The book will provide an international perspective on PPP by drawing upon the existing and fast developing body of principles and practices from many countries. It will be the first of its kind in that it will bring together academics and practition...Loe edasi...
This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise and critical introduction to social gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around age, aging, the life course, and the roles of power, p...Loe edasi...
This title was first published in 2000: This volume is based on papers presented at the sixth International Research Seminar on Issues in Social Security, held by FISS on 12-15 June 1999 in Sigtuna, Sweden. The book relates to the discussion about...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1984, Privatisation and the Welfare State brings together a distinguished set of experts on the Welfare State and its main policy areas of health care, housing, education and transport....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the suggestion that the key element of post-Soviet economic and political reforms in the last two decades was the redistribution of assets from the state to oligarchs and the new elite....Loe edasi...
This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizationsthe privatization of New York Citys Central Park. This fascinating account highlights the immense theoretical and political issues involved in radically rethinking privatization...Loe edasi...
This is Volume II of Professor Parkers authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199586028)
Sustainable and adequate old age pensions in ageing societies have become a major topic on the political agenda. This book describes the shift from public to private pensions and explains the differences across ten European countries....Loe edasi...
Drawing heavily on the records of the British Government, this first volume of the Official History of Privatisation studies the background to privatisation and those carried out during the first two Conservative Governments led by Margaret Thatcher...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Mar-2008, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444306750)
Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms peoples relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Nov-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199298242)
Compares the law governing public-private partnerships in the US, England, and the EU, and the legal responses to delegation of governmental power to private parties by categorising them as: responses which impose controls on the delegator of govern...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2006, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199203628)
What makes economic reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement reforms differently, without inflicting prejudice to large fringes of the population? This book explores these issues by...Loe edasi...
This book provides a balanced evaluation of the process of deregulation and privatisation within the overall context of economic reform in India....Loe edasi...
Presents an audit of privatizations from around the world. This title outlines the historical emergence of globalization and liberalization and provides guidance for policy and action that restore and maintain the balance between the powers and resp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2005, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195150629)
Focuses on where privatization stands and what are the next frontiers, the why and how behind countries who privatize certain industries, whether privatization works as an economic tool, and important insights relevant to financial institutions such...Loe edasi...
Provides an overview of the debates over water in Southern Africa. This book presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world includin...Loe edasi...
This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Schools or Markets?...Loe edasi...
Barry Barton, Catherine Redgwell, Anita Ronne, Donald Zillman
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Mar-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199271610)
This volume examines energy security in a privatised, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market. Chapters offer a variety of international, regional, and national approaches to energy security, followed by analysis of the legal provisions r...Loe edasi...