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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264805002 , 9789264767478 , 9789264536227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (85 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Series Statement: OECD Territorial Reviews
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Delineating functional areas in all territories
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    Keywords: Regionalplanung ; Regionalwissenschaft ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development
    Abstract: Functional areas such as integrated local labour markets exist across countries’ entire national territory. However, most OECD countries have focused their work on larger cities and their surrounding area of economic influence by establishing the concept of functional urban areas. Extending this concept to non-urban areas can help policy makers analyse subnational developments and design spatially better-targeted policies. The report Delineating Functional Areas for all Territories provides a comprehensive review of existing approaches to delineating functional areas across countries’ entire national territory as a tool for territorial statistics and regional policy making. The report explains the rationale for functional territories as a complement to established administrative geographies. It discusses the most important challenges and the methodological aspects of delineating functional areas based on travel-to-work commuting flows or novel sources of data and develops a set of methodological guidelines that are applied in five OECD countries, demonstrating the feasibility of delineating functional areas across diverse types of country geographies in a consistent manner.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264828599 , 9789264977792 , 9789264762497
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (140 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Series Statement: Green Finance and Investment
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Developing sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Kapitalanlage ; Klassifikation ; Definition ; EU-Staaten ; OECD-Staaten ; Environment ; Finance and Investment ; OECD ; Ökologische Marktwirtschaft ; Kreditmarkt ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: A number of countries have created official definitions of sustainable finance as well as more comprehensive classification systems, referred to as sustainable finance taxonomies. This report maps sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies in five jurisdictions: the European Union, People’s Republic of China, Japan, France and the Netherlands. Taxonomies answer a need for greater certainty on the environmental sustainability of different types of investments. When appropriately designed, they can improve market clarity, bring confidence and assurance to investors, and facilitate the measurement and tracking of sustainable finance flows. The report lays out preliminary considerations for good design of taxonomies, which can support policy makers to develop and grow sustainable finance markets to help achieve environmental and sustainable development goals. It also identifies differences among the taxonomies in scope as well as commonalities. These commonalities could provide a basis for creating comparable frameworks that facilitate international investment while also reflecting differing national circumstances.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264686472 , 9789264824133 , 9789264826281
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (644 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Series Statement: Higher Education
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Benchmarking higher education system performance
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    Keywords: Hochschule ; Benchmarking ; OECD-Staaten ; Education ; OECD ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Benchmarking ; Vergleich
    Abstract: The scope of contemporary higher education is wide, and concerns about the performance of higher education systems are widespread. The number of young people with a higher education qualification is expected to surpass 300 million in OECD and G20 countries by 2030. Higher education systems are faced with challenges that include expanding access, containing costs, and ensuring the quality and relevance of provision. The project on benchmarking higher education system performance provides a comprehensive and empirically rich review of the higher education landscape across OECD countries, taking stock of how well they are performing in meeting their education, research and engagement responsibilities.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789264309173 , 9789264309166 , 9789264307292
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (144 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Parallel Title: Parallele Sprachausgabe Poza PKB. Mierzmy To Co Ma Znaczenie Dla Rozwoju Społeczno Gospodarczego
    Parallel Title: Parallele Sprachausgabe Jenseits des BIP: Was bei der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung wirklich zählt
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1943 - Beyond GDP
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Sozialer Indikator ; Lebensqualität ; Soziale Lage ; Bruttoinlandsprodukt ; Wirtschaftsindikator ; Messung ; Environment ; Governance ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Economics ; Soziale Situation ; Lebensqualität ; Bruttoinlandsprodukt ; Wirtschaftsindikator ; Messung
    Abstract: Metrics matter for policy and policy matters for well-being. In this report, the co-chairs of the OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand, show how over-reliance on GDP as the yardstick of economic performance misled policy makers who did not see the 2008 crisis coming. When the crisis did hit, concentrating on the wrong indicators meant that governments made inadequate policy choices, with severe and long-lasting consequences for many people. While GDP is the most well-known, and most powerful economic indicator, it can’t tell us everything we need to know about the health of countries and societies. In fact, it can’t even tell us everything we need to know about economic performance. We need to develop dashboards of indicators that reveal who is benefitting from growth, whether that growth is environmentally sustainable, how people feel about their lives, what factors contribute to an individual’s or a country’s success. This book looks at progress made over the past 10 years in collecting well-being data, and in using them to inform policies. An accompanying volume, For Good Measure: Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP, presents the latest findings from leading economists and statisticians on selected issues within the broader agenda on defining and measuring well-being.
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  • 5
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264270572
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (95 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Accrual practices and reform experiences in OECD countries
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    Keywords: Öffentliches Rechnungswesen ; Rechnungsabgrenzung ; OECD-Staaten ; Finance and Investment ; Governance ; Economics ; OECD ; Fiskalpolitik ; Rechnungswesen ; Rückstellung
    Abstract: Financial reporting is one of the foundations of good fiscal management. High-quality financial reports are essential to ensure that a governments fiscal decisions are based on the most up-to-date and accurate understanding of its financial position. Financial reports are also the mechanism through which legislatures, auditors, and the public at large hold governments accountable for their financial performance. Over the past two decades, a growing number of governments have begun moving away from pure cash accounting toward accrual accounting to improve transparency and accountability and better inform fiscal decision making. This study reviews and compares accounting and budgeting practices at the national government level in OECD countries. It also discusses both the challenges and benefits of accruals reforms. Finally, it looks at some steps countries are taking to make better use of accrual information in the future. This is a joint publication with the International Federation of Accountants and the OECD.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264270879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fostering innovation in the public sector
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    Keywords: Innovationsmanagement ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; Verwaltung ; Innovationsmanagement
    Abstract: Public sector innovation does not happen by itself: problems need to be identified, and ideas translated into projects that can be tested, implemented and shared. To do so, public sector organisations must identify the processes and structures that can support and accelerate innovation. This report looks at how governments can create an environment that fosters innovation. It discusses the role of government management in inhibiting or enabling innovation, and the role that specific functions such as human resources management and budgeting can play. It suggests ways to support innovation – including by managing information, data and knowledge – as well as strategies for managing risk. Drawing on country approaches compiled and analysed by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, the report presents a framework for collecting and examining data on the ability of central government to foster public sector innovation.
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  • 7
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264270480
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (404 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Behavioural insights and public policy
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politische Entscheidung ; Verhalten ; Verhaltensökonomik ; Neurowissenschaften ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Welt ; Governance ; Humanethologie ; Entscheidung ; Staatstätigkeit
    Abstract: “Behavioural insights”, or insights derived from the behavioural and social sciences, including decision making, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, organisational and group behaviour, are being applied by governments with the aim of making public policies work better. As their use has become more widespread, however, questions are being raised about their effectiveness as well as their philosophical underpinnings. This report discusses the use and reach of behavioural insights, drawing on a comprehensive collection of over 100 applications across the world and policy sectors, including consumer protection, education, energy, environment, finance, health and safety, labour market policies, public service delivery, taxes and telecommunications. It suggests ways to ensure that this experimental approach can be successfully and sustainably used as a public policy tool.
    Abstract: "Behavioural insights, or insights derived from the behavioural and social sciences, including decision making, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, organisational and group behaviour, are being applied by governments with the aim of making public policies work better. As their use has become more widespread, however, questions are being raised about their effectiveness as well as their philosophical underpinnings. This report discusses the use and reach of behavioural insights, drawing on a comprehensive collection of over 100 applications across the world and policy sectors, including consumer protection, education, energy, environment, finance, health and safety, labour market policies, public service delivery, taxes and telecommunications. It suggests ways to ensure that this experimental approach can be successfully and sustainably used as a public policy tool.
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  • 8
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264272453
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (96 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Getting infrastructure right
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    Keywords: Infrastrukturpolitik ; Infrastrukturversorgung ; Governance-Ansatz ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; Regierung ; Good Governance ; Infrastruktur ; Infrastrukturpolitik ; Erschließung ; Kausalität ; Wirkung ; Auswirkung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Governance ; Erde ; Infrastrukturpolitik ; Infrastrukturplanung
    Abstract: Infrastructure poses many challenges, from technical and budgetary concerns to delivery and governance issues. But it is crucial for both productivity and inclusiveness. Businesses rely on modern infrastructure to remain competitive, while society depends on good infrastructure to ensure equal opportunity and equal access to services for citizens. Good governance of public infrastructure can thus yield substantial benefits for all. Based on a survey of 27 countries, this report provides an overview of current practices in infrastructure governance and presents practical tools to help policy makers better manage infrastructure.
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  • 9
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264275683
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (120 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Small, medium, strong
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    Keywords: KMU ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Betriebliches Umfeld ; OECD-Staaten ; Employment ; Governance ; Economics ; Trade ; Industry and Services ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Gewerbepolitik
    Abstract: SMEs and entrepreneurs play a key role in national economies around the world, generating employment and income, contributing to innovation and knowledge diffusion, responding to new or niched demands and social needs, and enhancing social inclusion. However, SMEs are often more affected by business environment conditions and structural policies than larger firms. This report presents comparative evidence on SME performance and trends, and on a broad range of policy areas and business environment conditions that are important for small businesses. The analysis takes into account the multi-dimensionality of SME policy objectives and the significant heterogeneity of the SME population, within and across countries. Data and indicators on framework conditions are complemented with information on recent policy trends in OECD countries. This publication addresses a growing demand by governments for tools to monitor the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises, and benchmark the effectiveness of policies in creating appropriate conditions for them to flourish and grow.
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  • 10
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264281509 , 9789264284012
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (96 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Series Statement: OECD Green Growth Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Greening the blue economy in Pomorskie, Poland
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung ; Küstenregion ; Pommern ; Polen ; Employment ; Environment ; Industry and Services ; Poland
    Abstract: As coastal area on the Baltic Sea in north-central Poland, Pomorskie faces unique challenges and opportunities associated with the transition to a green economy, a diversified economy, growing population and significant natural resources. This report focuses on the sustainable development of the oceans and coastlines surrounding the region, known as the blue economy. Based on an OECD survey designed to capture the needs and perceptions of local employers (mostly of small- and medium-sized enterprises [SME]), this report analyses the specific skills needed to support green growth in Pomorskie, and how related labour market and training programmes can be made more effective in supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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  • 11
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264252639
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (220 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Committing to effective whistleblower protection
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    Keywords: Whistleblowing ; Anti-Korruption ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; OECD ; Whistleblowing ; Schutz ; OECD ; Whistleblowing ; Schutz
    Abstract: Whistleblower protection is essential for safeguarding the public interest, for promoting a culture of accountability and integrity in both public and private institutions, and for encouraging the reporting of misconduct, fraud and corruption wherever it occurs. While many countries are increasingly developing legal frameworks to protect whistleblowers, more can be done to mainstream integrity and promote open organisational cultures. This report analyses whistleblower protection frameworks in OECD countries, identifies areas for reform and proposes next steps to strengthen effective and comprehensive whistleblower protection laws in both the public and private sectors.
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  • 12
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    Paris : OECD Publishing | Paris : OECD
    ISBN: 9789264258143 , 9789264257658
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (157 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Reviews of national policies for education
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Netherlands 2016
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    Keywords: Bildungspolitik ; Niederlande ; Education ; Netherlands ; Niederlande ; Bildungspolitik ; Schule
    Abstract: How can the Netherlands move its school system “from good to great”? This report draws on international experience to look at ways in which the strong Dutch school system might go further still on the path to excellence. Clearly the Dutch school system is one of the best in the OECD, as measured by PISA and PIAAC and is also equitable, with a very low proportion of poor performers. The report therefore proposes an incremental approach to reform, building on strengths while responding to some emerging challenges. The Netherlands should strengthen the quality of early childhood education and care, revisit policies related to early tracking with more objective testing and track decisions, and enhance the permeability of the system. It should develop the professionalism of teachers and school leaders through enhanced collective learning and working, while at the same time strengthening accountability and capacity in school boards. This report will be valuable not only for the Netherlands, but also to the many other education systems looking to raise their performance who are interested in the example of the Netherlands.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264265189
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (492 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The governance of inclusive growth
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    Keywords: Wachstumspolitik ; Entwicklungsstrategie ; Bürgerbeteiligung ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; Bericht ; OECD ; Wirtschaftskooperation
    Abstract: Achieving inclusive growth relates closely to how governments work and how policies are designed, implemented, delivered and evaluated. This publication presents an overview of country initiatives concerning inclusive growth in 39 OECD member and partner countries. It was prepared in the context of the OECD Public Governance Ministerial Meetings held in Helsinki, Finland, on 28 October 2015. The publication focuses on four core issues: engaging with citizens and businesses for more inclusive policies and services; innovative policy design for inclusive growth; improving the delivery of services for and with citizens; and, strengthening accountability through better performance management and evaluation.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9789264257382
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (204 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Working together
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    Keywords: Migranten ; Kinder ; Arbeitsmarktintegration ; Qualifikation ; Schweden ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Sweden ; Schweden ; Einwanderer ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Integration
    Abstract: This review is the first in a new series on the skills and labour market integration of immigrants and their children. With 16% of its population born abroad, Sweden has one of the larger immigrant populations among the European OECD countries. Estimates suggest that about half of the foreign-born population originally came to Sweden as refugees or as the family of refugees and Sweden has been the OECD country that has had by far the largest inflows of asylum seekers relative to its population. In all OECD countries, humanitarian migrants and their families face greater challenges to integrate into the labour market than other groups. It is thus not surprising that immigrant versus native-born differences are larger than elsewhere, which also must be seen in the context of high skills and labour market participation among the native-born. For both genders, employment disparities are particularly pronounced among the low-educated, among whom immigrants are heavily overrepresented. These immigrants face particular challenges related to the paucity of low-skilled jobs in Sweden, and policy needs to acknowledge that their integration pathway tends to be a long one. Against this backdrop, Sweden has highly developed and longstanding integration policies that mainly aim at upskilling immigrants while temporarily lowering the cost of hiring, while other tools that work more strongly with the social partners and the civil society are less well developed and need strengthening.
