: Outbound Mobility Programs.- 7 Violence and the Crisis of Meaning in a Neo-Liberal World.- 8 Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Laissez-Faire: The Retreat from Naturalism.- 9 Globalisation and Neo-Liberal Higher Education Reforms.- 10 Research on globalisation and neo-liberalism in higher education.
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Reamsworth Publishing Social Protection in Africa: A Study of Paradigms and Contexts
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Insights On Singapore's Politics And Governance
Book SynopsisThis book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed by the who's who of Singapore's government, business and academia circles, they provide diverse viewpoints over state-society relations, governing principles, electoral politics, foreign policy, among other important issues.Will consensus or contest secure Singapore's future? Should pragmatism be retained as Singapore's governing philosophy? What if the nation-state is no longer the key organisational unit of the international community? What if Singapore has to choose between China and the United States? What if Singapore becomes a two- or multi-party system? This volume explores a range of possible answers to these questions and more.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Arctic Council: Between Environmental Protection and Geopolitics
Book SynopsisThis pivot introduces the Arctic Council and its role as a platform for dealing with local, national, regional and global challenges of relevance to the “new” Arctic. Against the backdrop of climate change and increasing commercial activity, it considers what a future Arctic should look like, from ideas of total protection to expansive oil and gas extraction. It examines the Arctic’s position on the political agenda, from Norway’s High North hype to a more peripheral place in the foreign policy of the US and explores the Council's role as an important international forum for dialogue and cooperation on Arctic challenges and opportunities, and a significant arena for developing knowledge and learning about a changing region.Table of ContentsThe Arctic Council: from environmental protection to geopolitics.- Organisation, actors and member states interests.- The Arctic Council in Arctic Governance.- Challenges and recommendations.- The Arctic Council: between environmental protection and geopolitics.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore China's Grand Strategy: A Framework Analysis
Book SynopsisThis book aims to build the ideal model of China's grand strategy framework, which is based on three key variables: national power, strategic concept and international institution. Taking the rise of China as an opportunity, this book adopts the assessment of national strategic resources as the beginning, focuses on the evaluation of strategic capability, the choice of strategic orientation, the establishment of strategic objectives, the planning of strategic content and the implementation of strategic means. Further, following this main line, this book establishes a China's grand strategy framework based on active participation and integration-transformation-shaping process. This book emphasizes that to achieve the goals of China's grand strategy; China should uphold this strategic attitude: It should not be seduced by praise and should not be made aggressive by criticism. It should learn to be glorious but remain humble, maintain a wealthy, influential but modest position by restraint. This book can be regarded as the essence of the author's 20 years long-term focus and research on the China's grand strategy. The author's postdoctoral tutor Professor Hu Angang’s comment of this book can hit the nail on the head: "This book is a pioneering theoretical study of China's great strategic research and makes a significant contribution to this research field. The basic arguments of this book have been submitted through various approaches to decision-making references or published in academic papers, and have received numerous positive responses and resonance. In my opinion, the basic ideas and important findings of this book will provide imperative reference to long-term strategy decision-making process. In addition, the fundamental theory and analysis method of the book will have an important influence in both domestic and international academic field."Trade Review“There is much to commend about this fine work. Honghua Men offers a richly detailed and nuanced understanding of China’s rise and its grand strategy. … China’s Grand Strategy: A Framework Analysis is an important work that provides an intriguing view of China’s grand strategy. I would recommend the book to a broad readership interested in China studies and strategic studies.” (Behzad Abdollahpour, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 26, 2021)“This book would be useful for scholars who study about Chinese foreign policies, especially on comprehending the discrepancy of strategic mindset between China and the western world.” (Edward Sing Yue Chan, Global Change, Peace & Security, August 2, 2020)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foundation for Chinese Research on Grand Strategy.- Chapter 2 Evaluation of China’s National Power.- Chapter 3 Optimization of China’s Strategic Ideas.- Chapter 4 China’s Participation in International Institutions.- Chapter 5 China's Grand Strategy: A Framework.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodology. For researchers, the work offers a playbook for partnering with community organisations in data projects for public good and gives worked examples of projects of various sizes and complexity.Trade Review“Data For Social Good is a timely release given the latest spate of cybersecurity attacks and data breaches which targeted the non-profit sector emphasising the importance of digital upskilling and resourcing. … Data For Social Good combines real-life case studies involving community organisations, non-profits and government agencies with hands-on advice and guidance. The book has been designed for leaders and board members who are interested in becoming capable with data and how to get started … on data projects for public good.” (Ruby Kraner-Tucci, PRObono, brobonoaustralia.com.au, January 11, 2023)Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Case Studies of Data Projects 3 Data Capability Through Collaborative Data Action 4 Activating for a Data-Capable Future
