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Regulating from nowhere

environmental Law and the search for objectivity

Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers a novel defence of the precautionary principle and concludes by advocating ...

Law's environment

how the Law shapes the places we live

In this insightful book, John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Adak Island far off the coast of western Alaska; the Susquehanna River running through New York ...

Legal Theory

Legal Theory discusses a wide range of answers to the most basic legal questions of all. Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not? Is law simply a matter of rules anyway? What is justice? Should the law concern itself ...

Venezuela's chavismo and populism in comparative perspective

Populism is best understood as a Manichaean world view linked to a characteristic language or discourse. Chavismo, the movement that sustains Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, is a paradigmatic instance of populism. Using a novel, cross-country dataset on populist discourse, combined with extensive data from within ...

Unveiling the Council of European Union

games governments play in Brussels

Eds. Daniel Naurin, Helen Wallace. For a long time our textbook knowledge of what is happening in the Council of the European Union -- the major decision forum of the EU -- was to a large extent based on limited interview-based evidence. One reason for that was ...

The european neighbourhood policy in perspective

context, implementation and impact

Eds. Richard G. Whitman, Stefan Wolff. In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic relationship to its neighbours - but without a promise of EU membership. The ENP is intended to be a strategic approach to the post-enlargement ...

Governance theory and practice

a cross-disciplinary approach

Confusion about governance abounds. We lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our understanding. Governance Theory and Practice tackles these issues head on, using a cross-disciplinary approach from political science, public administration, international relations, development studies, sociology and ...

International relations theory

a new introduction

A major new textbook on International Relations theory which combines coverage of the main contending theories and approaches with cross- cutting coverage of key current issues and debates; of the philosophical foundations of IR theory; and of why different theories are addressed to different research ...

Transnational social justice

Transnational Social Justice engages with the current debate on cosmopolitanism by presenting a new way to justify obligations of distributive justice between countries. This book offers an overview of the mainstream cosmopolitan theories that have attempted to philosophically defend the validity of global justice. It ...

Courts and power in Latin America and Africa

Aut. Siri Gloppen...[et al]. CONTENTS: List of Tables and Figure Ch. 1 Introduction: Power and Accountability in Latin America and Africa Ch. 2 Accountability Functions of Courts: A Framework for Inquiry Ch. 3 The Accountability Functions of Latin American Courts Ch. 4 Explaining the ...

Drug interdiction

partnerships, legal principles, and investigative methodologies for Law enforcement

As drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs continue to inflict untold harm upon our society, it is clear that a global initiative and an intense domestic strategy are vital to address the sophisticated drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) that are prevalent in many regions ...

Concise encyclopedia of insurance terms

"The Concise Dictionary of Insurance Terms" is a reference book for insurance professionals, consumers, and students. The book offers definitions of common insurance terms in a detailed format with examples.

The Oxford handbook of Law and politics

Eds. Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, Gregory A. Caldeira. The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of ...

Integrating Europe

informal politics and institutional change

In Integrating Europe: Informal Politics and Institutional Change the author explains why the European Union (EU) member states actively surrender policy-making power to supranational authorities in unconventional ways. In light of the general antipathy toward giving up national sovereignty in European societies--even where "pro-European" sentiment ...

The Oxford handbook of political methodology

Eds. Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, David Collier. Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have ...

La mosca tras la oreja

de la música experimental al arte sonoro en España

Acompaña 4 CD-ROM. Hablar de "La mosca tras la oreja" es enfrentarse a un tránsito fundamental para entender el mundo radicalmente nuevo en el que vivimos: tránsito que va desde un concebir arte y música como recreo, virtuosismo o producto, sueño o especuñación a otro ...

Gestión eficaz de reclamaciones

convierta en oportunidades las reclamaciones de sus clientes

¿Las reclamaciones son mal vistas en su organizacion? ¿Le han asignado la funcion de gestion de reclamaciones y no sabe como hacerlo? ¿Cuales son los pasos a seguir? ¿Cuales son los elementos clave que mas impactan en la satisfaccion de los clientes que se han ...

Finanzas sostenibles

Coord. Mª Ángeles Fernández Izquierdo. La finalidad principal del presente volumen sobre finanzas sostenibles es poner de manifiesto el papel que puede desempeñar el sistema financiero en el desarrollo sostenible. Las finanzas sostenibles buscan maximizar la rentabilidad y minimizar el riesgo desde una triple vertiente ...

DOM

desorden obsesivo por las marcas

La obsesión por las marcas se ha convertido en un problema para padres y adolescentes. El mercado de las marcas mueve miles de millones de euros al año. Controlar las tendencias, incidir en el consumo y hacer que la gente compre lo que se espera ...

Historias chinas

mito y realidad del nuevo gigante económico

Prol. Jesús Perrero. China es un país fascinante con infinidad de desafíos internos por resolver. Problemas sociales y económicos que le obligan a pisar con mucho tiento. El país está a las puertas de convertirse en la segunda economía del planeta, superando a Japón, y ...