Food and the mid-level farm : renewing an agriculture of the middle

Table of Contents: “…-- Pursuing Long-Term Food and Agricultural Security in the United States: Decentralization, Diversification, and Reduction of Resource Intensity II Organizational Structures That Could Support an Agriculture of the Middle -- Cooperative Structure for the Middle: Mobilizing for Power and Identity -- Is Relationship Marketing an Alternative to the Corporatization of Organics? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Strategic contracting for health systems and services

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Incentives to Improve Teaching : Lessons from Latin America.

Table of Contents: “…McEwan and Lucrecia Santibáñez -- Decentralization of education, teacher behavior, and outcomes : the case of El Salvador's EDUCO program / Yasuyuki Sawada and Andrew B. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Multiculturalism in the new Japan : crossing the boundaries within

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Immanence and immersion : on the acoustic condition in contemporary art by Schrimshaw, Will

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I.1 Immersion is the new orthodoxy; I.2 The ideology of immersion; I.3 Immersion and correlationism; I.4 Immanence and immersion; I.5 Exteriority and the outside; I.6 Exiting immersion; Chapter 1 Decentralization; 1.1 Get Out of the Defensive Position; 1.2 Transcendental empiricism: Approaching the edge of the circle; 1.3 Negative duration; 1.4 Prodigious simplification; Chapter 2 Infraesthetics; 2.1 Extreme audition; 2.2 Rolf Julius; 2.3 Stephen Vitiello; 2.4 Nina Canell.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience : Markets, Moral Economies and Cultural Contradictions of Post Socialist Russia. by Hass, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…The politics of enterprise reformMoral and market economies of the Soviet and post-Soviet enterprise; Exchange relations within enterprises: Moral and market economies clash; Limits of decentralization: Market realities and the moral economy of governance; 3 Moral and Market Economies Meet: Remaking Exchange; Unleashing autonomy: Cultural contradictions of learning post-Soviet exchange; The moral economy-or market economy?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Nuclear Politics : Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France. by Jasper, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Elite Discretion in Three Countries; Part 4: The Structures Tighten: Policy Divergence and the Loss of Flexibility, 1976-1989; 11. High Costs and Decentralization of Control in the United States; 12. Political Paralysis and Antinuclear ""Compromise"" in Sweden; 13. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Emerging and potential trends in public management : an age of austerity

Table of Contents: “…: lessons in delivering sustainable area decentralization / Lorraine Johnston -- ch. 7. Leadership, WTO, commerce, and new strategies for corporatization of government institutions : a top Indian bureaucrat's take / Guru Prakash Prabhakar, Pankaj Saran -- ch. 8. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Soft Computing Agents : a New Perspective for Dynamic Information Systems.

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Democratization in Africa : African Views, African Voices. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…Managing EthnicityThe Role of Women -- PRECONDITIONS FOR DEMOCRACY -- Legal Order and Basic Rights -- Values of Democracy -- Competent State -- ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- Committed Minority -- Courage -- 3 Democracy and Governance in Africa -- GOVERNANCE AND AFRICAN POLITICS -- POPULAR PARTICIPATION -- NEED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY -- CORRUPTION -- FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- DECENTRALIZATION AND DEVOLUTION OF POWER -- MODES OF REPRESENTATION -- 4 Institutions Needed to Sustain Democracy -- CONSTITUTIONS…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Learning from Experience : Evaluating Early Childhood Demonstration Programs. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

China's Political Development : Chinese and American Perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Walder -- China's public service system / Yu Jianxing ; comment by Tony Saich -- Decentralization in reform-era China / Yang Guangbin ; comment by Lynn White -- China's grassroots democracy / Huang Weiping ; comment by Jean C. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Let's move on : Paul Okalik speaks out by Okalik, Paul

Table of Contents: “…; Nunavut: The Long Road Before -- Historical Context by Louis McComber; Eskimo Power in Canada; Building a government infrastructure from scratch!; Decentralization; Office of the Interim Commissioner (OIC); An error in the drafting?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Political Complexity : Nonlinear Models of Politics.