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Springer Verlag, Singapore African Perspectives on Poverty, Indigenous
Book SynopsisThis book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in Western-orientated thinking. The book investigates the application of methodologies which explain numerous African contexts in connection with issues of poverty and inequality. It reflects on comparative practices and praxes on the African continent, including commonplace traditions and practices in alleviating poverty, taken against a background of the failure of current prescriptions for poverty alleviation, such as the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). There is a dire need for new practical perspectives which move Africa forward using its indigenous knowledge. Owing to a general lack of recorded African theories and methodologies on poverty, inequality and innovation, this book represents a pioneering corpus of African knowledge addressing poverty and inequality through local innovations. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, it is relevant to students and scholars in development studies and economics, African studies, social studies, political history and political economy, climate studies, anthropology and geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tackling poverty and inequality.- Part 1 Povery and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.- Chapter 1. Onomastic and Conceptual Pathologisation of African Culture as a Creation and Perpetuation of African Poverty in Zimbabwe.- Cha.pter 2. Empirecrafting or Statecrafting Africa? Beyond Banal “Traditional” Witchery and Towards Rebuilding the Moral Economy.- Chapter 3. Impoverishment as a Constraint to Africa’s Social Development.- Chapter 4. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in the Conservation of Sacred Heritage Resources in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6. Kinship Relations and Urban Poverty: A Case Study of Budiriro in Harare, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 7. Processes, Policies and Systems Needed to End Poverty on the African Continent.- Chapter 8. Valuing Common Good in Addressing Inequalities and Poverty in African Economies.- Chapter 9. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation: Experiences from Cameroon.- Part 2 Innovation.- Chapter 10. Interrogating a Developmental State: Opportunities and Priorities for Development using Policy and Innovation in Agricultural Production.- Chapter 11. Technological Opportunities and Challenges: A Review of Bottled Gas Smart Metering Technology - An Experience from Tanzania.- Chapter 12. Examining the Role Incubation Centres Play at Universities in Supporting Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 13. 13. Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in Tanzania: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change.
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Palgrave Macmillan Environmental Securitization in India and China
Book SynopsisPart I: Introduction.- 1. Environmental Securitization in India and China: An Overview.- Part I: Environment and International Relations Theory.- 2. Normative and Non-normative Securitisation of Climate Change: An Analysis of India.- 3. Problematic of Ecological Routines: Securitisation and Beyond.- 4. Role of Epistemic Communities in Shaping India's Environmental Policies: A Constructivist Perspective.- 5. Understanding Environment and IR Theory from Non-Western International Relations Theory: State-Society Interface.- Part III: Trends in Climate Securitization.- 6. Identity Politics and Chinese Climate Securitization.- 7. Environmental policy in China and its impact on China's environmental interaction with border countries.- 8. Global South and the Resistance to Pan-Securitization of Environmental Issues: A Case Study of India and China.- Part IV: State, Society and Environmental Policy in India and China.- 9. Climate Securitization in China and India: A Human Security Perspective.- 10. Tagged: The Role of social media in Influencing Environmental Security in China and India.- 11. From Policy to Practice: China's NEV Initiatives and the Evolution of Ecological Civilization.- 12. India's Experiment with Electric Vehicles: Promise and Ambiguity in the Context of Environmental Security.
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC A Guide to Writing a Capstone Public Policy
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De Gruyter Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging
Book SynopsisEveryday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analytics and automation open up new possibilities which have implications for energy generation, storage and energy demand. To support these changes we urgently need to rethink how energy will be sourced, shared and used. Yet existing approaches to this problem, driven by engineering, data analytics and capital, are dangerously conservative and entrenched. Energy Futures critically evaluates this context, and the energy infrastructures, stakeholders, and politics that participate in it, to propose plausible, responsible and ethical modes of encountering possible energy futures. Imagining anthropocene challenges, emerging technologies and everyday life otherwise through empirically grounded studies, opens up possible energy futures. Energy Futures proposes and demonstrates a new critical and interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology. Combining the theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology creates a powerful mode of engagement, which this book argues is needed to disrupt the dominant narratives about our energy futures. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through innovative ethnographic practice how new knowledge about imagined and possible energy futures can be mobilised in engagements with emerging technologies, anthropocene challenges and everyday realities. In doing so it brings together authors, analytical expertise and ethnographic evidence from the global south, north and places in between, generated through innovative methodologies including remote video and comic strip methods and documentary video practice as well as long term fieldwork.
