"Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, i…
This book offers a close examination of current labor market and unemployment policies throughout Europe from 2010, when post-crisis austerity became the norm, to the present. Expert contributors present detailed national case studies, showing how policies have changed--or, in s…
Each new headline about American students' poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole picture together by synthesizing what we know about the quality of math and scienc…
Each new headline about American students' poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole picture together by synthesizing what we know about the quality of math and scienc…
Explores a wide range of challenges facing the international community in reforming international institutions and global governance groups. Argues for reform of global governance groups, especially reconstituting the G8, and individual institutional reforms in the IMF, World Ba…
"Explores a wide range of challenges facing the international community in reforming international institutions and global governance groups. Argues for reform of global governance groups, especially reconstituting the G8, and individual institutional reforms in the IMF, World B…
Setting the stage for reform -- Advancing macroeconomic reforms -- Promoting privatization, deregulation, and liberalization -- Launching other structural reforms -- Fighting corruption -- Obtaining debt relief -- Reflections on the reforms and lessons for reformers -- Conclusio…
This text explores what happened once the monarchy had been swept away after the Civil War and puritans found themselves in power. It examines campaigns to regulate sexual behaviour reform language, and suppress Christmas traditions, disorderly sports, and popular music.
"This book is the first historically contextualised analysis of Yanaihara's commentary on Japanese colonial policy. It is both an intellectual biography and a wide-ranging analysis of his theories of colonisation and imperialism and his empirical studies of conditions in the Jap…