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Prospects for Conservatives - A Compass for Rediscovering the Permanent Things (Hardcover): Russell Kirk Prospects for Conservatives - A Compass for Rediscovering the Permanent Things (Hardcover)
Russell Kirk; Introduction by Bradley J Birzer
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The mind and heart of America, in this tremendous hour, require an inspiration which cannot come out of the party caucus and the editorial room of the daily newspaper." So writes Russell Kirk in Prospects for Conservatives. Sixty years hence the hour is late, the situation even more dire. Our governing elites, in all areas of social, political, and cultural life, have snapped the central axis of humanity and trampled upon the principles of natural, social, and transcendent order. But such are not ever lost, and it is these that Russell Kirk offers to us in this work--perhaps his best, in terms of style as well as intellectual depth and creativity, as Bradley Birzer notes in his introduction to this new edition.

As Dr. Birzer goes on to indicate, the book's importance lies less in the specific issues it addresses than in its discussion of eternal truths. In Prospects, the author engages problems of the intellect, community, justice, order, loyalty, tradition, and power; and associates each of these either with the seven classical and Christian virtues or with the seven deadly sins. Yes, the hour is late, but transcendent order can never be entirely extinguished, and its re-articulation in Prospects for Conservatives--bringing it into clear view so that it can affect everyday living--is an unexpected grace from the pen of Russell Kirk, given to all whose intellects and imaginations have not yet lost their bearings. In an age when it is all too easily led off course, Dr. Kirk offers American conservatism a sure way forward, and reason for hope in perilous times.

Defending the Free World - John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1961-1965 (Hardcover, New): Orrin Schwab Defending the Free World - John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1961-1965 (Hardcover, New)
Orrin Schwab
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Schwab examines America's decision to "stand in Vietnam" with a fresh perspective provided by new archival materials and the intellectual synthesis of institutional, political, and diplomatic history. Vietnam policy is shown at many different levels, from the presidency down to the level of CIA operatives in the field and public opinion specialists on the White House staff. The views of State Department officers, foreign public opinion, editorials in major U.S. newspapers, and the powerful leaders of both Congressional houses reveal an informed and highly conflicted public leadership well before American combat troops were committed in large numbers in the summer of 1965. The study begins with John F. Kennedy's inaugural address in January of 1961 and proceeds to show the decision-making rocess regarding Vietnam and Indochina through the several critical events that led to Johnson's famous press conference speech of 1965. The author contends that responsibility for the war and its tragic consequences should not be placed upon individuals, but rather at the levels of the state, society, and the international system. This view of agency existing at a higher level than the presidency challenges the dominant view of most diplomatic historians and other writers who have focused on the blunders and misperceptions of policy makers.

Knowledge, Politics and Policymaking in Indonesia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Arnaldo Pellini, Budiati Prasetiamartati, Kharisma... Knowledge, Politics and Policymaking in Indonesia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Arnaldo Pellini, Budiati Prasetiamartati, Kharisma Priyo Nugroho, Elisabeth Jackson, Fred Carden
R3,036 Discovery Miles 30 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume examines key questions about evidence-informed policymaking in Indonesia. It draws on insights and evidence acquired through the implementation of the Knowledge Sector Initiative, a donor-funded programme that aims to increase the demand for and use of evidence in policymaking in Indonesia. Featuring contributions from academics, policy researchers, policymakers and development practitioners, the volume will deepen readers' understanding of how knowledge and politics shape the policymaking process in Indonesia. As such, it will be of interest to Indonesian and international researchers, academics, students, practitioners and policymakers concerned with various aspects of evidence-informed policymaking research and processes. In particular, regional and international development practitioners and development partners interested in learning from Indonesia's efforts to improve how evidence is used to address key development challenges will find this volume valuable.

