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  • Industry and humanity

    A study in the principles of industrial reconstruction

    de William King ...
    Series series Heritage
    Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin. The book reviewed several momentous crises in North American labour-management relations, revealed the ... Leer más

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    An in-depth breakdown of the recent wave of Canadian Senate scandals, highlighting the need for abolition.The Senate of Canada was created as a temporary expedient at the time of Confederation, offered as part of the negotiations to bring Canada’s original colonial provinces into the new political union in the mid-1860s. Since then, the original provinces with upper houses abolished them. New ... Leer más

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  • Free to Believe

    Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada

    Free to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion – the first of the “fundamental freedoms” listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – and its interpretation in the courts. Through an examination of decided cases that touches on the most controversial issues of our day, such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and minority religious practices, Mary Anne ... Leer más

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  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Leer más

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  • Post-Disaster Reconstruction

    Lessons from Aceh

    On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any natural disaster in history.Post-Disaster Reconstruction will be the first major book that analyses ... Leer más

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  • Escape from the Staple Trap

    Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism

    de Paul Kellogg ...
    From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting economies in the Global South, ignoring a more fundamental fact: as an advanced capitalist ... Leer más

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  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    de Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Leer más

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  • Africa's Urban Revolution

    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a ... Leer más

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  • Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics

    Edición de T. Hilgers ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing. ... Leer más

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  • 'A Justifiable Obsession'

    Conservative Ontario's Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985

    de Penny Bryden ...
    ‘A Justifiable Obsession’ traces the evolution of Ontario’s relationship with the federal government in the years following the Second World War. Through extensive archival research in both national and provincial sources, P.E. Bryden demonstrates that the province’s successive Conservative governments played a crucial role in framing the national agenda – although this central relationship has ... Leer más

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  • International E-Government Development

    Policy, Implementation and Best Practice

    This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them. Divided into three sections, the first part of this book analyses the theoretical context of current policies, codes of best practice and their implementation. The second section presents case studies which bring ... Leer más

    $2,391 MXN

  • Transnational Civil Society and the World Bank

    Investigating Civil Society’s Potential to Democratize Global Governance

    de C. Pallas ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Transnational civil society is often seen as an important contributor to the democratization of global governance. In their engagement with the World Bank, however, transnational civil society organizations prioritize pre-existing mission over responsiveness to claimed stakeholders and undercut the authority of developing country governments. ... Leer más

    $1,380 MXN