Central Government Policies

Largely ignored for decades, the World Bank increasingly finds itself at the center of an international political maelstrom. Attacked by the Right ...

As the world heads into the twenty-first century, individuals and their families are being confronted with a more diverse array of possible life ex...

In Basic Social Policy and Planning, Burch presents a generic process for professional intervention and social work leadership that is required of ...

The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a ...

The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a ...

Contemporary legal doctrine holds that corporate managers have obligations, first and foremost, to maximize profits for their shareholders. This do...

This volume identifies the main changes in the British state since 1945 and evaluates their consequences. It provides students and practitioners wi...

In this deeply researched book Ted Hopf challenges contemporary theorizing about international relations. He advances what he believes is a commons...

"This splendid biography does belated justice to one of the unsung heroes of the Second World War. Robert P. Patterson, a quiet man of commanding a...

This accessible text summarizes and explains the structure of British local government, focusing on key changes introduced during the Thatcher/Majo...

Via a mutual concern with social exclusion, the agendas of criminology and social policy have begun to overlap far more in recent years. The two fi...

Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative in...

This text examines why and when policies or organizations are terminated, how they can be terminated successfully, and what often prevents them fro...

This book provides students and general readers with a crucial analysis of Britain's shifting party dilemmas at a time of blurred voter loyalty, po...

Social democrats have always understood that business will act differently if the rules governing economic life are changed: it is not because they...

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender, race, language or religion ...

First Published in 1997. In an effort to find the validity of middle ground, this book offers a comprehensive analysis that looks further than the ...

Canada's last experience with national urban policy-making was in the 1970s. The authors focus on what has happened since, exploring how both our c...

This accessible text summarizes and explains the structure of British local government, focusing on key changes introduced during the Thatcher/Majo...

This book is about the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. It shows how European policymaking chan...

Investigating the influences on Germany's policy-making resulting from the East Central European states' negotiations to join the European Union, t...

Thirty years ago, when compared to the U.S., England, France, and Sweden, Japan had the lowest life expectancy for males and females. Today, Japan ...

Over the quarter of a century with which this book is concerned,the UK has had an extraordinarily diverse experience of monetarypolicy and monetary...