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Fair Trade Coffee
The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice
Häftad, 2007
456 kr
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Over the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair trade network has emerged as an important international development project. Activists and commentators have been quick to celebrate this sales growth, which has allowed socially just trade, labour, and …
Gendered States
Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1997
Av Ann Porter
Inbunden, 2003
1034 kr
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In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and restructuring. Through a detailed historical account …
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy
Av Belinda Leach, Anthony Winson
Inbunden, 2002
753 kr
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Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors …
Globalization Unplugged
Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2005
823 kr
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The debate over economic globalization has reached a fever pitch in the past decade and a half with Western governments and multinational corporations trumpeting its virtues and a multitude of activists and developing-world citizens vociferously denouncing it. Both sides would agree that …
Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules
Multi-Level Regulatory Governance
Av G.Bruce Doern, Robert Johnson
Inbunden, 2006
848 kr
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The dynamics of multi-level regulatory governance are ever-changing, not just in a North American context, but in a global one as well. Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules, clarifies the nature, causes, and dynamics of levels of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada. Edited by G. Bruce Doern and …
New Institutionalism
Theory and Analysis
Häftad, 2005
485 kr
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New Institutionalism is currently one of the most prominent approaches in political science. In this innovative collection, top scholars in the field offer substantial theoretical and analytical contributions to new institutionalist scholarship, engaging in debates about structure and agency, …
Visions of Privacy
Policy Choices for the Digital Age
Av Colin J. Bennett, Rebecca Grant
Häftad, 1999
433 kr
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As the world moves into the twenty-first century, cellular systems, high-density data storage, and the Internet are but a few of the new technologies that promise great advances in productivity and improvements in the quality of life. Yet these new technologies also threaten personal privacy. A …
Building New Democracies
Economic and Social Reform in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Häftad, 1999
375 kr
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In Building New Democracies Michel Duquette analyses the main public policies of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico to explore examples of how countries make the transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society. The main objective of the book is to follow the process of policy formation in …
Risky Business
Canada's Changing Science-Based Policy and Regulatory Regime
Häftad, 2000
485 kr
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Risky Business is a comprehensive look at Canada's science-based policy and regulatory regime. It asks what risks Canadians might be exposed to as fiscal pressures strain the capacity of regulators in areas such as food, drugs, pesticides, fisheries, and the environment. The first part of this book …
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy
Av Belinda Leach, Anthony Winson
Häftad, 2002
443 kr
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Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors …
Money in Their Own Name
The Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995
Av Wendy McKeen
Häftad, 2004
443 kr
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In Money In Their Own Name, Wendy McKeen examines the relationship between gender and social policy in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. She provides a detailed historical account of the shaping of feminist politics within the field of federal child benefits programs in Canada, and explores the …
Who Cares?
Women's Work, Childcare, and Welfare State Redesign
Av Jane Jenson, Mariette Sineau
Häftad, 2003
485 kr
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By focusing on childcare and systematically comparing national experiences in Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, and the European Union, Who Cares? provides detailed information on recent social policies and a clear perspective on welfare state redesign. Many countries have now designed childcare …
Illusive Trade-off
Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation Systems, and Egypt's Pharmaceutical Industry
Inbunden, 2006
662 kr
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The Egyptian pharmaceutical industry serves as a case study for understanding the impact of the global intellectual property regime in this fascinating new addition to the University of Toronto Press Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy Series. The Illusive Trade-off examines …
Military Workfare
The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada
Inbunden, 2008
696 kr
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Despite the centrality of war in social and political thought, the military remains marginal in academic and public conceptions of citizenship, and the soldier seems to be thought of as a peripheral or even exceptional player. Military Workfare draws on five decades of restricted archival material …
Public Policy for Women
The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Av Marjorie Griffith Cohen, Jane Pulkingham
Inbunden, 2009
1006 kr
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Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations …
Public Policy for Women
The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Av Marjorie Griffith Cohen, Jane Pulkingham
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations …
Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture
Policy and Governing Paradigms
Inbunden, 2008
841 kr
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In recent decades, Canada's agricultural industry, one of the world's largest, has had to adjust to global trade developments such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization. Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture examines the patterns of continuity …
Smiling Down the Line
Info-Service Work in the Global Economy
Av Bob Russell
Häftad, 2009
415 kr
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Just as textile mills and automotive assembly plants have symbolized previous economic eras, the call centre stands as a potent reminder of the importance of information in contemporary economies. Bob Russell's Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at …
Municipalities and Multiculturalism
The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Av Kristin Good
Häftad, 2009
443 kr
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The Canadian model of diversity management is considered a success in the international community, yet the methods by which these policies are adopted by local governments have seldom been studied. Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants …
Comparative Public Policy in Latin America
Av Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet
Häftad, 2012
443 kr
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This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin …
North America in Question
Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Av Jeffrey Ayres, Laura Macdonald
Häftad, 2012
471 kr
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Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, …
Democratic Illusion
Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
Häftad, 2015
345 kr
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The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, …
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Av G.Bruce Doern, Michael J. Prince
Häftad, 2012
387 kr
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Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the …
Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
Av Bryan Evans, Charles W Smith
Häftad, 2015
457 kr
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Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide …
Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics offers a variety of perspectives on the development of policy paradigms — the ideas that structure thinking about what can and should be done in a policy domain. In this collection, international experts examine how both transnational actors …
Wrestling with Democracy
Voting Systems As Politics in the 20th Century West
Av Dennis Pilon
Häftad, 2013
476 kr
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Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American …
Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim
Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries
Av Richard Apostle, Gene Barrett m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
443 kr
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This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources. The work of a group of researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States, it examines the implications of common market integration, privatized …
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
Häftad, 2014
444 kr
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Among countries in the industrialized world, Canada is the only one without a national department of education, national standards for education, and national regulations for elementary or secondary schooling. For many observers, the system seems impractical and almost incoherent. But despite a …
Ideas and the Pace of Change
National Pharmaceutical Insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
E-bok, 2015
838 kr
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Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe explains the reasons for this unique situation. Using archival, interview, and polling data, Boothe …
Ideas and the Pace of Change
National Pharmaceutical Insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
E-bok, 2015
831 kr
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Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe explains the reasons for this unique situation. Using archival, interview, and polling data, Boothe …
