Our rainbow nation has become a restless nation. Citizens are faced with poor service delivery and corruption, while a new bling culture has infected both politics and business.
The book contains a comprehensive analysis of the concept of governing through trade and investigates how the EU exports' regulation through conditional market access regulation, bilateral trade agreements and unilateral trade policy. Several case studies complement the general analysis and provide an in-depth assessment of the European Union's new trade policies.
Across the developed world, public confidence in politics and politicians has slumped Solutions that once worked in tackling acute problems like unemployment, crime or low educational standards are no longer producing results, and the grand ideologies that dominated the twentieth century seem bankrupt, empty of relevance and popular appeal, Yet thought has not ceased, and the last few years hav…
This classic introduction provides an analysis and description of democracy, political behavior, political evaluation, policy-making, and comparative political systems. Power and influence, pivotal features of the book, are depicted through concrete illustrations of people in power from the relatively powerless to the most powerful. Thus, the reader is invited to enter imaginatively into the ex…
So argues John McDermott in Corporate Society, an original and far-reaching analysis of the impact of the modern corporation on contemporary social structure. Combining business history with political insight, McDermott offers a systematic critique of the post-industrial order and the illusions it fosters. He warns against the development of a "post-society industry" in which the corporate orde…
We stand at the dawn of a new era. Before us is the most important decade in the history of civilization, a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform, and great cultural rebirth. It will be a decade like none that has come before because it will culminate in the millennium, the year 2000.
Dick DeVos, shows how the values that make America great -the values that shape who we are, how we live, and how we threat others- can be incorporated into our daily lives. DeVos drwas on his experiences as the lead of one of America's most succesful businesses to explore twenty-four basic values from honesty and compassion to initiative and leadership. A book that offers the guidance we need t…
William Gairdner's book will have a special impact on American readers who sometimes get the impression that political-economic treatises that blow down this way from up there are all written by godchildren of John Kenneth Galbraith. Gairdner sees bright and clear what Canada so greatly needs, and his mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for …
One in a series of short books devoted to different countries that offers much-needed cross-cultural and global material to instructors. Used alongside an introductory sociology text or as a supplement in courses on comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics, or social stratification, this book brings a rich global perspective into the undergraduate classroom. The openin…
Moving beyond the standard emphasis on the Vietnam War and Vietnamese politics and economy, this volume provides a historically grounded examination of the dynamics of contemporary society and state-society relations. Within that framework, the contributors explore the dynamics of economic reforms, socioeconomic inequality, environmental changes, gender and ethnic relations, migration, media, a…