Collective action in our current global situation is often associated with growing intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion, or it is regarded as incapable of making a real and positive difference in the lives of individuals. This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but it arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe. By doing so, it contributes a critical perspective to the debate about the possible impact that the Global South could have for positive social and political developments worldwide.
Key Features
Based on nuanced historical and comparative analyses of society and politics in three world regions: Latin America, Southern Africa and Europe
Participates innovatively in the debates in critical political theory about the need to rethink the political
Links analytical and normative elements to explain the political as the combination of collective autonomy, problem-oriented reflexivity and a capacity for transformation-oriented intervention
Firmly set within the debates in social theory and historical-comparative sociology about varieties of modernity and widens these debates by consciously adopting a world-historical perspective
Автор: Gumede Vusi Название: Political Economy of Post-Apartheid South Africa ISBN: 2869787049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782869787049 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 66570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever.
In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.
Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever.
In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.
Автор: Lorenzo Colantoni, Giuseppe Montesano, Nicolo Sartori Название: Empowering Africa: Access to power in the African continent ISBN: 3034337779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034337779 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 75830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Access to electricity is a key factor for the future of the African continent. Energy poverty and lack of universal access to electricity services are, in fact, remarkably hurting human progress in Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa hosts 14 percent of the world’s population but 60 percent of the world’s people without access to electricity: of the more than 1 billion people globally who had no access to electricity, around 600 million lived in the region. In these conditions, many African countries are unable to develop a solid economy or provide basic health and education services to their citizens. Starting from the analysis of present and future economic, demographic, social and technological trends, Empowering Africa offers an in-depth assessment of the current status and of the future prospects of access to electricity in the African continent. The volume describes the main developments in the Africa’s electricity sector, addressing the issue both from a regional and a thematic point of view, and attempting to define the key trends of a sector that will necessarily contribute to shape the continent’s political, social and economic dynamics for the next decades.
Автор: Banik Dan Название: The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa ISBN: 1409411192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409411192 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 53070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Defined as a process which increases access to justice and the legal rights of the poor, `legal empowerment` is increasingly being considered to be an important tool in anti-poverty efforts in developing countries. This volume discusses the opportunities and constraints related to the enhancement of legal empowerment in the informal economy, with a focus on labour and business rights in Africa.
Автор: Song Jesook Название: New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements ISBN: 1138862924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138862920 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: New Millennium South Korea focuses on South Korea`s transformation during the early years of the new millennium, the book discusses the key features of recent transformations within the country.
Thirty years have passed since in 1987 formal democratization was achieved in South Korea. Since then the country has undergone the two turnover test (Huntington), and it overcame economic, financial, and political crises. However, social inequality is higher than before democratization, social conflict has been exacerbating, and political polarization has been on the rise. South Korea’s democracy has been going through a continuous stress test trying the polity’s capacity to heal social conflict, integrate society, and mature politics as meeting these challenges is key to sustainable consolidation of democracy. The chapters of this edited volume, written by experts from South Korea and Germany in respective fields, examine the way in which South Korea has coped with these challenges in its political system, political economy, and political society since its transition to formal democracy, and provide a focused critical assessment of three decades after democratization.
Автор: Lawrence Hamilton Название: Are South Africans Free? ISBN: 1472526937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472526939 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Despite South Africa's successful transition to democracy and lauded constitution, political freedom for the majority of South Africans remains elusive. The poor and unemployed majority are poorly represented and lack power and thus freedom. Under these conditions, the freedom of the privileged minority is also seriously impaired due to the costs of maintaining their relative security and well-being. Lawrence Hamilton is an internationally-known political theorist, who has spent ten years teaching in South African universities. In this unique book he brings ideas - political and philosophical - to the fore to understand a contemporary political conundrum. He outlines the persistent, unresolved problems characterizing contemporary South Africa: poverty and quality of life statistics that are appalling for a middle-income country, levels of inequality that make South Africa one of the most unequal places in the world, skewed economic and political representation that reproduces elites rather than generating opportunities for all and an electoral system that implements the idea of proportional representation so literally that it undermines meaningful representation. Are South Africans Free? aims not only to explain the current state of South Africa but to provide positive new directions and suggestions for institutional change. Hamilton argues that freedom as power in South Africa does not depend on good will, charity or duty, and it goes beyond the complete realization of the political and civil liberties currently safeguarded in its constitution. Such change will depend on courageous leadership, active citizenship, new forms of representation and a macroeconomic policy that offers radical redistribution of actual and potential wealth.
Автор: Heo Название: South Korea`s Rise ISBN: 1107012503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107012509 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: South Korea`s phenomenal rise has been studied extensively in relation to democratisation and economic development. Through a comprehensive evaluation of South Korea`s bilateral and multilateral relationships, Heo and Roehrig explore South Korea`s rise in a different context, illuminating the impact that economic development has had on the country`s foreign policy.
Автор: Heo Название: South Korea`s Rise ISBN: 1107690536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107690530 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: South Korea`s phenomenal rise has been studied extensively in relation to democratisation and economic development. Through a comprehensive evaluation of South Korea`s bilateral and multilateral relationships, Heo and Roehrig explore South Korea`s rise in a different context, illuminating the impact that economic development has had on the country`s foreign policy.
Автор: Collet Dandara, Fatima Ferraz, Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Christopher Mabeza, Rasigan Maharajh, Lebs Mphahlele, McEdward Murimbika, Thomas Pogue Название: The Emergence of Innovations in (South)ern Africa: Long Histories and Contemporary Debates ISBN: 192834125X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781928341253 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 68370.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenious technological efforts to harness nature for communal benefit.
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