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Handbook Of Public Policy Evaluation In The Global South - Politics, Praxes And Futures

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 This insightful Handbook delves into public policy evaluation in the Global South. Drawing on in-depth case studies, it analyzes the complex interplay of historical, political, economic, and social factors that shape evaluation practices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Expert authors explore how colonial legacies, institutional frameworks, and international influences have molded public policy evaluation across diverse contexts. Chapters critically assess current challenges facing evaluators, including capacity constraints, political interference, and the tension between global standards and local realities. Integrating both political and technocratic perspectives, they consider emerging practices in the field, proposing innovative strategies for developing more effective and culturally responsive approaches to evaluation. Timely and perceptive, the Handbook ultimately emphasizes the need for more inclusive global discussions surrounding public policy evaluation. This Handbook is an important resource for students and academics in public policy, public administration, political science, international development, and sociology. Policymakers, government officials, and professionals will also benefit from the book’s theoretical and practical insights.
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Handbook Of Public Policy In Latin America

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 Bringing together an array of recognized scholars and practitioners from the region and beyond, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of public policy research in Latin America. It showcases diverse perspectives on the policymaking process, from historical, descriptive and prescriptive approaches to critical and feminist analyses. The Handbook is divided into three core thematic sections, covering analytical models and frameworks, cross-country comparisons, and in-depth case studies. Chapters explore the current use of mainstream theories and investigate topics such as transparency, innovation, regulation, communication, and public policy teaching, identifying key challenges as well as opportunities for development. They conduct detailed examinations of countries across Latin America, highlighting the heterogeneity of the region and revealing how policies are shaped by local political regimes, socio-economic conditions, and cultural factors. Ultimately, the Handbook encourages a rethinking of public policy processes in Latin America, underscoring the need to promote South-South connections and to develop analytical models that are sensitive to the regional context. Presenting original practical and theoretical innovations from Latin America to a wider international audience, this Handbook will benefit students and academics in public policy, public administration, policy analysis and evaluation, regulation and governance, and development studies. It is also an important read for policymakers and professionals looking to improve public policies in Latin America.
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Handbook Of Transportation And Public Policy

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 This cutting-edge Handbook explores the many ways in which politics influences transportation policy, planning and implementation, as well as the effects of transportation on political processes. It rigorously analyses the complex interrelation between administration, politics and transportation, presenting theoretical and empirical insights into the governance approaches required to advance transportation’s contribution to social and ecological wellbeing. Expert authors from across the globe provide a comprehensive overview of the role that politics plays in transportation policymaking, highlighting the value of robust and critical analysis for identifying and developing more equitable and inclusive approaches to transportation policymaking. They examine how society can govern mobilities across multiple scales and explore how the benefits and burdens of transportation are distributed. The Handbook demonstrates how configurations of beliefs, interests, and institutions influence policy and outlines emerging methodologies that can be employed to increase understanding of current and emerging transportation challenges. Presenting a new perspective on the ongoing scholarly and policy discussions in transportation, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars in transport planning, political science, public policy and administration, regulation and governance, and geography. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking to further understand the political dimensions of transportation.
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Handbook On Critical Political Economy And Public Policy

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 This comprehensive and stimulating Handbook examines the contribution of political economy to public policy. It provides an overview of several strands of critical political economy, supported by case studies from OECD countries, Latin America, South Africa, and South and East Asia.
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International Environmental Law - Text, Cases And Materials

by Joseph Crampin

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 This textbook provides a compelling and structured introduction to international environmental law in the Text, Cases and Materials genre.
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The University And The Economy - Pathways To Growth And Economic Development

by Federica Rossi

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 The University and the Economy provides an in-depth exploration of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth.
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Individualism And Inequality - The Future Of Work And Politics

by Ralph Fevre

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 The book discusses influential thinkers, from Adam Smith to Herbert Spencer and John Dewey, as well as the persistence of discrimination despite equality laws, management and the transformation of individualism, individualism in work and mental illness, work insecurity and intensification.
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The Social Enterprise Zoo - A Guide For Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, And Policymakers

