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"Combining oral histories with decades of archival material, Village Work formulates a sweeping history of twentieth-century statecraft that centers on the daily work of rural people, local officials, and family networks, rather than on the national governments and large-scale plans that often dominate development stories. Wiemers shows that developmentalism was not simply created by governments and imposed on the governed; instead, it was jointly constructed through interactions between them. The book contributes to the historiographies of development and statecraft in Africa and the Global South by emphasizing the piecemeal, contingent, and largely improvised ways both development and the state are comprised and experienced, providing new entry points into longstanding discussions about developmental power and discourse, unsettling common ideas about how and by whom states are made, exposing the importance of unpaid labor in mediating relationships between governments and the governed, showing how state engagement could both exacerbate and disrupt inequities. Despite massive changes in twentieth-century political structures-the imposition and destruction of colonial rule, nationalist plans for pan-African solidarity and modernization, multiple military coups, and the rise of neoliberal austerity policies-unremunerated labor and demonstrations of local leadership have remained central tools by which rural Ghanaians have interacted with the state. Grounding its analysis of statecraft in decades of daily negotiations over budgets and bureaucracy, the book tells the stories of developers who decided how and where projects would be sited, of constituents who performed labor, and of a chief and his large cadre of educated children who met and shaped demands for local leaders. For a variety of actors, invoking "the village" became a convenient way to allocate or attract limited resources, to highlight or downplay struggles over power, and to forge national and international networks"--

Developpement economique --- Relations gouvernement central-collectivites locales --- Administration locale --- Economic development --- Central-local government relations --- Local government --- Ghana. --- Ghāna --- Ghana --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government

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During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in Saigon and Hanoi following the French Indo-China war, the oppressions of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia, the erection of the Berlin Wall, multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva and New York during the Cold War are recounted with both insight and humility. Of his business career, MacLaren offers, for example, an insider's perspective on the collapse of Massey-Ferguson and the successes of his business magazine company. A political memoir set in an autobiography, The Fundamental Things Apply ranges widely over Canadian economic and international affairs, including NAFTA and deficit elimination, during the latter decades of the twentieth century, offering a timely and personal account of how the public policies - both domestic and international - pursued then were formative in creating the country we live in today.

Diplomats --- Politicians --- Ambassadors --- Businessmen --- Commissioners, High (Ambassadors) --- High commissioners (Ambassadors) --- Ministers (Diplomatic agents) --- MacLaren, Roy. --- MacLaren, Roy Wayne --- E-books --- MacLaren, Roy --- Canada --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement

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This handbook provides an authoritative study of European decentralisation, taking into account, from a territorial perspective, the different political and administrative traditions in Europe (Continental, Anglo-Saxon and Ex-communist States) and the cleavages North-South and East-West. While in recent decades most European countries have implemented devolution policies trying to tackle different political, social or bureaucratic problems, some others have instead regionalised their territory, applied federal or pseudo-federal reforms and strengthened the role of subnational governments. This volume analyses decentralisation in these countries using different variables including history, territorial organisation, civil service and financing, and reveals how this phenomenon leads to complex intergovernmental linkages. The evolution of territorial decentralisation, the political tensions between centre and periphery, the autonomy of the subnational governments and their functions and competences, the tools of co-ordination and co-operation, and the features and role of civil service are the main issues studied here with an interdisciplinary approach.

Public administration --- Europe --- Déconcentration administrative --- Décentralisation administrative --- Science politique --- Regionalism --- Comparative government --- Federal government --- Régionalisme --- Fédéralisme --- Droit --- Études comparatives. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Politics and government --- 338.43 --- 321.68 --- Regionaal beleid. Industriële ontwikkeling en omschakeling van bepaalde regio's. Nieuwe industrieën --- Federalisme --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Regionalism. --- Comparative politics. --- European Politics. --- Comparative Politics. --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Déconcentration administrative --- Décentralisation administrative --- Régionalisme --- Fédéralisme --- Études comparatives.

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Provides full details of the many rapid changes in the Russian economy and the political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Covers the period up to 2000, offering a valuable guide to policies in the Putin era.

Economic development -- Russia (Federation). --- Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-. --- Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991-. --- Russia (Federation) --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Russie --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions économiques --- #SBIB:328H262 --- Instellingen en beleid: Rusland en het GOS

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How did the process of European integration break down; how can it be repaired? In European Integration, 1950-2003, John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world's leading expert on the EU maps out a route to save the Union. The four chapters of this penetrating, fiercely-argued and often witty book subject today's dysfunctional European Union to critical scrutiny in an attempt to show how it is stunting economic growth, sapping the vitality of national governments, and undermining competitiveness. It explains how the attempt to revive the EU by turning it into a champion of research and development will backfire and demonstrates how Europe's great experiment in political and economic union can succeed only if the wave of liberal reform now under way in the historically downtrodden east is allowed to sweep away the prosperous and complacent west.

International relations. Foreign policy --- European Union --- European Union. --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- 260 Europese Unie --- 334.151.0 --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- 341.2422 --- EG beleid: Algemeenheden. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- -European Union. --- Union européenne --- Unité --- -260 Europese Unie --- -Union européenne --- -International relations. Foreign policy --- EG beleid: Algemeenheden --- E.U. --- Unité. --- International law --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- Arts and Humanities --- History