Central Government Policies

In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations, Trading with the Enemy exam...

Regardless of whether science is practised in industry, the academy, or government, its conduct inescapably shapes and is shaped by democratic inst...

Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work,...

The book focuses on the novel and unexplored research area of intersection between science, technology, and innovation and international affairs. T...

Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick and why do conventional policy solutions, such as reduced taxes and ...

How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to ...

This authoritative history of the Treasury provides a new perspective on public policy-making in the twentieth century as it explores the role and ...

Non-linguistic conflicts - economic, religious, territorial - are often projected on to language differences, and may be played out in the language...

" . . . an exciting, first-rate contribution to our understanding of Soviet history on several levels . . . and the relationship between tsarist an...

Michael Schaller supplies the historical background to show how the US transformed Japan from enemy to ally, covering the crucial years from 1945 t...

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. They show h...

Europe stands at the start of its first great merger wave. Growing international trade, accelerated by the `Single Market' programme, has seen a sh...

Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. As...

A careful and precise presentation, from leading experts in the field, of the development of the welfare state in the UK. Looking at both historica...

There is widespread evidence that the family has undergone profound social changes in the past decades. However, the interpretations of these chang...

This book explores the role of government in encouraging or deterring the claiming of welfare entitlements. It: compares the rhetoric of claimant...

This book examines the formulation of British and American policy between 1945 and 1955 towards one of the most hated regimes of this century. The ...

Effective sourcing in the public sector is a collaborative and strategic process that does not end when the contract or purchase order is executed....