by Cassady V. Brewer, Dennis R. Young e Elizabeth A.M. Searing

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 The Social Enterprise Zoo employs the metaphor of the zoo to gain a more comprehensive understanding of social enterprise: the diversity of its forms;
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International Handbook On Ageing And Public Policy

by George Leeson, Jaco Hoffman, Kate Hamblin, Kenneth Howse e Sarah Harper

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 Each of these issues are broken down further and split into six comprehensive sections:* Context* Pensions* Health* Welfare* Case Studies* Policy Innovation and Civil SocietyAcademics interested in policy challenges for mature societies will find this Handbook a highly relevant reference tool.
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The Handbook On The Political Economy Of War

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 The Handbook on the Political Economy of War highlights and explores important research questions and discusses the core elements of the political economy of war.
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Research Handbook Of Policy Design

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 This visionary Research Handbook presents the state of the art in research on policy design. By conceiving policy design both as a theoretical and a methodological framework, it provides scholars and practitioners with guidance on understanding policy problems and devising accurate solutions.
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Comparative Equality And Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition

by Richard T. Ford

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 This revised and updated casebook comprehensively compares the U.S. legal approach to problems of inequality and discrimination with the approaches of a variety of other legal systems around the world.
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Role-Play Simulations

by Julie V. Stanton

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Handbook Of Business And Public Policy

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 This comprehensive Handbook provides an analysis of the key issues, accomplishments, and challenges of research and practices related to the interactions between business and public policy.
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Handbook Of Research Methods In Complexity Science - Theory And Applications

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 This comprehensive Handbook is aimed at both academic researchers and practitioners in the field of complexity science. For decision makers and researchers trying to address complex challenges it will be an essential source of inspiration that will arm them with effective state-of-the-art research methods for the future.
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The Political Economy Of International Law - A European Perspective

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 Set in the context of growing interdisciplinarity in legal research, The Political Economy of International Law: A European Perspective provides a much-needed systematic and coherent review of the interactions between political economy and international law.
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A Political Economy Of African Regionalisms - An Overview Of Asymmetrical Development

by M. A.M. Salih

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 Providing an assessment of regional frameworks in Africa, this timely book looks at how regional cooperation among countries in Africa has intensified over the last 30 years. Mohamed Salih pay particular attention to the ways in which regional and sub-regional dynamics are impacted by extra-regional relations.
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Handbook Of Critical Policy Studies

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 Critical policy studies, as illustrated in this Handbook, challenges the conventional approaches public policy inquiry. But it offers important innovations as well, in particular its focus on discursive politics, policy argumentation and deliberation, and interpretive modes of analysis.
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The Political Economy Of Sustainability

by Fred P. Gale

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 This book is a must-read for public policy theorists, political and ecological economists, and environmental policy researchers, as Gale challenges the conventional ideas linked to the functioning of liberal democracy and explores the future of political economic thought.
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A General Theory Of Economic Development - Towards A Capitalist Manifesto - Towards A Capitalist Manifesto

by Sung-Hee Jwa

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 This book makes the bold attempt at proposing a new general theory of economic development founded on the fact-based perspective of economic behaviour.
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Classification Of Conflicts In International Humanitarian Law - The Legal Impact Of Foreign Intervention In Civil Wars

by Noam Zamir

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 Civil wars have formed the vast majority of all armed conflicts since the Second World War.
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Social Innovation And Democratic Leadership - Communities And Social Change From Below

by Joan Subirats

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 It draws upon several socially innovative initiatives in four neighbourhoods, and offers new knowledge, ideas and tools, both to better understand how social needs could be effectively and democratically satisfied, and to foster social change initiatives at the community level.
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Handbook Of Behavioural Change And Public Policy

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 Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy in recent years. Uniting interdisciplinary scholarship, Holger Strassheim and Silke Beck have drawn together a wide variety of perspectives, allowing for the legal, political, economic and social aspects of behavioural change and public policy to be explored.
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Cooperatives, Economic Democratization And Rural Development

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 Agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations are institutional innovations which have the potential to reduce poverty and improve food security.
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