The demand for social housing has grown recently more than its supply, particularly in the United Kingdom (UK). The existing literature addresses the lack of a sustainability policy and its contribution to the lack of political intent to support the achievement of social housing…
This thesis explores the depiction of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England between c.1070 and 1130. It examines the way in which contemporaries wrote about churchmen who were engaged in restoring the English Church, particularly the actions which were attribu…
This research examined the challenges, decisions, issues, and dilemmas facing the International Community (IC) in attempting to re-establish and rebuild public administration and other government institutions in a country that continues to suffer from instability and remains at …
This thesis assesses the appropriateness and effectiveness of the economic reform and structural adjustment programme adopted by Egypt in 1991. It also examines the main political and economic constraints of such policies. It argues that it is unlikely to provide sustainable or …
Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: Lithuania during the reform diet: up until the 3 May 1791 Constitution
This dissertation examines the processes of implementation and experience of state-initiated reforms in the first two decades of the Turkish republic in four specific sites (men's clothing, women's dress, alphabet change, and national celebrations) of the state's attempt to tran…
As the forces of globalization accelerate, Saudi Arabia is entering the 21st century with immense pressure on its traditional ruling balance. Possessing a largely statist economy, a growing youth demographic and the societal pressures attendant with rapid social and technologica…
Why has legal and judicial reform in the Arab region failed in promoting the rule of law, ensuring judicial independence and safeguarding democratic values: prerequisites for economic, political, and social development? This dissertation attempts to address this failure in the c…
This study is devoted to the Moroccan public university. It is located in the field of public higher education. Researchers from the university sector in Morocco describe higher education management as being centralized, bureaucratic, rigid and unable to find effective answers t…
Reforming chaebols is the most controversial topic in Korea now. However, the problem is that we have no definite criteria how to evaluate various reform proposals. What should be a criterion to evaluate various proposals of reforms as a Christian? I think what Jesus think as ju…
This study has attempted to find a way forward in understanding the "people of the land" and their enigmatic relationship with King Josiah by focusing on socio-political aspects of their activities. The historical and diachronic study of the term "`an? ho'ares" in the Hebrew Bib…
Today, most Muslim-majority countries must contend with two realities: Islamists' increasing access to political inclusion on the one hand and domestic and international pressures for women's rights on the other. This dissertation seeks to identify the conditions necessary for r…
"The book examines a post-conflict context often held up as an example of successful peacebuilding, and reveals how the politics of development agencies is an often forgotten constraint in security and justice reform and development efforts more broadly. Security and Justice Ref…
Offers detailed descriptions of disparities in income, spatial access, gender, ethnicity and statue, addressing their causes and consequencese. It illustrates the changing ways in which people have accumulated wealth, social and cultural capital in Vietnam's move from a socialis…
Social inequalities have grown during Vietnam's transition to a market-based economy, even as average incomes have increased and the number of people living in poverty has lessened. Do widening social rifts -- between rich and poor, urban and rural communities and along regional…