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Author : Laurel E. Miller,Louis Aucoin
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781601270559
Analyzing nineteen cases, this title offers practical perspective on the implications of constitution-making procedure, and explores emerging international legal norms.
Author : Richard B. Freeman,Robert H. Topel,Birgitta Swedenborg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226261850
Once heralded in the 1950s and 1960s as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition and in trouble since its economic plunge in the early 1990s. This volume presents ten essays that examine Sweden's economic problems from a U.S. perspective. Exploring such diverse topics as income equalization and efficiency, welfare and tax policy, wage determination and unemployment, and international competitiveness and growth, they consider how Sweden's welfare state succeeded in eliminating poverty and became a role model for other countries. They then reflect on Sweden's past economic problems, such as the increase in government spending and the fall in industrial productivity, warning of problems to come. Finally they review the consequences of the collapse of Sweden's economy in the early 1990s, exploring the implications of its efforts to reform its welfare state and reestablish a healthy economy. This volume will be of interest to policymakers and analysts, social scientists, and economists interested in welfare states.
Author : Agnieszka Paczyńska
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271062693
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization of public-sector industries. How much influence did various societal groups have on this transition to a market economy, and what explains the variances in interest-group influence across countries? In this book, Agnieszka Paczyńska explores these questions by studying the role of organized labor in the transition process in four countries in different regions—the Czech Republic and Poland in eastern Europe, Egypt in the Middle East, and Mexico in Latin America. In Egypt and Poland, she shows, labor had substantial influence on the process, whereas in the Czech Republic and Mexico it did not. Her explanation highlights the complex relationship between institutional structures and the “critical junctures” provided by economic crises, revealing that the ability of groups like organized labor to wield influence on reform efforts depends to a great extent on not only their current resources (such as financial autonomy and legal prerogatives) but also the historical legacies of their past ties to the state. This new edition features an epilogue that analyzes the role of organized labor uprisings in 2011, the protests in Egypt, the overthrow of Mubarak, and the post-Mubarak regime.
Author : Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761950486
This book offers a global level comparison between welfare states, actual and emerging, in Europe, East Asia, Australia, North & Latin America. The consequences of an ageing population, deregulation and heightened inequality are discussed in detail.
Author : David D. Briske
Publisher : Springer
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319467092
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third assesses several major challenges confronting global rangelands in the 21st century. This book will compliment applied range management textbooks by describing the conceptual foundation on which the rangeland profession is based. It has been written to be accessible to a broad audience, including ecosystem managers, educators, students and policy makers. The content is founded on the collective experience, knowledge and commitment of 80 authors who have worked in rangelands throughout the world. Their collective contributions indicate that a more comprehensive framework is necessary to address the complex challenges confronting global rangelands. Rangelands represent adaptive social-ecological systems, in which societal values, organizations and capacities are of equal importance to, and interact with, those of ecological processes. A more comprehensive framework for rangeland systems may enable management agencies, and educational, research and policy making organizations to more effectively assess complex problems and develop appropriate solutions.
Author : N. Bukharin,Richard B. Day,Stephen F. Cohen,Ken Coates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315496351
Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.
Author : Joseph A. Camilleri,Anthony P. Jarvis,Albert J. Paolini
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555875386
The state in transition : reimagining political space / edited by Joseph A. Camilleri, Anthony P. Jarvis, Albert J. Paolini.
Author : Hassan Hakimian,Ziba Moshaver
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 0700713662
A re-thinking of the main issues, revolving around the themes of the rationale and strategies for reform, the process and its outcomes, and the nature of the state in the changing global setting.
Author : John Pickles,Adrian Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134715657
Examining transformations using a variety of perspectives Theorizing Transition provides both a rich empirical map of the dimensions of post-Communism and raises important theoretical issues about how we interpret these changes.
