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Series: Development in Practice Books
Concern for achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 has led to a focus on the role that non-state providers (NSPs) can offer in extending access and improving quality of basic services. While NSPs can help to fill a gap in provision to those excluded from state provision, recent...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Epistemic communities represent networks of knowledge-based experts that help articulate cause-and-effect relationships of complex problems, define the self-interests of a state, or formulate specific policies for state decision makers. However, the role of these scientists and...
To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive...
To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Politics and Issues presents tools and concepts about environmental policies in several developed and developing countries. It explores a broad survey of ecological modernization theory, ecological feminism theory, environmental justice theory, the concept...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
This textbook explains the complexities of the policy-making process in a refreshingly clear way for students who are new to this subject. It explains: How policy originates, is refined, legitimised, implemented, evaluated and terminated in the forms of theoretical models of the policy process...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent underground oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Interest groups, public officials, and media organizations have spent considerable time documenting the...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
Recent federal court activity has dramatically changed the regulatory environment of campaign finance in the United States. Since 2010, the judiciary has decided that corporations and labor unions may freely spend in American elections, and that so-called "Super PACs" can accept unlimited...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
A large interdisciplinary literature has shown that diversity and dissent can often improve decision making in small groups, helping them overcome problems and increase creativity. This book explores the impact of diversity and dissent in the political arena and how they can effect policy...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Many textbooks on policy research focus on methodological and statistical theories, while leaving students little indication of how they will actually apply them to their future policy positions. Moreover, the theories they do teach are often not practical for the research that students will do...
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
