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Sustainability Rating Agencies...This book details the difference between the two rating industries, but this d... This book details the difference between the two rating industries, but this difference is converging all the time. The concept of investing in a more responsible and sustainable manner is drawing in some of the world's leading investors and, with more
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Human Agency and Neural Causes...Human Agency and Neural Causes provides an analysis of our everyday thought ab... Human Agency and Neural Causes provides an analysis of our everyday thought about our conduct, and the neuroscience research concerning voluntary agency. J.D. Runyan argues that our findings through neuroscience are consistent with what would be e more
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Unpacking the ‘Start-up City':...This book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban p... This book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban policies and governance by presenting novel perspectives on municipal entrepreneurship support policies. It seeks to address a current lack of in-depth empirical knowledg more
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African Agency, Finance and De...This book is an open invitation to the enterprise of re-imagining an alternati... This book is an open invitation to the enterprise of re-imagining an alternative decolonial development project in Africa. It does this by focusing on the triple themes of African agency, development finance, and African developmental states in th more
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Local Agency and Peacebuilding...Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relati... Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another. The focus on cultural actors more
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Crisis, Agency, and Law in US ...This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the succe... This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "crisis" of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite. The author's premise is that currently there is no objectively fai more
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Beliefs, Agency and Identity i...This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), a... This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), acting, and identifying (or identity construction), and the interconnectedness of these phenomena in the learning and teaching of English and other foreign languages. more
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Leadership, Institutions and E...This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Ser... This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional refor more
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Hybrid Forms of Peace: From Ev...This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and res... This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-buil more
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Reinventing Couples: Tradition...This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life,... This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of 'tradition' and 'modern'. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-i more
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Collaboration and Public Polic...Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public pol... Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public policy. This book offers a new account of collaboration's appeal to human actors drawing on empirical examples across time and space. It provides a novel and comprehensive more
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Women's Agency in the Dune Uni...This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women's agency in Frank... This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women's agency in Frank Herbert's six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood-from Jessica to Darwi Odrade-secure more
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Bottom-Up Politics: An Agency-...Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore co... Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or more
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Theory Beyond Structure and Ag...This book offers a solution for the problem of structure and agency in sociolo... This book offers a solution for the problem of structure and agency in sociological theory by developing a new pair of fundamental concepts: metric and nonmetric. Nonmetric forms, arising in a crowd made out of innumerable individuals, correspond more
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Everyday Reconciliation in Pos...This book examines the nature of everyday peace mobilised in post-conflict set... This book examines the nature of everyday peace mobilised in post-conflict settings. It specifically aims to examine the reconstruction of relationships between local communities and former Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia, using social reconciliat more
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Private Ratings, Public Regula...Credit rating agencies play a powerful and contentious role in the governance ... Credit rating agencies play a powerful and contentious role in the governance of global financial markets. Introducing an original framework for delegating political authority to private actors, this book explains common trends in the regulatory u more
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Perspectives on Consumer Choic...Evaluating the ways in which we construe consumer choice, this book examines t... Evaluating the ways in which we construe consumer choice, this book examines the psychology, methods and realities of the role it plays for today's consumer. Confronted by competing brands and products, services, and e-tailed opportunities that ar more
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The African Union and African ...This book examines the role of the African Union in relation to African agency... This book examines the role of the African Union in relation to African agency in international politics. It examines the manner and extent to which the African Union exercises two forms of agency-shirking and slippage-in its strategic and collabo more
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Building EU Regulatory Capacit...This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests th... This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resource more
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The Political Economy of China...This book offers a rich perspective on Africa's agency in the changing global ... This book offers a rich perspective on Africa's agency in the changing global order marked by intense geopolitical contestations. It discusses ways in which the African continent has been on the margins of the global economic system because of the more
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