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This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial
Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern
era, and undertakes a critical assessment of the economic,
political, and social impediments that prevented the country from
transitioning into a truly fully fledged modern urbanization. It
provides a comprehensive history of the growth of towns between
1887 and 1974. It is organized chronologically, regionally, and
thematically, divided into three distinct time periods during which
Ethiopian towns saw progresses and exposures to limited modern
urban features. First, during 1887-1936, the country saw the
creation and growth of a national capital (1887) that coordinated
the country's economic and political activities and facilitated the
growth of other towns in the empire. It introduced new towns, the
railway, modern schools, and health centers. Rudimentary factories
were established in Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, along with motor
cars and modern roads, which increased trade between cities. The
next era was the Italian occupation from 1936-1941, which shook the
pre-existing process of urban growth by introducing a modern
European style urbanization system. Ethiopian cities saw a
qualitatively different way of urban growth in both form and
content. The Italians introduced modern economic and physical
planning, administration, and internal organization. People were
introduced to modern life in urban areas, exposed to modern wage
labor system, and thus moved to towns to take advantage of the
opportunity. The Italian occupation left behind many features of
modern urbanization, and this influenced population exposed to
modern consumptive tastes was determined to retain what the
Italians introduced. Finally, the post-Italian period saw a new era
of urban growth. Due to economic and organizational problems
resulting from destructions caused by the war, the process of urban
growth was slowed down in the early 1940s. Although the government
did not introduce a clear urban policy in the immediate aftermath
of the Second World War, towns continued to grow progressively from
the early 1950s to 1974.
This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and
explanations relating to all aspects of the European Union. It
explains the terminology surrounding the EU, and outlines the roles
and significance of its institutions, member countries, foreign
relations, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities. It
contains over 1,000 clear and succinct definitions and explains
acronyms and abbreviations, which are arranged alphabetically and
fully cross-referenced. Among the 1,000 entries you can find
explanations of and background details on: ACP states Article 50
Brexit competition policy Donald Tusk the European Maritime and
Fisheries Fund the euro Greece Jean-Claude Juncker Europol
migration and asylum policy the Schengen Agreement the Single
Supervisory Mechanism the single rulebook the Treaty of Lisbon
Ukraine
First friends, then bitter enemies, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon
shared a rivalry that had a dramatic impact on American history.
One would become the most dashing figure of the post-World War II
era, the other would live into his eighties, haunted and consumed
by the rivalry. In Kennedy and Nixon, Christopher Matthews offers a
surprising look at these two political giants, offering a stunning
portrait that will change the way we think about both of them.
Starting as congressmen in the class of 1946, the two men developed
a friendship and admiration for each other that would last for more
than a decade. But what drove history was the enmity between these
two towering figures whose 1960 presidential contest would set the
nation's bitter course for years to come. Matthews shows how the
early fondness between the two men (Kennedy told a trusted friend
that if he didn't receive the Democratic nomination in 1960, he
would vote for Nixon) degenerated into distrust and paranoia, the
same emotions that, in the early 1970's, ravaged the nation.
Christopher Mattew's revealing book sheds light on this complicated
relationship and the role that it played in shaping America's
history.
Winner of the 2021 Sara A. Whaley Prize of the National Women's
Studies Association (NWSA) On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers
on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a
standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a
series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their
actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and
reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its
kind in English, Roots of Resistance explores contemporary Honduran
labor history through the story of the great banana strike of 1954
and centers the role of women in the narrative of the labor
movement. Drawing on extensive firsthand oral history and archival
research, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda examines the radical
organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention in
Honduras at the onset of the Cold War. She reveals the everyday
acts of resistance that laid the groundwork for the 1954 strike and
argues that these often-overlooked forms of resistance should
inform analyses of present-day labor and community organizing.
Roots of Resistance highlights the complexities of transnational
company hierarchies, gender and race relations, and labor
organizing that led to the banana workers' strike and how these
dynamics continue to reverberate in Honduras today.
Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of
human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously
difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political
Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society demonstrates that
the reach and significance of political ideology can be most
effectively understood by employing a multidisciplinary approach.
Offering analyses that are simultaneously empirical and
interpretive - in fields as diverse as development assistance
policy and game theory - the contributors to this volume reveal
ideology's penetration in varied spheres, including government
activity, party competition, agricultural and working-class
communities, and academic life.
In many countries, government and society have undergone a major
shift in recent years, now tending toward 'smaller government' and
'bigger society'. This development has lent increased meaning to
the notion of interactive governance, a concept that this book
takes not as a normative ideal but as an empirical phenomenon that
needs constant critical scrutiny, reflection and embedding in
modern societies. Critical Reflections on Interactive Governance
assesses the fundamental changes we can see in civic engagement in
interactive governance to new forms of civic self-organization.
