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  • Convergence as Adaptivity
    Zhiyuan Wang
    Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence. ...
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    121,94 €

  • Portraits of Public Service
    Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants. ...
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    121,57 €

  • Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World
    Luke Fowler
    Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. ...
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    121,79 €

  • Public Policy’s Role in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. The academic community, policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society must work together and share experiences on the implementation of SDGs. Open discussion on lessons learned from the inclusive education policies, the diffic...
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    235,98 €

  • Transformation and Efficiency Enhancement of Public Utilities Systems
    Much remains to be known about public utilities system organization, efficiency, management, legislation, practices, and solutions worldwide, as well as the implications for sustainable development in different countries. Thus, a better understanding of the different management practices in public utilities across different contexts is needed to assess their impact on efficienc...
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    216,67 €

  • When nothing works
    Colin Haslam / Julie Froud / Luca Calafati
    What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure. ...
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    25,79 €

  • When nothing works
    Colin Haslam / Julie Froud / Luca Calafati
    What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure. ...
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    156,97 €

  • Death of the Blue Dogs
    Tyler Mills
    The practical demise of the Blue Dog Coalition has been a tragedy for American politics. Can it be reversed? The country certainly needs it to be so we don’t end up with more Q’Anon voters. ...
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    19,10 €

  • España en el cambio de siglo
    Ramón Viader Guixà
    Esta obra recoge diversas áreas de pensamiento y vivencias de un ciudadano, y más concretamente un profesional de la sanidad. En unos años en los que la tergiversación de la historia es constante, el autor nos presenta una visión distinta, pero real, de modo que el lector pueda darse cuenta de que la dictadura de Franco y la Transición española contribuyeron, sin duda, a sacar ...
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    24,00 €

  • Small State Irregular Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
    Marius Kristiansen
    From a Norwegian perspective, and by focusing on the Special Operations Forces component within the Norwegian Armed Forces, this book provides a scholar-practitioner’s perspective on how to increase the strategic utility of different types of military efforts in an SSA context. The overarching project encompasses a wide range of elements for understanding the contemporary secur...
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    28,01 €

  • Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism
    Daniel B. Klein
    The present book treats Adam Smith and the liberalism he shared with David Hume and Edmund Burke. It explores notions jural, political, and economic, though other things as well. It uses Smith and others in developing classical liberalism. The work contains substantial pieces deriving from scholarly articles. ...
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    10,51 €

  • Classical Liberalism by Country, Volume III
    Econ Journal Watch maintains an ongoing series of studies on classical liberalism by country. The first articles appeared in 2015. A selection of chapters from that series are here republished largely unchanged from their appearance as articles, though some also contain a postscript (written around January 2023). This third volumes contains chapters on Iceland, Finland, Denmark...
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    10,16 €

  • Too Big?
    Bruce D. Thatcher
    Too Big? identifies accountability standards. It examines five high-profile historical and current cases where accountability was/is flawed or missing: Robert Clive of the British East India Company, John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, Ralph Cordiner of General Electric, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Meta. It shows how such people are not subjected to...
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    35,47 €

  • Smart Cities and Digital Transformation
    Smart Cities and Digital Transformation offers a three-tiered approach to tomorrow’s cities in terms of limitless innovation, sustainable development and empowering communities. ...
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    155,86 €

  • Reimagining Systems Thinking in a Post-Pandemic World
    The COVID-19 pandemic caused the largest systemic disruption in history. The pandemic was a complex phenomenon that impacted economic, political, and education systems. The pandemic had widespread business impacts, having forced many businesses to close, and the world is still impacted by the effects of supply chain disruptions. The pandemic also impacted political systems with...
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    282,05 €

  • Reimagining Systems Thinking in a Post-Pandemic World
    The COVID-19 pandemic caused the largest systemic disruption in history. The pandemic was a complex phenomenon that impacted economic, political, and education systems. The pandemic had widespread business impacts, having forced many businesses to close, and the world is still impacted by the effects of supply chain disruptions. The pandemic also impacted political systems with...
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    216,20 €

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk
    Judith Curry
    In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond. ...
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    49,76 €

  • Key Concepts and Contemporary Approaches to Structured Inequality
    Carl Bankston III
    This book provides a basic but comprehensive text on the topic of social stratification. ...
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    180,46 €

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk
    Judith Curry
    In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond. ...
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    157,93 €

  • Reagan Days
    Kevin M. Daniel
    'For the last three and a half years, every American has been staggered by the economic record of the Carter administration. Food prices up over 35%. Auto prices up over 31%. Oil prices up over 46%. Clothing up over 20%. Transportation up over 50%. The new Carter economics will give us more of the same. That adds up to less for everyone else. The Carter record speaks for itself...
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    8,23 €

  • The Plot to Seize Russia
    Martin Armstrong
    'Take care of Russia,' Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia. So, who was Yeltsin warning against? Newly declassified documents from the Clinton Administration prove that there was a plot to rig...
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    136,58 €

  • The Plot to Seize Russia
    Martin Armstrong
    'Take care of Russia,' Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia. So, who was Yeltsin warning against? Newly declassified documents from the Clinton Administration prove that there was a plot to rig...
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    113,00 €

  • MAXIMUM UBI
    Don Soards
    We are concerned about too many human workers being replaced by machines. We should be. The harm we face goes far beyond the trauma faced by individuals who have lost their jobs to machines over past centuries. We are moving deeper into a condition of 'Who do these corporations think is going to buy their stuff after they lay us all off?'. Our economy is getting smaller.Fortuna...
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    42,70 €

  • I Vote and I Deplore Politicians
    John Farrow
    Statement about the core cause behind the continued dysfunction in Washington that must be addressed first before any Hope can return in people’s minds again for the country to begin moving forward again towards a more perfect union, as the founders always envisioned America to advance progressively through the changing times ahead. There are immediate and lasting solutions for...
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    24,78 €

  • This Is Not A Game
    Dave Hayes
    Is there hope for America and the world after the 2020 election?Donald Trump was favored to win the 2020 Presidential election. But Covid, mail-in-ballots, and relentless attacks from the deep state controlled media led to a Joe Biden presidency. Many patriots have given up hope that the country can be saved. But the anonymous insider known as Q says there is a plan in place to...
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    14,21 €

  • Peeking at Peking China, India and the World
    R Srinivasan
    1962 was a watershed moment in Sino-Indian Relations. Did China’s unilateral ceasefire and withdrawal result from its internal political compulsions? Is China using India to steady its political boat in internal turbulent weather? Did China agree to withdraw from Galwan merely due to India’s offensive posture? How did China go about building its aircraft carriers and how does i...
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    52,96 €

  • Oil and the political economy in the Middle East
    This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Everyday foreign policy
    Elizaveta Gaufman
    This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars, diplomacy, soft power and great power competition. ...
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    157,64 €

  • Tax, Administrative And Political Reforms
    Osvaldo Dalla Coletta
    Tax, administrative and political reforms: replace the 92 taxes in place under the current Brazilian tax system with a Single Tax, and preserve the tax revenue of the federal, district, state and municipal governments. Replace the current Brazilian presidential administrative and political system with a republican parliamentary system with single-member district voting, five-ye...
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    7,40 €

  • Narrowing the Development Gap
    Asian Development Bank
    This report uses a broad range of indicators to assess the individual and collective development progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).Building on a previous study released in 2014, it assesses 39 indicators that consider dimensions such as overall human development, gender equality, climate change, and living conditions. The report intends to help...
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    30,90 €