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What's Left in Latin America?
This book concerns recent and current political developments in Latin America related to the emergence of left-leaning regimes riding the waves of anti-neoliberalism and a primary commodities boom. Based on five years of field research and a critical engagement with social movements in the region, the book documents the short-term advances and strategic weaknesses of these left-leaning regimes, highlighting their failure to take advantage of favourable economic and political conditions. The authors profile four cases of recent and current political developments, and the prospects for socialism, in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela.
Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization
This volume is unique in its systematic approach to these three pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually an onerous task because so many programs possess their own vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology. - Gives readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their own specialties - Provides common grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance, allied health, business and management, and the social sciences, including psychology
Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture in a Globalized World
This collection examines the difficult task of reforming governments worldwide to meet citizens’ needs and aspirations. It advances constructive efforts to enhance public accountability while recognizing the complex ways in which corruption, greed, and state capture undermine the legitimacy and performance of government. The contributors are political scientists, lawyers, and economists who bring a cross-disciplinary approach to their chosen subjects. The first group of chapters deals with public sector performance, development, and public participation. Complementary pieces by a practitioner and a scholar confront the challenges of achieving reform in countries with difficult political en...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Tobacco Counters Health (Vol. 4)
The book entitled Tobacco Counters Health edited by A.K.Verma gives a detailed account of the proceedings of World Assembly on Tobacco Counters Health held from 5-9 December 2005, in New Delhi, India. Volume 4 includes selected manuscrips from the scientific deliberations of the 4th World Assembly. They cover a large field of tobacco related problems related to public health spread over fields like oncology, cardiology, pulmonology, Social and Moral Research and their Management thus stressing the difficulties in and laying stress on prevention. Realising that one-fourth lung cancer deaths are due to the use of tabacco, the volume aims at carrying the message to the widest section of the Public. The book is essential for not only those engaged in medical sciences but even for the general public.
Lateinamerika-Management
Hochkarätige internationale Wissenschaftler und ausgewiesene Praktiker nehmen Stellung zu aktuellen Fragen der unternehmerischen Tätigkeit in den Ländern Lateinamerikas. Führungskräfte aus unterschiedlichen Branchen und Ländern Lateinamerikas stellen ihre Managementerfahrungen vor. Internationale Unternehmen und Institutionen erläutern ihre Businesskonzepte sowie zukünftige Perspektiven und Herausforderungen.
Gender and Representation in Latin America
In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in gender equality in political offices, whereas others have not, and even within countries, some political arenas have become more gender equal whereas others continue to exude intense gender inequality. These patterns are inconsistent with explanations of social and cultural improvements in gender equality leading to improved gender equality in political office. Gender and Representation in Latin America argues instead that gender inequality in political representation in Latin America is rooted in institutions and the democratic chal...
