Publications
Now showing items 1-69 of 69
Conflict and Transnational Crime: Borders, Bullets & Business in Southeast Asia
(2020)
Exploring the links between armed conflict and transnational crime, Florian Weigand builds on in-depth empirical research into some of Southeast Asia’s murkiest borders. The disparate voices of drug traffickers, rebel ...
A Commentary on the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
(2020)
This comprehensive Commentary provides the first fully up-to-date analysis and interpretation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. It offers a concise yet thorough article-by-article ...
Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods: A Comprehensive Critique
(2017)
Contingent valuation is a survey-based procedure that attempts to estimate how much households are willing to pay for specific programs that improve the environment or prevent environmental degradation. For decades, the ...
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe: Civic Engagement and Public Discourse in Times of Crises
(2020)
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies and measures of public authority in Europe. In this exciting and innovative book, contributors ...
The Energy of Russia
(2019)
This timely book analyses the status of hydrocarbon energy in Russia as both a saleable commodity and as a source of societal and political power. Through empirical studies in domestic and foreign policy contexts, Veli-Pekka ...
The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes
(2017)
This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational justice. Contributing new insights about the preconditions for designing sustainable, ...
Governing Finance in Europe: A Centralisation of Rulemaking?
(2020)
How do regulatory structures evolve in EU financial governance? Incorporating insights from a variety of disciplines, Governing Finance in Europe provides a comprehensive framework to investigate the dynamics leading to ...
Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism
(2016)
The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) the world over, will be profoundly influenced by the challenges of slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and ...
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe: Justice and Vulnerability in Europe
(2020)
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe contributes to the understanding of justice in Europe from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It shows that Europe is falling short of its ideals and justice-related ambitions ...
Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism
(2007)
Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism is a major contribution to the continuing debate on macroeconomic policy-making. Tim Congdon has been a strong supporter of monetarist economic principles for over 30 years. His writings ...
Making Policies Work: First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design
(2019)
Policy design efforts are hampered by inadequate understanding of how policy tools and actions promote effective policies. The objective of this book is to address this gap in understanding by proposing a causal theory of ...
Living Wages Around the World
(2017)
This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable ...
Negotiating Early Job Insecurity: Well-being, Scarring and Resilience of European Youth
(2019)
Offering new knowledge and insights into European job markets, this book explores how young men and women experience job insecurity. By combining analysis of original data collected through a variety of innovative methods, ...
Organizing Matters
(2020)
Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their ...
Philosophy and Public Administration: Philosophy and Public Administration
(2020)
Philosophy and Public Administration provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and practice of public administration. In this revised second edition, Edoardo Ongaro ...
Measuring Innovation Everywhere: The Challenge of Better Policy, Learning, Evaluation and Monitoring
(2020)
This book is about measuring innovation, not just in the business sector but in every sector of the economy, using, for the first time, an internationally agreed general definition of innovation. The resulting indicators ...
Philanthropy in Education: Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends
(2019)
Challenging commonly held perceptions of philanthropic organisations, this book brings together a range of interdisciplinary contributors from across the globe to explore the most pressing issues facing those working in ...
Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
(2019)
While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. ...
REFLECTIONS ON MONETARISM: Britain’s Vain Search for a Successful Economic Strategy
(1992)
The last 20 years have seen severe macroeconomic instability in Britain, with three extreme and highly damaging boom-bust cycles. Professor Tim Congdon, one of the City’s most well-known commentators, has been an influential ...
Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research: Navigating Participant Protection and Research Promotion
(2020)
This timely book examines the interaction of health research and regulation with law through empirical analysis and the application of key anthropological concepts to reveal the inner workings of human health research. ...
Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World: The Challenge of Change
(2020)
This book examines Russia’s capacity to respond to a changing world through the lens of the country’s oil industry. Against a backdrop of social, political and climatic change, Indra Overland and Nina Poussenkova present ...
The State, Business and Education: Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
(2018)
Businesses, philanthropies and non-profit entities are increasingly successful in capturing public funds to support private provision of schooling in developed and developing countries. Coupled with market-based reforms ...
Standing up for a Sustainable World: Voices of Change
(2020)
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth ...
Start-up Law
(2020)
This comprehensive Practical Guide provides direction on the wide array of legal questions and challenges that start-ups face. The Guide features analysis from five jurisdictions that represent a variety of legal traditions ...
Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration
(2019)
One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled ...
Social Services Disrupted: Changes, Challenges and Policy Implications for Europe in Times of Austerity
(2017)
Public social services are a key component of the welfare state in most of Europe, although their development trajectories, coverage and legal status still vary considerably among countries. How such services are provided, ...
The Tools of Policy Formulation: Actors, Capacities, Venues and Effects
(2015)
Policy analysts are accustomed to thinking in terms of tools and instruments. Yet an authoritative examination of the tools which have been developed to formulate new policies is missing. This book is the first of its kind ...
Towards Convergence in Europe: Institutions, Labour and Industrial Relations
(2019)
This book aims to answer a number of important questions. To what extent have European countries converged or diverged with EU-wide economic and social indicators over the past 20 years? What have been the drivers of ...
Actor-network theory and the empirical critique of environmental law: unpacking the bioprospecting debates
(2017)
In recent years, actor-network theory (ANT), and the work of Bruno Latour in particular, have gained significant interest amongst legal scholars. This approach, derived from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and bearing ...
Professor Tim Congdon CBE
(2020)
In a series of in-depth interviews with leading economists and policy-makers from different schools including Austrian, Monetarist, New-Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, Modern Monetary Theory, Marxist and Institutionalist, this ...
Pursuing global socio-economic, colonial and environmental justice through economic redistribution: the potential significance of human rights treaty obligations
(2020)
This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to ...
Behaviour change: extralegal, apolitical, scientistic?
(2019)
Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy. Behavioural instruments such as ‘nudging’ apply insights from behavioural economics and behavioural sciences, psychology and neurosciences across a broad range ...
The European Semester: understanding an innovative governance model
(2020)
This chapter gives an overview of the European Semester (hereafter Semester). On the one hand, it maps out the history, elements and functioning of the Semester. On the other hand, it indicates how the Semester can be ...
Ever-changing Big Science and Research Infrastructures: Evolving European Union policy
(2020)
This thought-provoking book expands on the notion that Big Science is not the only term to describe and investigate particularly large research projects, scientific collaborations and facilities. It investigates the ...
LGBT rights in Africa
(2020)
This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents ...
What can intellectual property law learn from happiness research?
(2013)
As the description of the 2012 ATRIP congress’s theme highlights, traditionally, scholars have used historical, doctrinal or comparative analyses, law and economics, political economy or philosophy, to discuss intellectual ...
Computational stylometry: predicting the authorship of investment arbitration awards
(2020)
Featuring contributions from a diverse set of experts, this thought-provoking book offers a visionary introduction to the computational turn in law and the resulting emergence of the computational legal studies field. It ...
Exploring legitimization strategies for contested uses of citizen-generated data for policy
(2020)
In this article, we investigate how citizens use data they gather as a rhetorical resource for demanding environmental policy interventions and advancing environmental justice claims. While producing citizen-generated data ...
Exploring transnational legal orders: using transnational environmental law to strengthen the global regulation of black carbon for the benefit of the Arctic region
(2020)
This illuminating Research Handbook offers a detailed overview and critical discussion of the key themes and perspectives that characterize the burgeoning research area of transnational environmental law. Varied perspectives ...
Resilience of US metropolitan areas to the 2008 financial crisis
(2018)
This chapter seeks to explain why only a minority of US metropolitan areas enjoyed quicker recovery and higher levels of economic growth following the 2008 banking crisis and recession of 2007‒2009. An uneven pattern of ...
Claiming spaces for acts of citizenship: recent experiences of activists in Morocco
(2018)
Since October 2016 and starting in the northern Rif region, Morocco has witnessed popular protests fuelled by a widespread sense of hogra, i.e. deprivation of dignity due to nepotism, corruption and marginalisation. These ...
Chapter: Introduction - Field Experiments
(2018)
This research review discusses the most critical and influential articles that utilise field experimentation to answer questions of economic importance. Field experiments have gained popularity in recent years, allowing ...
Federalism, courts and LGBTQ policy in Canada
(2020)
This insightful Handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the third generation of gender and federalism studies. In this timely and authoritative examination, feminist scholars in both the West and the global south ...
The structure, form and language of international environmental norms – from absolute to relative normativity
(2016)
International environmental law has a dual nature being both formal (attached to explicit state will) and instrumental (detached from explicit state will). In this chapter it is argued that normativity of international ...
Social innovation: combining profits and progress
(2018)
A growing number of new and established organizations are addressing social ills through innovative and profitable organization. In that regard, we seek to understand how a deeper understanding of social innovation can be ...