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    ISBN: 9789264265349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Series Statement: Connecting People with Jobs
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Connecting people with jobs
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Arbeitsmarktintegration ; Slowenien ; Employment ; Slovenia ; Bericht ; Slowenien ; Arbeitsmarkt
    Abstract: Giving people better opportunities to participate actively in the labour market improves well-being. It also helps countries to cope with rapid population ageing by mobilising more fully each country’s potential labour resources. However, weak labour market attachment of some groups in society reflects a range of barriers to working or moving up the jobs ladder. This report on Slovenia is the second country study published in a series of reports looking into how activation policies can encourage greater labour market participation of all groups in society with a special focus on the most disadvantaged. Labour market and activation policies are well developed in Slovenia. However, the global financial crisis hit Slovenia hard and revealed some structural weaknesses in the system, which have contributed to a high level of long-term unemployment and low employment rates for some groups. This report on Slovenia therefore focuses on activation policies to improve labour market outcomes for four groups: long-term unemployed people; low-skilled workers; older workers; and workers who were made or are at risk of becoming displaced. There is room to improve policies through promoting longer working lives and through enabling the Employment Service and related institutions to help more harder-to-place jobseekers back into employment.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264258211
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p.) , 21 x 28cm.
    Series Statement: OECD Health Policy Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Srivastava, Divya Better ways to pay for health care
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    Keywords: Gesundheitsfinanzierung ; OECD-Staaten ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; OECD ; Gesundheitswesen ; Finanzierung
    Abstract: Payers for health care are pursuing a variety of policies as part of broader efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of care. Payment reform is but one policy tool to improve health system performance that requires supportive measures in place such as policies with well-developed stakeholder involvement, information on quality, clear criteria for tariff setting, and embedding evaluation as part of the policy process. Countries should not, however, underestimate the significant data challenges when looking at price setting processes. Data access and ways to overcome its fragmentation require well-developed infrastructures. Policy efforts highlight a trend towards aligning payer and provider incentives by using evidence-based clinical guidelines and outcomes to inform price setting. There are signs of increasing policy focus on outcomes to inform price setting. These efforts could bring about system-wide effects of using evidence along with a patient-centred focus to improve health care delivery and performance in the long-run.
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415624084
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (401 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Parallel Title: Print version Cities and the Cultural Economy
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hutton, T. A., 1947 - Cities and the cultural economy
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Stadt ; Kulturwirtschaft
    Abstract: The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural economy now represents the third-largest sector in many metropolitan cities of the West including London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne, and is increasingly influential in the development of East Asian cities (Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore), as well as the mega-citi
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: cities, the cultural economy and urban studies; Culture and the city: historical and contemporary perspectives; Culture and the city: six domains of interdependency; Emergence of the 'new cultural economy' of the city; Structuring interpretations of the cultural economy of the city; Cities and the cultural economy: markers of significance and key debates; Cities and the cultural economy: logic and structure of the book
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 The cultural economy and globalizing citiesCulture and the city: globalizing tendencies and tensions; Culture as marker of the global city; The cultural economy of the city: aspects of change; Evolution of the world and global cities discourse; The cultural economy and global cities: power projection; Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and the cultural economy of the city; Cosmopolitan cultures and the globalizing city; The cultural economy and 'everyday globalizations' in the city; Cultural tourism: cosmopolitanism, identity and self-actualization
    Description / Table of Contents: Heritage and cultural tourism: a case study of SingaporeConclusion: culture, globalization and competition; 3 The political economy of culture: governance, agency and actors; The changing field of cultural governance: introduction; Politics, ideology and governance in the cultural economy; Cultural policy agendas: legacies of the postindustrial city; Culture-led redevelopment in postindustrial urban spaces; The politics of cultural policy: conceptual issues and debates; The politics of urban cultural policy: operational issues; Intersections between urban policy and the cultural economy
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion: the cultural turn in urban policy and planning4 The cultural economy and the urban labour market; Introduction: problematics of the cultural economy labour market; The evolution of cultural labour and creative work in the city; Dimensions of the cultural economy workforce; The cultural economy: social, technical and spatial divisions of labour; Intersections between the cultural economy and labour market change; Conclusion: opportunity and inequality in cultural work; 5 The cultural economy, housing markets and gentrification
    Description / Table of Contents: Industrial restructuring, occupational change and urban housing marketsCulture, place and residency in the city; Culture, creative workers and the urban housing market; Cultural economy workers in the postindustrial city; Intersections of change in the city's housing markets; The relayering of capital in the city and emergent residential landscapes; Conclusion: culture, dislocation and space in the city; 6 Space in the cultural economy of the city: history, theory and taxonomies; Introduction: space, place and restructuring in the city; Concepts of space and the cultural economy of the city
    Description / Table of Contents: Representations of space and culture in the contemporary city
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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    ISBN: 9781315764009
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 255 S.)
    Series Statement: RIPE series in global political economy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 330.94
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftspolitik ; Europa ; Europa ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264240353 , 9789264233386
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fiscal sustainability of health systems
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    Keywords: Gesundheitskosten ; Gesundheitsfinanzierung ; Öffentliche Finanzen ; OECD-Staaten ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Gesundheitswesen ; Finanzierung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Niederlande
    Abstract: The health systems we enjoy today, and expected medical advances in the future, will be difficult to finance from public resources without major reforms. Public health spending in OECD countries has grown rapidly over most of the last half century. These spending increases have contributed to important progress in population health: for example, life expectancy at birth has increased, rising on average by ten years since 1970. The challenge now is to sustain and enhance these achievements in a context of tight fiscal constraints in many countries combined with upward pressure on health spending from factors such as new technological advances and demographic changes. Finding policies that can make health spending more sustainable without compromising important achievements in access and quality requires effective co-operation between health and finance ministries. Sound governance and co-ordination mechanisms are therefore essential to ensure effective policy choices. Prepared by both public finance and health experts, this report provides a unique detailed overview of institutional frameworks for financing health care in OECD countries. One of the main features of this book is a comprehensive mapping of budgeting practices and governance structure in health across OECD countries.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264238701
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (170 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Studies on Water
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Drying wells, rising stakes
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Drying wells, rising stakes
    DDC: 333.913
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    Keywords: OECD ; Grundwasser ; Landwirtschaft ; Ökologischer Landbau ; OECD-Staaten ; Agriculture and Food ; OECD ; Landwirtschaft ; Bewässerung ; Wassernutzung ; Grundwasser ; OECD ; Landwirtschaft ; Bewässerung ; Wassernutzung ; Grundwasser
    Abstract: Groundwater has provided great benefits to agriculture irrigation in semi-arid OECD countries, but its intensive use beyond recharge in certain regions has depleted resources and generated significant negative environmental externalities. The report provides a characterisation of the diversity of groundwater systems, reviews policies in OECD countries, and proposes a package of recommendations to ensure that groundwater can sustain its services to agriculture and contribute to climate change adaptation.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264243507
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (128 p.)
    Series Statement: OECD Tax Policy Studies no.23
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Taxation of SMEs in OECD and G20 countries
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    Keywords: KMU ; Unternehmensbesteuerung ; OECD-Staaten ; Taxation ; Industry and Services ; OECD ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Unternehmensbesteuerung
    Abstract: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are important for their contribution to employment, innovation, economic growth and diversity. This report examines the tax treatment of SMEs, the case for SME preferences, and the use of tax preferences and simplification measures for SMEs in thirty-nine OECD and G20 countries. It finds that many of the tax systems examined provide incentives to incorporate and to distribute income in certain types of capital form. Ideally, taxes should be neutral with regard to the business decisions of SMEs, including decisions related to their creation, form and growth. However, certain features of the tax system may disproportionately affect SMEs, for example, the asymmetric treatment of profits and losses, a bias toward debt over corporate equity, and the higher fixed costs of tax and regulatory compliance for small businesses. This report recommends that measures designed to address these concerns be carefully targeted to affected firms and seek to avoid introducing further distortions and complexity.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264250024 , 9789264246010
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (120 p.) , 14.5 x 22cm.
    Series Statement: OECD Insights
    Parallel Title: Parallele Sprachausgabe Inégalités de revenu : l'écart entre les riches et les pauvres
    Parallel Title: Parallele Sprachausgabe Desigualdad de ingresos : La brecha entre ricos y pobres
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Keeley, Brian Income inequality
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    Keywords: Einkommensverteilung ; OECD-Staaten ; Employment ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Economics ; OECD ; Einkommensunterschied ; OECD ; Einkommensunterschied
    Abstract: Income inequality is rising. A quarter of a century ago, the average disposable income of the richest 10% in OECD countries was around seven times higher than that of the poorest 10%; today, it’s around 9½ times higher. Why does this matter? Many fear this widening gap is hurting individuals, societies and even economies. This book explores income inequality across five main headings. It starts by explaining some key terms in the inequality debate. It then examines recent trends and explains why income inequality varies between countries. Next it looks at why income gaps are growing and, in particular, at the rise of the 1%. It then looks at the consequences, including research that suggests widening inequality could hurt economic growth. Finally, it examines policies for addressing inequality and making economies more inclusive.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264206267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (160 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Public Governance Reviews
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Achieving public sector agility at times of fiscal consolidation
    DDC: 350
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    Keywords: Nonprofit-Management ; Regierung ; Governance-Ansatz ; Verwaltungsreform ; Haushaltskonsolidierung ; Welt ; Governance ; Nonprofit-Bereich ; Regierung ; Governance ; Verwaltungsreform ; Öffentlicher Haushalt ; Konsolidierung
    Abstract: Agility is a tool that can help governments to not only maintain but even improve public services in a time of fiscal consolidation. Financial uncertainty is not the only challenge governments face today. Changing demographics, globalisation, climate change, risk of potential large-scale disasters are among the many others. Agility can help governments meet these challenges as well. It's also not enough to be "agile". Governments must be quick and responsive in a strategic way. This means being aware of emerging opportunities, being able to make tough collective decisions and stick to them, and mobilising appropriate financial and human resources rapidly and efficiently to where/when they are needed most. This publication is supports reforms towards greater strategic agility in the public sector including the use of budgeting policy levers, human resource management strategies and ICTs. It presents, in a sense, a toolkit for reform, together with a broader framework for action, taking into account the enabling factors and potential risks that may occur. This report is also an attempt to show that the public sector has the capacity to reinvent itself during difficult times and that large public sector organisations are able to take on the challenge.
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9781306481618
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (313 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series 53
    Parallel Title: Print version Digital Russia
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Digital Russia
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Russisch ; Internet ; Kommunikation ; Wortschatz ; Internetliteratur
    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Digital Russia〈/EM〉 provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic of, and in some cases specific to, the Russian-language internet.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration and translation; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 The (im)personal connection: computational systems and (post-)Soviet cultural history; 2 From the utopia of autonomy to a political battlefield: towards a history of the "Russian internet"; Part II New media spaces; 3 Divided by a common web: some characteristics of the Russian blogosphere; 4 Social network sites on the Runet: exploring social communication
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Testing and contesting Russian TwitterPart III Language and diversity; 6 The written turn: how CMC actuates linguistic change in Russian; 7 Slangs go online, or the rise and fall of the Olbanian language; 8 Language on display: on the performative character of computer-mediated metalanguage; 9 Translit: computer-mediated digraphia on the Runet; Part IV Literature and new technology; 10 Russian literature on the internet: from hypertext to fairy tale; 11 Occasional political poetry and the culture of the Russian internet; 12 Digitizing everything? Online libraries on the Runet
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V The political realm13 Politicians online: prospects and perils of "direct internet democracy"; 14 Languages of memory; 15 Is there a Russian cyber empire?; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415722872
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (323 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version LEGO Studies : Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als LEGO studies
    DDC: 688.725
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    Keywords: LEGO toys.. ; Educational toys.. ; Popular culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Since the ""Automatic Binding Bricks"" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO ""System of Play"" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955), LEGO bricks have gone on to become a global phenomenon, and the favorite building toy of children, as well as many an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). LEGO has also become a medium into which a wide number of media franchises, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Superman, Lord of the Rings, and others, have adapted their characters, vehicles, props, and settings. The LEGO Group itself has become a multimedia empire
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Institutions; Prolegomena; 1 The Cultural History of LEGO; 2 Adapting the Death Star into LEGO: The Case of LEGO Set #10188; 3 Middle-earth and LEGO (Re)creation; 4 Myth Blocks: How LEGO Transmedia Configures and Remixes Mythic Structures in the Ninjago and Chima Themes; 5 Chicks with Bricks: Building Creativity Across Industrial Design Cultures and Gendered Construction Play; 6 (Un)blocking the Transmedial Character: Digital Abstraction as Franchise Strategy in Traveller's Tales' LEGO Games
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Playset Nostalgia: LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and the Transgenerational Appeal of the LEGO Video Game Franchise8 Brick by Brick: Modularity and Programmability in MINDSTORMS and Gaming; 9 Building the LEGO Classroom; 10 The LEGO System as a Tool for Thinking, Creativity, and Changing the World; 11 LEGO: The Imperfect Art Tool; 12 LEGO Art Engages People; 13 The Virtualization of LEGO; 14 Bright Bricks, Dark Play: On the Impossibility of Studying LEGO; 15 Afterword: D.I.Y. Disciplinarity-(Dis)Assembling LEGO Studies for the Academy; Appendix: Resource Guide for LEGO Scholarship; Index
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    ISBN: 9780805842425 , 9781410607027 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 301 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781410607027
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Monographs in Parenting Series
    DDC: 306.874
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    Abstract: Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development. The contributors represent an array of different disciplines, and approach the issues from a variety of perspectives. Accordingly, their ""take"" on how SES matters in the lives of children varies. This volume is divided into two parts. Part I concerns the constructs and measurement of SES and Part II discusses the functions and effects of SES. Each part presents four substantive chapters on the topic followed by an interp...
