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Название: Changing Climate Politics
ISBN: 1452239975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452239972
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Changing Climate Politics provides a comprehensive account of the current state of government action and political participation in the US on the issue of climate change.

Автор: Marc Fleurbaey
Название: Beyond GDP Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability
ISBN: 019976719X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199767199
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Is GDP a good proxy for social welfare? Building on economic theory, this book confirms that it is not, but also that most alternatives to it share its basic flaw, i.e., a focus on specific aspects of people`s lives without sufficiently taking account of people`s values and goals. A better approach is possible.

Автор: Fleischmann Albert, Oppl Stefan, Schmidt Werner
Название: Contextual Process Digitalization: Changing Perspectives - Design Thinking - Value-Led Design
ISBN: 3030382990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030382995
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Описание: This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants' perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing of instances in the resulting socio-technical systems. A corresponding illustration, which expands with the overview, enables readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of business process management.
The book presents various facets of business process management from the perspective of the participants, and introduces a selection of models that have proved useful in practice. The design of such models supports the transition from a more-or-less unstructured or unsatisfactory way of working to a structured process that corresponds to the ideas of the company and its customers. The book is intended for professionals in industry as well as students in the field of business information systems who are looking for guidelines on how to discover, create and implement real-world processes.

Автор: Frankenburg & Debray
Название: Integrating Schools In A Changing Society
ISBN: 1469609797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469609799
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: As a result of tremendous social, legal, and political movements after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the South led the nation in school desegregation from the late 1960s through the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, following a series of court cases in the past two decades--including a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that raised potentially strong barriers for districts wishing to pursue integration--public schools in the South and across the nation are now resegregating faster than ever. In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Drawing on extensive research, the contributors reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts. Framed by the editors' introduction and a conclusion by Gary Orfield, these essays engage the heated debates over school reform and advance new arguments about the dangers of resegregation while offering practical, research-grounded solutions to one of the most pressing issues in American education. The contributors are: Courtney Bell, Educational Testing Service Robert Bifulco, Syracuse University John Charles Boger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut Elizabeth DeBray, University of Georgia Sarah L. Diem, University of Missouri Jacquelyn Duran, Columbia University Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University Patricia Gandara, University of California, Los Angeles Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University Willis D. Hawley, Univer¬sity of Maryland Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of Texas at Austin Eric A. Houck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Emory University Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation Chinh Q. Le, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Katherine Cumings Mansfield, University of Texas at Austin Gary Orfield, University of California, Los Angeles Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota Douglas D. Ready, Columbia University Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University Lori Rhodes, Stanford University Janelle Scott, University of California, Berkeley Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, University of California, Los Angeles Megan R. Silander, Columbia University Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University Amy Stuart Wells, Columbia University Sheneka Williams, University of Georgia Terrenda White, Columbia University |In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Drawing on extensive research, the contributors reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts.

Автор: Romano Giulia C.
Название: Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning Under Multiple Hierarchies
ISBN: 3030360075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030360078
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Описание: This is a very rich monograph, based on impressive fieldwork in China, which demonstrates excellent qualitative and ethnographic research skills, research integrity, and cultural perceptiveness in the analysis. This book will make a great contribution to the literature on policy transfer and and policy mobilities, and on urban politics in contemporary China, as it offers a rich understanding of the nitty-gritty practices of transferring and learning 'from abroad'.Claire Colomb, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University College London, UK.

This book explores the concept of Careful Urban Renewal, a concept of urban renewal that originated in Berlin in the 1980s and that was proposed to Yangzhou, a Chinese city of the wealthy province of Jiangsu, in the early 2000s. It sets out to understand whether knowledge and ideas originating in a specific setting can be transferred to another locality thousands of miles away from the point of origin, and have the chance to change the policies and the practices of the destination city. The book shows that foreign ideas can inspire ambitious reforms of the policies of a single city, but that there also exist multiple challenges to policy learning and to the rooting of new ideas in local practices. To explore these challenges, this book develops an analysis of the micro-dynamics of policy transfer, showing that there exist multiple hierarchies to which a Chinese city can be subjected, intermittently opening or closing "windows for policy learning".