Handbook of Drug Control in the United States (Hardcover, New): James A Inciardi Handbook of Drug Control in the United States (Hardcover, New)
James A Inciardi
R2,508 Discovery Miles 25 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the first director of National Drug Control Policy is appointed to the federal cabinet, this timely "Handbook" surveys the U.S. government's efforts to control illegal drugs. In his valuable contribution toward effectively dealing with this problem, Inciardi successfully avoids the traps that have misled so many in the past, such as devising a single prefabricated solution and waging yet another war on drugs. Instead, he offers a useful way of thinking about the problem, which, while not a solution in itself, provides the tools necessary to develop a realistic and effective national drug policy. Among these is a better understanding of the drug problem, which is supported by including the history and evolution of drug abuse and drug control in the United States, surveys of supply-reduction and demand-reduction strategies, and a discussion of the drug-control controversies before us today. Inciardi then takes a look to the future direction of drug control by recognizing the single most effective resource we have in the struggle to overcome the scourge of illegal drugs and the crime they spawn--the will of the American people.

"The Handbook" is divided into three parts, and includes appendices and exhaustive indices. The Introduction and Part One consist of four articles that chronicle the history of the drug problem in the United States, the roots of the current policy effort, and the emergence of drug abuse treatment as a means of demand reduction. This is followed by a focused examination of the links between drug use and crime. Part Two then offers detailed accounts of contemporary efforts to reduce the supply and demand of illegal substances, including prevention, intervention, treatment, and foreign policy considerations. Part Three targets problematic sectors and controversies in contemporary drug control efforts such as foreign policy implications, drug testing, the AIDS/intravenous drug use connection, and the debate over the legalization of drugs. A series of background papers focuses on drug scheduling, drug paraphernalia laws, and extradition, plus a summary of the 1989 National Drug Control Strategy released by the White House. The name and subject indices further enhance the value of this volume as a reference resource.

How to Win a Local Election - A Complete Step-by-step Guide (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Lawrence Grey How to Win a Local Election - A Complete Step-by-step Guide (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Lawrence Grey
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This revised and updated edition includes new information on how to get the edge on an opponent by using such media as the Internet, cable TV, and direct-mail services. National radio & TV tour.

Interest Groups and State Economic Development Policies (Hardcover, New): Kennith G. Hunter Interest Groups and State Economic Development Policies (Hardcover, New)
Kennith G. Hunter
R2,795 Discovery Miles 27 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Confident in the knowledge that the U.S.was the dominant world economic power, state leaders paid little attention to economic development after World War II. Then, with increasing competition from Asia, Germany, and South America, the recession of the 1980s, and the Reagan cutbacks in assistance to states, they began to place more emphasis on state economic development, finding that earlier policies did little to help their states develop economically. Today, the pursuit of state economic development is so intense it pushes other issues to the back burner. Examining the impact of interest groups on state economic development policies, this book helps to account for some of the forces that have molded development policy during this crucial time.

With the reemergence of economic development as a policy issue, state policy makers have developed over 300 distinct policies. What causes state officials to adopt or modify specific policies is open to debate. Investigating a series of variables believed to influence variations in state economic policies, the author finds that contemporary theories do not adequately explain the relationship between the lobbying efforts of interest groups and differences in economic development policies.

New Directions of Local Higher Education Policy - Insights from China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jian Li New Directions of Local Higher Education Policy - Insights from China (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jian Li
R3,351 Discovery Miles 33 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the directions of local higher education policy in contemporary China since reform and opening up. It involves investigating rationales and conceptualizing analytical framework of shaping multiple type-based local higher education system, including the local undergraduate universities, skill-based local colleges, and technical-oriented local higher education institutions. This book offers an in-depth understanding of problems and strategies in regard to addressing complicated development of local higher education institutions in recent decades in China. In addition, this book also involves exploring local undergraduate universities in China, the current mechanism of local universities from the perspective of organizational transformation, the emergence of application and skill-based local colleges and universities in China, the vocational education development in China as one major type of local universities, the local technical universities' development in China from multiple perspectives, and the professional groups in local vocational colleges.

Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge - Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953 (Hardcover, New):... Opposition Beyond the Water's Edge - Liberal Internationalists, Pacifists and Containment, 1945-1953 (Hardcover, New)
E.Timothy Smith
R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite the development of a consensus foreign policy during the early years of the Cold War that supported containment of the Soviet Union, there were both internationalists and pacifists who opposed the efforts of the Truman administration. These groups felt that American actions, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty, and even the Korean War weakened the UN, threatened the Soviet Union with war, hindered European economic recovery, and promoted colonialism. Often mislabeled as isolationists, both the pacifists, with their traditional opposition to war, and the liberal internationalists, who supported efforts to continue the wartime alliance with the Soviets through the development of a strong UN, felt that the United States should play an active role in world affairs. The "peace movement" forces have been marginalized or dismissed as insignificant by many historians, however, while their impact was minimal in the late 1940s and early 1950s, their ideas would later re-emerge to have a strong impact on American policy, particularly in the "ban the bomb" and the antiwar movements of the Vietnam era. They continued to support efforts to maintain the Soviet alliance through the UN, to assist in the reconstruction of the world economy, to promote disarmament, and to end colonialism. While a commitment to these ideas would probably not have prevented the Cold War, it might have lessened its severity or slowed the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Regional Environmental Cooperation in South America - Processes, Drivers and Constraints (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Karen M.... Regional Environmental Cooperation in South America - Processes, Drivers and Constraints (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Karen M. Siegel
R3,447 Discovery Miles 34 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines cooperation on shared environmental concerns across national boundaries in the Southern Cone region of South America, specifically Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It covers regional environmental cooperation in the Southern Cone since the early 1990s. By using the marginalised issues of ecological and socio-environmental concerns as an analytical lens, the author makes a significant contribution to the study of regional cooperation in Latin America. Her book also presents the first detailed study of how environmental cooperation across national boundaries takes place in a region of the South, and thus fills a lacuna in global environmental governance. This innovative work is geared toward students and scholars of environmental politics, regional cooperation in Latin America, and transboundary environmental governance.

Government through Culture and the Contemporary French Right (Hardcover): J.A. Hearne Government through Culture and the Contemporary French Right (Hardcover)
J.A. Hearne
R2,141 R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Save R245 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the pivotal decade of 2002-2012. Looking at issues of secularism, education, televisual performance, public memory and nation-branding Ahearne analyses how presidents Chirac and Sarkozy sought to redefine contemporary French identity.

Don't Drink the Water - A Citizen's Story (Hardcover): Bob McCormick Don't Drink the Water - A Citizen's Story (Hardcover)
Bob McCormick
R663 R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Don't Drink the Water is not a book trying to promote any existing religious, spiritual or national agenda. It does not attempt to blame anyone for the current state of human affairs. It is the story of how the author combined his personal experience with the thoughts of many of our more renown philosophers, states-men, scientists and long term thinkers from around the world to conclude that the goal of a secure and sustainable world for all humans is not an unattainable "Utopia." Don't Drink the Water makes a compelling case - Living in a time when we have secure and stable relations with each other and our environment is simply the logical outcome of the ongoing evolution of human intelligence.

Urban Environmental Governance in India - Browsing Bengaluru (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): K.V. Raju, A. Ravindra, S. Manasi, K.C.... Urban Environmental Governance in India - Browsing Bengaluru (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
K.V. Raju, A. Ravindra, S. Manasi, K.C. Smitha, Ravindra Srinivas
R2,909 Discovery Miles 29 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban models through Indian and global perspectives. With a focus on the city of Bengaluru, the book draws on extensive reviews of literature and data to present current trends and statuses of environmental resource use in growing urban centres of India.The book analyzes the situations that impact urban environmental governance decisions and outcomes and proposes solutions to address these issues for long-term sustainability. Policy makers, researchers, academics and development practitioners in environmental politics and urban governance will find this work of great interest. The book starts by examining different urban environmental threats on global and domestic levels, and provides evidence for the effectiveness of sustainable efforts to curb the impact of crisis-like scenarios. Then the book discusses the role of institutional regimes in influencing urban environmental outcomes through policies, and analyzes the role of various actors in the evolution of urban environmental governance from a legal perspective at global and local scales. In the final chapters, the book explores the trends and status of environmental resource management in Bangalore Metropolitan Area (BMA), and examines the dynamics of local institutions and governance structures for regulating environmental governance for promoting effective sustainable environmental governance in Bengaluru.

