Democracy and Security in Latin America. State Capacity and Governance under Stress, Paperback - ***

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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, cont...

State capacity plays an important role in market-oriented economic development today. This Element analyzes the historical origins of state capacit...

This book highlights the importance of strategy, revealing that gradual reforms produce better results than drastic overhauls imposed by political ...

An evolutionary framework is used to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. This approach...

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social lab...

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel D az-Barriga ...

This volume uses thirteen case studies to analyze the impact of economic globalization on poverty and inequality in different regions of the develo...

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This comprehensive review of US drug-control policies toward Latin America and the Caribbean, assesses the impact of those policies on democracy an...

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"An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's future"--

Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible wi...

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America. It focuses on t...

Reducere. The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across th...

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Promoting true development requires the guarantee of an adequate healthy diet. This can only be achieved through the commitment of States, which is...

This book analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump embraces conflicting populist and Republican values, and as a result has relied...

Reducere. Decentralization And State Capacity. Pathways for State in reform in Post-communism socieites

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This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in v...

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The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social p...

This book is for researchers, students, and policymakers interested in policing and civil conflict. It is accessible to graduate and advanced under...

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DescriptionHome to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighborhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants ...

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management in the Middle East, held in Kibbutz Kera, Israel, 6-17 Fe...

An essential exploration of the DRC's hybrid forms of governance and the challenges posed in delivering vital public services.

Reducere. After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of...

There is widespread agreement that democracy today faces unprecedented challenges. Populism has pushed governments in new and surprising constituti...

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DescriptionThe smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organize, and participate ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jeremy J. SchmidtAn intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological sh...

Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global prot...

This study examines the establishment and evolution of China's strategic partnerships with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. It analyzes th...

Reducere. The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French editionOriginally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman...

Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about democracy when it first appeared and is still cited today ...

Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: is the sta...

Implement an effective and compliant information security management system using IT governance best practice.

This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulatio...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Sorpong (Ryerson University, Canada) PeouNumber of pages: 374Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 232 ...

Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948...

Policy makers and academics alike have mistakenly promoted an agenda which takes democratic and consolidated states as the model and the goal for e...