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Democratizations: Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts
A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe.Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend on structures and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically evolve in tone, tenor, direction, and pace. They affect and are affected by scores of determinants, both perceived and hypothet…
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- 9780262270366
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)
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Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management
This title develops and applies an innovative theoretical framework that links domestic economic vulnerabilities to national policy positions and international management in the context of Atlantic fisheries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285872
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 391 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints
An?alise comparativa sobre pol?itica fiscal e or?cament?aria nos seguintes pa?ises: Brasil, Estados Unidos, Canad?a, Noruega, Alemanha, Argentina, ?India, China, ?Africa do Sul, Ucr?ania, Hungria.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282482
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- 1 online resource (x, 476 pages) :illustrations
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The paradox of scale :how NGOs build, maintain, and lose authority in environ…
An examination of why NGOs often experience difficulty creating lasting change, with case studies of transnational conservation organizations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262349246
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- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)
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Law as refuge of anarchy :societies without hegemony or state
A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state. Over the course of history, people have developed many varieties of communal life; the state, with its hierarchical structure, is only one of the possibilities for society. In this book, leading anthropologist Hermann Amborn identifies a coun…
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- 9780262351423
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Helping children left behind : state aid and the pursuit of educational equity
Federal reform legislation declares, through its title, that no child should be left behind. Despite this, the sad truth is that many children are being left behind, particularly in large, poor, urban school districts. Because of this inequity, state supreme courts have thrown out the education finance systems in eighteen states, and many states have implemented major education finance reforms.…
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- 9780262286534
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- 1 online resource (ix, 404 pages) : illustrations
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Cybernetic revolutionaries: Technology and politics in Allende's Chile
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized—Allende's government ended with a vi…
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- 9780262298292
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) :illustrations
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Global commons, Domestic decisions :the comparative politics of climate change
Climate change represents a “tragedy of the commons” on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above their own national interests. And yet international efforts to address global warming have met with some success; the Kyoto Protocol, in which industrialized countries committed to reducing their collective emissions, took effe…
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- 9780262289481
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- 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages) :illustrations.
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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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Scientists under surveillance :the FBI files
Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary. Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on scientists in disciplines ranging from physics to sex research. If the Bureau surveilled writers because of what they believe…
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