Author : Clive Harber
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927199
The main purpose of this book is to provide a concise overview of educational transition – to document, discuss and analyse key changes (and continuities) in South African education since the end of apartheid. What makes this period particularly fascinating for educationalists is that the legacy of apartheid and the years of international isolation meant that educational reform had to be fundamental and wide ranging if South Africa was to become a modern, democratic state participating in the global political economy of the twenty-first century. The result was that in the final five years of the twentieth century South Africa became something of a laboratory or crucible for educational innovation. From 1948 to the early 1990s South African government was based on an institutionalised system of ‘racial’ separation and inequality formally known as apartheid. A white minority dominated a black majority in a context of stark social, political and economic differentiation. While the apartheid state used force to maintain this system, formal education was also used to try to make the basic tenets of apartheid ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’ in the minds of South Africans. From the apartheid government’s point of view, the role of education was to help to perpetuate and reproduce a racist system and to encourage obedience and conformity to that system. It is not therefore surprising that in the 1970s and 1980s education also became a key site in the struggle against apartheid or that educational reform was high on the agenda of the first democratically elected government after April 1994. However, while the direction of educational reform has inevitably been strongly influenced by the nature and history of the anti-apartheid struggle inside South Africa, the global political and economic context has also played its part in shaping educational debate and policy outside South Africa. Clive Harber’s book recognises that there is a difference between planned reform and the actual nature of educational change on the ground and tries, where possible, to set reform in the contextual realities of South African education as they presently exist. It aims to understand the difficulties and ambiguities of transition as well as the overt aims and goals as enshrined in policy documents and legislation.
Author : Fulvio Attinà
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030630386
This book examines the current phase of world order transition in the Atlantic area, focusing on Europe and Northern America, Asia, and Africa. In particular, it describes four processes of world order transition, namely the decreasing American leadership, the rising power of China, the receding effectiveness of economy and security world policies, and the continued but inadequate operation of the world policy-making institutions. Part one of the book presents perspectives on world order transition developed by political science schools, i.e. the world hegemony and the power transition school, and by the experts of complexity theory, a newcomer in social sciences. These theories are best suited to explain the order transition and to supply consistent, complementary data and insights on the juncture of the four processes pushing for the creation of the new world order. Part two looks into the impact of order transition on the Atlantic area. The authors focus on the existing tensions and the potentials for change that affect the long-time relations between the USA, the European countries, and Canada. At the same time, the interference of China into the politics and economy of Europe is analyzed, in particular through a case study of the relations between China and the Baltic states.
Author : Joseph Ruane,Jennifer Todd,Anne Mandeville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058723993
Much attention has been paid to globalization, yet little has been focused on the relationship between the national and sub-national levels of politics. This publication has separate sections on the state in transition; on regionalism, nationalism and separatism; and on the security forces and the maintenance of order. The three states chosen - Britain, France and Spain - have historical similarities as ex-imperial, Atlantic seaboard states with weighty historical and institutional traditions. But they also differ in their institutions, in their centre-periphery relations and in their varying responses to the new phase of change. The authors assess the new constitutional configurations in each state - decentralisation, devolution or autonomous governments - and analyse the effect on the peripheries and the maintenance of order. The book also includes chapters on conflict in Northern Ireland and the Spanish Basque country and discussion of nationalist identity and assertion in the three countries.
Author : Jemma Purdey,Antje Missbach,Dave McRae
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Indonesia
ISBN : 1626378517
Indonesia remains a country in transition even now, some two decades after its extraordinary shift from authoritarianism to democracy and from economic crisis to a rapidly growing economy. What explains the trajectory of that shift? What challenges does this island nation of 270 million people - with the world's largest Muslim population - face now, as the quality of democratic life erodes and it grapples with profound social and economic inequalities? Addressing these questions, the authors comprehensively explore the dynamics of Indonesia's politics, society, political economy, and culture, as well as its role in the international order.
Author : J. Kornai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403981103
Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume draws on the experience of those who have lived through and studied the transition and contrasts their insights with those of generalist scholars who study government accountability and democracy. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition, organized by János Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman. A second volume entitled, Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition , is being published simultaneously.
Author : Jennifer R. Wolch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018513955