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Hardcover. Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPQB; KCP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137350541
ISBN
9781137350541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardcover. This book offers the most updated research on the dynamics, challenges, and prospects in China's environmental governance. Editor(s): Shou, Huisheng. Series: Environmental Politics and Theory. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; JPQ; RNA; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137350688
ISBN
9781137350688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardcover. Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores Editor(s): Brandsen, Taco; Trommel, Willem; Verschuere, Bram. Series: Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHV; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137351623
ISBN
9781137351623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life? This book reveals how policy analysis can adapt in an increasingly mediatised to offer interpretive insights into the life and death of policy ideas in an era of hashtag politics. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPH; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137357731
ISBN
9781137357731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing US policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama's efforts regarding US foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remainder of his presidency. Editor(s): Akbarzadeh, Shahram. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JM; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137358813
ISBN
9781137358813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Hardcover. The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of competing ideas about global health. They explore how this has affected the governance of specific health issues and how it relates to global governance more broadly. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS; KCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365712
ISBN
9781137365712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Hardcover. The British General Election of 2015 is a must-read for anyone wanting to know how the action unfolded in the most unpredictable election for a generation. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; JPHF; JPL; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137366108
ISBN
9781137366108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.81

Hardcover. Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice versa. This important collection compiles and analyses Foucault's views on parrhesia to shed new light on his ideas on the importance of truth-telling in democracies. Num Pages: 144 pages, 4 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPQ; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137368348
ISBN
9781137368348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardcover. In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public sector integrity, the various methodological approaches to the field as well as considering the causes of for the violation of values associated with integrity. Series: Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 figures, 28 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPB; JPP; JPQ; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380807
ISBN
9781137380807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

Hardcover. The book analyzes how the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used force in response to incidents of international terrorism - providing comparison between each of the administrations as they grappled with the evolving nature and role of terrorism in the United States and abroad. Num Pages: 286 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPQ; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137384041
ISBN
9781137384041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats. This book identifies how different groups have responded and explains why, synthesizing findings in the fields of securitization, migrant integration, and migrant mobilization. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137388049
ISBN
9781137388049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardcover. The Normativity of the European Union provides an account of what has made European integration possible. Reconstructing the integration process up to the Eurozone crisis, Eriksen provides novel insight into the conditions for integration and the nature of the EU as well as highlighting why European solidarity has become a moral duty. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV; JPQ; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137391445
ISBN
9781137391445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Hardcover. This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFFJ; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 322 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137405401
ISBN
9781137405401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.67

Hardcover. This study addresses the management of victims and victim policy under the Coalition government, in light of an increasing move towards neoliberal and punitive law and order agendas. With a focus on victims of anti-social behaviour and hate crime, Duggan and Heap explore the changing role of the victim in contemporary criminal justice discourses. Series: Palgrave Hate Studies. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFS; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137409263
ISBN
9781137409263
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardback. Centering its study around three explanatory variables - actors, institutions and ideas - this book argues that Russia's hybrid institutional environment reduces the competition of policy ideas, both at the stage of policy elaboration by the community of state and non-state policy experts, and also at the stage of policy adoption by parliament. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPA; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137409737
ISBN
9781137409737
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.57

Hardcover. Laws are essential to the lives of all British citizens and crucial to the survival of British Governments. This book follows the work of House of Commons bill committees as they scrutinise legislation and reveals the hidden depths of law making in the British Parliament. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15 black & white tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPH; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137410658
ISBN
9781137410658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Hardcover. Five presidents (Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama) have been elected to and served a second term. Seemingly free from electoral pressure, each president has taken a unique approach to their second term, and the book seeks to unpack the rationale behind their decisions and actions in their final years of power. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JPHL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137410986
ISBN
9781137410986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. This volume provides a pluralistic discussion from world-renowned scholars on the international aspects of the debt crisis and prospects for resolution. It provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the debt crisis has impacted Western Europe, the emerging markets and Latin America, and puts forward different suggestions for recovery. Editor(s): Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Heymann, Daniel. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 3JMC; 3JMG; JPQB; KCL; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137411471
ISBN
9781137411471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.27

Hardcover. What are the principal drivers of recent higher education reforms? This study investigates whether the soft governance mechanism of transnational communication has evoked cross-national policy harmonization. Results suggest that the Bologna Process has triggered substantial policy harmonization beyond general policy convergence. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137412782
ISBN
9781137412782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents inscribe themselves into different Russian narratives about Russia's rightful place in the world. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMH; JPQB; JPW; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137414052
ISBN
9781137414052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

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