Regulatory Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Social Protection in Developing Countries

   Reforming Systems

   Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Defending Democracy and Securing Diversity

   Edited by Christian Leuprecht

   Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other public or...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico

   Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus

   By Laura Valeria González-Murphy

   Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

   The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Public Administration Research Methods

   Tools for Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice

   By Warren S. Eller, Brian J. Gerber, Scott E. Robinson

   The best decisions made by public sector managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what’s happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public sector manager are...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Balancing between Trade and Risk

   Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Marjolein B. A. van Asselt, Esther Versluis, Ellen Vos

   The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Open Government (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System

   Edited by Richard A. Chapman, Michael Hunt

   First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Less is Better

   Nuclear Restraint at Low Numbers

   By Malcolm Chalmers

   Series: Whitehall Papers

   Despite the rise of ‘new’ security threats like terrorism, cyber-war and piracy, the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons still hangs over the world. Discussion on further strategic nuclear arms reduction has tended to be dominated by the analysis of possible trade-offs between the US and...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. The Permanent Crisis

    Iran’s Nuclear Trajectory

    By Shashank Joshi

    Series: Whitehall Papers

    The quickening pace of Iran’s nuclear activities has produced an international sense of urgency. Sanctions have intensified, while fears of an Israeli strike abound. Talks have briefly eased the tension, before failing due to fundamental differences between Iran and the West. There seem to be dim...

    Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge