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Author: Sally Sargeson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1134453213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores issues surrounding the provision of collective goods within the context of post-crisis East and Southeast Asia. It includes case studies on Korea, Indonesia, China, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore among others.
Author: Norman Frohlich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1400872413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the assumptions of rationality and self-interest common to economic analysis, Professors Frohlich, Oppenheimer, and Young develop a profit-making theory of political behavior as it pertains to the supply of collective goods—defense, law and order, clean air, highways. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Stephen D. Krasner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780801492501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, fourteen distinguished specialists in international political economy thoroughly explore the concept of international regimes--the implicit and explicit principles, norms, rules, and procedures that guide international behavior. In the first section, the authors develop several theoretical views of regimes. In the following section, the theories are applied to specific issues in international relations, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and on the still-enduring postwar regimes for money and security.
Author: M. Murray
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1137297999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely collection will be the first of its kind to focus on the practical application of the government job guarantee (JG) for both developed and developing economies. Global case studies include: United States, China, Ghana, Argentina, Ireland, Iceland, and India.
Author: Helen Rose Ebaugh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-01-26
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780387257037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook for Religion and Social Institutions is written for sociologists who study a variety of sub-disciplines and are interested in recent studies and theoretical approaches that relate religious variables to their particular area of interest. The handbook focuses on several major themes: - Social Institutions such as Politics, Economics, Education, Health and Social Welfare - Family and the Life Cycle - Inequality - Social Control - Culture - Religion as a Social Institution and in a Global Perspective This handbook will be of interest to social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and other researchers whose study brings them in contact with the study of religion and its impact on social institutions.
Author: James Tooley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1351943707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book arrives at a defence of markets in educational provision, funding and regulation, through a philosophical challenge to justifications for state intervention in education.
Author: Alex Nicholls
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 0198703767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Finance is a rapidly advancing area of practice, policy and research, with alot of unanswered questions. What does it amount to? What is it to be 'social' in finance? How do you value assets that offer a social as well as a financial return? This book provides a collection of authoritative essays on these and related topics. The essays embrace the different manifestations of social finance, collate existing research, set out the controversies, offer theoretical insights, and advances, and draw together the ideas of the leading thinkers in the field. Contributors to this volume are leading exponents and practitioners of social finance and leading academics from the main relevant disciplines and fields of study. This book is the first serious and comprehensive treatment of social finance and as such, will be of interest to academics with research and teaching interests in finance, social enterprise/entrepreneurship, public policy, business economics and international deveopement to name a few. If you want to understand and join in the academic and policy debates, or if you are working in one part of this field and want to understand how the landscape is being rapidly re-shaped, then this is an essential guidebook.
Author: Steven J. Balla
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 718
ISBN-13: 0191643343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration. The Handbook reflects on a wide range of key contributions to the field, selected on the basis of their international and wider disciplinary impact. Focusing on classics that contributed significantly to the field over the second half of the 20th century, it offers insights into works that have explored aspects of the policy process, of particular features of bureaucracy, and of administrative and policy reforms. Each classic is discussed by a leading international scholars. They offer unique insights into the ways in which individual classics have been received in scholarly debates and disciplines, how classics have shaped evolving research agendas, and how the individual classics continue to shape contemporary scholarly debates. In doing so, this volume offers a novel approach towards considering the various central contributions to the field. The Handbook offers students of public policy and administration state-of-the-art insights into the enduring impact of key contributions to the field.
Author: Mona M. Lyne
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0271047852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Presents evidence that under certain widespread structural conditions, democratic accountability falls prey to the same N-person prisoner's dilemma that plagues any other decentralized attempt to procure collective goods. Examines four prominent democracies: postwar and contemporary Brazil and pre-Chavez and contemporary Venezuela"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Paddy McNutt
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2002-03-27
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781781956649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economics of public choice.
