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Set against the backdrop of the recurring waves of financial scandal and crisis to hit Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe over the last decade, this book examines the struggles of securities enforcement agencies to police the financial markets. While allegations of regulatory failure in this realm...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
Equality of opportunity is a phrase that is embedded in the language of most organizations, even if it is not always identifiable in their practices. Since the civil rights movement in the US, and anti-discrimination legislation of the 1970s in the UK, jolted organizations on both sides of the...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Genetics and Society
Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks is a case study of changes in drug testing since the late 1990s, specifically geneticization of carcinogenic risk assessment and regulation of pharmaceuticals. Radically new ways of determining whether medical drugs might cause cancer have been established...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Social Problems in the UK: An Introduction is the first textbook on contemporary social issues to contextualise social problems within the disciplines of sociology, social policy, criminology and applied social science. Drawing on the research and teaching experience of academics in these areas,...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and also state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realise that...
To Be Published May 30th 2014 by Routledge