Social accountability, citizenship and social protection in the MENA region: exploring the linkages
(2019)
This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in ...
Social unrest in China: a bird’s-eye view
(2019)
Featuring contributions from top scholars and emerging stars in the field, the Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China captures the complexity of protest and dissent in contemporary China, while simultaneously exploring ...
The Bundesverfassungsgericht’s human dignity review: Solange III and its application in subsequent case law
(2018)
In its Solange III judgment, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the German Federal Constitutional Court, attached a new condition to the primacy of EU law over German constitutional law. It turned the constitutional identity ...
The rise of multi-bi aid and the proliferation of trust funds
(2015)
Since the end of the Cold War, development assistance has been transformed in various ways. The aid allocation and the aid effectiveness literature intensively discuss the qualitative reorientation from geopolitical towards ...
Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation
(2019)
This chapter describes the evolution of Responsible Innovation (RI) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as two significant discourses emerging over the last decade. RI is a discourse with strong academic roots. ...
Return migration
(2021)
Capturing the important place and power role that culture plays in the decision-making process of migration, this Handbook looks at human movement outside of a vacuum; taking into account the impact of family relationships, ...
Chapter Torn by (un)certainty – can there be peace between rule of law and other Sustainable Development Goals?
(2018)
Rule of law is a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) seeking to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions ...
Theorizing transformative innovations: the role of agency in real critical junctures
(2020)
Increased emphasis on the links between regional diversity and regional knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship highlights the need for a focus on the spatial aspects of these multifaceted, dynamic relationships in order ...
Telework in the 21st Century
(2019)
Technological developments have enabled a dramatic expansion and also an evolution of telework, broadly defined as using ICTs to perform work from outside of an employer’s premises. This volume offers a new conceptual ...
Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe: Problems, Risk Factors and Policies
(2019)
Providing original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countries, this book examines its short- and long-term consequences. It assesses public policies seeking to diminish the risks to young ...
Knowledge for Peace
(2021-02-28)
Combining the knowledge and experience of leading international researchers, practitioners and policy consultants, Knowledge for Peace discusses how we identify, claim and contest the knowledge we have in relation to ...
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF TAXATION – INVESTMENT PROTECTION AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
(2021-03-18)
When matters of investment and international operations are intertwined with elements of taxation, thorny issues tend to present themselves at the practitioner’s doorstep. Investment arbitration is sufficiently complex by ...
The Evolution of Electricity Markets in Europe
(2020-11-30)
Bridging theory and practice, this book offers insights into how Europe has experienced the evolution of modern electricity markets from the end of the 1990s to the present day. It explores defining moments in the process, ...
A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe
(2021-04-30)
Written in a clear and concise style, this Modern Guide provide a timely overview and comparison of urban challenges and national urban policies in 13 European countries, addressing key issues such as housing, urban ...
Global Jihadist Terrorism
(2021-04-30)
This insightful book provides a unified repository of information on jihadist terrorism. Offering an integrated treatment of terrorist groups, zones of armed conflict and counter-terrorism responses from liberal democratic ...
National Courts and Preliminary References to the Court of Justice
(2021)
This book has attempted to answer four questions relating to the different
phases in the interaction between national courts and the ECJ in the context of
the preliminary ruling procedure: question, answer and follow-up. ...
Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
(2014)
The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventional perspectives of the ivory tower model of modern science are, however, rivalled by the failure of humanity to tackle global ...
Just Transitions
(2024)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book promotes a holistic, pragmatic and proactive approach to ...
Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
(2014)
The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventional perspectives of the ivory tower model of modern science are, however, rivalled by the failure of humanity to tackle global ...
Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
(2014)
The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventional perspectives of the ivory tower model of modern science are, however, rivalled by the failure of humanity to tackle global ...
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy Risks and Promises of AI-Mediated Citizen-Government Relations
(2022)
This insightful book explores the citizen-government relation, as mediated through artificial intelligence (AI). Through a critical lens, Jérôme Duberry examines the role of AI in the relation and its implications for the ...
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy Risks and Promises of AI-Mediated Citizen-Government Relations
(2022)
This insightful book explores the citizen-government relation, as mediated through artificial intelligence (AI). Through a critical lens, Jérôme Duberry examines the role of AI in the relation and its implications for the ...
National Courts and Preliminary References to the Court of Justice
(2021)
This book has attempted to answer four questions relating to the different
phases in the interaction between national courts and the ECJ in the context of
the preliminary ruling procedure: question, answer and follow-up. ...