"Blockchain technology enables the creation of decentralized currencies, decentralized applications powered by smart contracts, self-executing digital agreements, and intelligent assets that can be controlled over the Internet. Blockchains also enable the development of new gove…
"Newly emerging cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology present a challenging research problem in the field of digital politics and economics. Bitcoin--the first widely implemented cryptocurrency and blockchain architecture--seemingly separates itself from the existing territ…
In this book, the Authors took stock of Namibias progress towards a consoliDated democracy.In doing so they looked at the influence of two forces on democracy: the Namibian State and Namibian Society.
Following a series of profound conflicts in the early 21st century, Bolivia became the world’s first pluri-national state in 2009. The idea of the pluri-national state goes beyond the (uni-)national state; imagining a state that allows peoples’ coexistence on an equal footing in…
Decentralisation, meaning the delegation of responsibilities from central to lower government levels is generally assumed to improve the delivery of local public services. The theoretical assumption is that local authorities are encouraged by decentralisation to behave in a more…
This thesis draws on an ethnographic research in Ghana to question mainstream views on decentralisation that local level institutions can be consciously crafted to enlist the participation of marginal actors in governance thereby leading to efficiency and equity in development. …
Venezuela began a process of decentralization in the late 1980s as part of a major period of institutional reform designed to restore legitimacy to the discredited political system of the time. The first efforts towards this end did not complete the process of decentralizing pol…
This thesis explores the relations between democracy and decentralization in Venezuela during the period from 1989 to 2000. In particular it explores the emergence of political decentralization as the spatial distribution of power and its links with the process of democratizatio…
The use of renewable energy as part of the solution for stabilising global warming has been promoted in industrialised countries for the past three decades. In the last ten years, China, a non-democratic and less-developed state, has implemented non-hydro alternative energy sour…
In the past three decades, education systems throughout the world have experienced major transformations in relation to the overall quest of more relevance and effectiveness (Mundy, 2005; Lessard, 2000; Farrell, 1997). These developments took, among other forms, a trend towards …
Cette thèse propose une interprétation des enjeux du développement local au XXIe siècle à travers le prisme du concept d'utopie. Cette lecture porte une attention particulière au contexte politique et sociohistorique, à partir de l'exemple d'un projet canadien de développement l…
This 'Handbook' presents a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging literature, covering various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance, and their application to policy-making in the domestic, regional and global context.
Monograph arguing for market economy and democracy in relation to economic development and human rights, particularly in the USA - gives examples of expansion of government control relating to the 1929 economic recession, tariff policy, inflation monetary policy and price policy…
"The Global Report 2001 is an assessment of the world's cities and a tool and reference for academics, researchers, planners and public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The 2001 Report highlights the impacts of globalization in removing barriers and …
"In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost-of-service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less d…
Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, this text offers a non-technical discussion of current thinking on these issues from the viewpoint of poor countries.
Monograph on administrative aspects, organization and structure relating to interagency relations between the UN and specialized agencies - covers the functional decentralization of the system, the General Assembly and other organs concerned with coordination, the leadership rol…
Study of modernization in industrial administration and industrial planning in the USSR since 1964 - considers the context of administrative reform and scientific management; examines theories, applications and results of systems design, particularly in the existing economic sys…