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This book explains how racist rule ended in Hawaii through innovative reforms including cultural transformation, adoption of social market capitalism, environmental reforms, affirmative action, and recognition of the rights of indigenous Native Hawaiians. The book explores how developments in Hawaii can be enacted in other states and countries.

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Outlines Hungarian foreign policy since the end of Communism and the formation of the country's democratic coalition. Following a historical review, Kun discusses the 1990 elections and describes how the new foreign policy is West-orientated and aims to protect expatriate minorities.

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In the past, the USA has focused on the military, economic, and diplomatic aspects of our foreign policy, while neglecting the area of educational and cultural affairs. Wieck considers the development of US foreign educational and cultural policy from 1938 to the present.

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Australia is ready for a new national vision, a roadmap for its future. Four exciting, new and talented young Australians articulate such a vision offering fresh ideas and bold thinking about the country's future political, economic and social policy.

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This text examines the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on Ghana's labour relations and economy. This text shows how these forces have unleashed new and even contradictory labour policies and practices which are having profound social, political, and economic consequences.

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Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland addresses citizenship and constitutional change, returned emigrants, the economic contribution of immigrants, the exploitation of migrant workers, asylum seekers and forced migrants, immigrant communities, politics, integration models and social policy. -- .

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During the past two decades public policy analysis has focused on the role of implementation as a distinct phenomenon in the creation of policy output.

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In the 1980s, China established its first systems of environmental management collectively known as the three magic weapons: environmental impact assessment, pollutant discharge fees, and the three synchronizations.

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By using qualitative research from a number of related projects, the book examines the roles, functions and responsibilities of councillors and the expectations placed upon them by citizens, communities and government. -- .

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A former Senior Deputy Secretary of Information in Pretoria shows how U.S. economic and trade sanctions against South Africa brought about radical political change there.

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This book examines how zoo animals can benefit from a global legal revolution in which animals are gaining personhood and citizenship rights. It moves the scholarship about zoos beyond a general discussion of ethics to a concrete set of suggestions on how to increase legal rights for zoo animals.

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This book examines how zoo animals can benefit from a global legal revolution in which animals are gaining personhood and citizenship rights. It moves the scholarship about zoos beyond a general discussion of ethics to a concrete set of suggestions on how to increase legal rights for zoo animals.

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This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.S. society, as well as the impact that this divide is having on U.S. culture, politics, families, communities, and institutions.

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A brutal opioid epidemic continues to bring death and despair to communities across the country despite government efforts to stem the tide. This book, by a former top U.S. anti-drug official, offers a brief history, lessons learned, and concrete recommendations from inside the war on drugs.

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The objective of this book is to provide an independent assessment of the Clinton administration's "reinventing government" plan after a year of effort. It looks at the movement's driving ideas, relationship with the government's workforce, and connections with the broader political community.

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The collapse of U.S. productivity growth since the late 1960s has been the most severe and persistent of recent economic problems. This volume reviews the extent of the growth slowdown, evaluates several contributing factors, and suggests strategies for improvement.

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This book assesses the originality of Elinor and Vincent Ostroms research program, extends some of its theoretical insights to key areas of institutional and policy analysis, and engages with other approaches and areas of research in order to extend the open-ended quality of the Bloomington Schools research program.

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U.S. state leaders paid little attention to economic development after World War II. Then, with competition from Asia, Germany, and South America, the recession of the 1980s, and the Reagan cutbacks in assistance to states, they placed more emphasis on state economic development, finding that earlier polices did not help their states develop.

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The country chapters are followed by a bibliographical essay that introduces a selective collection of English-language materials on public transportation systems and policies in the twelve countries surveyed, as well as additional, general works on public transportation.

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This international handbook is the first to analyze mental health policies systematically across a variety of both developed and developing countries. The work considers the treatment of the mentally ill and mentally retarded, mentally disordered offenses, questions of substance abuse, deinstitutionalization, funding, and consumer rights.

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