£67.50
Columbia University Press South Koreas Grand Strategy
Book SynopsisRamon Pacheco Pardo provides a groundbreaking analysis of South Korea’s foreign policy from its transition to democracy in the late 1980s through the present day, arguing that the country’s approach to the world constitutes a grand strategy.Trade ReviewRamon Pacheco Pardo’s mastery of South Korea and South Korea’s grand strategy are well presented in this book. A must for all who want to see how South Korea has achieved autonomy and freedom of action in approaching the world. -- Sung-han Kim, former South Korean national security adviserRamon Pacheco Pardo’s new book South Korea’s Grand Strategy is an outstanding assessment of the country’s remarkable journey to become an influential and respected middle power. This book is required reading for those who study South Korean foreign policy as well as scholars of grand strategy. -- Terence Roehrig, author of Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold WarIn South Korea’s Grand Strategy, Ramon Pacheco Pardo offers a theoretically compelling and empirically rich account explaining how a small, initially inward-looking country developed a formidable grand strategy. Scholars and practitioners interested in grand strategy, foreign policy, East Asian affairs and South Korean politics will benefit greatly from this book. -- Andrew Yeo, Brookings InstitutionThis is an incredibly useful book that illuminates how South Korea thinks about its place in the world, what it aspires to achieve, and how it pursues its objectives. With its lucid and comprehensive presentation of South Korea as an international actor, the book is an excellent text for students and researchers alike. -- Ji-Young Lee, American UniversitySouth Korea’s Grand Strategy makes some important points, and while more suited to academics and policymakers than general readers, it provides a broad context to the thinking of its leaders as well as a useful historical overview. * Asian Review of Books *In this remarkable book, South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny, Ramon Pacheco Pardo pushes the boundaries of the study of grand strategy by applying it to middle powers... a terrific contribution to the literature on grand strategy, middle powers, and South Korea in particular that will serve as a reference for years to come. -- Yves Tiberghien * Asia Policy *With South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny, Ramon Pacheco Pardo has written a pathbreaking, scholarly book that explains comprehensively, systematically, and persuasively why South Korea has swiftly emerged as a middle power shaping its own future -- Lam Peng E * Asia Policy *An excellent contribution to the literature on South Korean strategic thinking. * Foreign Policy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Grand Strategy of Middle Powers2. Historical Background, 1948–19873. South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Factors, Ends, and Means4. Triangular Core: Inter-Korean Relations, the U.S. Alliance, and China’s Rise5. East Asia: Regionalism and Regionalization6. Greater Eurasia and the Indian Ocean7. The Rest of the World and Global GovernanceConclusion: The Past, Present, and Future of South Korea’s Grand StrategyNotesIndex
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University of California Press Weed Rules
Book SynopsisWith full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversationfrom whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their grudging tolerance approach to legal weed and to embrace careful exuberance. In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The grudging tolerance approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some caseslimiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and soldand far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against users. This book shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed RuleTrade Review"Policy options for cannabis regulation are complicated in states where laws on medical or recreational use conflict with federal laws on the possession, transport, or sale of cannabis. Wexler develops a framework for evaluating different economic and legal policies according to how well they serve ten different values, including public health, revenue maximization, and equity. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART I SETTING THE STAGE 1. A (Brief) History of Marijuana Prohibition: Hitting the High Points 2. Getting Meta: How Should We Think about Thinking about Marijuana Policy? 3. Making a Marketplace: Ten Basic Questions PART II FROM GRUDGING TO TOLERANCE TO CAREFUL EXUBERANCE 4. Sure You Can Sell Weed, Just Don’t Tell Anyone About It: Advertising, Marketing, and Promotion 5. Sure You Can Smoke Weed, but You Might Get Fired for It: Marijuana Use and Employment Law 6. Weed, Weed Everywhere, but Not a Place to Smoke: The Social Consumption Problem 7. Marijuana Should Absolutely Be Legal—Just Not in Our Town!: The Local Control Problem 8. If Cannabis Is Legal, Why Can the Cops Search You If They Smell It?: The Fourth Amendment and the Sweet Scent of Weed Conclusion: A Quick Look Back and a Brief Look Forward Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Exporting Capitalism
