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International news-agencies, such as Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, have long been 'unsung heroes' of the media sphere. From the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, the US,...

The Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati is Professor of Sociology of Communication at the Faculty of Education, University of Udine (Italy). Jane Vincent is Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey's ...

This open access book aims to primarily support nurses as leaders and champions of multimodal, Interdisciplinary nutrition care for older adults.  A structured approach to fundamentals of nutrition...

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the acti...

What do famous 20th century thinkers like Hannah Arendt, Guy Debord and Henri Lefebvre have to offer for a critical performance analysis today? Charlotte Gruber has taken a fresh look at their writ...

This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Des...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction: Privatising the World? -- Part I International Privatisation Policy -- Chapter 1 The Internationalisation of Privatisation -- Cha...

While intercity passenger transport counts for about 2% of the total passenger transport volume the share of the total passenger kilometers traveled is estimated more than one third. In many countr...

This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers regarding public finance and business and economics written by researchers from several different universities. The studies ...

International Public Health Policy and Ethics

This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scien...

This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers regarding Economics, Public Finance and Business written by researchers from several different universities. The studies inc...

Using a comparative framework, this volume presents case studies of issues of public procurement and discusses how procurement professionals and policy makers in different regions are responding to...

Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky is professor emerita at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? (Poland). She teaches at University of Vienna and Academy of Management in Warsaw, where she holds a professorial p...

The authorexamines two topics that are often closely linked in public perception: lobbyism and corruption. The development of modern lobbyism in Great Britain and France is studied in the context o...