Eminent scholars across a host of varying disciplines critically
discuss a wealth of surrounding issues such as; the role of
politicians in interactive governance; whether government
strategies - stressing increasing responsibilities for citizens -
exclude and mainstream certain people; the type of leadership
required for interactive governance to work and what new forms of
co-production between governmental institutions, civic
organisations and citizens arise. The book concludes with the
prospect of potential hybrid institutional and organizational
arrangements, like the co-operative model to democracy or the
social enterprise, in developing and implementing public services
and products. Astute and engaging, Critical Reflections on
Interactive Governance will appeal to students in the areas of
political science, sociology, public administration and
organization management. Scholars and practitioners in the field of
interactive governance, participation and civic self-organization
will also be particularly interested in this book. Contributors
include: H.P. Bang, K.P.R. Bartels, V. Bekkers, T. Bovaird, T.
Brandsen, E. Czaika, B. Denters, M. Duijn, M. Duniam, J. Edelenbos,
G.J. Ellen, R. Eversole, S. Groeneveld, E.H. Klijn, J. Kooiman, E.
Loeffler, S. Moyson, B. Ottow, Y. Papadopoulos, K.L. Patterson,
B.G. Peters, J. Pierre, M. Ranahan, A. Roiseland, D. Rumore, M.
Russo, T. Schenk, R.M. Silverman, J.D. Sobels, T. Sondergard
Madsen, E. Sorensen, J. Torfing, P. Triantafillou, S.I. Vabo, A.
van Buuren, S. Van de Walle, I. van Meerkerk, W. Voorberg, H.
Wagenaar, L. Yin
As the first exporter of cultural goods and services, the United
States has long held that such products should be treated like any
other merchandise and be liberalized. On the other hand, for
countries such as France and Canada who are concerned about the
impact of economic globalization and the digital revolution on
their cultural identity, cultural products should be exempted from
economic liberalization or subject to a cultural exception. These
conflicting views and interests between states as to the treatment
of cultural products in international economic law lie at the
hearth of the trade and culture debate. These differences have led
to serious tensions over the liberalization of cultural services
within the World Trade Organization, as well as to a Convention
within UNESCO to recognize the economic and cultural character of
cultural products and the states' right to pursue cultural
policies. With most states still not keen on liberalizing the
cultural sector and the stalemate in the Doha Round, the United
States has turned to preferential trade agreements to secure its
policy preferences on the treatment of cultural products. Since the
beginning of the twenty-first century, the US government has
concluded eleven trade agreements grouping sixteen countries and
has been involved in three sets of plurilateral negotiations, with
major implications for the evolution of the trade and culture
debate.
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management offers a
major reconsideration of patterns in long-term policymaking and
organizational change. Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert use
international and inter-sectoral comparison to challenge some
currently fashionable models of policymaking. Combining theory
development, international comparison and original case study
analysis, two of Europe's leading public policy and management
scholars apply and develop some of the main models of policy change
and offer a revealing long-term view of policy developments since
1965. Drawing on an extensive programme of elite interviews and
documentary analysis they provide an integrated treatment of
national and local policymaking in two major public services -
hospital care and the police - in England and Belgium. This timely
book addresses the 'paradigm wars' in public policy, arguing for a
nuanced intermediate position that challenges the orthodox and the
post-modernists alike. This fascinating core book will be highly
sought by advanced students and academics in public administration,
public management, government, comparative politics or public
policy courses. It will also prove to be an important tool for
students in police studies and healthcare management.
Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the
first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and
economic relationship between the US and Puerto Rico arguably plays
a fundamental role in this crisis. With these in mind and given the
imposition of the Financial Oversight Management Board by the US
government, this book presents policy recommendations to help
Puerto Rico achieve sustainable development. A set of partial
equilibrium models are employed to study important industrial
policy options and trade issues. This book also discusses the
potential role of market-based environmental policies as well as
issues of income convergence. The method of analysis to study the
Puerto Rico-US relationship presented in this book is entirely new
to the literature and the analysis of market-based environmental
policy. The overarching result is that it is in the best interest
of Puerto Rico and the US to set economic policies consistent with
an equilibrium characterized by political independence (i.e.,
national sovereignty) for Puerto Rico. The potential for
sustainable economic growth and development is latent in Puerto
Rico's economy. But for factors of production to be used
effectively and efficiently, Puerto Rico's economy requires access
to international markets at sufficiently lower transaction costs, a
condition consistent primarily in an equilibrium characterized by
political independence. Access to international markets at
sufficiently lower costs would help, inter alia, restore market
credibility, regain access to credit markets at bearable costs and
achieve important efficiency gains. This book argues that
international trade ought to be at the center of development and
growth policy. Importantly, it argues on the grounds of efficiency
that not only is it in the best interest of the US to help Puerto
Rico move gradually towards an equilibrium consistent with
political independence, but that a statehood-like equilibrium is
inefficient, particularly if a higher degree of access to global
markets is at the center of policy formulation. I hope the
discussion presented in this book signifies an important
contribution to the policy debate in order to address Puerto Rico's
economic challenges.
