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Decentralization and local governance in developing countries: a comparative …
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization a…
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Deliberative democracy: essays on reason and politics
"The anthology opens with four key essays - by Jon Elster, Jurgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, and John Rawls - that helped establish the current inquiry into deliberative models of democracy. The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. All the contributions address tensions that arise between reason a…
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Democratic constitutional design and public policy: analysis and evidence
Papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Business and Policy Studies.Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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A History of Chile, 1808–2002
A History of Chile chronicles the nation's political, social, and economic evolution from its independence until the early years of the Lagos regime. Employing primary and secondary materials, it explores the growth of Chile's agricultural economy, during which the large landed estates appeared; the nineteenth-century wheat and mining booms; the rise of the nitrate mines; their replacement by c…
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A History of Chile 1808–2018
As Chile has continued to grow and prosper in the twenty-first century, this new edition of the definitive history of the country brings the story of its political, social and cultural development up to date. It describes how Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, both highly educated Socialists, modernized the country and integrated new interests into Chilean political life, and how the billiona…
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Birth of a Market: The U.S. Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to …
The market for U.S. Treasury securities is a marvel of modern finance. In 2009 the Treasury auctioned #8.2 trillion of new securities, ranging from 4-day bills to 30-year bonds, in 283 offerings on 171 different days. By contrast, in the decade before World War I, there was only about #1 billion of interest-bearing Treasury debt outstanding, spread out over just six issues. New offerings were r…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 393 pages) :illustrations
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Transparency in global environmental governance : critical perspectives
Transparency is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. It is often assumed to result in more accountable and effective governance. The 'transparency turn' in global environmental governance in particular is evident in a wide range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and publ…
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Missed information better information for building a wealthier more sustainab…
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Agreement Beyond Phi
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Principle B, VP ellipsis, and interpretation in child grammar
This is the first experimental study of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis. Among the universal principles are those known as the principles of the binding theory. These principles constrain the range of interpretations that can be assigned to sentences containing reflexives and reciprocals, pronouns, and referring express…
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