Publications
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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. ...