Book SynopsisThe US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have been mixed: firms have preferred to invest in the industrial world and developing-world leaders have not always welcomed foreign investment. Violence and the presence of natural resources have also hindered foreign development.Trade ReviewEthan Kapstein provides us an historical panorama of how, in the postwar period, the US sought to establish not only a rule-based system but one built on private enterprise. As it turns out, the motivation was not just the narrowly self-interested reason of advancing the interests of American multinationals, but had deeper ideological roots. Kapstein provides fresh insights into a neglected topic: the liberal order narrative. -- Stephan Haggard, University of California, San DiegoEthan Kapstein has drawn on his rare combination of academic expertise and professional experience to craft a wide-ranging and provocative analysis of the sources, implementation, and impact of US government efforts to promote capitalism abroad. The lessons he draws about the effectiveness of US foreign aid policies will help scholars and policymakers think more historically and creatively about the means and ends of efforts to advance the national interest by reshaping the world. -- David S. Painter, Georgetown UniversityForeign direct investment by the United States to promote private enterprise has often been overlooked by scholars exploring the variety of competing approaches to promote economic growth and change around the world. Kapstein draws out the longer history of such efforts, highlighting one underappreciated segment of the complex global story of international development. -- David Ekbladh, Tufts UniversityKapstein highlights an important but neglected component to US strategy during the Cold War: encouraging private enterprise around the world to spread capitalism and economic development. Combining personal knowledge and research that ranges from East Asia to Latin America, he brings the story up to date and with lessons for the globalization challenges of today. -- Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth CollegeA very interesting and enjoyable read, gaining much from the author’s personal practical experience. -- Diane Coyle * Enlightened Economist *
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Harvard University Press Inside the Kremlins Cold War
Book SynopsisCovering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy.Trade ReviewReads like a page-flipping thriller… Accounts of [Cold War] events are now bolstered for the first time with firm, enlightened documentary evidence… Offers—both to historians and to the lay generations who inherited the fear without the facts—invaluable insights into the pervasive, simmering war that forged the dominant mindset of the latter part of the twentieth century. -- John O’Mahony * Financial Times *[This book is] the most significant addition to the literature on Soviet foreign policy to have appeared since the end of the Cold War. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *A Russian publishing a book in the bygone Soviet era that analyzed foreign policy in terms of its architects would have been unthinkable… Most Americans of the time would have found equally unthinkable the suggestion that the Kremlin was home to anyone other than evil tyrants cut from the same drab cloth… What pleasure it is, then, that such previously unthinkable thoughts pop from every page of Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov’s Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War. -- Jane E. Good * Washington Post Book World *Despite the plethora of books on the origins and course of the Cold War, none have provided a documented inside account of the Soviet role in that conflict. Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov are the first to help close the gap by drawing on official archives opened since the Soviet collapse… Calling for a rethinking of the Soviet role in view of new evidence, the authors say that the ‘human factor,’ or how personality skewed policy, has been underplayed in the literature. They offer a revealing account of the actions of Stalin and his lieutenants and then of Khrushchev and his circle. -- Carl A. Linden * American Historical Review *[The authors] have produced a remarkably readable book…[where] new details are brought to light and several old suspicions confirmed… Zubok and Pleshakov are to be commended for their efforts. They have written a book which is as scholarly profound as accessible to a broad audience. -- Kees Boterbloem * Canadian Slavonic Papers *This is a much-awaited book from two prominent young Russian historians. Covering the period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov provide a fascinating look at the issues and, in particular, the personalities involved in the shaping of Soviet foreign policy from the end of World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Largely relying on recently opened Soviet archives, the authors weave a picture of the Kremlin’s elite, their internal struggles, differences of opinion, how they viewed the West and their Communist allies, and why they triggered some of the gravest Cold War crises (Berlin, Korea, Cuba, and so on)… The authors must be commended for one of the most important books on the Soviet side of the Cold War to have appeared in the last decade. -- J. Hanhimäki * Slavonic Review *Two of Russia’s most accomplished Cold War historians have brought us a treasure trove of arresting new information, insights, and judgments that do much to change our understanding of the Soviet Union’s motives and behavior during its long and tragic confrontation with the West. -- Michael R. Beschloss, author of The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963Table of ContentsPreface Prologue: The View from the Kremlin, 1945 Stalin: Revolutionary Potentate Stalin and Shattered Peace Molotov: Expanding the Borders Zhdanov and the Origins of the Eastern Bloc Beria and Malenkov: Learning to Love the Bomb The Education of Nikita Khrushchev Khrushchev and the Sino-Soviet Schism Khrushchev and Kennedy: The Taming of the Cold War Postmortem: Empire without Heroes Notes Index
