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Power from Powerlessness
Tribal Governments, Institutional Niches, and American Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles. The successes of some tribal casinos have lured many outside observers into thinking that gambling revenue alone can somehow mend the devastation of culture, community, natural...
Money and electoral politics
Local parties and funding at general elections
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Political parties are crucial to British democracy, providing the foundations for mobilising voters. Their constituency branches are key links between voters and Parliamentary candidates and their activities require two vital resources – people and money. Much has been written on the decline of...
Friendly Fire
Nuclear Politics & the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984-1987
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In 1984, the newly elected Labour Government’s antinuclear policy collided with a United States foreign policy based on nuclear deterrence. After two years of angry meetings, fraught diplomacy, and free-wheeling press conferences, this outbreak of “friendly fire” led to the unraveling of the...
by Office of Management and Budget
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This 2018 Budget lays the groundwork for an overdue renewal of the American spirit, and provides a detailed and specific roadmap to get us there. A New Foundation for American Greatness is not just the title of this Budget. It is a bold and specific set of policy and budgetary initiatives that tackle many of the problems ignored or exacerbated by previous administrations.
Mainstreaming Integration Governance
New Trends in Migrant Integration Policies in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe. Bringing together unique empirical material and theoretical insights on mainstreaming, it examines how, why and to what effect immigrant integration is mainstreamed....
The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education
Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement. The theory is that introducing market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient...
Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa
A Multi-faceted Economic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Using a multidimensional approach, the authors hope to provide a broad view of poverty and a thorough account of the variables that contribute to it. As opposed to traditional studies of poverty, which focus...
Green Signals
Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people destined to add another 400 million by the middle of the century. Green Signals chronicles the...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This publication captures the presentations and discussions of experts and policy makers during the Experts' Roundtable Meeting on Assessing Fragility for a Differentiated Approach in Dealing with Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations, held on 15–16 June 2015 in Bangkok. The meeting objectives...
China’s Hydro-politics in the Mekong
Conflict and Cooperation in Light of Securitization Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
China’s Hydro-politics in the Mekong explores the intricate processes of conflict and cooperation over the use of water resources in the Mekong river basin between upstream China and the downstream countries of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The book tackles two gaps in the empirical literature:...
Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences...
Securing Pension Provision
The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries.
by Ben Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Through engagement with human behaviour from the level of the private individual to the international community, in Amnesty and Revolution: An Amateur's View of Life As It Stands a holistic type of reform is advocated; solutions to scarcity and inequity are formulated with due regard to the cost...
Environmental Justice
Concepts, Evidence and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some communities...