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The Canadian Home
... innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time, records of the Canadian Home Builders' Association have been opened to reveal the power plays of bureaucrats, developers, architects, and financiers and how they affect the quality, affordability, and choice of our housing today. Fiery debates over the sublime and the ridiculous (e.g. 1940s architectural articles on whether Toronto should be bombed) are set ...
Empowering Migrant Women
... ' capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy and is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. The volume is essential reading for social scientists, bureaucrats and non-governmental political activists interested in the protection of the rights and livelihoods of migrants. It will also appeal to migration and feminist scholars who have yet to adopt the contribution of critical development studies in ...
Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement: Issues, Constraints and Practical Options
... up-to-date and highly informative. I recommend it to anyone interested in the new wave of FTAs in Asia and beyond.'`Are Preferential Trading Agreements building blocks or stumbling blocks? Most economists are skeptical of their benefits, but politicians and bureaucrats evidently like them. This timely and rich contribution to the debate, by an eminent group of economists and lawyers, assesses the issues with reference to the Australia-China negotiations. Importantly, if we are in a second-best ...
ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance
... new kinds of social identities it has fostered in India. This volume views the diffusion of ICTs in India primarily from the socio-cultural realm. It provides an empirical and theoretical critique of some of the important premises that undergird these initiatives and brings together the voices of innovators in the ICT for development domain. It opens up an entire arena for dialogue between activists, technocrats, bureaucrats and academia on using ICTs to deliver development. Download mirror
When Knowledge is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations
... of past behavior. Often organizations adapt and survive without fully satisfying most of their members, as has been the case with the United Nations since 1970. When Knowledge Is Power is a wide-ranging work that will elicit interest from political scientists, organization theorists, bureaucrats, and students of management and international administration To thank me use this links! uploading.com depositfiles.com If you can't, use this link! megaupload.com !!! No mirrors please !!!
The Welsh Language and Social Domains
... two chapters, all written by acknowledged experts in the field, dealing with the status of the Welsh language in a wide range of social domains, including agriculture and industry, education, religion, politics, law and culture. Although bureaucrats, Celtophobes and some of the upwardly mobile Welsh-speaking bourgeoisie were reluctant to promote the interests of the native tongue, these clearly exerted enormous potential for Welsh to become, both numerically and socially, a powerful influence in ...
Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11
... reform, but failed to achieve the changes they sought. The same forces that have stymied intelligence reform for decades are to blame: resistance inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the rational interests of politicians and career bureaucrats, and core aspects of our democracy such as the fragmented structure of the federal government. Ultimately failures of adaptation led to failures of performance. Zegart reveals how longstanding organizational weaknesses left unaddressed during the 1990s ...
The AmeriCorps Experiment and The Future of National Service
... and The Future of National Service Publisher: Washington, D.C. | ISBN: N/A | edition 2005 | PDF | 130 pages | 2,5 mb "Demosclerosis" is the term that writer Jonathan Rausch coined to describe how lawmakers, bureaucrats, and beneficiaries unite to defend government programs against change and endow them with the political equivalent of immortality. This is not the fate we wish for AmeriCorps, our country's unique experiment in voluntary national service. Having just marked its 10th ...
Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
... patent applications. "Wiki Government" describes how a far-flung team of technologists, lawyers, and policymakers pried open a tradition-bound agency's doors. Noveck explains how she brought both fiercely competitive companies and risk-averse bureaucrats on board. She discusses the design challenges the team faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise, not just rants or raves. And she explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to help ...
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk 352 pages | Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (March 3, 2008) | 069113491X | PDF | 3 Mb This is a pioneering and heroic effort to quantify the ways in which our patent system has failed to live up to its raison d'être: promoting innovation. The book will be controversial. But the authors make a forceful case that deserves to be heard. Download mirror mirror
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