Chapter I Introduction to Relationship between Central and Local Governments -- Chapter II Financial Contract System -- Chapter III Tax Distribution System -- Chapter IV Land Finance -- Chapter V Land Index -- Chapter VI Local Practice -- Chapter VII Relationship between Central and Local Governments and Townization -- References.This book examines the connection between central-local governmen…
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Political Stability of Military Bases in Democratic States: The Issues of Vulnerability and Hold-Up -- Chapter 2: Autonomy and Security: Greenland’s Right to Self-determination and the Thule Air Base -- Chapter 3: The Change in the US Interests regarding Greenland: The Diversification of the Value of the Thule Air Base and An Increase in its “Vulnerability” -- C…
Introduction.- Chapter 1:Imagining class in Australian history.- Chapter 2: The New Left and Marxism.- Chapter 3: Connell and Irving’s Class Structure in Australian History.- Chapter 4: Andrew Wells’ Constructing Capitalism and political economy.- Chapter 5: Andrew Metcalfe and working class consciousness -- Chapter 6:The Death of Class and its afterlife -- Conclusion: Reimagining Clas…
Introduction: Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously -- Part I: Networked Governance: General Issues -- Part II: Types, Processes and Limits of Networked Governance -- Part III: Investigating Networked Governance: Methodological Approaches -- Part IV: Conclusions.This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis…
Totality and Totalism: Theory and Concepts -- Evolving Perspectives: Eschatology and Utopia -- The Totalist Types: Between Renovative and Utopian Strands -- Totalism Transformed: Power, Purity, and Truth from Heterodoxy to Ideocracy.-The Legion of the Archangel Michael and the “Hybrid” Totalist Type.This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which h…
1. The State in Classical Laissez-Faire, its Crisis and the Establishment of Fordism -- 2. The Legitimation Crisis of Fordism: Ideological and Cultural Contradictions -- 3. Legitimation and Resistance: The Structural Contradictions of Regulated Capitalism -- 4. Neoliberalism: Its Roots, Development and Legitimation -- 5. The Ideas of the Chicago School and the Structural Contradictions of Neoli…