VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents – 2011 Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report [EPUB ebook] 

Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: ”My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory of the part played by collective actio …

Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Desp …

This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security …

In a recent paradigm shift, local governments find themselves shouldering more responsibility for day-to-day governance and crisis management, thanks to regulations and federal spending cuts. While 2 …

Seymour Martin Lipset”s highly acclaimed work explores the distinctive character of American and Canadian values and institutions. Lipset draws material from a number of sources: historical accounts …

This study of economic reforms throughout Eastern Europe covers the history of attempts at decentralization. The book: * Describes the centralized model and compares its requirements with the realiti …

Focusing on a quantitative assessment of Brazil’s economic performance 1976-2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini analyze the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact …

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of deve …

Offering a clear and logical analysis of the panoply of European Union aid policies and a theoretically informed evaluation of their operation, Patrick Holden contends that the major thrust of EU aid …

First Published in 1968. This study was written to provide a more modern day look at the history of British Foreign policy since 1658 and the second half of the seventeenth century. It includes inves …