Handbook of global political policy
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Bibliographic Information
Handbook of global political policy
(Public administration and public policy, 82)
Marcel Dekker, c2000
Available at 23 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, this reference utilizes a cross-national, cross-policy approach to examine the public policy of six different regions around the world. Combining actual and theoretical perspectives, the book compares and presents nonideological resolutions to current political conditions worldwide. With contributions from over 30 international policy experts and academicians and containing over 1200 literature references, tables, and drawings, the book is an insightful resource for public administrators and public policy experts, political scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and students in these disciplines.
Table of Contents
- Political policy - an introduction
- majority rule and stability - where do we stand now? growing inequalities and dangers to democracy in hypermodern society - some policy implications
- democratisation in a comparative perspective
- democratisation in federal systems -integration or disintegration? theories of democratisation and the case of donor-assisted democratisation in Namibia
- evaluation of intergovernmental relationships in South Africa with specific reference to local authorities
- African political reform and international assistance
- what can and should be done? elections and the democratic project in Africa - precepts, practices, and the future
- new dimensions in administrative reform in Japan
- regional voting in new democracies
- the case of South Korea from a comparative perspective
- the military and democracy in China
- leadership conceptions of local elites - across the Taiwan Strait - a cultural analysis
- interest groups in the Philippines after the 1986 People's Power Revolt
- development and the issue of governance in south Asia - alternative strategies
- role of performance of Indian Parliament in the process of democratisation - a case study of Panchayati Raj system
- electoral systems in Pacific and other smaller islands
- political culture and politicised culture? comparing democracies in south and south-east Asia
- formation of the new Russian political elite
- effects of post-communist modernisation I Russia in a comparative perspective
- explaining ideological swings in western democracies - a comparative analysis, 1952-1989
- party systems and elites in post-communist Europe
- dissolution of the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav federations - a lose-lose policy outcome? post-communist Russia as a challenge to transition theories
- legislative agenda setting in east central Europe -what makes a difference? Carlos Menem and the reshaping of Argentine history. (Part contents). The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, the Handbook of Glob
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