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Giving Death a Helping Hand : Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy. An International Perspective

The volume focuses on public policy issues related to physician-assisted suicide. It offers a detailed analysis of the current ...

Global Energy Supply and Emissions

offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...

Governing the Pandemic The Politics of Navigating a Mega-Crisis

This book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded ...

Guardians of Public Value How Public Organisations Become and Remain Institutions

This book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC ...

Handbook of Education Policy Studies Values, Governance, Globalization, and Methodology, Volume 1

This handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational ...

Happiness—Concept, Measurement and Promotion

This book defines happiness intuitively and explores several common conceptual mistakes with regard to happiness. It then ...

Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. ...

Leadership and Performance in Public Sector Networks / Marco Mastrodascio

Analyses two key aspects of network management in the public sector: leadership and performance. It investigates what integrative ...

Migration and Pandemics : Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

This book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency ...

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

This book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies ...

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : An Analysis of Attributes

This book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of ...

Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing ...

Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion : Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

This book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global ...

Pathways and Consequences of Legal Irregularity

This book provides a unique study of the complexities and consequences of irregular legal status of Senegalese migrants in ...

Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

This book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing ...

Public Administration in Germany

This book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. ...

Public Policy for Venture Capital

Venture capital is widely regarded as an important driver of economic growth. While the USA has the largest and most sophisticated ...

Reality Lost : Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation

This book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, ...

Reflections on African Cities in Transition: Selected Continental Experiences

Describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid ...

Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

This book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from ...

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