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Advances in taxation publishes relevant, quality manuscripts addressing the issues of federal, state, local and international taxation including tax compliance, tax planning, and tax policy issues among others. The series uses a wide variety of research methods, including analytical modelling, archival, experimental, survey, descriptive, and legal approaches to address the problems and issues associated with taxation. Volume 21 of Advances in Taxation continues this broad approach to taxation, looking at taxpayer compliance, state tax issues and tax policy decisions, amongst others.

Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices of participation appropriately? Can this standard approach to participation be translated into action in view of diverse polities, policies, political cultures, institutions and practices of participation? This book explores what prerequisites must be given for a successful implementation of s

Looking at state violence : Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket -- From Haymarket to the Mexican revolution : anarchists, socialists, wobblies, and magonistas -- Sensational socialism, the horrors of the porfiriato, and Mexico's civil wars --The end(s) of barbarous Mexico and the boundaries of revolutionary internationalism -- Sensational counter-sensationalisms : Black radicals struggle over mass culture -- Archiving Black transnational modernity : scrapbooks, stereopticons, and social movements -- "Wanted? a colored international" : Hubert H. Harrison, Marcus Garvey, and modern media -- Deportation scenes

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.This book presents the views of the founders of constructivism and modern systems theory, who are still providing stimulating cues for international scientific debate. The conversations of Heinz von Foerste

Communication in Development is composed of papers derived from two sources. An International Conference on Social Psychology and Language was held in Bristol in July 1979. Considerations of space rather than merit prevented some of the papers, given in supplementary sessions on language development, from being published in the proceedings. These papers are published in this volume. Also included are recent and hitherto unpublished papers from European researchers working in the field of language and cognitive development. The contents of this volume range from the early non-verbal communicati

Communication as Organizing unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work, The Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface (LEA, 2000), the volume editors present a communicational answer to the question, ""what is an organization?"" through contributions from an international set of scholars and researchers. The chapter authors synthesize various lines of research on constituting organizations through communication, describing their explorations of the rela

The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability. This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how ethics and technical considerations can aid the development of sustainability indexes to overcome this division in the literature and aid sustainability initiatives.Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability develops and illustrates methods of linking technical and normative concerns durin

Current research increasingly highlights the role of early literacy in young children's development--and informs practices and policies that promote success among diverse learners. The Handbook of Early Literacy Research presents cutting-edge knowledge on all aspects of literacy learning in the early years. Volume 2 provides additional perspectives on important topics covered in Volume 1 and addresses critical new topics the transition to school, the teacher-child relationship, sociodramatic play, vocabulary development, neuroimaging work, Vygotskian theory, findings from international studies

This report provides a comparative overview of common standards and key features of specialised anti-corruption institutions and comprehensive descriptions of 19 anti-corruption institutions operating in different parts of the world, presented in a comparable framework. This new edition of an 2008 report reflects the evolving understanding of international standards and the practice and the most recent experiences of anti-corruption institutions. The report discusses three ""models"" of anti-corruption institutions: multi-functional anti-corruption agencies, institutions fighting corruption th

Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other paradigms, the contributors identify both convergent and divergent literacy and numeracy issues within the region as well as beyond the Latin American context. Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America moves the field forward

Acknowledgments -- Intercultural rhetorics and the nature of American exceptionalist argumentation -- American myths, the beginning of the global war on terrorism, and the decade-long "manhunt" for Bin Laden -- Cosmopolitanism and international reactions to the Bin Laden raid -- Presidential politics, imperial presidencies, and the early strategic usages of "the situation room" -- Liberal exceptionalism and ambivalent American critiques of the Bin Laden raid -- No easy day : Mark Owen's raiding tale, the new American exceptionalism, and the future of America's overseas contingency operations -- Bibliography

What insights can be gained from bringing the theory of the firm to the global economy? I discuss several new features of the world economy that can be explained by incorporating the theory of the firm into the theory of international trade. Among the new features I discuss are the move to flatter corporate hierarchies and the decentralization of authority in firms, the "war for talent", the rise of CEO pay in rich countries, organizational convergence across countries, and firm heterogeneity.

This second edition represents a thorough updating and revision of the first edition. The structure remains similar but includes an additional chapter on humanitarian coordination. All chapters have been revised to reflect changes in best practices improvements in technologies availability of new tools and changes in WHO recommendations. The interagency handbook was developed to set out effective malaria control responses in humanitarian emergencies particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international humanitarian assistance is greatest. It provides policy-makers planners and fie

In an important new application of sociological theories, Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal offers fresh insights into the ways in which social networks function among immigrants who arrive in the United States from Mexico without legal documentation. She asks and examines important questions about the commonalities and differences in networks for this group compared with other immigrants, and she identifies "trust" as a major component of networking among those who have little if any legal protection.Revealing the complexities behind social networks of international migration, Migration-

This book examines Japan's changing pacifism and its implications for Japan's security identity from 1945 to the present. To examine the shift in Japanese pacifism, this research employs the concept of 'negative pacifism' (Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) and 'positive pacifism' (the Preamble of the Constitution) as an analytical framework. To analyse multiple factors which facilitated the shift in Japan's pacifism, this study applies 'analytical eclecticism' and integrates the analytical framework (negative-positive pacifism) with orthodox international relations theo