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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter gourevitch”
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  • Paris and the Provinces

    The Politics of Local Government Reform in France

    by Peter Gourevitch ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, Paris and the Provinces explores why reforms of central-local relations in France have been so ineffectual. Professor Gourevitch discovers the cause in party politics and personal rivalries. The struggle for dominance among different parties (Gaullists, Communists, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Independents and others) and individuals (De Gaulle, Giscard, Chirac, ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Unions and Economic Crisis

    Britain, West Germany and Sweden

    by Peter Gourevitch, Andrew Martin, George Ross, Stephen Bornstein, Andrei Markovits, Christopher Allen ...
    Series series European Trade Unions and the 1970s Economic Crisis
    First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as representatives of essential producer groups, would be central to the renegotiation of the economic world. The work also stresses the importance of situating union responses to the crisis within the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Political Power and Corporate Control

    The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance

    by Peter A. Gourevitch, James Shinn ...
    Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Credibility of Transnational NGOs

    When Virtue is Not Enough

    Edited by Peter A. Gourevitch, David A. Lake, Janice Gross Stein ...
    We rely on NGOs to monitor the ethical practices of governments and for-profit firms and to undertake many humanitarian tasks that public and private actors will not do. While we are critical of public and private sector failures, we do not reflect enough on the credibility of the NGOs which take their place. Can we be sure that products NGOs label as child-labor free are in fact so, that the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    How a Continent Became a Union

    by Luuk van Middelaar ...
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  • Retirement In Canada

    by Thomas R. Klassen ...
    Series series In Canada
    A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60; today, we can expect to live 20 years longer than that. And recent generations have witnessed other major social shifts in Canada, from women entering the workforce to alterations in traditional career patterns, from evolutions in the once-inviolable nuclear family to the decline of employer pension schemes. As the arc of our lives continues to ... Read more

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  • René Lévesque

    Charismatic Leader

    by Marguerite Paulin ...
    Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky ...
    Series Book 12 - Quest Biography
    René Lévesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team. In 1968 he founded the Parti Québécois (PQ). Under the PQ banner, Lévesque served as premier from 1976 to 1985. ... Read more

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  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    by Norbert Häring, Niall Douglas ...
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  • International Economics and Business

    Nations and Firms in the Global Economy

    by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk ...
    With a new title (following the successful first edition of Nations and Firms in the Global Economy), this second edition undergraduate textbook combines the dual perspectives of international economics and international business, providing a complete overview of the changing role of nations and firms in the global economy. International Economics and Business covers the key concepts typically ... Read more

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  • La Vie en bleu

    France and the French since 1900

    by Rod Kedward ...
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    $15.99 CAD

  • Crisis and Inequality

    The Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism

    by Mattias Vermeiren ...
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  • Contemporary France

    Politics and Society since 1945

    by D. L. Hanley, A. P. Kerr, Miss A P Kerr, N. H. Waites ...
    Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context. The first section gives a succinct description of the main developments since 1944 in all major contexts - economy, society, domestic politics and foreign relations ... Read more

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