Full text (MCPHS users only)

China : an Evaluation of World Bank Assistance. by Tidrick, Gene, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Summary : agriculture background paper -- Annex C. Summary : decentralization background paper -- Annex D. Summary : energy background paper -- Annex E. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Uniting a divided city : governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg by Beall, Jo, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part 1: Ways of Understanding Divided Cities; Chapter 1: Introduction to a Divided City; Chapter 2: Reverberations from a Divided City; Part 2: The Changing Spatial Structure of the City; Chapter 3: Beyond Racial Fordism: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality; Chapter 4: Post-Fordist Polarization: The Changing Spatial Order of the City; Part 3: Institutional Responses to Urban Change; Chapter 5: Decentralization by Stealth: Democratization or Disempowerment through Developmental Local Government?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Data for learning : building a smart education data system by Abdul-Hamid, Husein

Table of Contents: “…Privacy and Data Protection Provisions; Examples of Successful UID Implementation in Different Economies; Note; References; Chapter 7 Innovation in Advanced and Decentralized Systems: The Case of the United States; Key Takeaways; The Data-Centered Education System in the United States; Policy Drivers for Data in a Decentralized System; Spotlight on the State of Maryland; Designing Longitudinal Data Systems; Notes; References.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Paris by Christian, Lefevre

Table of Contents: “…Strong state intervention and the building of political bastions, 1945-77 -- State management of the region: ambiguous objectives -- Changing political forces: reinforcement or creation of bastions -- A territorial reorganization marked by hidden political agendas -- Towards an unregulated political decentralization, 1977-2001 -- France begins to decentralize -- A persistently strong state presence -- Exacerbation of political conflicts, 1977-2001 -- Decline of the red suburbs -- Construction and reinforcement of strongholds by the right -- Return of the left: the region and Paris…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Towards successful schooling

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Social democracy in the 21st Century

Table of Contents: “…Social Democracy and the 'Territorial Question': Understanding the Attitudes of Social Democratic Parties towards Decentralization; Simon Toubeau Chapter 9. From bounded universalism to the trial of internationalisation: Migration and social democracy in Scandinavia; Grete Brochmann Chapter 10. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy : Lessons for the Next Half-century. by Picard, Louis A.

Table of Contents: “…Donors, Public-Sector Reform, and Decentralization: Democracy and Civil Society in Ghana; 9. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Poverty of democracy : the institutional roots of political participation in Mexico by Holzner, Claudio A.

Full text (MCPHS users only)

India and South Asia : Economic Developments in the Age of Globalization. by Siddiqui, Anjum

Table of Contents: “…Globalization and Economic Development; Part IV Corruption in Governance and Its Effects; 15. Decentralization of Governance and Development; 16. Governance Issues in India; 17. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Emerald handbook of blockchain for business

Table of Contents: “…The Importance of Interoperability, Decentralization, and Choice;Kirk Phillips Chapter 12. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Poverty of democracy : the institutional roots of political participation in Mexico by Holzner, Claudio A.

Full text (MCPHS users only)

China's Domestic Private Firms : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance. by Tsui, Anne S.

Table of Contents: “…A Survey of the Economics Literature on China's Nonstate Enterprises; 9. Decentralization and the Structure of Chinese Corporate Boards: Do Politicians Jeopardize Board Professionalism and Firm Performance?…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Iraq : post-Saddam governance and security by Katzman, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORTCONGRESSIONAL REACTION TO TROOP SURGE; FURTHER OPTIONS: ALTERING TROOP LEVELS OR MISSION; Further Troop Increase; Immediate and Complete Withdrawal; Withdrawal Timetable; Troop Reduction/Mission Change; Planning for Withdrawal; INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL DIPLOMACY; POLITICAL RECONCILIATION AND REORGANIZATION; Reorganize the Power Structure; Support the Dominant Factions; Decentralization and Break-up Options; Negotiating with Insurgents; "Coup" or "Strongman" Option; ECONOMIC MEASURES; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Linguistic policies and the survival of regional languages in France and Britain by Judge, Anne

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Global displacements : the making of uneven development in the Caribbean by Traub-Werner, Marion

Table of Contents: “…Poverty Reduction: An Embedded Liberal MomentTrade Zones as Containment: The Imperative of Economic Security; From Poverty Reduction to Poverty Redistribution? Decentralization after the Earthquake; Making Space for Development Alternatives; 7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean; The Everyday and the Event of Crisis in "A Small Place"; Forging Livelihoods Out of Crisis in the Dominican Republic; Caribbean Crisis as Historical Debt; Towards an Alternative Ethics of Global Production and Consumption; 8 Conclusion; Labor In and Out of Global Production Networks.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Global fissures : postcolonial fusions

Table of Contents: “…Hawley -- The price of silence : intellectual communication in the age of globalization / Robert Spencer -- Is the world decentred? : a postcolonial perspective on globalization / Shaobo Xie -- "World famous across Canada" : national identity in the global village / Cynthia Sugars -- Ethics, aesthetics and the globalized other in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things / Chitra Sankaran -- The elephant in the living-room : a postcolonial reading of Waiting for Godot / A. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

