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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Current Insights into Policy Networks and Environmental Conflict Management -- 1.2 Objectives and Significance of the Book -- 1.3 Overview of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Self-Organizing Policy Network Ties in the Dynamic Process of Environmental Conflict Resolution -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Why Does Public Policy Conflict Occur? -- 2.3 How Can Multiple Efforts to Mitigate Public Policy Conflicts Be Initiated and Driven? -- 2.4 Hypotheses -- 2.4.1 Coordination -- 2.4.2 Cooperation -- 2.4.3 Competition for Tie Expansion (Resource Dependency) -- 2.4.4 Homophily -- 2.5 Case, Data, and Methods -- 2.5.1 Case Selection -- 2.5.2 The Dataset -- 2.5.3 Statistical Model of Network Change -- 2.6 Analysis -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Stability of the Main Policy Actors, Resilience of Their Control of the Agenda, and Intensified Conflicts as Underlying Dynamics of Network Governance in the Environmental Conflict Resolution Process -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Assumed Positive Aspects of Networks: Network Governance and Conflict Management -- 3.3 The Plausible Drawbacks or Neglected Aspects of Networks: Network Governance and Conflict Management -- 3.4 Description of the Conflict in the Case of Hantan River Dam Construction -- 3.4.1 Stage I: Latency/Emergence -- 3.4.2 Stage II: Escalation -- 3.4.3 Stage III: Deadlock -- 3.4.4 Stage IV: Resolution -- 3.5 Results of Descriptive Network Analysis -- 3.5.1 Stage I: Latency/Emergence -- 3.5.2 Stage II: Escalation -- 3.5.3 Stage III: Deadlock -- 3.5.4 Stage IV: Resolution -- 3.6 Discussions -- 3.6.1 Stability of the Main Policy Actors in the Evolution of Network Governance -- 3.6.2 Resilience of Their Agenda Control.

Procurement -- Project delivery methods -- Contract document -- Payment claim -- Payment response and payment certificate -- Variations -- Loss & expense and material price fluctuation claim -- Time for completion -- Defects in construction works -- Final account.

"When confronted with the prevalence of sexual violence in Kenyan and Zambian communities, filmmaker Nikole Lim committed to advocating alongside her courageous African sisters to end the cycle of violence through faith, education, and self-empowerment. Weaving together these women's powerful stories, Lim paints a picture of God's grace and healing amid fear and trauma"--

Rules of the House examines the transformation of the Korean family during and after Japanese colonial rule. Through in-depth reading of civil litigation records, the book shows how the Japanese colonial legal system transformed Korean families from the traditional patrilineal family system into small, patriarchal households. The new domestic pattern proved remarkably durable, forming the basis of postcolonial family life. Women feature prominently in the book. Increasingly marginalized by patriarchy, women embodied the fault line between one family system as it receded and the other as it expanded under the auspices of Japanese colonial law. As a consequence, women's rights to family property, inheritance, divorce, and adoption of heirs were frequently challenged by family members. Far from being quiet victims, these women brought their cases to the colonial courts and won a surprising number of cases. The book highlights how legal discourse about women's rights in colonial civil courts articulated the transformation of the family.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Education and Economic Development -- 1.1 Development Performances of Developing Countries -- 1.2 Role of Education in Economic Development -- 1.3 Level and Composition of Educational Expenditure -- 1.4 Importance of Quality -- 2 Principles of Quality Assurance in Higher Education -- 2.1 Meaning of Quality in Higher Education -- 2.2 Instrumental Approach to Quality Assurance -- 2.3 Quality Audit System -- 2.4 Learning Organisation -- 2.5 Management Plans -- 2.6 Variations in Implementation -- 3 Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the United Kingdom -- 3.1 University Sector -- 3.2 Early Attempts at Quality Assurance -- 3.3 Quality Assurance in Teaching -- 3.4 Quality Assurance in Research -- 3.5 League Tables -- 4 Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Australia -- 4.1 University Sector -- 4.2 Early Attempts at Quality Enhancement -- 4.3 CQAHE Quality Audit, 1993-95 -- 4.4 1996-2000 Quality Assurance Framework -- 4.5 Australian University Quality Agency -- 5 Framework for Analysing Relevance -- 5.1 Quality Assurance and Economic Growth -- 5.2 Analytical Framework for Assessing Relevance -- 5.3 Example from Economics -- 6 Relevance of Quality Assurance in Developing Countries -- 6.1 Required Conditions for Quality Assurance -- 6.2 Actual Conditions in Developing Countries -- 6.3 Differences Between Required and Actual Conditions -- 7 Quality Assurance for Developing Countries -- 7.1 Impact of Conditions on Quality Assurance -- 7.2 Usefulness of Quality Assurance -- 7.3 System for Developing Countries -- 8 Quality in Papua New Guinean Higher Education -- 8.1 Development Performances -- 8.2 Higher Education Sector -- 8.3 Proposed Quality Assurance Initiatives