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Princeton University Press Taxing the Rich A History of Fiscal Fairness in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 "These findings run counter to a popular narrative. Recall that in 2012, Mitt Romney said that in a democracy, a candidate who offers tax breaks to the less well-off at the expense of the rich will win mass support 'no matter what.' That claim does not appear to be supported by the historical record."--Robert J. Shiller, New York Times "In its big picture argument the book is convincing: on both the correlation and nature of causality between wars that required the mass of working people to sacrifice not just their labour but also their lives; and on the imposition of higher tax rates on the rich in the 20th century."--Torsten Bell, Prospect "A sweeping look at the history of levies on the wealthy."--Hugo Greenhalgh, Financial Times "[Scheve and Stasavage] flesh out their big picture with a mass of compelling evidence. Overall, an outstanding book."--Bryan Caplan, EconLog "What is surprising about this book is how robustly the authors discount other widely held explanations for the gradual reduction in tax paid by the richest 1% since 1980. The influence of political lobbying, liberalised capital flows and the breakdown of the postwar consensus are, in their view, inadequate answers. What has changed is the focus of 'equality of sacrifice,' which has returned to a debate about fairness."--Zac Tate, Capx "Apart from anything else, the historical data on top tax rates is fascinating."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "[A] fine and stimulating book."--Financial Post "More than any other book I've read in the past few years, their arguments have prompted me to review what they wrote and look for other research that supports or counters their points."--David Cay Johnston, Tax Notes "The authors make the force of the compensatory view clear. Judging by the apparent success of the rhetoric during the 2016 U.S. presidential primaries that speaks of a system rigged to favor the rich, the compensatory theory has not gone unnoticed by political strategists."--Michael Keen, Finance & Development Magazine "[A] fine model of social science research."--Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs "Taxing the Richexplains why the problems of America's poor and angry are unlikely to be solved by redistributive taxation."--Angus Deaton, BloombergTable of ContentsFigures and Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii PART ONE -DEBATING TAXATION 1. Why Might Governments Tax the Rich? 3 2. Treating Citizens as Equals 24 PART TWO -WHEN HAVE GOVERNMENTS TAXED THE RICH? 3. The Income Tax over Two Centuries 53 4. Taxing Inheritance 93 5. Taxes on the Rich in Context 114 PART THREE -WHY HAVE GOVERNMENTS TAXED THE RICH? 6. The Conscription of Wealth 135 7. The Role of War Technology 170 8. Why Taxes on the Rich Declined 185 9. What Future for Taxing the Rich? 206 Notes 219 References 247 Index 261
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Princeton University Press A World of Struggle
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “What’s the Best Book, New or Old, You Read this Year?” 2016""David Kennedy's A World of Struggle describes our world more accurately than any book I have read this year."---Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review"In his new book on how the world is ruled today through expert knowledge, Professor David Kennedy enters this continuing discussion in brilliant, pathbreaking, and trademark fashion. . . . Presented without theoretical encumbrance or jargon, A World of Struggle is a straightforward but sophisticated account. . . . The superlative book wins its distinction not only because it constructs a novel theory but also because it applies that theory to how the globe as a whole is ruled--something no one in the canon of social theory has really done."---Samuel Moyn, Harvard Law Review"Accounts of global politics are usually organized around time periods of settled order, during which powerful states laid down rules and established institutions. In this illuminating study, Kennedy tells a different story, in which contemporary international relations play out as a continuous struggle between technocratic elites around the world, in which nothing is ever settled and everything is negotiable."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"A profound and arresting account of how globalization is constructed by experts who obfuscate their own role. . . . It is surely worth reading to understand yesterday's world--and very likely tomorrow’s as well."---Tom Ginsburg, American Journal of International Law"Given the tendency of hidden background decisions and dominant scripts to reproduce inequality and injustice, what role should expertise play? World of Struggle argues less for abandonment than reimagination. In this work, Kennedy continues his long-term project of uncovering the hidden implications of multiple mundane “expert” decisions that shape a paradoxical world: one both unstable and unshakable. Here, fi nally, is the foundational ambition of World of Struggle and its challenge to readers: to undo the hegemony of common sense, to unlearn the boundaries of reason, to unsettle what has seemingly been seamlessly resolved, to untell the familiar stories of binaries and boundaries, to uncover the struggles that expertise obscures, and thus to unleash the possibility of remaking the world."---Zinaida Miller, Journal of Legal Education
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University Press of Kansas Nuclear Politics in America A History and Theory
Book SynopsisExamining the politics of nuclear power over the last 50 years, this study relates broad trends in American politics to changes in the regulation of the nuclear industry to show how federal policies in this area have been made, implemented and altered.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Redesigning the Financial Aid System Why Colleges
Book SynopsisArchibald's clear explanation of the current system-its impact, strengths, and weaknesses-as well as his plans for reform, will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and parents.Trade Review[An] exhaustively researched and meticulously reasoned argument. -- Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti University Business Offers an interesting series of ideas around a general premise that the roles and responsibilities of government and schools in higher education subsidies should be changed. -- David R. Smedley Pennsylvania Association of Student Financial Administrators Newsletter 2004Table of ContentsContents: Lists of Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgements1. Introduction 2. The History of Financial Aid in the United States 3. The Financial System: How It Works and How Well It Works 4. Theoretical Considerations: Access, Choice, Affordability, and Merit 5. Institutionally Funded Grants 6. Federal Loan Gaurantees 7. Eligibility for Financial Aid and Other Redesign Issues 8. Evaluating the Redesign Proposals 9. On Political Feasibility 10. Final Thoughts: Facing Trade-offs Notes References Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Science in the Service of Human Rights
Book SynopsisIssues that mix science and politics present some of today''s most daunting ethical questions. Did China violate the human rights of prisoners in 2001 by harvesting their kidneys and other organs without their formal consent? Do the victims of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa have the right to effective pharmaceutical treatments that are beyond their financial reach? Have incautious steps toward human cloning trodden dangerously close to the revival of eugenics? Science in the Service of Human Rights presents a new framework for debate on such controversial questions surrounding scientific freedom and responsibility by illuminating the many critical points of intersection between human rights and science.In the wake of the horrors of the Nazi engineers'' grotesque experiments and the devastating advent of the atom bomb, the architects of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sought to structure new world arrangements where those in power would be bTrade Review"Taken together, the clearly articulated imperative outlined in the book for a human rights approach to scientific education, the wealth of case studies provided, and Claude's insightful analysis could lead to the establishment of a new model of people-centered science with the global public as beneficiaries." * Human Rights Quarterly *"This book seeks to empower people at the grass roots level with a full arsenal and awareness of human rights, to connect scientists by a link of responsibility to the public and its right to share in the benefits and applications of their work, and to fortify respect for the human right of those who conduct the work of science." * Future Survey *"Science in the Service of Human Rights is an important contribution. It is a powerful account of efforts by scientists in many fields to document torture, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and other atrocities, and to strengthen the content of international human rights and humanitarian law. . . . Richard Claude's book will inspire many in medicine to marshal their idealism along these lines." * JAMA *"The author presents a completely thorough description of the historical development, norms, contemporary issues, and relevant factors of the relationship between science and human rights. . . . An exceptional source of information for professors, students, and human rights activists, as well as world scientists." * SUR-International Journal on Human Rights *Table of ContentsIntroit I. INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS 1 Links Between Science and Human Rights 2 Science in the Universal Declaration of Human Rghts 3 Science in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4 State Responsibilities in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights II. ISSUES 5 Health and Medical Ethics 6 Information Technology and Statistics III. POLITICS 7 Scientists as Human Rights Activists 8 NGO Activism in Science, Technology, and Health 9 Grassroots Activism in Science, Technology, and Health 10 Emerging Governance Among Transnational Organizations Appendix A International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Appendix B Reporting Objectives of the Treaty Committee, General Comment Number 1 Appendix C Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Human Genome Appendix D International Code of Medical Ethics Appendix E Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Minnesota Press A Postcapitalist Politics
Book SynopsisPresents various alternatives to capitalism and strategies for achieving them. This work reveals a landscape of economic diversity - one that is not exclusively or predominantly capitalist - and examines the challenges and successes of alternative economic interventions.
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