Populist Nationalism - Republican Insurgency and American Foreign Policy Making, 1918-1925 (Hardcover, New): Linda Karen Miller Populist Nationalism - Republican Insurgency and American Foreign Policy Making, 1918-1925 (Hardcover, New)
Linda Karen Miller
R2,737 Discovery Miles 27 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An examination of the skillful political maneuvering of William Borah and Hiram Johnson, two of the post-war leaders of Republican progressivism, this study analyzes efforts to prevent U.S. entry into the League of Nations despite overwhelming support for the organization among both Democrats and Republicans. Following the debacle of the 1912 election, the leadership of the Republican Party embarked on a strategy of reconciliation designed to end the acrimony between progressive and conservative factions so that it could unite against the Democratic Party. A small group of progressive Republicans quickly realized that they could threaten to resume infighting and could, thus, influence policy making on important foreign policy issues. This political environment enabled William Borah and Hiram Johnson to have an extraordinary influence over the Republican Party's position concerning the League of Nations, an organization which they regarded as an agency for the perpetuation of European empires and, therefore, a threat to American democracy. Borah and Johnson effectively intimidated their party leadership and blocked the American participation in the League. Once this pattern was established, it would continue to influence Republican Party actions, in particular the construction of the Republican Party platform in 1920, the U.S. position regarding the Washington Conference on Naval Disarmament, and the issue of U.S. membership in the World Court.

Capital Markets, Growth, and Economic Policy in Latin America (Hardcover): Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, Antonio Jorge, Bernadette... Capital Markets, Growth, and Economic Policy in Latin America (Hardcover)
Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, Antonio Jorge, Bernadette West
R2,788 Discovery Miles 27 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Looking at how Latin American countries have coped with the 1994 Mexican crisis and the earlier debt crisis of the 1980s, this book reveals the full extent of what has come to be known as the tequila effect. Written by distinguished economists and financiers from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, the volume also examines the social, political, and economic issues associated with ever-expanding trade and globalization.

The book opens with chapters considering the impact of the Mexican crisis on Argentina, Colombia, and Venezuela, and it provides an interesting account of the events leading up to the crisis itself. In the following section, the contributors examine issues of economic growth by considering such topics as the need for a new growth strategy, by comparing the Latin American and Asian economies, and by looking at the Cuban economy from a trading partner's perspective. The final section takes an indepth look at the complex issues of neoliberalist versus neopopulist thinking in shaping Latin America's economic policies for the 21st century.

Governometrics and Technological Innovation for Public Policy Design and Precision (Hardcover): Sangeeta Sharma, Pankaj Nagar,... Governometrics and Technological Innovation for Public Policy Design and Precision (Hardcover)
Sangeeta Sharma, Pankaj Nagar, Inderjeet Singh Sodhi
R5,598 Discovery Miles 55 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, government officials have been able to formulate more accurate policies through statistical application. By utilizing quantitative and statistical methods in policy making, governometrics ensures excellence in governmental performance and helps the future of policy making. Governometrics and Technological Innovation for Public Policy Design and Precision demonstrates governometrics effective exploitation of policy intricacies in order to overcome the problems policy makers often struggle to resolve. Capturing a variety of international views on policy standpoints to show how this unconventional and scientific analysis of policy is coming to the forefront, this publication is an innovative reference ideal for policy makers, public officials, professionals, researchers, and students, as well as multilateral organizations and institutional donors."

