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NGO diplomacy The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International…
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.
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Governing global electronic networks : Governing Global Electronic Networks:
In this volume, experts analyze the global governance of electronic networks, emphasizing international power dynamics and the concerns of nondominant actors. Each chapter concludes with a set of policy recommendations for the promotion of an open, dynamic and more equitable networld order.
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Knowledge and environmental policy: Re-imagining the boundaries of science an…
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, the problems in con…
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Understanding inflation and the implications for monetary policy :a Phillips …
In 1958, economist A. W. Phillips published an article describing what he observed to be the inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment; subsequently, the “Phillips curve” became a central concept in macroeconomic analysis and policymaking. But today's Phillips curve is not the same as the original one from fifty years ago; the economy, our understanding of price setting behavi…
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Japan's bubble, deflation, and long-term stagnation
Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, and the country entered its famous “lost decade”—a period of stagnation and economic disruption that persisted until 2003. The current declines in global equity and real estate markets have eerie parallels to Japan's economic woes of the 1990s. If we are to avoid repeating Japan's experience on a global scale, we must understand what happe…
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Deep time reckoning :how future thinking can help earth now
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Money, payments, and liquidity
In Money, Payments, and Liquidity, Ed Nosal and Guillaume Rocheteau provide a comprehensive investigation into the economics of money and payments by explicitly modeling trading frictions between agents. Adopting the search-theoretic approach pioneered by Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall Wright, Nosal and Rocheteau provide a logically coherent dynamic framework to examine the frictions in the econ…
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Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state." She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and consistent in their use of informati…
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Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environment…
A study of the effect of EU membership on Central and Eastern European environmental policy and the interplay of political incentives and industry behavior that determines policy In Transnational Politics of the Environment, Liliana Andonova examines the effect of the Europen Union (EU) on the environmental policies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Compliance with EU environmental r…
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From optimal tax theory to tax policy :retrospective and prospective views
Many things inform a country's choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this work, Robin Boadway examines the role of optimal tax analysis in informing and influencing tax policy design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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