The property tax and local autonomy

Table of Contents: “…Bell, and David Brunori ; commentary Carol Weissert -- Are state and local finances becoming more or less decentralized and should we care? / Katrina Connolly, David Brunori, and Michael E. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Mexican Politics in Transition by Gentleman, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Part One Introduction; 1 Political Change in Authoritarian Systems; Part Two Political Reform and Economic Crisis in Mexico; 2 Political Liberalization in an Authoritarian Regime: Mexico, 1976-1985; 3 Mexico After the Oil Boom: PRI Management of the Political Impact of National Disillusionment; 4 Can the PRI Be Reformed? Decentralizing Candidate Selection; Part Three Recent Performance in the Political System; 5 Changing Patterns of Electoral Participation and Official Party Support in Mexico…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Autonomy, self-governance and conflict resolution : innovative approaches to institutional design in divided societies

Table of Contents: “…/ Bill Bowring -- Autonomy and multilevel governance : experiences in Nordic and continental European cooperation / Elisabeth Nauclér -- Complex autonomy arrangements in Western Europe : a comparative analysis of regional consociationalism in Brussels, Northern Ireland and South Tyrol / Stefan Wolff -- Self-governance in interim settlements : the case of Sudan / Marc Weller -- Two steps forward, one step back : indigenous peoples and autonomies in Latin America / Willem Assies -- From centralized authoritarianism to decentralized democracy : regional autonomy and the state in Indonesia / Mark Turner -- 'Masters of their homelands' : revisiting the regional ethnic autonomy system in China in light of local institutional developments / Erik Friberg -- Recent trends in autonomy and state construction / Marc Weller and Stefan Wolff.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

How to design wastewater systems for local conditions in developing countries by Robbins, David M., Ligon, Grant C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to on-site and decentralized wastewater treatment and typical components of DEWATS systems. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. by Johns, Kyle

Table of Contents: “…; What You Need to Run the Examples; Conventions; Source Code; Errata; p2p.wrox.com; Part I: Robotics Developer Studio Fundamentals; Chapter 1: Exploring Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio; Chapter 2: Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR); Chapter 3: Decentralized Software Services (DSS); Chapter 4: Advanced Service Concepts; Part II: Simulations.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Paris by Lefèvre, Christian

Table of Contents: “…State management of the region: ambiguous objectives -- Changing political forces: reinforcement or creation of bastions -- A territorial reorganization marked by hidden political agendas -- Towards an unregulated political decentralization, 1977-2001 -- France begins to decentralize -- A persistently strong state presence -- Exacerbation of political conflicts, 1977-2001 -- Decline of the red suburbs -- Construction and reinforcement of strongholds by the right -- Return of the left: the region and Paris -- 4 The economy of Île-de-France: from national capital to global metropolis…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

An economic study of the City of London

Table of Contents: “…COSTS AND BENEFITS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; The market economy and economic welfare; The economic case for intervention; Physical planning and market forces; The case for decentralization; The City and the balance of payments; Summary; 8. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Ripple Quick Start Guide : Get Started with XRP and Develop Applications on Ripple's Blockchain by James, Febin John

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Dedication; About Packt; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ripple; The need for decentralization; Introduction to blockchain; Introduction to Bitcoin; Inefficiencies in payment systems; International money transfer through Bitcoin; Disadvantages of Bitcoin; Ripple; International money transfer through Ripple; The Ripple Protocol; Account creation; Reserve; Transactions; Multisigning; Consensus; Important properties of the consensus protocol; Ledger versions; Validation; Advantages of Ripple; Currency agnostic…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Cross-Industry Blockchain Technology. by Singh, Rajesh

Table of Contents: “…Distributed Property of the Ledger -- Validation using "Consensus Mechanism" -- Digital Signatures and Hash Functions -- DLT ADVANTAGES -- No Middleman and Decentralized in Nature -- Improved Auditability and Enhanced Transparency -- Perpetual and Testable -- Speed and Efficiency Gain -- Reducing Cost -- Improved cybersecurity Elasticity -- DLT RISKS AND CHALLENGES -- Technical Issues -- Immature Technology -- Transaction Response Time and Scalability -- Integration and Compatibility -- Legal and Regulatory Issues -- Industry Standards and Regulatory Evaluation…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Cameroon. by Fund, International Monetary

Table of Contents: “…The anticorruption drive; 3.7.5. Decentralization and the promotion of local development; IV. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)