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This book examines administrative law throughout Asia, exploring the profound changes in many legal regimes that have occurred. It shows how many states have shifted towards a more market-oriented regulatory state model, involving a greater role for judges and law-like processes, and explores the profound implications of this for policy-making.

This book contains the views of people in areas of international affairs as to the proper role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in global governance. It explores the policy implications of WTO trade related issues that overlap with other institutions, and proposes future policy directions that could ensure coherent and consistent policies at the national and international level.--Publisher's description.

Studying urban governance -- Inquiry and explanatory factors -- Urbanization: past and present -- Urban political economy -- City programs -- Coping with urban problems -- Urban mobility in Curitiba -- Environmental management -- Curitiba: the incremental approach on environmental quality -- Continuous improvement: Curitiba's approach to integrative urban development -- Explaining institutional change -- Public entrepreneurs: political commitment and urban reform -- Municipal agencies: a catalyst for change -- Genesis and evolution of the IPPUC -- Building consensus around urban visions -- Coping with discord -- What has ailed Sao Paulo? -- Making of a metropolis -- Governance strategies adrift -- Is it all about planning? -- Lessons from the urban laboratory -- Government, politics, and urban visions

This e-book is the first of a set of two special issues on new modes of governance in activation policies. Nowadays, the concept of "governance" is widely used by social scientists from a variety of disciplines. Reforming governance has become a part of the strategies that governments develop to cope with processes of social change. This e-book looks at one specific area of social policies, activation policies