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    ISBN: 9780805844351 , 9781410609090 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 378 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781410609090
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 302.34
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    Abstract: Group Creativity explores the unique form of creativity that emerges from collaborating groups. Dr. Sawyer draws on his studies of jazz ensembles and improvisational theater groups to develop a model of creative group processes. He applies this model of group creativity to a wide range of collaborating groups, including group learning in classrooms and innovative teams in organizations. In group creativity, a group comes together to collaboratively create in real time. The creative inspiration emerges from the interaction and communication among the members, and makes the result more than th...
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264205390
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (148 p.)
    Series Statement: OECD Rural Policy Reviews
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovation and modernising the rural economy
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    Keywords: Ländliche Wirtschaft ; Entwicklungsplanung ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development
    Abstract: This publication is a result of the discussions from the OECD 8th Rural Development Policy Conference: "Innovation and modernising the rural economy" which took place in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on 3-5 October 2012. It provides an overview of the two themes of modernisation and innovation, focusing on identifying the attributes of the modern rural economy and showing how it differs from the traditional rural economy and from metropolitan economies. It also shows how rural innovation is a key driver of rural economic growth using patents as a measure. The second part of the book consists of four chapters that offer evidence of rural regions’ potential to contribute to national economic growth. In addition, each provides useful context for Part I by outlining four different perspectives on the process of modernisation and innovation, and specifically, how they can take place in the rural territories of OECD countries. In each paper, the authors explore the opportunities and impediments to these twin processes and how government policy can help or hinder them.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264208957
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (96 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Employment and skills strategies in the Czech Republic
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Qualifikation ; Bildungspolitik ; Tschechien ; Employment ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; Czech Republic ; Tschechien ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Bildungspolitik ; Betriebliche Ausbildung
    Abstract: This review looks at a range of institutions and bodies involved in employment and skills policies in the Czech Republic, focusing on local strategies on the Ústí nad Labem and South Moravian regions.
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    ISBN: 9781841697611 , 9781136648069 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 615 p.
    Edition: 5th ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136648069
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.85
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    Keywords: Familiensoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What goes on ""behind closed doors"" in families is examined in this text. Through his storytelling style, Randy Day introduces readers to the family processes approach - the strategies and behaviors families use to achieve goals. The emphasis is on how families work and interact rather than on the psychological, sociological, or economic processes. It examines emotions in families, communication, relationship formation/dissolution, family rituals, and power and conflict. Chapters open with a Preview and conclude with a Summary, Study Questions, Key Terms, and Suggested Readings. Principle Box...
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    ISBN: 9780805842197 , 9781410607041 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 224 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781410607041
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 302.2345
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    Abstract: For several decades, cultural imperialism has been the dominant paradigm for conceptualizing, labeling, predicting, and explaining the effects of international television. It has been used as an unchallenged premise for numerous essays on the topic of imported television influence, despite the fact that the assumption of strong cultural influence is not necessarily reflected in the body of research that exists within this field of study. In The Impact of International Television: A Paradigm Shift, editor Michael G. Elasmar and his contributors challenge the dominant paradigm of cultural imperi...
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264214637 , 9789264224117
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (520 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lequiller, François Understanding national accounts
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    Keywords: Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung ; International ; Welt ; Economics ; Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
    Abstract: This second edition of Understanding National Accounts, that provides a comprehensive explanation of how national accounts are compiled, contains new data and new chapters, and is adapted to the new systems of national accounts, SNA 2008 and ESA 2010, that came into effect in September 2014. It approaches national accounts from a truly global perspective, with special chapters dedicated to international comparisons, globalisation and well-being as well as to the national systems used in major OECD economies, such as the United States. Each chapter of the manual uses practical examples to explain key concepts in national accounts in a clear and accessible way. And, each chapter concludes with a synthesis of key points covered in the chapter, followed by resources for further exploring the topic, and by a set of exercises to test your knowledge. It is an ideal guide to national accounts for students and other interested readers.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264221796
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (160 p.)
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Measuring the Digital Economy; A New Perspective (Chinese version)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Measuring the digital economy
    DDC: 381/.142
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    Keywords: Internetnutzung ; IKT-Sektor ; Messung ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; Science and Technology ; Bericht ; Statistik ; OECD ; Electronic Commerce ; Neue Medien ; Evaluation
    Abstract: The growing role of the digital economy in daily life has heightened demand for new data and measurement tools. Internationally comparable and timely statistics combined with robust cross-country analyses are crucial to strengthen the evidence base for digital economy policy making, particularly in a context of rapid change. This report presents indicators traditionally used to monitor the information society and complements them with experimental indicators that provide insight into areas of policy interest. The key objectives of this publication are to highlight measurement gaps and propose actions to advance the measurement agenda.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264209527
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (316 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Territorial Reviews
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als OECD OECD territorial reviews
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    Keywords: Regionalentwicklung ; Regionales Wachstum ; Regionalpolitik ; Niederlande ; Governance ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; Netherlands
    Abstract: The Dutch economy has been traditionally very competitive among OECD countries. The global financial crisis however has brought new challenges, especially during the second shock, from 2011 onwards. The government’s recovery plan, which includes various measures such as fiscal consolidation, stimulating innovation and sub-national government reform has an important territorial dimension. This review focuses on how sub-national institutions and development can help the Netherlands meet its challenges. In the short-term, factors such as the contribution of all regions, better use of resources, and more efficient provision of goods and services can help the recovery. In the long term, improving national competitiveness will largely depend on a strong performance of the polycentric city structure, which characterises the Netherlands. The key policy areas explored in this review include: the recently created top-sector innovation policy; decentralisation; and territorial reforms such as municipal and provincial re-scaling through mergers or co-operation.
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    ISBN: 9789264222649
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (128 p.)
    Series Statement: Principes de bonne pratique de l’OCDE en matière de politique réglementaire
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. The Governance of Regulators
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg.: The Governance of Regulators
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    Keywords: Governance
    Abstract: Ce rapport vise à construire un cadre général pour les initiatives destinées à poursuivre l’amélioration des performances dans les systèmes réglementaires en relation avec les organismes ou autorités de réglementation nationaux.
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    ISBN: 9781410605252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 302.2345083
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    Keywords: Sesamstraße ; Geschichte 1969-1999 ; Forschung ; Lerntheorie ; Vorschulerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume--a collection and synthesis of key research studies since the program's inception over three decades ago--serves as a marker of the significant role that Sesame Street plays in the education and socialization of young children. Editors Shalom M. Fisch and Rosemarie T. Truglio have included contributions from both academics and researchers directly associated with Sesame Street, creating a resource that describes the processes by which educational content and research are integrated into production, reviews major studies on the impact of Sesame Street on children, and examines the e...
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    ISBN: 9780805837957 , 9781410612199 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 268 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781410612199
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 155.2
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    Abstract: The goal of Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture is to lay the basis of a theory with which to better understand the difficulties and complexities of identity formation. It provides an extensive understanding of identity formation as it relates to human striving (agency) and social organization (culture). James E. Côté and Charles G. Levine have compiled state-of-the-art psychological and sociological theory and research into a concise synthesis. This volume utilizes a vast, interdisciplinary literature in a reader-friendly style. Playing the role of narrators, the authors take readers thr...
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  • 38
    ISBN: 9780415749091
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Media, Politics and the State
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; SECTION ONE Introductions; 1 Theorising Social Media, Politics and the State: An Introduction; 2 Social Networking Sites in Pro-democracy and Anti-austerity Protests: Some Thoughts from a Social Movement Perspective; SECTION TWO Global and Civil Counter-Power; 3 Populism 2.0: Social Media Activism, the Generic Internet User and Interactive Direct Democracy; 4 Anonymous: Hacktivism and Contemporary Politics; SECTION THREE Civil Counter-Power Against Austerity
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 The Rise of Nazism and the Web: Social Media as Platforms of Racist Discourses in the Context of the Greek Economic Crisis6 More Than an Electronic Soapbox: Activist Web Presence as a Collective Action Frame, Newspaper Source and Police Surveillance Tool During the London G20 Protests in 2009; 7 Assemblages: Live Streaming Dissent in the 'Quebec Spring'; SECTION FOUR Contested and Toppled State Power; 8 Creating Spaces for Dissent: The Role of Social Media in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution; 9 Social Media Activism and State Censorship; SECTION FIVE State Power as Policing and Intelligence
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Vigilantism and Power Users: Police and User-Led Investigations on Social Media11 Police 'Image Work' in an Era of Social Media: YouTube and the 2007 Montebello Summit Protest; Contributors
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    ISBN: 9789264222359
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (250 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: West African Studies
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Un atlas du Sahara-Sahel ; Géographie, économie et insécurité
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als An atlas of the Sahara-Sahel
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    Keywords: Geographie ; Volkswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftslage ; Sahel ; Development ; Sahel ; Geografie ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The Sahara-Sahel has seen recurrent episodes of instability. However, the recent Libyan and Malian crises have intensified the level of violence. These episodes have restructured the geopolitical and geographical dynamics of the region. Cross-border or regional, these contemporary crises require new institutional responses. How can countries sharing this space - Algeria, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Chad and Tunisia and all related states such as Nigeria - stabilize and develop? Historically, the Sahara plays an intermediary role between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commercial and human exchanges are intense and based on social networks that now include trafficking. Understanding their structure, geographical and organizational mobility of criminal groups and migratory movements represents a strategic challenge. This book hopes to address this challenge and stimulate strategies for the Sahel of the European Union, the United Nations, the African Union or ECOWAS (Economic Community of the States of West Africa) in order to foster lasting peace. The Atlas is based on an analysis of mapped regional security issues and development objectives to open the necessary dialogue between regional and international organizations, governments, researchers and local stakeholders tracks.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264208872
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (88 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Employment and skills strategies in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Qualifikation ; Bildungspolitik ; Nordirland ; Employment ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; United Kingdom
    Abstract: This book focuses on the role of employment and training agencies in contributing to job creation and productivity in Northern Ireland. It explores how Northern Ireland is implementing labour market and skills policy and putting measures in place at the local level to stimulate quality employment, inclusion and growth.
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    ISBN: 9789264222748
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (290 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mortality assumptions and longevity risk
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    Keywords: Sterblichkeit ; Versicherungsökonomik ; Versicherungsmathematik ; Pensionskasse ; Finance and Investment ; OECD ; Sterblichkeit ; Lebenserwartung ; Versicherungsmathematik
    Abstract: Pension funds and annuity providers need to effectively manage the longevity risk they are exposed to. Individuals receiving a lifetime income may live longer than expected or accounted for in the actuarial calculations to provision for these liabilities. Mismanaged longevity risk can deteriorate finances, cause bankruptcy and expose individuals to the risk of losing their retirement income. To safeguard against this risk, pension funds and annuity providers must provision for future improvements in mortality and life expectancy. The regulatory framework can support the effective management of longevity risk. This publication assesses how pension funds, annuity providers such as life insurance companies, and the regulatory framework account for future improvements in mortality and life expectancy. The study then examines the mortality tables commonly used by pension funds and annuity providers against several well-known mortality projection models with the purpose of assessing the potential shortfall in provisions. The final part of the publication identifies best practices and discusses the management of longevity risk, putting forward a set of policy options to encourage and facilitate the management of longevity risk.
