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Designing public policies

principles and instruments

This textbook provides a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. Howlett seeks to examine in detail the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprise the toolbox from which governments select specific tools expected ...

Manipulating democracy

democratic theory, political psychology, and mass media

Eds. Wayne Le Cheminant, John M. Parrish. Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate ...

The american political economy

institutional evolution of market and State

Policy debates - particularly within political science and economics - are often grounded, explicitly or implicitly, within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In this innovative text, Marc Allen Eisner portrays the state and the market as inextricably ...

The future of global currency

the Euro versus Dollar

Can the euro challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as a global currency? From the time Europe's joint money was born, many have predicted that it would soon achieve parity with the dollar or possibly even surpass it. In reality, however, the ...

How the Law works

How the Law Works is a refreshingly clear and reliable guide to today's legal system. Offering interesting and comprehensive coverage, it makes sense of all the curious features of the law in day to day life and in current affairs. Explaining the law and ...

Shakespearean genealogies of power

a whispering of nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, MacBeth, The merchant of Venice, and the Winter's Tale

"Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing" addresses the new perspective on normativity opened up by Shakespeare's stage, as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law.

Finance

the basics

Finance: The Basics is a clear and practical introduction to the world of finance, allowing the reader to grasp relevant financial concepts and apply them to daily activities and studies. This fully revised and updated edition captures the most important aspects of a changing financial ...

Reforming rules and regulations

Laws, institutions, and implementation

Ed. Vivek Ghosal. In recent years governments have paid increasing attention to weighing the socioeconomic benefits of regulations against their costs. Rules and regulations governing economic activity are typically formulated with a view to their benefits. Their effects on the costs and inefficiencies, in particular ...

The illusion of free markets

punishment and the myth of natural order

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the ...

Maynard's revenge

the collapse of free market macroeconomics

It is now widely agreed that mainstream macroeconomics is irrelevant and that there is need for a more useful and realistic economic analysis that can provide a better understanding of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis. Lance Taylor's book exposes the unrealistic assumptions ...

The crisis of neoliberalism

This book examines 'the great contraction' of 2007-2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 per cent of Americans, including capitalists and financial managers, but at a significant cost ...

Legality

What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so ...

Rulemaking

how government agencies write Law and make policy

Rulemaking is the single most important function performed by government agencies. While Congress and the president provide the general framework for the government's mission, rulemaking fills in the details that define the law and delineate how each agency carries out its responsibilities. Cornelius Kerwin ...

Propiedad industrial

Coord. Carlos vargas Vasserot. (Derecho Mercantil. Cuaderno I). La relatividad del Derecho mercantil, tanto histórica como jurídico- positiva, significa que su contenido está cambiando continuamente, que no siempre responde a los mismos límites. A veces, las más, se amplía, a veces se desintegra en campos ...

El Derecho de propiedad

(Cuadernos Prácticos Bolonia. Derechos Reales; 2). INDICE: 1. Adquisición del derecho de propiedad. Antonio J. Vela Sánchez. 2. La accesión y sus manifestaciones. Pilar Montés Rodríguez. 3. Contenido del derecho de propiedad: facultades, límites y limitaciones. María Dolores Mas Badía. 4. Defensa del derecho de ...

Eficacia del Derecho

(teorías y aplicaciones)

Eds. Ángel Sánchez de la Torre, Isabel Araceli Hoyo Sierra. Los tópicos de #eficacia#, #eficiencia#, #efectividad#, aplicados al Derecho, constituyen funciones que pueden ser investigadas desde su procedencia etimológica y desde sus acepciones preliminares, así como en sus sinonimias y analogías en otras materias, antes ...

La relación obligatoria

(Cuadernos Prácticos Bolonia. Obligaciones y Contratos; 1). INDICE: 1. El pago: sujetos, requisitos y lugar. La imputación de pagos. El pago por tercero. Rafael Linares Noci. 2. Los subrogados del cumplimiento: dación en pago y pago por cesión de bienes. La consignación. Rafael Linares Noci ...

Eficacia e ineficacia del contrato

(Cuadernos Prácticos Bolonia. Obligaciones y Contratos; 2). INDICE: 1. El principio de eficacia relativa al contrato. Carlos Lalana del Castillo. 2. Eficacia del contrato frente a terceros. Isaac Tena Piazuelo. 3. La titularidad de los efectos del contrato. Cesión del contrato y subcontrato. Silvia Gaspar ...

Derecho ambiental

patrimonio natural y cultural. Más allá de su conservación

Esta obra es una compilación, sistematización y reflexión sobre todo lo que constituye patrimonio de la humanidad desde el punto de vista jurídico. Tras la introducción y los aspectos generales, contiene tres capítulos centrales dedicados al patrimonio natural, cultural y mixto y un capítulo final ...

El menor como víctima y victimario de la violencia social

(estudio jurídico)

Dir. Lorenzo Morillas Cueva ; Coord. José Mª Suárez López. Esta obra constituye un estudio completo del menor como víctima y victimario de la violencia social desde una perspectiva esencialmente jurídica. En tal dimensión se realiza un exhaustivo análisis de la LO 5/2000, de 12 ...