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  • Dynamics and Issues of Local Autonomy

    A Comparative Study

    by Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Alexander Bastianen, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Carmen Navarro, Kristof Steyvers, Paweł Swianiewicz ...
    This book explores local autonomy as measured by the updated and extended Local Autonomy Index, and considers the underlying issues related to this multidimensional concept. It analyses dynamics spanning over three decades concerning the dimensions of local autonomy and its variables and indicators.Adopting an international comparative perspective, authors examine common and differing features of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

    by Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Kristof Steyvers, Carmen Navarro ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

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    How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi ...
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  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

    Edited by Johanna Kuhlmann, Frank Nullmeier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Read more

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  • EU Cohesion Policy

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    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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  • International Influence Beyond Conditionality

    Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement

    Edited by Rachel A. Epstein, Ulrich Sedelmeier ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    The European Union’s (EU) membership conditionality has been perceived as a highly effective means of influence on non-member states in the run-up to the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. According to the incentive-based explanation that dominates the literature, conditionality has been particularly effective when the EU offered a credible membership incentive and when governments did not consider the ... Read more

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  • How East Asians View Democracy

    Edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Doh Chull Shin, Andrew J. Nathan ...
    East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy.This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian ... Read more

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  • Regional Comparisons in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies

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    Edited by Iris Geva-May, B. Guy Peters, Joselyn Muhleisen ...
    Series series Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis
    Volume Three of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, contains chapters concerned with "Regional Comparisons and Policy Analysis" – one of the most prevailing approaches in comparative public policy. Through the prism of inter-jurisdiction comparisons of similarities and variations, they address comparisons in specific policy sectors, governance or institutional constructs, and political ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Regional Authority

    A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies

    by Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Arjan Schakel ...
    Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this has changed over time.This book measures and explains the formal authority of intermediate or regional government in 42 advanced democracies, including the 27 EU member states. It tracks regional authority on an annual basis ... Read more

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  • Development and Social Policy

    The Win-Win Strategies of Developmental Social Policy

    Edited by Christian Aspalter, Kenny Teguh Pribadi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia
    In recent years, government and policymakers around the world have shifted their attention away from money-oriented, supply-side economics to institutional economics and people-oriented social and economic development. Issues such as poverty reduction, win-win solutions and strategies in social policy and their implementation, universalization, and a variety of new large-scale conditional cash ... Read more

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    Edited by Yun-han Chu, 朱雲漢, Yu-tzung Chang, 張佑宗, Min-hua Huang, 黃旻華, Kai-Ping Huang, 黃凱苹 ...
    This edited volume is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of the collaborative intellectual enterprise that the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) network has built up over the past two decades. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the ABS, we invited ABS partners to contribute their intellectual findings to this edited volume. Except for the introduction, this volume consists of twenty ... Read more

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  • Development in Turbulent Times

    The Many Faces of Inequality Within Europe

    Edited by Paul Dobrescu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book explores the most recent trends in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities.Against this background, by relying on a cross ... Read more

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