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Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the US on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development. The volume is organised around three major issues: parental employment, early childhood education and child care, and postsecondary education.

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Traces Ireland's introduction of FOI legislation and considers its use and operation from a series of perspectives, looking at the Irish experience in a truly international context -- .

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A radical look at the Irish austerity measures and the attempts to prop up business and the banks at the expense of ordinary citizens, left to bear the brunt of conditions they did not cause. Many of these contributors predicted Ireland's rapid cyle of boom and bust, even at the height of the Celtic Tiger boom. -- .

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A radical look at the Irish austerity measures and the attempts to prop up business and the banks at the expense of ordinary citizens, left to bear the brunt of conditions they did not cause. Many of these contributors predicted Ireland's rapid cyle of boom and bust, even at the height of the Celtic Tiger boom. -- .

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The irrational social system known as capitalism has, over time, led to the destruction of the environment. A possibility exists to replace capitalism with a form of rational socialism that doesn't necessitate conquering the environment.

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This book explains the foreign policy of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. It argues that Renzis domestic focus and outsider status are critical in allowing us to make sense of Renzis policies toward the European Union as well as instability in Libya and the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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In this treatise by veteran Japanese immigration specialist, Hidenori Sakanakathe former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureauproposes sweeping changes to Japans immigration policy to address the interrelated problems of a rapidly declining population and a decrease in working-age adults.

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This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.

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This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.

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Examines the major concerns of Carter's experience of foreign policy, including: staffing the foreign-policy apparatus; shifting human rights to the forefront of basic policy considerations; and lessening Cold War tensions. This volume also covers Carter's career after leaving the White House.

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In seeking to trace the relationships among various economic factors and to provide some insight into the process of economic development, this volume marshalls a considerable array of statistics and institutional descriptions as a background for analysis.

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How a nation commits itself to freedom has long been at the heart of debates about foreign aid, economic sanctions, and military intervention. Moral and faith traditions have much to say about what is required to achieve this end.

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This book uses an innovative case study on frontline sex work support officers to understand sex work policy and its impacts.

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This book uses an innovative case study on frontline sex work support officers to understand sex work policy and its impacts.

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A former New York Times editor reassesses how the second amendment came to be enshrined in the Bill of Rights, why the political debate over gun control has ground to an uneasy stalemate, and what gun control advocates have to understand to change the conversation.

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The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments. -- .

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A political scientist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government analyses how public policy is made in this country, and why the system works so much better than most observers believe.

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An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

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A new policy framework for regulation is needed to make the regulatory decision-making process more responsive to the requirements for economic growth and to the employment effects of regulation. Regulatory agencies need to use state-of-the-art analytical tools so that they can better determine the employment effects of their regulatory actions.