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This text discusses research on learning potential assessment and cognitive training. Moreover, several contributions discuss the relationship between individual learning and social interaction during learning potential assessment.

This collection of research articles explores important changes among legal practitioners in the US, England, Germany and Canada. It addresses many of the newest and most exciting themes in the sociology of law, including the global law firm, the dilemma of part-time employment for legal professionals, and the sociolegal construction of time.

Examines seven theoretical perspectives of public budgeting: incrementalism, the budget process model, the organizational process model, the median voter model, the 'greedy bureaucrat' model, a post-modern model, and the transaction cost model. This title also examines and critically reviews major research from each perspective.

The volume focuses on community development and school reform and the challenges of school administration in highly porous systems.

Examines the important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences. This title also examines, discipline by discipline, the history of the evolutionary thrust, leading figures and key literature, the degree of acceptance (or rejection) within each discipline. It discusses the biobehavioral approach on a geographic basis.

This text emphasises the central place that ethnographic work should have in the formulation and evaluation of education policy. Ethnographic studies contribute to a greater understanding of the process formulation, evaluation and critique.

This text explores the changes that are unfolding in the character of work, managerial authority, and the employment relationship at the beginning of 21st century. It asks how such changes are reshaping people's working lives and the nature of their careers.

It is apparent why politicians and elected officials often support new managerial methods, observers wonder whether the promises of reform can be delivered upon to provide benefits depicted so attractively. Dialogue on this question is active among public management scholars. This book represents substantial elements of this dialogue.

The philosophy of technology has been dominated by moral/critical metaphysical analyses of the "essence" of technology. This volume explores how empirical data might be used in ontological, epistemological, ethical or more general discussions to develop a philosophy more internally oriented.

This text applies sociological approaches to organizational change and development to explain process innovation and diffusion in internal auditing and management accounting systems. It integrates the study of TQM and reengineering into management accounting, internal auditing and control systems.

Following the Salamanca agreement and other international treaties, the contributors to this volume draw upon research and practice in a number of countries to describe advances in meeting the needs of children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

In an overview of the state of reform of the US education system a number of experts discuss issues ranging from the economics of inequality, urban economics and the digital divide to problems of discrimination, desegregation and choice, vouchers and privatization.

Contains scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. This work examines geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention, institutional change, political-economic barriers to effective policy, and prescriptions for change.

Contains essays that address three important and interrelated themes in the theory and practice of democratic politics: the use of information short cuts in political decision making; the role of deliberation in citizens' attitude and opinion formation; and, the pathways to civic and political participation.

A truly international perspective emerges on the nature of service marketing across borders, as well as the internationalization strategies of service providers. This volume explores the research in international service marketing through the eyes of scholars from eight different countries on three continents.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has changed from being a one-lane country road, handling a modest flow of financial traffic to a two-way superhighway carrying huge amounts of capital into, and out of, the country. This book examines the factors that have motivated foreign firms to invest in the United States.

Talks about higher education world-wide and in all its manifestations. This work deals with three broad sub-themes: university and development: anticipating change; universities and the international knowledge enterprise; and, academic freedom and university autonomy: pre-requisites for the university meeting its responsibilities.

The authors examine theories and models that help to understand individual and social aspects of processes of learning, development of expertise, knowledge creation, and innovation. These processes are studied both in the contexts of education and work, and are illuminated with numerous examples, and interview data.

Based on a selection of papers presented at the first International Seminar on Using Complex Information Systems held in Poitiers, France, this volume presents an overview of research issues related to multimedia usage considered from cognitive and instructive perspectives.

Introduces and illustrates Black's"pure sociology", a theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of various kinds. This work contains concepts and typologies applicable to partisan and nonpartisan forms of conflict management. It also gives theoretical perspectives on: crime as self-help; the broadening liability of organizations; and more.

This book examines the complex relationship among trade and investment policies, as well as environmental regulations, especially for developing economies. The impacts of pollution taxes and environmental standards on employment and social welfare, the design and coordination of optimal trade, and investment and environmental policies are analyzed.

Describes the structure of MIMIC and discusses a number of policy measures. Moreover, this book elaborates on proposals that are in discussion, such as the flat tax. To easily understand the model, it also presents a core version with only a few equations.

This book investigates why Dutch economic policy has been relatively effective in lower unemployment rate in the Netherlands compared to OECD Europe. Its empirical analysis examines whether macroeconomic policies could be effective in reducing unemployment in the short run and if they can be directed to one side of the market.

Although the conversion of science and technology into marketable products that cover societal needs is a matter of the private sector, the public sector has its role to play. This book aims at informing and stimulating the debate on policy issues relating to science, technology and innovation.

Focuses on the three areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters cover insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, agri-environmental policies, social capital and bottom-up approaches.

Analyzing several aspects of the political economy of international economic policy,this book contains 12 essays that address the areas of the political economy of trade, aid and investment policy, and therefore will be of interest to academic researchers and students of international economics.

Include chapters such as: The Consumption Function, Government Debt and Taxes, and Dynamic Optimal Taxation. This book also features chapters dealing with difference equations, stochastic difference equations, and investment under uncertainty.

Examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. This book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and geo-politics. It also focuses on the domestic actors and institutions which played critical roles in the miracle economies of East Asia.

From the oil and gas industries of Norway to recent Australian experiences, the railway sector and the nuclear industry, the contributors to this collection assess risks and offer insights into the various regulatory frameworks that keep people safe in all parts of the world.

Technology does not invite an examination of its own consequences. Issues concerning ethics and professionalism, privacy, autonomy, free speech, and ethics have often been recognized but rarely receive analysis and illumination they deserve. This book is a study in the success of the computer in a variety of forms and applications.