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Rethinking Multilevel Governance

By: Arthur Benz

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Rethinking Multilevel Governance

By: Arthur Benz

In this insightful book, Arthur Benz introduces a novel analytical approach to comparative research on multilevel governance. Confronting the intricate problems of coordinating local, regional, national and international policies in the face of political polarisation, he makes the case for pragmatic, sustainable and resilient multilevel governance.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035306298

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9781035306299

Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government

The Art of Keeping the Balance

By: Arthur Benz

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Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government

The Art of Keeping the Balance

By: Arthur Benz

The search for a robust balance of power is a continuous challenge for multilevel political system. Institutions like parliaments or courts can protect the existing order. However, necessary adjustments to economic, social, or international challenges or policies determined to improve ineffective structures or to prevent disintegration require constitutional amendments. Whereas constitutional policy appears as essential to maintain balance, changing a constitution is rather difficult in multilevel governments. Due to the veto power of many actors pursuing divergent interests, policies aiming to redistribute power or fiscal resources risk to end in the joint decision trap. Hence, multilevel government is confronted by a fundamental dilemma. Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government compares processes of constitutional reform in federal and regionalized states. Based on a theoretical framework emphasizing the relevance of negotiations in parliamentary, intergovernmental, and societal arenas, it identifies conditions for successful reforms and explains the consequences of failed reforms. Moreover, it highlights the interplay of reform processes and constitutional evolution as essential to maintaining a robust balance of power. The book demonstrates that an appropriate arrangement of multiple arenas of negotiation including executives, members of parliament and civil society organizations, and sequential order of reform processes proves fundamental to prevent federal or regionalized governments from becoming either instable or ending with rigid constitutions. Transformations in Governance is a major new academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series targets mainly single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production style. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

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Oxford University Press

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0191089818

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9780191089817

Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance

By: Benz, Arthur

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Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance

By: Benz, Arthur

Multilevel governance divides powers, includes many veto players and requires extensive policy coordination among different jurisdictions. Under these conditions, innovative policies or institutional reforms seem difficult to achieve. However, while multilevel systems establish obstructive barriers to change, they also provide spaces for creative and experimental policies, incentives for learning, and ways to circumvent resistance against change. As the book explains, appropriate patterns of multilevel governance linking diverse policy arenas to a loosely coupled structure are conducive to policy innovation.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788119177

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Air Pollution

The Effects of Air Pollution

By: Arthur C. Stern

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The Effects of Air Pollution

By: Arthur C. Stern

Air Pollution

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Elsevier

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0323139973

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9780323139977

Programmer Productivity

Myths, Methods, and Murphy's Law

By: Lowell Jay Arthur

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Programmer Productivity

Myths, Methods, and Murphy's Law

By: Lowell Jay Arthur

A step-by-step guide to improving programmer productivity by 50-100%. Examines the interrelationships between technology, methodology, people, and management, and presents a method for manufacturing software on an assembly-line basis. Also deals with software metrics, reliability, maintainability, and auditability. Discusses how and when to buy software and includes actual programs to implement software metrics and program generators.

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Wiley-Interscience

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0471814938

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9780471814931

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

By: Arthur K. Cho

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Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

By: Arthur K. Cho

Papers detail research and findings surrounding advances in the field. Topics include regulation and role in drug metabolism of cytochrome P- 450 3A4, molecular and pharmacologic regulation of the pineal gland, regulation of gene expression by reactive oxygen, cytotoxicity of short-chain alcohols, glial cells in neurotoxicity development, and regulation and inhibition of phospholipase A2. Other subjects include inhibition of nitric oxide synthase as a potential therapeutic target, genetic regulation of glutamate receptor ion channels, and teratology of retinoids. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Annual Reviews

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082430439X

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9780824304393

Multinational business finance

By: David K. Eiteman,Arthur I. Stonehill,Michael H. Moffett

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Multinational business finance

By: David K. Eiteman,Arthur I. Stonehill,Michael H. Moffett

The Ninth Edition of this market leader communicates the complexities of international finance clearly and authoritatively. The book features a streamlined presentation, expanded attention to emerging markets, several new chapters, and four new decision cases with an emerging-markets focus. An accompanying new Casebook by Michael Moffett includes in-depth decision cases keyed to the coverage in the Eiteman text. The authors have a knack for communicating the complexities of international finance to today's students in a manner that is clear and understandable. For anyone interested in business.

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Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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0201595575

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Rethinking Multilevel Governance

Rethinking Multilevel Governance

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Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government

Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance

Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance

Air Pollution

Air Pollution

Programmer Productivity

Programmer Productivity

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Multinational business finance

Multinational business finance

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