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    ISBN: 9780415458023
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (208 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Networks : An Introduction
    DDC: 302.4072
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    Abstract: Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some undergraduate) courses in a variety of disciplines it is well-suited for everybody who makes a first encounter with the field of social networks, both academics and practitioners. This book includes reviews, study questions and text boxes as well as using innovative pedagogy to explain mathematical models and concepts. Examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studie
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Social Networks; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Representation and conceptualization; 3. Small worlds; 4. Searching and fat tails; 5. Communities: detection, conflict, cohesion, and culture; 6. Social inequality: prestige, power, brokerage, and roles; 7. Organizations as networks; 8. Methods: data and software; Glossary of network notions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781136207334 , 9780415529303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (281 pages)
    Parallel Title: Organization and organizing
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Communication in organizations ; Organization ; Organizational behavior ; Communication in organizations ; Organization ; Organizational behavior ; Electronic books ; Organisation ; Kommunikation ; Organisationsverhalten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisation ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: Recipient of the '2013 Top Edited Book Award', by the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association (USA) This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. The unique strength of this volume is its contribution to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in current theorizing and research on the constitution of organizations. It addresses such questions as: To what extent should the materiality of texts and artifacts be accounted for in a process view of organization? What part does materiality play in the process by which organizations achieve continuity in time and space? In what sense do artifacts perform a role in human communication and interaction and in the constitution of organization? What are the voices and entities participating in the emergence and stabilization of organizational reality? The work represents scholarship going on in various parts of the world, and features contributions that overcome traditional conceptions of the nature of organizing by addressing in specific ways the difficult issues of the performative character of agency; materiality as the basis of the iterability of communication and continuity of organizations; and discourse as both textuality and interaction. The contributions laid out in this book also pay tribute to the work of the organizational communication theorist James R. Taylor, who developed a view of organization as deeply rooted in communication and language. Contributors extend and challenge Taylor's communicative view by tackling issues and assumptions left implicit in his work.
    Abstract: Cover -- Organization and Organizing: Materiality, Agency, and Discourse -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: The Need for New Materials in the Constitution of Organization -- About the Authors -- Part I Theoretical Developments -- 1 Organizations as Obstacles to Organizing -- 2 Dialectics, Contradictions, and the Question of Agency -- 3 "What's the Story?": Organizing as a Mode of Existence -- 4 Organization as Chaosmos -- 5 Organizations as Entitative Beings: Some Ontological Implications of Communicative Constitution -- 6 What Is an Organization? Or: Is James Taylor a Buddhist? -- 7 Activity Coordination and the Montreal School -- Part II Empirical Explorations -- 8 Spacing Organization: Or How to Be Here and There at the Same Time -- 9 Restructuring Identity through Sectorial Narratives -- 10 Organization by Debate: Exploring the Connections between Rhetorical Argument and Organizing -- 11 Constituting the Temporary Organization: Documents in the Context of Projects -- 12 Organizational Communication at the Crossroads -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Organization and Organizing: Materiality, Agency, and Discourse; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: The Need for New Materials in the Constitution of Organization; About the Authors; Part I Theoretical Developments; 1 Organizations as Obstacles to Organizing; 2 Dialectics, Contradictions, and the Question of Agency; 3 "What's the Story?": Organizing as a Mode of Existence; 4 Organization as Chaosmos; 5 Organizations as Entitative Beings: Some Ontological Implications of Communicative Constitution; 6 What Is an Organization? Or: Is James Taylor a Buddhist?
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Activity Coordination and the Montreal SchoolPart II Empirical Explorations; 8 Spacing Organization: Or How to Be Here and There at the Same Time; 9 Restructuring Identity through Sectorial Narratives; 10 Organization by Debate: Exploring the Connections between Rhetorical Argument and Organizing; 11 Constituting the Temporary Organization: Documents in the Context of Projects; 12 Organizational Communication at the Crossroads; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 1299715524 , 9781299715523 , 9781136268168 , 9780415538640
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 p) , ill
    Edition: 2. ed
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Bornstein, Kate, 1948 - My new gender workbook
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    Keywords: Sex (Psychology) ; Gender identity ; Geschlechterbeziehung ; Gender identity ; Sex (Psychology) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Gender Mainstreaming
    Abstract: ""This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an entire generation of trans writers and artists. This revised and expanded edition extends that legacy, offering an accessible foundation for examining gender in the reader's life and in the broader culture while arguing for the dismantling of all forms of oppression. For fans of the origi
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the 21st Century Edition; 1. Welcome to Your New Gender Workbook; 2. Finding Gender. Arrrr, There Be Pirates!; 3. Let X=X; 4. Let Why Equal Why; 5. There's Only One Gender: Yours; 6. Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!; 7. Get Ready to Do Your Gender; 8. Do Your Gender Mindfully; 9. The Missing Piece is Nothing, and We're Going to Find It Nowhere; 10. Ok, Now What?; Acknowledgments
    Note: Rev. ed. of: My gender workbook. 1998
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    ISBN: 9780415932646 , 9780203821855 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 259 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780203821855
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    DDC: 306.3/2/0973
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    Keywords: Öffentliches Gut ; Privatisierung ; USA ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780415631051 , 9781136221477 (Sekundärausgabe)
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    Pages: 134 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136221477
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Shortcuts
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    Abstract: Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen?This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop an original analysis of panic in contemporary social life. Bringing together academic literature from a range of disciplines, films, novels and current affairs, it encourages thought about why and how we panic - both individually and collectively. Keith Tester explores how cataclysmic events and small...
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    ISBN: 9789264187610
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (440 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Inventory of estimated budgetary support and tax expenditures for fossil fuels 2013
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    Abstract: This Inventory is concerned with direct budgetary transfers and tax expenditures that relate to fossil fuels, regardless of their impact or of the purpose for which the measures were first put in place. It has been undertaken as an exercise in transparency, and to inform the international dialogue on fossil-fuel subsidy reform. For each of the 34 OECD countries covered, the Inventory provides a succinct summary of its energy economy, and of the budgetary and tax-related measures provided at the central-government level (and, in the case of federal countries, for selected sub-national units of government) relating to fossil-fuel production or consumption. The transfers associated with these measures are reported for recent years using the Producer Support Estimate (PSE) and Consumer Support Estimate (CSE) as organising frameworks. These frameworks have already been used extensively by the OECD, most notably in respect of agriculture. The Inventory covers a wide range of measures that provide a benefit or preference for a particular activity or a particular product, either in absolute terms or relative to other activities or products, against a specified baseline. Many measures listed in this inventory are relative preferences within a particular country’s tax system rather than absolute support that can be readily compared across countries, and for that reason no national totals are provided.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264201545
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (184 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The internet economy on the rise
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    Keywords: Electronic Commerce ; Internetnutzung ; OECD-Staaten ; Development ; Science and Technology ; Bericht ; Electronic Commerce ; OECD
    Abstract: This publication reviews progress made since the 2008 OECD Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy and identifies areas for future work. Seven themes are addressed in the work as follows: High-speed infrastructure Digital content and green ICTs The development of smarter applications Cybersecurity and privacy Consumer empowerment and protection An open Internet economy Global participation for development. Overall, the review shows that the Internet economy has now reached a point where it has become a new source of growth, with the potential to boost the whole economy, to foster innovation, competitiveness and user participation, and to contribute effectively to the prosperity of society as a whole.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264189560
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (200 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Interconnected economies
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaft ; Internationale Produktion ; Betriebliche Wertschöpfung ; Welt ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftskooperation ; Wertschöpfungskette ; Nichttarifäres Handelshemmnis ; Liberalisierung ; Außenhandel ; Finance and Investment ; Science and Technology ; Trade ; Industry and Services ; Erde ; Welt ; Globalisierung ; Weltwirtschaft ; Außenhandelspolitik ; Wertschöpfung
    Abstract: Global Value Chains (GVCs) have exploded in the past decade and refer to the international dispersion of design, production, assembly, marketing and distribution of services, activities, and products. Different stages in the production process are increasingly located across different economies, and intermediate inputs like parts and components are produced in one country and then exported to other countries for further production and/or assembly into final products. The functional and spatial fragmentation that has occurred within GVCs has significantly reshaped the global economic landscape, thereby raising some new major policy challenges for OECD countries and emerging countries alike: trade policy, competitiveness, upgrading and innovation and the management of global systemic risk.
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    ISBN: 1135222061 , 9781135222062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nakamura, Lisa Cybertypes : Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
    DDC: 305.8/00285/4678
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    Keywords: Race awareness ; Race discrimination ; Internet Social aspects ; Cyberspace Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Cyberspace ; Social aspects ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Race awareness ; Race discrimination ; Internet ; Sociale aspecten ; Rassendiscriminatie ; Etnisch bewustzijn ; Ethnische Identität ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Rasse ; Soziale Situation ; Internet
    Abstract: Cover; CybertypesRace, Ethnicity, and Identityon the Internet; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces; Race in the Construct and the Construction of Race: The ""Consensual Hallucination"" of Multiculturalism in the Fictions of Cyberspace; ""Where Do You Want to Go Today?"": Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality.
    Abstract: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Abstract: Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen OnlineConclusion; Keeping It (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index
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    ISBN: 9781136510588 , 1136510583
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (495 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wieser, Friedrich von Social Economics
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference ; Economics ; Economics ; Volkswirtschaftslehre ; Einführung ; Volkswirtschaftslehre
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Economics holds a place in the literature of the Austrian School such as John Stuart Mill's Political Economy holds in the literature of classical theory. It sums up, systematises and extends the doctrines developed by the founder of the school, the author and his fellow workers
    Note: 62. the economic stratification of society , Print version record
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    ISBN: 9781136689932
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (271 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Ebrary online
    Series Statement: LEA Telecommunications Series
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The people's right to know
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Informationspolitik
    Abstract: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: ENVISIONING THE SHAPE AND FEEL OF A NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICE; Chapter 1: On Prospects for Citizens' Information Services; Chapter 2: Newspapers in the Electronic Age; Chapter 3: Background Issues Related to Information Services; Chapter 4: Roundtable: Sizing up Prospects for a National Information Service; PART II: CITIZEN INFORMATION SERVICES AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST; Chapter 5: Lessons from Public and Nonprofit Services
    Abstract: Chapter 6: Citizen Access, Involvement, and Freedom of Expression in an Electronic EnvironmentPART III: POLICYMAKING REGARDING CITIZEN INFORMATION SERVICES; Chapter 7: Charting the Future of Communication Services; Chapter 8: Information Highways: ""Trickle Down"" Infrastructure?; Chapter 9: Policy Implications for Citizen Information Services; Chapter 10: Epilogue; References and Bibliography; Glossary; Index
    Abstract: This important volume presents the pros and cons of a national service that will meet the information needs and wants of all people. In the preface, Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, asks, ""What will a true information highway -- where most citizens enjoy a wide range of information services on demand -- do to local communities, government, and business entities, other units of society and democracy itself?"" It is no longer a question of whether a vastly expanded ""information highway"" will be built in America. Telephone and cable companies
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    ISBN: 9781841698755 , 9781841698748
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 398 p.)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Social Psychology: A Modular Course
    Series Statement: Social Psychology: a Modular Course Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version The Social Psychology of Aggression
    DDC: 302.5/4
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    Keywords: Aggressiveness ; Social psychology ; Aggression psychology ; Aggressiveness ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The second edition of this textbook provides a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded overview of social psychological research on aggression.The first part of the book covers the definition and measurement of aggression, presents major theories and examines the development of aggression. It also covers the role of situational factors in eliciting aggression, and the impact of using violent media.The second part of the book focuses on specific forms and manifestations of aggression. It includes chapters on aggression in everyday life, sexual aggression and domestic violence against children
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; The Social Psychology of Aggression; Copyright Page; Contents; Series preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Defining and measuring aggression; What is aggression?; How to measure aggression; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 2. Theories of aggression; Biological explanations; Psychological explanations; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 3. Development of aggression and individual differences; Development of aggressive behaviour in childhood and adolescence; Personality and aggression in adulthood; Gender differences in aggressive behaviour; Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: Tasks to doSuggested reading; 4. Situational elicitation of aggressive behaviour; Aggressive cues; Social exclusion; Alcohol; Heat and other environmental stressors; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 5. Media violence and aggression; Prevalence and use of violent media contents; How strong is the link between media violence and aggression?; Explaining the short-term effects of media violence use; Explaining the long-term effects of media violence use; Effects of pornography; Preventing and mitigating the effects of media violence; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Aggression as part of everyday lifeBullying at school; Workplace aggression; Aggressive driving; Aggression in the sports world; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 7. Aggression in the family; Child maltreatment; Intimate partner violence; Elder abuse; Explaining aggression in the family; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 8. Sexual aggression; Definitionsand scale of sexual aggression; Explaining sexual aggression; Vulnerability factors for sexual victimisation; Consequences of sexual victimisation; Women as perpetrators of sexual aggression against men; Summary; Tasks to do
    Description / Table of Contents: Suggested reading9. Aggression between social groups; Theories of intergroup conflict and aggression; Gang violence; Hate crimes; Crowd behaviour; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 10. Terrorism; Definingterrorism; Psychological processes underlying terrorist violence; Pathways into terrorism: the "staircase model"; Why do people support terrorism?; Effects of terrorism on attitudes, behaviour, and mental health; Psychological strategies for preventing terrorist violence; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; 11. Preventing and reducing aggressive behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: General strategies for preventing and reducing aggressionApproaches directed at specificforms of aggression and violence; A research matrix for the prevention of aggression and violence; Concluding comment; Summary; Tasks to do; Suggested reading; References; Author index; Subject index;
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Defining and measuring aggression -- Theories of aggression -- Development of aggression and individual differences -- Situational elicitation of aggressive behaviour -- Media violence and aggression -- Aggression as part of everyday life -- Aggression in the family -- Sexual aggression -- Aggression between social groups -- Terrorism -- Preventing and reducing aggressive behaviour -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
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    ISBN: 9780415899055 , 9781136258114 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 539 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136258114
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Nanotechnologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the volume, is that nanotechnologies have an undertheorized and often invisible social life that begins with their constructed origins and propels them around the globe, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and into the public sphere. The volume situates nano innovation and development as a modernist science and technology project in a tense and unstable relationship with a fractured, postmodern social world. The book is unique in incorporating and integrating studies of innovation systems along with a focus on the risks and consequences of a globally significant set of emerging technologies. It does this by examining the social and political conditions of their creation, production, emergence, and reception.
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    ISBN: 9780415904599 , 9781136038709 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 313 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136038709
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    DDC: 305.8924
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    Keywords: Freud, Sigmund ; Geschichte ; Stereotyp ; Juden ; Psychoanalyse ; Vorurteil ; Antisemitismus
    Abstract: Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish mind and hysteria, and the Victorians' irrational connection between Jews and prostitutes. Gilman is especially concerned with the role of psychoanalysis in the construction of anti-Semitism, examini...
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    ISBN: 9780203166109
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (145 p.))
    Edition: 2nd ed (Online-Ausg.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics v.35
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.: Rivers, William H. R.: Medicine, magic, and religion
    DDC: 306
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    Abstract: Cover; Medicine, Magic and Religion: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916; Copyright; Preface; Note to Second Edition; Chapter 1; Methods of Inquiry; Definition of the Social Processes; Concept of Disease by Various Peoples; Beliefs as to Causation of Disease; Disease or Injury Ascribed to Magic; Disease Ascribed to Object or Influence Projected into Victim's Body; Disease Attributed to Abstraction of Part of Body or Soul; Magical Action on Separated Part of Victim's Body or Touched Object. - Treatment: Magical or Religious Nature of RitesConcrete Nature of Beliefs Underlying the Rites; Chapter 2; Processes of Diagnosis and Prognosis; Disease Attributed to Infraction of Taboo; The Religious Element; Religious Character Acquired by Magical Process; Independent Occurrence of Disease; Variety in Leechcraft; Differentiation of Leech from Priest; Epidemic Disease; Relations of Economical and Juridical Nature; The Part Played by Suggestion; Rationality of the Leechcraft; Chapter 3; Evolution of Social Customs and Institutions; Independent Evolution. - Transmission as a Factor in Human CultureRelations of Medicine, Magic, and Religion in Various Countries; Australia; Polynesia; Indonesia; India; China and Japan; Africa; America; Similarity in Views on Causation and Treatment of Disease; Consideration of Rival Views; Two Widely Differing Beliefs in Causation of Disease; Remedies of the "Domestic" Order; Origin of Above Practices; Chapter 4; Methods of Solving the Problems; The Importance Attached to Numbers; The Criterion of Common Distribution; Some Difficulties Met with; Formulation of Guiding Principle
    Abstract: In this classic work, the author introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Medicine, Magic and Religion: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916; Copyright; Preface; Note to Second Edition; Chapter 1; Methods of Inquiry; Definition of the Social Processes; Concept of Disease by Various Peoples; Beliefs as to Causation of Disease; Disease or Injury Ascribed to Magic; Disease Ascribed to Object or Influence Projected into Victim's Body; Disease Attributed to Abstraction of Part of Body or Soul; Magical Action on Separated Part of Victim's Body or Touched Object
    Description / Table of Contents: Treatment: Magical or Religious Nature of RitesConcrete Nature of Beliefs Underlying the Rites; Chapter 2; Processes of Diagnosis and Prognosis; Disease Attributed to Infraction of Taboo; The Religious Element; Religious Character Acquired by Magical Process; Independent Occurrence of Disease; Variety in Leechcraft; Differentiation of Leech from Priest; Epidemic Disease; Relations of Economical and Juridical Nature; The Part Played by Suggestion; Rationality of the Leechcraft; Chapter 3; Evolution of Social Customs and Institutions; Independent Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Transmission as a Factor in Human CultureRelations of Medicine, Magic, and Religion in Various Countries; Australia; Polynesia; Indonesia; India; China and Japan; Africa; America; Similarity in Views on Causation and Treatment of Disease; Consideration of Rival Views; Two Widely Differing Beliefs in Causation of Disease; Remedies of the "Domestic" Order; Origin of Above Practices; Chapter 4; Methods of Solving the Problems; The Importance Attached to Numbers; The Criterion of Common Distribution; Some Difficulties Met with; Formulation of Guiding Principle
    Description / Table of Contents: Factors Affecting Success or Failure of Transplanted Elements of CultureModification of Practices After Introduction; Examples Suggested as Modifications of Transmitted Practices; Blood-Letting; Massage; Sweat-Baths; Circumcision and Sub-Incision; Some Points Raised in Relation to Distribution of Customs; Scantiness of Available Evidence; History and Evolution; Complex Nature of the Process; The Influence of Cultural Mixture on Progress; The Effect on Medicine of Mixture of Cultures; The Relations Between Medicine and Religion; Chapter 5; Mind and Medicine; Index
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    ISBN: 9789264193819
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 p.)
    Series Statement: OECD Public Governance Reviews
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Rapporto OCSE sull'integrità in Italia; Rafforzare l'integrità nel settore pubblico, ripristinare la fiducia per una crescita sostenibile
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als OECD OECD integrity review of Italy
    DDC: 351
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    Keywords: Öffentlicher Sektor ; Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Anti-Korruption ; Governance-Ansatz ; Italien ; Governance ; Italy ; Italien ; Verwaltung ; Korruption ; Bekämpfung
    Abstract: In response to the ongoing economic crisis, Italy is undertaking a series of critically important reforms, combining pro-growth policies with severe austerity measures to achieve fiscal consolidation. The success of these structural reforms will rely heavily on the capacity of the government to restore trust in its ability and commitment to guide the country towards sustainable economic growth. At the time of this publication, however, less than a quarter of Italian citizens trusted the quality of government decision-making. Concerns over public integrity and corruption stand out as key elements underlying this prevailing lack of trust. To restore the deficit of trust in the Italian government, the public sector needs to be embedded within a comprehensive integrity framework. Law 190 of November 6, 2012 (the Anti-Corruption Law) enshrines public sector integrity management and strengthens existing corruption prevention provisions through the designation of a new anti-corruption authority, a detailed framework for the adoption of a national anti-corruption plan, and new provisions regarding the conduct and prevention of conflict of interests in the public sector. This OECD Integrity Review provides guidance on the implementation of key integrity and corruption prevention elements of the Law, most notably those concerning institutional coordination, the regulation of conduct and whistleblower protection, and management of integrity risks in public sector activities. The review concludes each chapter with proposals for action, with OECD member countries’ best practices in mind, with the ultimate goal of supporting Italy in its efforts to enhance integrity in the public sector and restore trust.
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    ISBN: 9789264111905
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (156 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Insights
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. La mondialisation économique ; Origines et conséquences
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Die Globalisierung der Wirtschaft; Ursprünge und Auswirkungen
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Globalización económica ; Orígenes y consecuencias
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economic globalisation
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Wirkungsanalyse ; OECD-Staaten ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte ; Development ; Economics ; Trade ; Erde
    Abstract: Few subjects are as controversial – and poorly understood – as globalisation. While in its broadest sense, economic globalisation is as old as trade itself, the recent financial crisis has amplified the complexity associated with the global interconnectedness of the world’s economies and its ramifications on our livelihoods. This publication reviews the major turning points in the history of economic integration, and in particular the pace at which it has accelerated since the 1990s. It also considers its impact in four crucial areas, namely employment, development, the environment and financial stability: does globalisation foster development or create inequality? Does it promote or destroy jobs? Is it damaging to the environment or compatible with its preservation? Are we heading towards de-globalisation or can globalisation in fact enable recovery?
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264177581
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (134 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tax and development
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    Keywords: Steuerpolitik ; Entwicklung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Entwicklungsländer ; Taxation ; Development ; Steuerpolitik ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: Tax revenues provide governments with funds to invest in development, relieve poverty, deliver public services and build the physical and social infrastructure for long-term growth. Moreover, there are mutually beneficial links between taxation and good governance. Tax and Development: Aid Modalities for Strengthening Tax Systems highlights how taxation can have a positive effect on the quality of governance and a government’s relationship with citizens and, in turn, how good governance can have a positive effect on compliance and revenue mobilisation. How can international assistance providers, including OECD members, international and regional organisations, support the development of tax systems in developing countries? Tax and Development: Aid Modalities for Strengthening Tax Systems provides practical guidance for policy makers and practitioners based on the results of an extensive literature review, a survey of aid agency officials and six country case studies (Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, and Tanzania). It examines the aid instruments that donors use to assist developing countries including general and sector budget support, basket financing, stand-alone bilateral aid and funding South-South organisations. The strengths and weaknesses of each modality for supporting tax systems are identified, and some 50 recommendations to support the development of effective, efficient and growth-oriented tax systems in developing countries are provided.
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    ISBN: 9789264195325
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (132 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Green Growth Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Green growth in cities
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung ; OECD-Staaten ; Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Ballungsraum ; Großstadt ; Ökologische Marktwirtschaft ; Einflussgröße ; Interesse ; Entwicklung ; Unterentwicklung ; Ursache ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Environment ; Finance and Investment ; Governance ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; Stadtentwicklung ; Umweltqualität ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltpolitik
    Abstract: This report synthesises the findings from six case studies of urban green growth policies, four at city level (Paris, Chicago, Stockholm, Kitakyushu) and two at the national level (China, Korea). It offers a definition of urban green growth and a framework for analysing how it might play out in different types of cities. It demonstrates the importance of urban policies for achieving national environmental policy goals and discusses the increased efficiency of policy intervention at the urban level. It identifies urban activities to reduce environmental impact that are most likely to contribute to the policy priorities of job creation, urban attractiveness, metro-regional supply of green products and services, and increased urban land values. It also provides guidance on addressing potential financing and governance challenges that may arise in pursuing urban green growth. Finally, the report offers a preliminary proposal for how green growth in cities could be measured.
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    ISBN: 9789264192744
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (88 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Lutter contre l'érosion de la base d'imposition et le transfert de bénéfices
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Addressing base erosion and profit shifting
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    Keywords: Gewinnverlagerung ; Körperschaftsteuer ; Steuerrecht ; OECD-Staaten ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Ertragsteuer ; Steuersystem ; Unternehmenspolitik ; Finance and Investment ; Taxation ; Bodenerosion ; Gewinnverlagerung ; Steuerrecht
    Abstract: Base erosion constitutes a serious risk to tax revenues, tax sovereignty and tax fairness for many countries. While there are many ways in which domestic tax bases can be eroded, a significant source of base erosion is profit shifting. This report presents the studies and data available regarding the existence and magnitude of base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), and contains an overview of global developments that have an impact on corporate tax matters and identifies the key principles that underlie the taxation of cross-border activities, as well as the BEPS opportunities these principles may create. The report concludes that current rules provide opportunities to associate more profits with legal constructs and intangible rights and obligations, and to legally shift risk intra-group, with the result of reducing the share of profits associated with substantive operations. The report recommends the development of an action plan to address BEPS issues in a comprehensive manner.
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    ISBN: 9789264191655
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (290 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als OECD OECD guidelines on measuring subjective well-being
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    Keywords: Zufriedenheit ; Sozialer Indikator ; OECD-Staaten ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Economics ; Glück ; Zufriedenheit ; Ratgeber ; OECD
    Abstract: Being able to measure people’s quality of life is fundamental when assessing the progress of societies. There is now widespread acknowledgement that measuring subjective well-being is an essential part of measuring quality of life alongside other social and economic dimensions. As a first step to improving the measures of quality of life, the OECD has produced Guidelines which provide advice on the collection and use of measures of subjective well-being. These Guidelines have been produced as part of the OECD Better Life Initiative, a pioneering project launched in 2011, with the objective to measure society’s progress across eleven domains of well-being, ranging from jobs, health and housing, through to civic engagement and the environment. These Guidelines represent the first attempt to provide international recommendations on collecting, publishing, and analysing subjective well-being data. They provide guidance on collecting information on people's evaluations and experiences of life, as well as on collecting “eudaimonic” measures of psychological well-being. The Guidelines also outline why measures of subjective well-being are relevant for monitoring and policy making, and why national statistical agencies have a critical role to play in enhancing the usefulness of existing measures. They identify the best approaches for measuring, in a reliable and consistent way, the various dimensions of subjective well-being, and provide guidance for reporting on such measures. The Guidelines also include a number of prototype survey modules on subjective well-being that national and international agencies can use in their surveys.
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    ISBN: 9789264194564
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (265 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Health Policy Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als A good life in old age?
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    Keywords: Häusliche Pflege ; Dienstleistungsqualität ; OECD-Staaten ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Altenpflege ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Langzeitbetreuung
    Abstract: As ageing societies are pushing a growing number of frail old people into needing care, delivering quality long-term care services – care that is safe, effective, and responsive to needs – has become a priority for governments. Yet much still remains to be done to enhance evidence-based measurement and improvement of quality of long-term care services across EU and OECD countries. This book offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services.
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    ISBN: 9789264203488
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (219 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Educational Research and Innovation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovative learning environments
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    Abstract: How to design a powerful learning environment so that learners can thrive in the 21st century? OECD’s Innovative Learning Environments (ILE) is an ambitious international study that responds to this challenging question. The study earlier released the influential publication The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice. This companion volume is based on 40 in-depth case studies of powerful 21st century learning environments that have taken the innovation journey. Innovative Learning Environments presents a wealth of international material and features a new framework for understanding these learning environments, organised into eight chapters. Richly illustrated by the many local examples, it argues that a contemporary learning environment should: Innovate the elements and dynamics of its “pedagogical core”. Become a “formative organisation” through strong design strategies with corresponding learning leadership, evaluation and feedback. Open up to partnerships to grow social and professional capital, and to sustain renewal and dynamism. Promote 21st century effectiveness through the application of the ILE learning principles. In conclusion it offers pointers to how this can be achieved, including the role of technology, networking, and changing organisational cultures. This report will prove to be an invaluable resource for all those interested in schooling. It will be of particular interest to teachers, education leaders, parents, teacher educators, advisors and decision-makers, as well as the research community. “Much has been written about learning environments, and about innovation but nowhere will you find such a deep and cogent portrayal of the key principles as in the OECD's report, Innovative Learning Environments. Learners, pedagogical core, learning environments, partnerships, sustainability - it's all captured in this remarkable volume.” (Michael Fullan, OC, Professor Emeritus, OISE, University of Toronto) “Everyone in education is talking about innovation. What is different here is that the best of what we know about learning is at the centre and is richly illustrated with real cases to answer the question, ‘What will this look like?’” (Helen Timperley, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland) “From OECD's The Nature of Learning to Innovative Learning Environments, this second ILE volume inspires and guides all who are committed to creating , enacting and sustaining powerful learning. To know that this is possible - that we can and are creating ‘schooling for tomorrow’ today - is the gift of this book.” (Anthony Mackay: Co-Chair, Global Education Leaders Program; Chair, Innovation Unit UK) “What impresses me about this work is the clarity about the links between complex goals, processes and outcomes through a focus on innovative learning environments across the globe. Innovative Learning Environments manages both to bring alive the lived realities of very different people at the same time as distilling principles and key messages." (Philippa Cordingley, Chief Executive, Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE), UK) “As societies experience unprecedented and unpredictable change, schools and education systems are at the nexus of hope for the future. OECD’s report Innovative Learning Environments documents how educators in a number of countries are engaging in bold and forward-thinking innovations to renew, re-imagine and re-invent contexts for teaching and learning, and, most importantly, provides inspiration to take the journey.” (Professor Lorna Earl, President 2011-2013, International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement)
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    ISBN: 9780815337614
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (321 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Say It Loud! : African American Audiences, Media and Identity
    DDC: 302.23/089/96073
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    Abstract: This edited book will feature chapters that focus on how African American identity is constructed, maintained and represented in mass media (e.g. radio, television, film, print, cyberspace), and how African-Americans negotiate these presentations. Say It Loud! promises to provide a rare, in-depth exploration into African American audiences and their response to media's presentation of Black identity. African American interpretations are largely absent from scholarship, thus this book fills a knowledge gap in media, audience, and African American literature by turning to African Americans direc
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Say It Loud!; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. ""Keepin It Real"" and/or ""Sellin Out to the Man"": African-American Responses to Aaron McGruders The Boondocks; 3. Black Audiences, Past and Present: Commonsense Media Critics and Activists; 4. Media Messages, Self-Identity, and Race Relations: Reader Evaluations of Newsmagazine Coverage of the Million Man March; 5. House Negro versus Field Negro: The Inscribed Image of Race in Television News Representations of African-American Identity; 6. DMX, Cosby, and Two Sides of the American Dream
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. ""It's Just Like Teaching People 'Do the Right Things'"": Using T V to Become a Good and Powerful Man8. The Cosby Show: The View from the Black Middle Class; 9. The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers; 10. ""America's Worst Nightmare"": Reading the Ghetto in a Culturally Diverse Context; 11. The Menace U Society Copycat Murder Case and Thug Life: A Reception Study with a Convicted Criminal; Contributors; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415364737
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (196 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Communities of Practice : Critical Perspectives
    DDC: 302.35
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    Abstract: This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development. This book charts the development of the idea of communities of practice and explores the key relationship between learning and identity among:newcomers and 'old timers'male and female workersthe low skilled and the high skilledprofessionals and managersadults and adolescents
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Communities of Practice: Critical perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: Communities of practice: a contested concept in flux; 2 Critiquing theories of learning and communities of practice; 3 Lost in translation: communities of practice: The journey from academic model to practitioner tool; 4 From communities of practice to mycorrhizae; 5 Including the missing subject: Placing the personal within the community; 6 Cultivating network analysis: Rethinking the concept of 'community' within 'communities of practice'
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Theorizing sport as a community of practice: The coach-athlete relationship in British professional basketball8 The transition to work and adulthood: Becoming adults via communities of practice; 9 English apprenticeship from past to present: The challenges and consequences of rampant 'community' diversity; 10 Sexuality, gender and legitimate peripheral participation: An ethnographic study of a call center; 11 The learning trajectories of 'old-timers': Academic identities and communities of practice in higher education
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Unemployment as a community of practice: Tales of survival in the new Germany13 Communities of practice in their place: Some implications of changes in the spatial location of work; 14 Conclusion: Further developments and unresolved issues; Index
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    ISBN: 0415606004 , 9780415606004 , 9781136192685
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 275 S.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Online-Ressource ISBN (falsch) 9781136192685
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 708.0068
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    ISBN: 9780415674331 , 9781136263101
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    Series Statement: Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility 34
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Tourism and war
    DDC: 306.4/819
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    Keywords: Tourism - Political aspects ; Tourism - Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Tourism ; Psychological aspects ; War and society ; Tourism ; Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tourismus ; Krieg ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issues of peace and tourism are dealt with insofar as they pertain to the effects of war on tourism that emerge after the cessation of hostilities. The book therefore reveals how not only location, but also political strategies, accidents of history, transportation linkages, and economic expediency all have played their role in the development and continuation of tourism before, during, and after wartime. It further show how the effects of war are seldom if ever simply a negation or reversal of the effects of peace on tourism. The volume draws on a range of examples, from medieval times to the present, to reveal the multi-faceted development of tourism amidst and because of conflict in a wide variety of locations, including the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Africa and South East Asia, showing the diverse ways in which tourism and war interacts. In doing so it explores how some locations have been developed as tourist attractions primarily because of war and conflict, e.g. as resting and training places for troops, and others flourished because of the threat of danger from conflicts to more traditional tourist locations. This thought provoking volume contributes to the understanding of the interrelationships between war, peace and tourism in many different parts of the world at different scales. It will be valuable reading for all those interested in this topic as well as dark tourism, battlefield tourism and heritage tourism.
    Abstract: Front Cover -- Tourism and War -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Tourism and war: An ill wind?: Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul -- 2. Tourism, war, and political instability: territorial and religious perspectives: Dallen J. Timothy -- 3. From the Vietnam War to the "war on terror": tourism and the martial fascination: Scott Laderman -- Part I: Historic links -- 4. The Crusades, the Knights Templar, and Hospitaller: a combination of religion, war, pilgrimage, and tourism enablers: Euan Beveridge and Kevin O'Gorman -- 5. The English tourist and war, 1500-1800: John Towner -- 6. War and tourism: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: John K. Walton -- Part II: Tourism before and during war -- 7. Tourism shaped by war: the unusual evolution of tourism in the far Northwest of North America: K. S. Coates and W. R. Morrison -- 8. Thai tourism and the legacy of the Vietnam War: Wantanee Suntikul -- 9. Tourism in a neutral country surrounded by war: the case of Switzerland: Hansruedi Müller and Anna Amacher Hoppler -- Part III: Tourism under threat of war -- 10. Living with war: the Korean truce: Timothy Jeonglyeol Lee and Eun-Jung Kang -- 11. Developing tourism alongside threats of wars and atrocities: the case of Israel: Shaul Krakover -- 12. Palestine: tourism under occupation: Rami Isaac -- Part IV: Tourism, war and the aftermath -- 13. An ironic paradox: the longitudinal view on impacts of the 1990s homeland war on tourism in Croatia: Sanda Corak, Vesna Mikacic, and Irena Ateljevic -- 14. Tourism in Northern Ireland: before violence, during and post: Stephen W. Boyd -- 15. Echoes of the Great Pacific Conflict: Australia's regional war tourism dividend: David Weaver.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Tourism and War; Contents; List of figures; List of plates; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Tourism and war: An ill wind?: Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul; 2. Tourism, war, and political instability: territorial and religious perspectives: Dallen J. Timothy; 3. From the Vietnam War to the "war on terror": tourism and the martial fascination: Scott Laderman; Part I:Historic links; 4. The Crusades, the Knights Templar, and Hospitaller: a combination of religion, war, pilgrimage, and tourism enablers: Euan Beveridge and Kevin O'Gorman
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. The English tourist and war, 1500-1800: John Towner6. War and tourism: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: John K. Walton; Part II:Tourism before and during war; 7. Tourism shaped by war: the unusual evolution of tourism in the far Northwest of North America: K. S. Coates and W. R. Morrison; 8. Thai tourism and the legacy of the Vietnam War: Wantanee Suntikul; 9. Tourism in a neutral country surrounded by war: the case of Switzerland: Hansruedi Müller andAnna Amacher Hoppler; Part III:Tourism under threat of war
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Living with war: the Korean truce: Timothy Jeonglyeol Lee andEun-Jung Kang11. Developing tourism alongside threats of wars and atrocities: the case of Israel: Shaul Krakover; 12. Palestine: tourism under occupation: Rami Isaac; Part IV: Tourism, war and the aftermath; 13. An ironic paradox: the longitudinal view on impacts of the 1990s homeland war on tourism in Croatia: Sanda Corak, Vesna Mikacic, and Irena Ateljevic; 14. Tourism in Northern Ireland: before violence, during and post: Stephen W. Boyd
    Description / Table of Contents: 15. Echoes of the Great Pacific Conflict: Australia's regional war tourism dividend: David Weaver16. Soldiers, victims and neon lights: the American presence in post-war Japanese tourism: Jerry Eades and Malcolm Cooper; Part V:Tourism and war remembrance; 17. From Hastings to the Ypres salient: battlefield tourism and the interpretation of fields of conflict: Stephen Miles; 18. Civil war tourism: perspectives from Manassas National Battlefield Park: Margaret Daniels, Peter Dieke, and Marielle Barrow; 19. Revisiting the war landscape of Vietnam and tourism: Joseph Lema and Jerome Agrusa
    Description / Table of Contents: 20. War, heritage, tourism, and the centenary of the Great War in Flanders and Belgium: Dominique Vanneste and Kenneth FooteConclusion; 21. Reflections on the Great War centenary: from warscapes to memoryscapes in 100 years: Myriam Jansen-Verbeke and Wanda George; 22. Conclusion: Richard Butler and Wantanee Suntikul; Index;
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    ISBN: 9789264179080
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Health Policy Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Waiting time policies in the health sector
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    Keywords: Gesundheitsversorgung ; Gesundheitspolitik ; OECD-Staaten ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Wartezeit ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Over the past decade, many OECD countries have introduced new policies to tackle excessive waiting times for elective surgery with some success. However, in the wake of the recent economic downturn and severe pressures on public budgets, waiting times times may rise again, and it is important to understand which policies work. In addition, the European Union has introduced new regulations to allow patients to seek care in other member states, if there are long delays in treatment. This book provides a framework to understand why there are waiting lists for elective surgery in some OECD countries and not in others. It also describes how waiting times are measured in OECD countries, which differ widely, and makes recommendations for best practice. Finally, it reviews different policy approaches to tackling excessive waiting times. Some countries have introduced guarantees to patients that they will not wait too long for treatment. These policies work only if they are accompanied by sanctions on health providers to ensure the guarantee is met or if they allow greater choice of health-care providers including the private sector. Many countries have also introduced policies to expand supply of surgical services, but these policies have generally not succeeded in the long-term in bringing down waiting times. Given the increasing demand for elective surgery, some countries have experimented with policies to improve priorisation of who is entitled to elective surgery. These policies are promising, but difficult to implement.
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    ISBN: 9789264181403 , 9789264185715
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (108 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Environment at a Glance
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    Keywords: Environmental degradation ; Environmental quality ; Environmental policy ; Electronic books ; Erde ; Umweltdaten ; Umweltinformationssystem ; Umweltstatistik
    Note: "This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references , OECD code: 97 2013 05 1 P
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    ISBN: 9789264167711 , 9789264112728
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (81 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Thurner, Stefan, 1969 - Systemic financial risk
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    Keywords: Finanzmarkt ; Finanzkrise ; Systemrisiko ; Financial leverage ; Financial risk ; Financial risk management ; Finance and Investment ; Economics ; Finanzkrise
    Abstract: This report analyses the results of simulations using an agent based model of financial markets to show how excessive levels of leverage in financial markets can lead to a systemic crash. Investors overload on risky assets betting more than they have to gamble creating a tremendous level of vulnerability in the system as a whole. Plummeting asset prices render banks unable or unwilling to provide credit as they fear they might be unable to cover their own liabilities due to potential loan defaults. Whether an overleveraged borrower is a sovereign nation or major financial institution, recent history illustrates how defaults carry the risk of contagion in a globally interconnected economy. The resulting slowdown of investment in the real economy impacts actors at all levels, from small businesses to homebuyers. Bankruptcies lead to job losses and a drop in aggregate demand, leading to more businesses and individuals being unable to repay their loans, reinforcing a downward spiral that can trigger a recession, depression or bring about stagflation in the real economy. This can have a devastating impact not only on economic prosperity across the board, but also consumer sentiment and trust in the ability of the system to generate long-term wealth and growth.
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    ISBN: 9781841694542
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (361 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Frontiers of social psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Affect in social thinking and behavior
    DDC: 302.1
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gefühl ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Interaktion
    Abstract: The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time immemorial. Surprisingly, most of what we know about the role of feelings in social thinking and behavior has been discovered only during the last two decades. Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior reviews and integrates the most recent research and theories on this exciting topic, and features original contributions reviewing key areas of affect research from leading researchers active in the area.The book covers fundamental issues, such as the nature
    Description / Table of Contents: Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior; Copyright; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Hearts and Minds: An Introduction to the Role of Affect in Social Cognition and Behavior; Part I: Basic Approaches to Affect and Social Behavior; 2 Irrational Emotions or Emotional Wisdom? The Evolutionary Psychology of Affect and Social Behavior; 3 A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Affective Influences on Social Cognition and Behavior; 4 Mood and the Regulation of Information Processing and Behavior; 5 Emotion-Eliciting Appraisals of Social Situations
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Affect and Social Cognition6 Cognitive and Clinical Perspectives on Mood-Dependent Memory; 7 Affect as Information about Liking, Efficacy, and Importance; 8 Emotional Influences on Decision Making; 9 Emotions as Moral Intuitions; 10 Affective Forecasting: A User's Guide to Emotional Time Travel; Part III: Affect and the Social Self; 11 Affect and the Self; 12 Mood as a Resource in Structuring Goal Pursuit; 13 Positive Emotions and Cognition: Developmental, Neuroscience, and Health Perspectives; 14 Managing Affective States; Part IV: Affect and Social Behavior
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 Affective Influences on Interpersonal Behavior: Towards Understanding the Role of Affect in Everyday Interactions16 Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Behavior: A Theory and Review of the Literature; 17 Affective Influence in Groups; 18 Affect and the Regulation of Interdependence in Personal Relationships; Index;
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    ISBN: 9780415890120
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (341 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology Ser. v.7
    Parallel Title: Print version Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives
    DDC: 305.235
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    Abstract: As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed to bridge critical gaps in the understanding of the daily lives, identity development, and experiences of adolescents in diverse cultures around the world. Cultural context is predictive of developmental uniqueness; comparisons provide insights into how social structures and relationships influence
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Adolescent Identity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Adolescent Identity, Risk, and Change; PART I Evolution: History and Hunter-Gatherers; 2 Childhood, Adolescence, and Longevity: A Chapter on Human Evolutionary Life History; 3 Risky Adolescent Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective; 4 Hunter-Gatherer Adolescence; PART II Culture and Development: Ritual, Risk, and Identity; 5 Identity Development, Crises, and Continuity: Death-Defying Leaps in the Lives of Indigenous and Nonindigenous Youth
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Contributions of Ritual Expressions at Puberty to Optimal Identity Formation of North American Indian Girls7 Food Restriction and Social Identity of Aka Forager Adolescents in the Republic of the Congo; 8 "The Bullet Is Certain": Armed Children and Gunplay on the Streets of Haiti; PART III Globalization: Tradition, Modernity, and Identity; 9 Multiple Identifications of Multicultural Adolescents: Dialogues between Tradition and Postmodernity in a Global Context; 10 Traditional Dress in Kuwaiti Adolescents' Drawings: Relations to Social Attitudes
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Introduction of Television and Dominican Youth12 China's Emergent Youth: Gender, Work, Dating, and Life Orientation; Perspectives on Adolescent Identity; Contributors; Index;
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    ISBN: 9789264112902
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Agricultural policies for poverty reduction
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    Keywords: Agrarpolitik ; Ländliches Einkommen ; Armut ; Ernährungssicherung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Armut ; Bekämpfung ; Agrarpolitik ; Agriculture and Food ; Development ; Entwicklungsländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; Armut ; Bekämpfung ; Agrarpolitik
    Abstract: With more than two-thirds of the world’s poor living in rural areas, higher rural incomes are a pre-requisite for sustained poverty reduction and reduced hunger. This volume sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes which emphasises the creation of diversified rural economies with opportunities within and outside agriculture. Agricultural policies need to be integrated within an overall mix of policies and institutional reforms that facilitate, rather than impede, structural change. By investing in public goods, such as infrastructure and agricultural research, and by building effective social safety nets, governments can limit the role of less efficient policies such as price controls and input subsidies.
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    ISBN: 9780415524155
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (319 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Frontiers in New Media Research
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Frontiers in new media research
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Internet Social aspects ; Social media ; Digital media ; Mass media Technological innovations ; Social aspects ; Mass media ; Technological innovations ; Social aspects ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Social media ; Digital media ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Nachrichtenverkehr ; Politische Kommunikation ; Internet ; Social Media ; World Wide Web 2.0 ; Online-Medien
    Abstract: This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, existing social institutions, and the society at large at various levels of analysis. Macro-level analyses of changing techno-social formation - such as discussions of the rise of surveillance society and the "fifth estate" - are combined with studies on concrete and specific new media phenomena, such as
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Frontiers in New Media Research; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: Challenges for New Media Research; PART I Techno-Social Formations; 2 What's the Use of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet?; 3 The Internet and Democratic Accountability: The Rise of the Fifth Estate; 4 Surveillance Technologies and Social Transformation: Emerging Challenges of Socio-Technical Change; 5 The Probability Archive: From Essence to Uncertainty in the Mediation of Knowledge; 6 The Internet and Social Mobilization in China
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II Recurring Issues7 Online Social Network Sites and the Concept of Social Capital; 8 A Retrospective on Convergence, Moral Panic, and the Internet; 9 The Emerging Ecology of Online News; 10 Who Would Miss Getting News Online and Why (Not)?; 11 The Influence of Third-Person Effects on Support for Restrictions of Internet Pornography among College Students in Shanghai and Hong Kong; PART III Emerging Media; 12 A Networked Self: Identity Performance and Sociability on Social Network Sites; 13 The Internet in Flux: Twitter and the Interpretative Flexibility of Microblogging
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Exploring the Pro-Am Interface between Production and Produsage15 Fanatical Labor and Serious Leisure: A Case of Fansubbing in China; 16 From TV to the Internet to Mobile Phones: A National Study of U.S. College Students' Multiplatform Video Use and Satisfaction; Contributors; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. Techno-social formations -- pt. II. Recurring issues -- pt. III. Emerging media.
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  • 76
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    ISBN: 9781848728721 , 9781135254261 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 377 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135254261
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Frontiers of Social Psychology
    DDC: 302
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    Abstract: It is impossible to understand human behavior without understanding the critical role that groups play in people's lives. Most of us belong to a range of formal and informal groups, including families, work teams, and friendship cliques. These groups absorb a great deal of our time and energy and are instrumental in satisfying our most fundamental needs. In addition, they connect us to larger social aggregates (e.g., political parties, business organizations, religious denominations) that influence our lives in important ways.This volume provides a comprehensive overview of cl...
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    ISBN: 9789264167865
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (284 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Green Growth Studies
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Compact City Policies; A Comparative Assessment (Japanese version)
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Compact City Policies; A Comparative Assessment (Chinese version)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Compact city policies
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung ; OECD-Staaten ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; OECD ; Stadtökologie
    Abstract: This book examines the concept of the compact city and the implication of the current urban context for compact city policies. It explores their potential outcomes, particularly in terms of how it can contribute to Green Growth and looks at developing indicators to monitor compact city and track policy performance. It reviews compact city policies currently being implemented across the OECD in relation to the pursuit of Green Growth objectives and provides ideas to achieve better outcomes. And it assesses the key governance challenges faced by decision-makers as they seek to implement practical compact city strategies. This report is thus intended as “food for thought” for national, sub-national and municipal governments as they seek to address their economic and environmental challenges through the development and implementation of spatial strategies in pursuit of Green Growth objectives. It also illustrates best practices (which present key elements of successful compact city policies) based on empirical evidence that can be shared across OECD member countries.
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    ISBN: 9789264185920
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (252 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Duell, Nicola Activating jobseekers
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Australien ; Employment ; Australia ; Australien ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik
    Abstract: This report on the recent Australian experience with activation policies contains valuable lessons for other countries that need to improve the effectiveness of employment services and control benefit expenditure. It provides overview and assessment of labour market policies in Australia including the main institutions, benefit system, training programmes, employment incentives, and disability employment assistance. Australia is unique among OECD countries in that its mainstream employment services are all delivered by over 100 for-profit and non-profit providers competing in a “quasi-market”, with their operations financed by service fees, employment outcome payments, and a special fund for measures that tackle jobseekers’ barriers to employment. In most other OECD countries, these services are delivered by the Public Employment Service. In the mid 2000s, several benefits previously paid without a job-search requirement were closed or reformed, bringing more people into the effective labour force. Australia now has one of the highest employment rates in the OECD and this report concludes that its activation system deserves some of the credit for this relatively good performance. The Job Services Australia model, introduced in 2009, reinforced the focus on employment outcomes for highly-disadvantaged groups. This report assesses the latest model for activation and puts forward some recommendations to improve its effectiveness.
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9789264173248
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (84 p.)
    Series Statement: Development Centre Studies
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Pouvons-nous encore atteindre les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement ? ; Des coûts aux politiques
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stijns, Jean-Philippe Can we still achieve the Millennium Development Goals?
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    Keywords: Vereinte Nationen ; UN-Entwicklungsziele ; Millenniumsziele ; Aufwendung ; Kosten ; Finanzierung ; Entwicklungsfinanzierung ; Messung/Maßsystem ; Measurement/measurement systems ; Development ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: This study contributes to the current debate on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), their relevance and what can be done after 2015, by looking at estimates of the cost of reaching the goals in 2015. In particular, it sizes the additional resources needed in developing countries to attain the goals.
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  • 80
    ISBN: 9789264124523
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (206 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Mental Health and Work
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Mal-être au travail ? ; Mythes et réalités sur la santé mentale et l'emploi
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Mal-être au travail ? : Mythes et réalités sur la santé mentale et l'emploi
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sick on the job?
    DDC: 158.72
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    Keywords: Employment ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeit ; Psychische Gesundheit
    Abstract: The costs of mental ill-health for the individuals concerned, employers and society at large are enormous. Mental illness is responsible for a very significant loss of potential labour supply, high rates of unemployment, and a high incidence of sickness absence and reduced productivity at work. In particular, mental illness causes too many young people to leave the labour market, or never really enter it, through early moves onto disability benefit. Today, between one-third and one-half of all new disability benefit claims are for reasons of mental ill-health, and among young adults that proportion goes up to over 70%. Indeed, mental ill-health is becoming a key issue for the well-functioning of OECD’s labour markets and social policies and requires a stronger focus on policies addressing mental health and work issues. Despite the very high costs to the individuals and the economy, there is only little awareness about the connection between mental health and work, and the drivers behind the labour market outcomes and the level of inactivity of people with mental ill-health. Understanding these drivers is critical for the development of more effective policies. This report aims to identify the knowledge gaps and begin to narrow them by reviewing evidence on the main challenges and barriers to better integrating people with mental illness in the world of work.
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    ISBN: 9789264123571
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (188 p.)
    Series Statement: OECD Insights
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. De l'aide au développement ; La lutte mondiale contre la pauvreté
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. De la ayuda al desarrollo ; El combate internacional de la pobreza
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Keeley, Brian From aid to development
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    Keywords: Armut ; Entwicklung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Governance ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Development ; Economics ; OECD ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Rezession ; Entwicklungsländer ; Armut ; Bekämpfung
    Abstract: The balance of economic power is shifting. Countries that were once poor are becoming economic powerhouses. Yet poverty persists worldwide, depriving billions of people of basic necessities and the prospects of creating a better life. How are we responding to this challenge? This book explores the multi-faceted world of aid and development co-operation – a range of global, and sometimes contested, efforts aimed at reducing the impact of poverty. It traces the history of these efforts, explains where they come from and where they are going, and asks whether they are achieving as much as they could. It also examines some of the ways in which development efforts can be made more effective in achieving lasting benefits through good governance and the creation of a deeper partnership between developed and developing countries. And it looks at how the economic emergence of countries like China and India is bringing a new dynamic to development co-operation.
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    ISBN: 9789264179455
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Edition: 2012 Update
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Redresser les finances publiques, mise à jour 2012
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Restoring public finances, 2012 update
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    Keywords: Haushaltskonsolidierung ; OECD-Staaten ; Governance ; OECD ; Finanzwirtschaft ; Konsolidierung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Geschichte 2012
    Abstract: This report gives an update on fiscal consolidation strategies across OECD member countries since last year. Chapter 1 describes the scope and composition of country plans, compares them with calculated fiscal need, and provides information on the timing and details. Chapter 2 contains notes on each of the countries which present the current fiscal position and announced fiscal paths, the consolidation plans, and detailed expenditure and revenue measures. Chapter 3 discusses the financial situation and consolidation needs of sub-national governments, and the policies that are being carried out at both levels of government to reach the consolidation objectives.
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  • 83
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    ISBN: 9789264179370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten) , 21 x 28cm
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Education ; Employment ; Governance ; Social Issues/Migration/Health
    Abstract: Gender gaps are pervasive in all walks of economic life and imply large losses in terms of foregone productivity and living standards to the individuals concerned and the economy. This new OECD report focuses on how best to close these gender gaps under four broad headings: 1) Gender equality, social norms and public policies; and gender equality in 2) education; 3) employment and 4) entrepreneurship. Key policy messages are as follows:-Greater gender equality in educational attainment has a strong positive effect on economic growth;-Stereotyping needs to be addressed in educational choices at school from a young age. For example, adapt teaching strategies and material to increase engagement of boys in reading and of girls in maths and science; encourage more girls to follow science, engineering and maths courses in higher education and seek employment in these fields;-Good and affordable childcare is a key factor for better gender equality in employment. But change also has to happen at home as the bulk of housework and caring is left to women in many countries. Policy can support such change, for example, through parental leave policies that explicitly include fathers.-Support policies for women-owned enterprises need to target all existing firms, not just start-ups and small enterprises. Equal access to finance for male and female entrepreneurs needs to be assured
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    ISBN: 9789264178014
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (92 p.)
    Series Statement: Better Aid
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. L'efficacité de l'aide dans le secteur de la santé ; Progrès et enseignements
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aid effectiveness in the health sector
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    Keywords: Gesundheitswesen ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Entwicklungsländer ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Internationale Kooperation ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Gesundheitsfürsorge ; Effektivität ; Wirkung ; Auswirkung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Development ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: Aid plays an important role in reducing poverty and inequality, stimulating growth, building capacity, promoting human development and accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Effective aid is critical both to maximise the impact of aid and to achieve long-term, sustainable development. Aid to the health sector has increased substantially over the last 20 years from USD 5 billion in 1990 to USD 21.8 billion in 2007. Consisting of a growing and diverse range of actors, aid to the health sector faces complex governance and management challenges: for example, donors inadvertedly invest in duplicate and fragmented efforts, while partners are unable to take full responsibility and leadership. By reviewing these challenges against the aid effectiveness principles outlined in the landmark 2005 Paris Declaration and 2008 Accra Agenda for Action, this report provides insight and expounds lessons from the health sector to the broader challenges of aid effectiveness. Health, then, is used as a “tracer” sector to help assess the risks and benefits of the diverse range of actors, and promote co-ordination and coherence among development programmes. This work is the result of a collaboration between the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness – an inclusive, international forum with the aim of improving aid delivery – through its Task Team on Health as a Tracer Sector and the World Trade Organization.
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    ISBN: 9780415139106 , 9780203131015 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 211 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780203131015
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.8743
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    Keywords: Mutterschaft ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Children's rights, lone motherhood and the breakdown of families are all issues at the forefront of current social debate in the West, with little agreement on what constitutes good parenting, or how the needs of both mother and child are best met. The feminist contribution to this debate is particularly important in keeping in view the diverse identities of all those who provide mothering. The psychoanalytic contribution is often undervalued and misunderstood. Mothering and Ambivalence brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss depen...
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    ISBN: 9780415809856 , 9781136344183 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 201 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136344183
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.25
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    Keywords: Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Climate Change and Social Ecology takes a new and different approach to the world's most pressing challenge, recasting climate change as a challenge of rapid social evolution, and presenting a compelling vision of how sustainable societies might come about. Rather than simply describing the science of climate change or potential near-term initiatives to address the problem, this essential volume looks at the social transformation that will be necessary to deal with the challenge in the long term.
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    ISBN: 9780415524865 , 9781136288418 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 305 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136288418
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    Series Statement: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Wissenschaftstransfer ; Technologietransfer ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Politische Verantwortung ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Reason, from this perspective, comprises the institutional practices, discourses, techniques and instruments through which governments claim legitimacy in an era of potentially unbounded risks-physical, political, and moral. Those legitimating efforts, in turn, depend on citizens' acceptance of the forms of reasoning that governments offer. Included here therefore is an inquiry into the conditions that lead citizens of democratic societies to accept policy justification as being reasonable. These modes of public knowing, or "civic epistemologies," are integral to the constitution of contemporary political cultures. Methodologically, the book is grounded in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). It uses in-depth qualitative studies of legal and political practices to shed light on divergent cross-cultural constructions of public reason and the reasoning political subject. The collection as a whole contributes to democratic theory, legal studies, comparative politics, geography, and ethnographies of modernity, as well as STS.  ...
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    ISBN: 9789264168060
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (156 p.)
    Series Statement: OECD Studies on Water
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Qualité de l'eau et agriculture ; Un défi pour les politiques publiques
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Water quality and agriculture
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    Keywords: Landwirtschaft ; Wasser ; OECD-Staaten ; Agriculture and Food ; Umweltschutz ; Wasserversorgung ; Wassergüte ; Landwirtschaft
    Abstract: Improving water quality is consistently ranked as a top environmental concern in OECD public opinion surveys. The key challenges for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture are to reduce water pollution while encourage benefits, such as maintaining aquatic life. This book examines linking policies, farm management and water quality. It looks at recent trends and prospects for water pollution from agriculture and the implications of climate change. It assesses the costs and benefits of agriculture's impact on water systems, and presents a series of case studies. Finally the report provides a set of recommendations for countries for meeting the challenge of improving agricultural water quality.
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  • 89
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    ISBN: 9789264170001
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (172 p.)
    Series Statement: OECD Studies on Water
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Meeting the water reform challenge
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    Keywords: Wasserpolitik ; Wasserversorgung ; OECD-Staaten ; Welt ; Environment ; Governance ; Wasserversorgung ; Reform ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: The need to reform water policies is as urgent as ever. Water is essential for economic growth, human health, and the environment. Yet governments around the world face significant challenges in managing their water resources effectively. The problems are multiple and complex: billions of people are still without access to safe water and adequate sanitation; competition for water is increasing among the different uses and users; and major investment is required to maintain and improve water infrastructure in OECD and non-OECD countries. Despite progress on many fronts, governments around the world are still confronted with the need to reform their existing water policies in order to meet current objectives and future challenges. Building on the water challenges identified by the OECD Environment Outlook to 2050, this report examines three fundamental areas that need to be addressed whatever reform agendas are pursued by governments: financing of the water sector; the governance and institutional arrangements that are in place; and coherence between water policies and policies in place in other sectors of the economy. The report provides governments with practical advice and policy tools to pursue urgent reform in their water sectors.
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    ISBN: 9789264179288
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (132 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Better Regulation in Europe
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Better regulation in Europe
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    Keywords: Regulierung ; Griechenland ; Governance ; Greece ; Griechenland ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Regulierung
    Abstract: This review of regulation in Greece maps and analyses the core issues which together make up effective regulatory management, laying down a framework of what should be driving regulatory policy and reform in the future. Issues examined include improving regulatory management, institutional capacities for effective regulation, transparency and processes for effective public consultation and communication, processes for the development of new regulations and for the management of the regulatory stock, compliance rates, enforcement policy. appeal processes, the interface between different levels of government and interface between national processes and those of the EU.
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    ISBN: 9789264174269
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (222 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sustainable materials management
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Ressourcenökonomik ; Environment ; Industry and Services ; Ressourcenökonomie ; Recyclinggerechtes Produkt ; Rohstoff ; Wiederverwendung
    Abstract: Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) is increasingly recognised as a policy approach that can make a key contribution to green growth and the challenges that are posed by sustained global economic and demogarphic growth. One of the key challenges of the SMM approach is to effectively address the environmental impacts that can occur along the life-cycle of materials, which frequently extends across borders and involves a multitude of different economic actors. This book outlines a series of policy principles for SMM, examines how to set and use targets for SMM, and explores various policy instruments for SMM. In addition it provides examples of policy action plans from the UK and the Netherlands, before presenting a series of conclusions and recommendations.
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    ISBN: 9789264119680
    Language: English
    Edition: 2011
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    Keywords: Fischerei ; Aquakultur ; Zertifizierung ; Norm
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    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Prix de transfert et entreprises multinationales : Trois études fiscales
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    Keywords: Transfer pricing and multinational enterprises ; Steuer
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    Language: English
    Edition: 2011
    Series Statement: OECD Green Growth Studies
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Vers une croissance verte : Suivre les progrès : Les indicateurs de l'OCDE
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Towards green growth
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; OECD-Staaten ; Global Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Grüne Investition ; Energiepolitik ; Energieökonomik ; Energieverbrauch ; Ressourcenmanagement ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Umweltverträglichkeit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Indikator
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    ISBN: 9789264119222
    Language: English
    Edition: 2011
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corporate loss utilisation through aggressive tax planning
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    Keywords: Steuerplanung ; OECD-Staaten ; Steuerplanung
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  • 96
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    ISBN: 9789264114586
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    Edition: 2011
    Series Statement: OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Risikomanagement
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9789264119529
    Language: English
    Edition: 2011
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corporate governance of state-owned enterprises
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    Keywords: 2005-2010 ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Corporate Governance ; OECD-Staaten ; OECD ; Corporate Governance ; Öffentliches Unternehmen ; Geschichte 2005-2012
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    Language: English
    Edition: 2011
    Series Statement: Corporate Governance
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The role of institutional investors in promoting good corporate governance
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    Keywords: Institutioneller Investor ; Corporate Governance ; OECD-Staaten ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Institutioneller Anleger ; Corporate Governance
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    ISBN: 9789264121201
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (80 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. u.d.T.:
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    Keywords: Governance
    Abstract: La présente étude est consacrée à l’identification et à la quantification des produits de la corruption active dans les transactions commerciales internationales. Dans le secteur public comme dans le secteur privé, cela fait longtemps que les organisations savent que la corruption d’agents publics nuit à une bonne gouvernance, entrave le développement économique et empêche la concurrence de s’exercer pleinement. La confiscation et le recouvrement des produits générés par la corruption transnationale sont des éléments fondamentaux du cadre international de lutte contre la corruption d’agents publics étrangers. Le chapitre 1 présente le cadre juridique international avec les différents modes de traitement des produits de la corruption active et recense les recours juridiques existant dans les différents pays ou territoires ainsi que la manière dont ces recours peuvent entrer en interaction. Le chapitre 2 définit les cinq principaux types de corruption active et analyse comment ils pourraient être quantifiés. Chaque système est illustré par des exemples de pays tirés de pays utilisant des méthodes de quantification, ainsi que de commentaires sur certaines difficultés pratiques rencontrées pour calculer les produits. Enfin, le chapitre 3 contient une compilation d’études de cas illustrant les principes visés dans les précédents chapitres.
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    ISBN: 9789264097759
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (328 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Health Policy Studies
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Besoin d'aide ? ; La prestation de services et le financement de la dépendance
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Help wanted?
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    Keywords: Ältere Menschen ; Häusliche Pflege ; Pflegeversicherung ; Finanzierung ; OECD-Staaten ; Employment ; Finance and Investment ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Finanzierung ; Krankenpflege ; Langzeitbetreuung ; Private Krankenversicherung
    Abstract: This book examines the challenges countries are facing with regard to providing and paying for long-term care. With populations ageing and the need for long-term care growing rapidly, this book looks at such issues as: future demographic trends, policies to support family carers, long-term care workers, financing arrangements, long-term care insurance, and getting better value for money in long-term care. “WHO recognizes that long-term care represents a major challenge for all countries in the world, with important implications for economic development and for the health and well-being of older people. This well-documented book provides a comparative analysis of the common challenges and diverse solutions OECD countries are adopting to respond to the growing demand for long-term care services, and particularly its implications for financing and labour markets. It provides much needed evidence to guide policy makers and individuals.” -Dr John Beard, Director, Department of Ageing and Life Course, World Health Organization “This carefully researched book offers invaluable data and insights into the organization and financing of long-term care in OECD countries. The book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in international long-term care”. -Dr. Joshua M. Wiener, Distinguished Fellow and Program Director of RTI’s Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Program, United States
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