Автор: Olivia Guntarik, Victoria Grieves-Williams
Название: From Sit-Ins to #revolutions: Media and the Changing Nature of Protests
ISBN: 1501336959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501336959
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: From Sit-Ins to #revolutions examines the evolution and growth of digital activism, while at once outlining how scholars theorize and conceptualize the field through new methodologies.As it closely examines the role that social and digital media play in enabling protests, this volume probes the interplay between historical and contemporary protests, emancipation and empowerment, and online and offline protest activities. Drawn from academic and activist communities, the contributors look beyond often-studied mass action events in the USA, UK, and Australia to also incorporate perspectives from overlooked regions such as Aboriginal Australia, Thailand, Mexico, India, Jamaica and Black America. From illustrating the allure of political action to a closer look at how digital activists use new technologies to push toward reform, From Sit-Ins to #revolutions promises to shed new light on key questions within activism, from campaign organization and leadership to messaging and direct action.

Автор: Glenda Kruss
Название: Balancing Multiple Mandates: The Changing Roles of Science Councils in South Africa
ISBN: 0796925208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780796925206
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Balancing multiple mandates: The changing role of science councils in South Africa is an important study - building an evidence base to inform the contribution of science councils to innovation, poverty reduction and inclusive economic development in South Africa.

Автор: John MacDonald, Robert J. Sampson
Название: Immigration and the Changing Social Fabric of American Cities
ISBN: 1452256527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452256528
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Описание: This volume of The ANNALS brings together a leading set of scholars to present new research on trends in the spatial forms of immigration that are transforming the American landscape--the effects of the world in a city. With a distinct analytic focus, the volume takes a comparative approach, examining recent immigration trends, disaggregating by ethnicity or immigrant type wherever possible, focusing on core features of the nation′s social fabric (e.g., violence, legitimacy of social institutions, governance, economic well-being), and empirically going beyond the big cities of traditional concern to a host of smaller cities and towns reaching into far-flung pockets of the country. The lineup includes papers on both familiar cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami; as well as places as different as San Antonio; Nashville; Boston; Dublin; Hazleton, Pennsylvania; and St. James, Minnesota. While the places studied and features of their social fabric may differ, the social processes underlying the spatial forms of immigration are shown to be largely the same. This volume will be of interest to social scientists from a broad range of disciplines who engage in research and teaching on issues related to immigration; policy-makers; and individuals working on immigration-policy research.

Автор: Durбn Antonio, Wright Stephen
Название: Understanding Hospitals in Changing Health Systems
ISBN: 3030281744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030281748
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of tables, figures and boxes
List of contributors
1 Introduction: Why this book?Antonio Duran, Stephen Wright, Paolo Belli, Tata Chanturidze, Patrick P. T. Jeurissen and Richard B. Saltman
2 Hospital GovernanceAntonio Duran and Richard B. Saltman
3 Models of care and hospitalsAntonio Duran and Stephen Wright
4 Business models and hospitalsStephen Wright and Antonio Duran
5 Hospital care: Private assets for-a-profit?Patrick P. T. Jeurissen and Hans Maarse
6 Hospital Payment SystemsPaolo Belli and Patrick P. T. Jeurissen
7 Hospitals in different environments: a messy realityTata Chanturidze and Richard B. Saltman
8 Why is reform of hospitals so difficult?Richard B. Saltman and Tata Chanturidze
9 Decision AnalysisStephen Wright and Antonio Duran
10 Conclusions Antonio Duran, Stephen Wright, Paolo Belli, Tata Chanturidze, Patrick P. T. Jeurissen and Richard B. Saltman

Автор: Strachan Hew
Название: Changing Character of War
ISBN: 0199596735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199596737
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Changing Character of War unites scholars from the disciplines of history, politics, law, and philosophy to ask in what ways the character of war today has changed from war in the past, and how the wars of today differ from each other. It discusses who fights, why they fight, and how they fight.

Автор: van de Wetering
Название: Changing US Foreign Policy toward India
ISBN: 1137548614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137548610
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Описание: This book uncovers how US-India relations have changed and intensified during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Barack Obama. Throughout the Cold War, US-India relations were often distant and volatile as India mostly received attention at times of grave international crises, but from the late 1990s onwards, the US showed a more sustained interest in India. How was this shift possible? While previous scholarship has focused on the civilian nuclear deal as a turning point, this book presents an alternative account for this change by analyzing how India’s identity has been constructed in different terms after the Cold War. It examines the underlying discourse and explains how this enables or constrains US foreign policymakers when they establish security policies with India and improve US-India relations.

Автор: Hubert Heinelt; Annick Magnier; Marcello Cabria; H
Название: Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy
ISBN: 3319884263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319884264
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Описание: This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political priorities, whether or not party politicization plays a role at the municipal level, and how mayors interact with other actors in the local political arena. This study addresses students, academics and practitioners concerned at different levels with the functioning and reforms of the municipal level of local government.