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As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities
have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by
the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities,
identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender
and marginalized communities. By examining these three themes in
relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how
unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable
insights from a range of international scholars across multiple
disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities have
played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards
achieving social justice.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities
have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, been
exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these
inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and
governance, gender and marginalized communities. By examining these
three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book
uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together
invaluable insights from a range of international scholars across
multiple disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities
have played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards
achieving social justice.
The Internet and related technologies have dramatically changed the
way we live, work, socialize, and even topple national governments.
As the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive across societies, we
find more often that governments adopt Information Communication
Technologies (ICTs) as part of their toolbox for facilitating
efficient and citizen-oriented service delivery at all levels of
government. Local governments across the major industrialized
democracies have not been an exception to this trend and have set
sail into the age of digital government. Closest to their citizens,
towns and cities have adopted ICTs to facilitate electronic
government (e-government). While research on local e-government
functionality in terms of information dissemination, service
delivery, and citizen engagement continues at an impressive
empirical and methodological pace, gaps in our knowledge remain.
Cross-national comparative research on local e-government that
covers a wide range of municipalities in combination with in-depth
case study analyses is lacking. Informed by a comparative case
study approach, this book seeks to narrow that gap and offer
practical policy solutions to facilitate local e-government. We do
so by pursuing both a macro and micro perspective of e-government
functionality in the federal republics of Germany and the United
States and unitary France and Japan. The macro perspective focuses
on the state and scope of e-government functionality across a large
number of randomly selected municipalities of all sizes in these
advanced industrialized countries. Based on a small sample of case
studies, the micro perspective analyzes the successful
implementation of e-government in Seattle (United States),
Nuremberg (Germany), Bordeaux (France), and Shizuoka City (Japan).
The Internet and related technologies have dramatically changed the
way we live, work, socialize, and even topple national governments.
As the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive across societies, we
find more often that governments adopt Information Communication
Technologies (ICTs) as part of their toolbox for facilitating
efficient and citizen-oriented service delivery at all levels of
government. Local governments across the major industrialized
democracies have not been an exception to this trend and have set
sail into the age of digital government. Closest to their citizens,
towns and cities have adopted ICTs to facilitate electronic
government (e-government). While research on local e-government
functionality in terms of information dissemination, service
delivery, and citizen engagement continues at an impressive
empirical and methodological pace, gaps in our knowledge remain.
Cross-national comparative research on local e-government that
covers a wide range of municipalities in combination with in-depth
case study analyses is lacking. Informed by a comparative case
study approach, this book seeks to narrow that gap and offer
practical policy solutions to facilitate local e-government. We do
so by pursuing both a macro and micro perspective of e-government
functionality in the federal republics of Germany and the United
States and unitary France and Japan. The macro perspective focuses
on the state and scope of e-government functionality across a large
number of randomly selected municipalities of all sizes in these
advanced industrialized countries. Based on a small sample of case
studies, the micro perspective analyzes the successful
implementation of e-government in Seattle (United States),
Nuremberg (Germany), Bordeaux (France), and Shizuoka City (Japan).
Providing new insight into the ideas surrounding one of the longest
running and hotly debated governmental issues the global access to
healthcare challenge Louise Bernier develops an original
theoretical framework that builds upon cosmopolitan liberal theory.
This groundbreaking analysis offers a useful justification for
engaging in a global and more equitable redistribution of
health-related resources.The author examines if and how this theory
of distribution translates into positive law and analyzes the
barriers to legal compliance and global distributive justice in
health. Other topics analyzed in this book include: intellectual
property and international human rights, and the extent to which
the philosophy and structure of each of these normative systems
furthers the goal of distributing benefits equitably and globally;
the use of strong and original normative landmarks to justify
relying on a cosmopolitan approach to global justice based on
health needs; and the social, political, economic and legal
obstacles and opportunities resulting from the commercialization of
the quickly evolving field of genetics. Ultimately, the book
exemplifies the groundwork needed to initiate policy discussions
and to eventually undertake concrete changes to achieve
international redistribution of the resources emerging from
genetics. As such, it will be of great value to students and
scholars interested in health, law, human rights and intellectual
property.
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