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The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

GebondenEngels9780199573288 29-10-2009

The international framework for a climate change agreement is up for review as the initial Kyoto period to 2012 comes to an end. Though there has been much enthusiasm from political and environmental groups, the underlying economics and politics remain highly controversial. Meer

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Black Police Associations

GebondenEngels9780199573448 24-9-2009

Black Police Associations analyses the new phenomenon of Black Police Associations established in the majority of constabularies in England and Wales. Meer

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What's Wrong with the British Constitution?

PaperbackEngels9780199656455 19-7-2012

In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they ought to behave. Meer

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The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

GebondenEngels9780199656639 15-8-2013

Britain has become increasingly diverse over the last fifty years and she has been fortunate to attract relatively highly educated immigrants with democratic values and positive perceptions of the British political system. Meer

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New Perspectives on Public Services

GebondenEngels9780199603831 26-1-2012

Despite their immense importance for many aspects of public service management, the specific features of places have been largely ignored in recent public management literature. Meer

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Ashis Nandy

GebondenEngels9780199483945 25-10-2018

This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Meer

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Widows of Vidarbha

GebondenEngels9780199484676 2-8-2018

Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed with power and the market. Meer

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Humans on the Run

GebondenEngels9780199484812 23-8-2018

Humans on the Run is an attempt to preserve memories of several microscopic journeys embarked upon by humans, in time and space, often under conditions of utter and complete hopelessness. Meer

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Africa Reset

GebondenEngels9780199485024 1-3-2018

Charting a renewed course for Africa, this work looks at the immediate challenges resulting from the global changes and the priority medium-term policy agenda essential to achieve the long-term aspirational vision for the continent till 2065. Meer

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Non-State Actors and Human Rights

GebondenEngels9780199272815 7-7-2005

Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Meer

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Non-State Actors and Human Rights

PaperbackEngels9780199272822 30-6-2005

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Minority Studies (OIP)

PaperbackEngels9780199487288 9-4-2020

This volume explores the issue of minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity and also how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time. Meer

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Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo

Poverty and Shame

GebondenEngels9780199686728 4-12-2014

Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's contention that shame lies at the absolutist core of poverty. It draws on a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences of poverty provides new insights into how poverty is perpetuated. Meer

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Conflict in the Shared Household

GebondenEngels9780199489954 13-6-2019

The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA) was enacted following a concerted campaign by Indian women's groups. The law was envisaged to provide emergency civil reliefs to women facing violence within their homes. Meer

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Recasting Public Administration in India

GebondenEngels9780199490356 17-1-2019

This book is an important contribution to critical literature on public administration in India. It examines efforts at administrative reforms and the shifts that created new institutions and practices that are being planted on the existing foundations inherited from colonial rule. Meer

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Interpreting Constitutions

GebondenEngels9780199274130 9-2-2006

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Meer

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Election Commission of India

GebondenEngels9780199494255 10-10-2019

Responding to a pressing need for a focussed study of India's public institutions, Singh and Roy put together the first comprehensive monograph-length study of the Election Commission (EC) of India. Meer

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Dilemmas of European Integration

GebondenEngels9780199274307 24-3-2005

If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal strategies. Meer

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Jennifer Payne

The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation

GebondenEngels9780199687206 27-8-2015

The financial system and its regulation have undergone exponential growth and dramatic reform over the last thirty years. This period has witnessed major developments in the nature and intensity of financial markets, as well as repeated cycles of regulatory reform and development, often linked to crisis conditions. Meer

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Kant and Rational Psychology

GebondenEngels9780199688296 20-3-2014

Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, in light of its eighteenth-century German context. Meer

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