Australia's constitutional crisis of 1975 was not simply about the precise powers of the Senate or the Governor-General. It was about competing accounts of how to legitimate informal constitutional change. For Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the parliamentary tradition that he invoked, national elections sufficiently legitimated even the most constitutionally transformative of his goals. For his opponents, and a more complex tradition of popular sovereignty, more decisive evidence was required of the consent of the people themselves. This book traces the emergence of this fundamental constitutional debate and chronicles its subsequent iterations in sometimes surprising institutional configurations: the politics of judicial appointment in the Murphy Affair; the evolution of judicial review in the Mason Court; and the difficulties Australian republicanism faced in the Howard Referendum. Though the patterns of institutional engagement have varied, the persistent question of how to legitimate informal constitutional change continues to shape Australia's constitution after Whitlam.

Bilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through postwar debates on bilingualism to illustrate a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference and is used in deliberations of social worthiness

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1 Introducing the strong state and curriculum reform in Asia -- SECTION I Ideology and the strong state: the tensions and limits of state curricular control -- 2 Global city, illiberal ideology: curriculum control and the politics of pedagogy in Singapore -- 3 Strong state politics of the national history curriculum and struggles for knowledge, ideology, and power in South Korea -- 4 Unintended hegemonic effects: institutional incorporation of Chinese schools in postwar Hong Kong

"Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a variety of policies put into place over the past 50 years since its independence. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections provides a retrospective analysis of independent Singapore's economic development, from the perspective of different policy domains each considered by different expert scholars in that particular field. The book is written by academic economists in a style that is accessible to non-experts. Each chapter includes reviews of past scholarship, current data on each policy area, and reflections on required or desirable future policy changes and outcomes"--

This study demonstrates that recognizing the differences of the women activists promoting disparate agendas leads to a fuller appreciation of the connections and commonalities in the relations among those involved. Transnational Feminism and Women's Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Solidarity Beyond the State is the first comprehensive account of feminism and women's movements in Hong Kong. The unique geographical, historical and cultural situation of the city provides the backdrop for Adelyn Lim to bring diverse groups of activists organizing socially disadvantaged and disaffected women, many of whom originating from Mainland China as well as South and Southeast Asia, to the foreground. Feminism, Lim argues, is not premised on a collective identity; it should rather be understood as a collective frame of action. The work begins with a critical history of women's mobilization during the British colonial period and the lead up to governance under the People's Republic of China. Subsequent chapters discuss the organizational forms, rhetoric, and strategies of women's groups in addressing the feminization of poverty, engagement with state institutions, violence against women, prostitution, and domestic work. Conflicts between feminist ideals and the realities and demands of the socio-political environment are thrown into sharp relief. The empirical analysis makes a case for Hong Kong to be considered as a prime site to challenge and renew the theorizing of transnational feminism.

This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of mental causation relate to debates in the philosophy of religion regarding divine action, creaturely causation, and existence of God. The book is divided into two parts. The first deals with Jaegwon Kim's so-called Supervenience Argument (SA) against non-reductive physicalism. One important observation is that the structural similarities between non-reductive physicalism and 'orthodox' theism make it convenient to co-opt non-reductive physicalist solutions to the SA in defending the possibility of creaturely causation in the philosophy of religion. The SA is used as a foil to discuss the relative merits of Malebranche's so-called Conservation is Continuous Creation Argument for Occasionalism (CCCA). Moverover, the so-called compatibilist strategy (Karen Bennett 2003, 2009) for developing a non-reductive physicalist response to the Supervenience Argument is defended and developed. This strategy is then deployed in the philosophy of religion to defend the possibility of creaturely causation against the CCCA.