This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the boo…
Rompant avec l'approche historiographique traditionnelle, ce savant ouvrage aborde l'étude du duplessisme en privilégiant essentiellement ses déterminants socio-économiques. Examinant à travers une grille marxienne l'évolution des rapports de force économiques, l'auteur s'attach…
“Indigenous students around the world have demonstrated a lack of academic achievement and enthusiasm for school in its conventional colonial form” (Singh & Reyhner, 2013, p. 37). This reflects a relationship divide between students and school, i.e., Native history and culture w…
This dissertation analyses the biofuel debate in the UK, focusing on how the UK Government has deployed expectations to legitimise its biofuel policy. The analysis builds on the sociology of expectations, integrated with insights from the multi-level perspective (MLP) on socio-t…
In recent years, project management has become an important part of any organisation and/or government as a result of the changing nature of managing organisations due to technological advancement, and a complex, competitive global marketplace. Projects require huge capital outl…
This thesis examines the office of poet laureate, and the wider cultural role of the court by whom the laureate was employed, in the long eighteenth century. This was the period in which the laureateship first came into being (1668), developed from an honorific into a functionar…
For the past 30 years the dominant approach to managing rural water services in low and lower middle income countries has been the community management approach. Yet there is increasing evidence the model is not fit for purpose as too many services fail. The next generation idea…
This research (the first long-term ethnographic study of FOI in Britain) investigates concepts at the heart of FOI - transparency, trust, secrecy, truth, private, public, power and agency. Eighteen months participant observation fieldwork, alongside policy-makers, practitioners,…