Paternalism and Politics - The Revival of Paternalism in early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover): Kim Lawes Paternalism and Politics - The Revival of Paternalism in early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Kim Lawes
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about continuity and change in early nineteenth-century Britain. Against the background of an emerging industrial state, the popularization of liberal laissez-faire principles and the rise of a class-based society, it examines the revival of traditional paternal ideals and considers their influence upon the development of social policy. The poor laws, social distress, child labour and factory reform provide a focus for the analysis. The implications of the revival for the emergence of the collective or welfare state is an important theme.

Working Through Environmental Conflict - The Collaborative Learning Approach (Hardcover, New): Steven E. Daniels, Gregg B.... Working Through Environmental Conflict - The Collaborative Learning Approach (Hardcover, New)
Steven E. Daniels, Gregg B. Walker
R3,693 Discovery Miles 36 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Environmental and natural resource policy decision making is changing. Increasingly citizens and management agency personnel are seeking ways to do things differently; to participate meaningfully in the decision making process as parties work through policy conflicts. Doing things differently has come to mean doing things collaboratively.

Daniels and Walker examine collaboration in environmental and natural resource policy decision making and conflict management. They address collaboration by featuring a method collaborative learning, that has been designed to address decision making and conflict management needs in complex and controversial policy settings. As they illustrate, collaborative learning differs in some significant ways from existing approaches for dealing with policy decision making, public participation, and conflict management. First, it is a hybrid of systems thinking and alternative dispute resolution concepts. Second, it is grounded explicitly in experiential, team-or organizational-and adult learning theories. It is a theory-based framework through which parties can make progress in the management of controversial environmental policy situations. They discuss both the theory and technique of collaborative learning and present cases where it has been applied. This is a professional and teaching tool for scholars, students, and researchers involved with environmental issues as well as dispute resolution.

London's Essays of Revolt (Hardcover): Jack London London's Essays of Revolt (Hardcover)
Jack London
R1,091 Discovery Miles 10 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book first printed in 1926 is a collection of 6 essay's written by Jack London for various American popular magazines in the early 1900's. London died in 1914 and these essay's were gathered and published by his wife Charmian london. The titles of the chapters are 1."The Apostate," 2. "The Dream of Debs," 3. "How I became a Socialist," 4. "The Scab," 5. "What Life Means To Me," 6. "Revolution"

Reframing Randolph - Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (Hardcover): Andrew E. Kersten, Clarence Lang Reframing Randolph - Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph (Hardcover)
Andrew E. Kersten, Clarence Lang
R1,904 Discovery Miles 19 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment of America's multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for nearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencing of labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten among large segments of the general public before whom he once loomed so large. Historians, however, have not only continued to focus on Randolph himself, but his role (either direct, or via his legacy) in a wide range of social, political, cultural, and even religious milieu and movements. The authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph's dusty portrait down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new, and often competing, lights. This collection of essays gathers, for the very first time, many genres of perspectives on Randolph. Featuring both established and emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography and blanket condemnation alike. The contributors represent the diverse ways that historians have approached the importance of his long and complex career in the main political, social, and cultural currents of twentieth-century African American specifically, and twentieth-century U.S. history overall. The central goal of Reframing Randolph is to achieve a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.

Philosophies of Integration - Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1998): Adrian... Philosophies of Integration - Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1998)
Adrian Favell
R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive comparative study of the distinct ideas and political arguments that have shaped French and British policies towards their ethnic minorities, and the effects of these intellectual frameworks at local, national and European levels. Charting the politics and events that brought the respective institutional solutions together, the author sets out the divergent conceptualisations of citizenship, nationality, pluralism, autonomy, public order and tolerance that make up the national 'philosophies' in the two countries - republican integration in France and multicultural race relations in Britain. This new edition, published in paperback, contains a new preface bringing the volume up-to-date in the light of new legislation and progress.

