Tag: Governing

Free Download Morris Rossabi, "Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers "
English | ISBN: 0295984120 | 2004 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1497 KB
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057

Free Download S. Williams, "The Politics of Sleep: Governing "
English | ISBN: 0230223664 | 2011 | 226 pages | EPUB | 284 KB
Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. The future of sleep has become contested and uncertain: something to be defended, downsized or even perhaps (one day) done away with altogether.

Free Download V. R. Raghavan, "Policy Choices in Internal Conflicts – Governing Systems and Outcomes"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9382652051, 9384464104 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.4 mb
In the course of the research project Internal Conflicts and Transnational Consequences, the CSA has published eleven volumes. These books cover three internal conflicts in India and those in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Each of the conflict was studied in detail with the help of experts from different disciplines and different countries.This is the final volume of the Project which consolidates the studies done earlier, aims at crystallising some useful lessons for the countries studied and also others who continue to have long running internal conflicts. The constraints in trying to resolve the conflicts by the states and addressing the nuances of the consequences are quite complex. This volume attempts to analyse these issues and helps in identifying positive and negative outcomes of the way different governing systems have addressed the conflicts. The study highlights the importance of not only understanding the major internal conflicts but also anticipating and identifying the problems and difficulties that arise from the consequences and throws up useful policy pointers.

Free Download Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland By Monica Tennberg (auth.), Monica Tennberg (eds.)
2012 | 138 Pages | ISBN: 9400738420 | PDF | 3 MB
The book provides a detailed analysis of the development of adaptive governance in Russia and Finland. It presents a case study from the Sakha Republic in Russia that focuses on community’s participation in the process of governing of the flood events in the Tatta River area. Local adaptive practices are analyzed in relation to federal and regional responses that may mandate, encourage or collide with community’s agency. A second case study is centered on the Finnish community of Kuttura, Ivalo. It explores the mounting challenges presented by changing environmental conditions to traditional reindeer herding, as well as the efforts made to cope with these new factors. Combining anthropological research and political science, this penetrating work offers revealing scrutiny of governmental responses to one of the most urgent issues facing both politicians and the citizens who live in their domains.

Free Download Patrick Diamond, "Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780765819 | PDF | pages: 394 | 7.5 mb
Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. With an unprecedented level of access, and wide-ranging interviews from former ministers, senior civil servants and political advisers, Patrick Diamond examines the administrative and political machinery serving the Prime Minister, and considers how it evolved from the early years of New Labour to the election of the Coalition Government in 2010.

Free Download Jonathan Boston, "Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow "
English | ISBN: 1786350564 | 2016 | 576 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book is about governing well for the future. It investigates the nature of, and the conditions for, prudent long-term democratic governance in a dynamic, complex, and uncertain world, the reasons why such governance is politically challenging, and how such challenges can best be tackled. In particular, it addresses the problem of ‘short-termism’ – or a ‘presentist bias’ – in policy-making; that is, the risk of governments placing undue weight on near-term considerations at the expense of a society’s overall long-term welfare. As such, the book traverses both normative and empirical issues. The approach is primarily qualitative rather than quantitative.

Free Download Christine M. Philliou, "Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution"
English | ISBN: 0520266358 | 2010 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 1216 KB
This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories―ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780-1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks―crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries―in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.

Free Download Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon
by Oleg Golubchikov, Komali Yenneti
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1118640667 | 409 pages | True PDF EPUB | 12.54 MB

Free Download Johannes Stripple, Harriet Bulkeley, "Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics"
English | 2013 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 1107046262, 1107624606 | PDF | 5,8 mb
Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences. The book provides a new set of insights into the ways in which climate change is creating new forms of social order, and the ways in which they are structured through the workings of rationality, power and politics. Governing the Climate is invaluable for three main audiences: social science researchers and advanced students in the field of climate change; the wider research community interested in global environmental politics and global environmental governance; and policy makers and researchers concerned more broadly with environmental politics at international, national and local levels.

Free Download Ivar Bleiklie, Mary Henkel, "Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education – A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan"
English | 2005 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 9048168821, 140203489X | PDF | 4,7 mb
In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts. However, strong common themes bind these contributions together. They include not only the significance of massification, globalisation, neo-liberalism and managerialism for the governance of higher education, its knowledge and values, but also the complexities of change processes, the importance of context and history and the strength of the stabilities that remain.