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African
skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants'
experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their
lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based
arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in
Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of
mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of
everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African
diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of
such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured
interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant
experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and
overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of
the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they
adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for
social work, public health and community development practices.
From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential
Election describes voting in the 2020 election, from the
presidential nomination to new voting laws post-election. Election
officials and voters navigated the challenging pandemic to hold the
highest turnout election since 1900. President Donald Trump's
refusal to acknowledge the pandemic's severity coupled with
frequent vote fraud accusations affected how states provided safe
voting, how voters cast ballots, how lawyers fought legal battles,
and ultimately led to an unsuccessful insurrection.
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public
policy has increased significantly in recent years. This has led to
new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed
specifically at enhancing wellbeing, that reflect new thinking on
'what matters' and challenge established notions of societal
progress. The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing provides the first
theoretically grounded and empirically informed account of the rise
and significance of wellbeing in contemporary politics and policy.
Drawing on theories of agenda-setting and policy change, Ian Bache
and Louise Reardon consider whether wellbeing can be described as
'an idea whose time has come'. The book reflects on developments
across the globe and provides a detailed comparative analysis of
two political arenas: the UK and the EU. Offering the first
reflection grounded in evidence of the potential for wellbeing to
be paradigm changing, the authors identify the challenge of
bringing wellbeing into policy as a 'wicked problem' that
policymakers are only now beginning to grapple with. This
pioneering account of wellbeing from a political science
perspective is a unique and valuable contribution to the field. The
authors' theoretical and empirical conclusions are of great
interest to scholars of politics and wellbeing alike.
While the current workforce has pushed for the capability to work
from home, it has been the natural disasters and pandemics that
have emerged across the globe this past year that have pushed the
matter to the forefront of conversation. More companies are seeing
the benefits of having a workforce that can maintain business
processes and keep organizations running from anywhere. Advances in
technology continue to improve online collaboration tools and
co-working centers, making working from anywhere a possibility.
Anywhere Working and the Future of Work is a pivotal reference
source that provides vital research on the current state of
teleworking/telecommuting and how it can be used to achieve
competitive advantage. While highlighting topics such as digital
workforce, mobile technology, and accessibility, the book examines
the trends, issues, and limitations that are informing the future
of anywhere working. This publication also explores remote
management practices as well as potential challenges such as
increasing business automation applications that may require
navigation in the future of work. This book is ideally designed for
business professionals, managers, executives, government agencies,
policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Governance is now a major topic in political science. To date,
analysts of governance have paid scant attention to social policy
or welfare state reform. In this book, the concept of governance is
used to analyse the outgoing variety of the welfare mix as well as
shifting responsibilities and modes of interaction. This unique and
path-breaking work analyses the governance of welfare state reform
in the areas of health, pensions, labour market and education
policy. The authors compare both the different processes of reform
(politics) and the change of policies in different welfare state
regimes. They question if the change of regulatory structures
results in growing convergence or ongoing divergence of welfare
states. Governance of Welfare State Reform will be essential
reading for researchers and students interested in social policy
and governance studies. Political scientists, sociologists and
social policymakers will also find this book an invaluable read.
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In 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437,
an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new
book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that these unprecedented
protests marked a turning point for the Latino population—a point
that is even more salient ten years later as the issue of
immigration roils the politics of the 2016 presidential election.
In The New Americans? Silber Mohamed explores the complexities of
the Latino community, particularly as it is united and divided by
the increasingly pressing questions of immigration.
The Bottle, the Breast, and the State: The Politics of Infant
Feeding in the United States explores the ways in which
breastfeeding is both promoted and made difficult in the United
States. It also examines how the use of formula is often shamed yet
encouraged by many standard medical and government practices. Using
both qualitative and quantitative methods, it explores the
politics, policies, and individual experiences surrounding infant
feeding. Oakley shows that a failure to separate the issue of
breastfeeding rights and support, from problematic approaches to
breastfeeding advocacy, in both academic scholarship and public
discourse, has led to a deadlock that prevents groups from working
together in support of breastfeeding without shaming. Drawing on a
feminist ethic of care, Oakley develops a caring infant feeding
advocacy. This approach values the caring work done by parents and
recognizes the benefits of this work for society. It promotes
policies supportive of parenting in general and breastfeeding in
particular, in order to remove barriers that present a challenge to
some women who wish to breastfeed. Caring infant feeding advocacy
also works to promote the development of better alternatives for
those who do not breastfeed.
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
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