Talent Knows No Color - The History of an Arts Magnet High School (Hardcover, New): Elaine Clift Gore Talent Knows No Color - The History of an Arts Magnet High School (Hardcover, New)
Elaine Clift Gore; Series edited by O.L. Davis
R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1970, the members of the New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals understood clearly the realities of race in the South. Houston, Texas, like other Southern cities, had made haste toward racial school desegregation as slowly as the White Southern Federal courts would allow. When the High School of Performing and Visual Arts opened its doors in Houston a year later, a new superintendent and liberal-dominated Board of Education wished to demonstrate the positive potential of a voluntarily desegregated student body. HSPVA was the first United States public school for the arts specifically used for racial desegregation purposes, the prototype for the first public urban magnet program of desegregation used to replace a standing court order, and a continuing prototype for other public magnet schools for the arts across the United States. Talent Knows No Color is a 35-year history of HSPVA, exemplary in both arts and academics, which chronicles multi-perspective participant experiences within the context of ever-changing district education policies and demographics. Ten years of school system and HSPVA archival research, examination of local newspapers, and oral history interviews allow a rich narrative unusual among the already limited number of scholarly histories of individual public schools. It is the description and analysis of everyday occurrences that assist the reader in understanding what Series Editor O. L. Davis, Jr. refers to as "the continuing, likely never ending, practical development of one particular high school and its curriculum."

The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Anastasia Powell, Asher Flynn, Lisa Sugiura The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Anastasia Powell, Asher Flynn, Lisa Sugiura
R5,658 Discovery Miles 56 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms. It offers an inclusive and intersectional treatment of gendered violence including that experienced by gender, sexuality and racially diverse victim-survivors. It examines the types of gendered violence facilitated by technologies but also responses to these harms from the perspectives of victim advocates, legal analyses, organisational and community responses, as well as activism within civil society. It is unique in its recognition of the intersecting drivers of inequality and marginalisation including misogyny, racism, colonialism and homophobia. It draws together the expertise of a range of established and globally renowned scholars in the field, as well as survivor-advocate-scholars and emerging scholars, lending a combination of credibility, rigor, currency, and innovation throughout. This handbook further provides recommendations for policy and practice and will appeal to academics and students in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Politics, as well as Women's and/or Gender Studies.

The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy - Herbert Hoover's Initiatives (Hardcover, New): James D.... The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy - Herbert Hoover's Initiatives (Hardcover, New)
James D. Calder
R2,800 Discovery Miles 28 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first comprehensive account of President Herbert Hoover's policies to reform federal criminal justice administration. Beginning with the first words in his inaugural address, Hoover informed the public that a high priority of his administration would be to insist upon reorganization, qualitative improvement, new efficiencies, and formal study of justice system organizations in the federal system. Calder examines Hoover's background and affinity for justice system reform, the campaign trail and crime control issues of 1928 and 1929, intellectual and practitioner resources, the Wickersham Commission, and the reforms of the federal law enforcement, court, and prison systems. Drawing upon extensive primary source collections, this book provides a thorough examination of the Hoover initiatives and assesses their impact on later federal policy. It will be of considerable interest to political scientists, social historians, and those involved in criminal justice programs.

Paradigms and Public Sector Reform - Public Administration of Bhutan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Lhawang Ugyel Paradigms and Public Sector Reform - Public Administration of Bhutan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Lhawang Ugyel
R3,225 R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Save R1,252 (39%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book describes the administrative system of Bhutan. Divided into two main parts, the first part of the book describes the Bhutanese public administration by examining the various paradigms and ideal types of public administration. Chapters examine the paradigms and ideal types in the field of public administration, and the paradigm concept helps in explaining the dynamics and the interaction of the application of public sector reforms within the context of the ideal types. Based on the historical and recent reforms, the Bhutanese administrative system has been mapped onto the ideal type typology to show hybridity with a mix and layering of characteristics of paradigms. The second part of the book examines the dynamics of implementing and evaluating the Position Classification System (PCS). This part includes chapters which evaluate the PCS and discusses the dynamics of the reform. It synthesizes the findings of the implementation of the PCS and connects it to the broader discussions on public sector reforms. It discusses the trajectory of public sector reform and the points of convergences and divergences within this trajectory.

Securing Pension Provision - The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement (Hardcover): C. Blair Securing Pension Provision - The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement (Hardcover)
C. Blair
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries.

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