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  • Some of It Was Fun

    by Nicholas deB Katzenbach ...
    A lively, intimate memoir that vividly recalls the idealism of the Kennedy administration.As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other issues of the day. In this engaging memoir, by turns intensely dramatic and charmingly ... Read more

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  • The Blame Game

    Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government

    by Christopher Hood ...
    The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance ... Read more

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  • New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State

    by Jonas Pieper ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state. It compares for-profit firms as providers of hospital services and pensions and investigates the new private actors in social policy provision, whether they become political actors, and the extent of their power in welfare state politics. Focusing on Germany and the UK, the author’s analysis includes, amongst ... Read more

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  • Victims of Crime

    Construction, Governance and Policy

    by Matthew Hall ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Since the election of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in May 2010 it is argued that victimization has increasingly taken on a greater cultural resonance both in England and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs

    by David Wilson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear. Its actors are adroit at working via the creation of fear to “terror ... Read more

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  • One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance

    by Laura H. Kahn ...
    Does the use of low-dose antibiotics in livestock put human health at risk?Zoonoses—infectious diseases, such as SARS and mad cow, that originate in animals and spread to humans—reveal how intimately animal and human health are linked. Complicating this relationship further, when livestock are given antibiotics to increase growth, it can lead to resistant bacteria. Unfortunately, there are few ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity Management

    Theoretical Approaches and Best Practices

    Edited by Cathrine Seierstad, Katrin Hansen ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book highlights the most critical aspects of diversity and their implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), examining them in a collection of conceptual and practical contributions from researchers and practitioners alike. In particular the book discusses good and best practices for diversity management and analyzes possible links between CSR and diversity within organizations. ... Read more

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  • State Building in Latin America

    by Hillel David Soifer ...
    State Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for their success or failure. First, Latin American state leaders chose to attempt concerted state-building only where they saw it as the means to political order and economic development. Fragmented regionalism led to the adoption of more ... Read more

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  • Public Policy, Governance and Polarization

    Making Governance Work

    Edited by David K. Jesuit, Russell Alan Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to negotiation, compromise or change. Polarization is not a temporary situation – it is the “new normal.”Public Policy, Governance and ... Read more

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  • Power Switch

    Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century

    by G.Bruce Doern, Monica Gattinger ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a critical examination of the changing nature of energy regulatory governance, with a particular focus ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD