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Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Widespread changes within the aid environment, brought about in no small part thanks to the emphasis on good governance, mean that political scientists and development experts are increasingly working together, whether in research, teaching or in engagement with policy-makers on the politics of...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including: Theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalism Frameworks –...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the current levels of peace-keeping forces at global, regional, sub-regional and nation-state levels. The authors offer a census of peace-keeping capacity in the first decade of the twenty-first century and chart plans to develop this capacity in order...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach,...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
The book examines the work of celebrity advocacy and lobbying in international poverty, inequality and development. Its purpose is to understand the alliances between celebrity and these good causes, how they function, their history, consequences, wider contexts and implications. It argues...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
This collection brings a diverse range of approaches to the question of pluralism, property and natural resource management in South East Asia. This significant contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature exploring indigenous people, legal pluralism, land rights and environmentalism is a...
To Be Published March 23rd 2014 by Routledge
Series: Global Institutions
This book is as about the UN development system and the never-ending quest for its reform. It will show how member states as financers, principals, and recipients of UN development assistance set significant limits to any increases in the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the UN...
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
In the contemporary age of globalization, strong pressures exist on all states to utilise a common recipe of policy measures to meet public policy objectives: privatization, removal of barriers to trade and foreign investment, deregulation and re-regulation to strengthen competitive pressures. This...
To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes...
To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
