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Devolution eBook Series

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  • Beyond devolution and decentralisation

    Building regional capacity in Wales and Brittany

    by Alistair Cole ...
    Series series Devolution
    Beyond devolution and decentralisation compares the politics, policies and polity-building dynamics of devolution in Wales and decentralisation in the French region of Brittany. Empirically, the book draws conclusions from in-depth fieldwork within two regions and reports the findings of a comparative public opinion survey. Theoretically, it contributes towards our understanding of the comparative ... Read more

    R1 314,44

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  • The Planning Polity

    Planning, Government and the Policy Process

    by Mark Tewdwr-Jones ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the ... Read more

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  • The European Dimension of British Planning

    by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Richard H. Williams ...
    The UK government of Tony Blair is committed to fostering a European dimension of planning practice. Significant developments in relation to planning within Europe are occurring. The creation of the European Spatial Development Perspective, the reform of the Structural Funds, and the implementation of programmes to foster trans-national co-operation between governments, will all impact on UK ... Read more

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  • Transforming Cities

    New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation

    Edited by Nick Jewson, Susanne MacGregor ...
    This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring ... Read more

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  • Social Exclusion in European Cities

    Processes, Experiences and Responses

    Edited by Judith Allen, Goran Cars, Ali Madanipour ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Across Europe concern is rising over the disintegration of social relations and the growing number of people who are being socially excluded. social Exclustoin in European Cities, the first major study of this topic, provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions of the problem throughout Europe. The experiences of people living in areas ... Read more

    R1 645,21

  • Hierarchies of Belonging

    National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec

    by Ailsa Henderson ...
    Ailsa Henderson analyses each nation's linguistic, racial, cultural, economic, and political diversity within a historical and contemporary context. Challenging the assumption that nationalism in Scotland can be characterized as "civic" in contrast to an "ethnic" model in Quebec, Henderson adopts a more complex model of national identity that distinguishes between nationalistic rhetoric, which is ... Read more

    R1 480,37

  • Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Philip Booth, Michelle Breuillard, Charles Fraser, Didier Paris ...
    Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different modes of planning in terms of their structure, practical application and underlying philosophies.Drawing ... Read more

    R1 221,38

  • The New Labour Experiment

    Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown

    by Florence Faucher-King, Patrick Le Galés ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic ... Read more

    R388,23

  • Governing Britain

    Power, Politics and the Prime Minister

    by Patrick Diamond ...
    Series series Policy Network
    Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. With an unprecedented level of access, and wide-ranging interviews from former ministers, senior civil servants and political advisers, Patrick Diamond examines the administrative and political ... Read more

    R406,97

  • Comparative Policing

    by Jacques de Maillard ...
    Series series Global Issues in Crime and Justice
    This book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the Western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social problems, such as economic austerity, multi-level governance, transnational change, relations with minorities and transformation of delinquency. Core content includes:• Comparative histories of the formation of national police systems;• A ... Read more

    R997,00

  • Women and Political Power

    Europe since 1945

    by Simon Henig ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers and Presidents in Europe.Women and Political Power examines the extent of progress women have made in ten western European countries, and looks at the factors which have helped, or hindered, their ... Read more

    R1 021,93

  • Englishness

    The Political Force Transforming Britain

    by Ailsa Henderson, Richard Wyn Jones ...
    Until the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent opinion polls have raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the Union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet even as ... Read more

    R279,32