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Multiorganizational Arrangements in the Governance of Unitary and Federal Political Systems -- Beyond Organizational Design: Contextuality and the Political Theory of Public Policy -- Comment on Wittrock: Creative Imagination and Appropriate Assemblies -- Forward and Backward Mapping: Reversible Logic in the Analysis of Public Policy -- Policy Subsystems as a Unit of Analysis in Implementation Studies: A Struggle for Theoretical Synthesis -- Comment on Warns ley: The Unit of Analysis as a Methodological Problem -- Policy Subsystems, Networks and the Tools of Public Management -- Small Firm Employment Creation: An Assistance Structure Explanation -- Comment on Hjern and Hull: Implementation Structures and the Importance of Local Actors -- Metropolitan Structure and Systemic Performance: The Case of Police Service Delivery -- Comment on Parks: Fragmented Policy Organizations: A Comment -- Diffusion of Responsibility: An Interorganizational Analysis -- Comment on O'Toole: The Structural Context of Responsibility -- Racial Inequalities in Low-Income Central City and Suburban Communities: The Case of Police Services -- Social Structure and Social Praxis in Interorganizational Policy Analysis -- Comments on Benson and Weitzel: Interorganizational Analysis: A Field for Social Praxis Based On Social Structure, or Strategic Choice and Reticulist Judgement? -- Reflections on Bridge-Building in Complex Terrains: A Postscript -- Strategic Interaction, Learning and Policy Evolution: A Synthetic Hodel -- Implementation Research and Institutional Design: The Quest for Structure.

Change has been the key political word in South Africa in recent years. This book reflects on the strategies for change adopted to attain a non-racial democracy in the country. Political actors and academics examine the strategies of both parliamentary groups and the mass democratic movement, illustrating the way in which these strategies are expressed in key spheres of society - local government, the economy, church and also the international arena

Caribbean coast guard and naval hierarchies are developed in order to facilitate systematic comparisons about maritime issues and key actors. On this basis, the relationship of different groups of states to the longstanding Cold-War security agenda as well as the emerging post-Cold War one is assessed. Prominent emerging security issues include boat people, maritime drug trafficking and a variety of local maritime security issues. While Caribbean maritime security is distinctive and important, this book provides the only comprehensive treatment of the subject

In this book James Rosenau explores the enormous changes which are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, new technologies, and evolving global norms are clashing with equally powerful localizing dynamics. The resulting encounters between diverse interests and actors are rendering the boundaries between domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous and creating a political space, designated as the 'Frontier,' wherein the quest for control in world politics is joined. The author contends that it is along the Frontier, and not in the international arena, that issues are contested and the course of events configured. The book examines a number of contexts and agents through which local, national, and international affairs are woven together. Rosenau's recurring theme is the challenge of achieving governance along the turbulent domestic-foreign Frontier

The regulation of road transport externalities - environmental pollution, noise annoyance, accidents and congestion - is one of the most important issues in contemporary transport policies. The Economics of Regulating Road Transport explores welfare economic evaluations - in terms of efficiency as well as equity and social feasibility - of regulatory policies and policy mixes directly aimed at, or indirectly connected to the containment of market failures in road transport. The discussion ranges from static analyses at the level of individual actors and firms to the dynamic behaviour of large spatio-economic systems. Part one explores the economic rationale behind regulating road transport, part two investigates issues of efficiency in the regulation of road transport and part three discusses the issue of equity and social feasibility versus efficiency. This book will be of interest to students of environmental economics and transport economics and to transport and environmental policymakers at the local, regional, national and international level

Main description: In this case study of a recent peasant uprising in an ethnically diverse region of Mexico, Frans Schryer addresses an important issue in the cultural history of Latin America: what is the relationship of class to ethnicity, and how do these two elements of cultural perception and social hierarchy reinforce or contradict each other? Examining the interaction between commercial cattle raisers and subsistence agricultural workers in both Nahua and Mestizo villages, Schryer focuses on how ethnic identities and administrative structures affect the form and outcome of agrarian struggles. He shows that class, culture, and social organization are interconnected but vary independently and demonstrates that communal land tenure and corporate structures are compatible with class differentiation and even overt class conflict within peasant communities. Schryer's data is based on archival research, direct observation, and extensive interviews with key actors involved in the conflict. His book traces the origins of local variations in legal status and ethnic relations back to the development of Indian republics, haciendas, and ranchos. By considering competing interpretations of more recent history, especially the CNBrdenas era, the author also provides insights into the mentality of protagonists involved in both ideological confrontations and armed encounters. What emerges is a detailed, comprehensive study that places as much emphasis on culture and discourse as on economic structures and political forces.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.