Reinventing Collective Action: From the Global to the Local (Political Quarterly Special Issues)

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Although the global community has achieved some success in endeavors such as eradicating smallpox, efforts to coordinate nations' actions in others--such as the reduction of drug trafficking--have not been sufficient. Identifying the factors that promote, or inhibit, successful collective action for an ever-growing set of challenges associated with globalization, Todd Sandler applies them to promoting global health, providing foreign assistance, controlling rogue nations, limiting transnational terrorism, and intervening in civil wars.

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Which Global Problems Can be Solved?.......2005-01-14

"What factors promote or inhibit successful collective action at the regional or global level?" This is the question the author seeks to answer. Where his previous book, "Global Challenges" ends, this book begins.

Why is it that some treaties and world organizations "have achieved so much while others have accomplished so little?" The answer hinges on the type of problem being addressed. For example, although chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and greenhouse gases (GHGs) are both air pollutants that easily circulate around the globe, why is it that the international treaty dealing with CFCs has been widely credited with reducing the destruction of the ozone layer, but the Kyoto Protocol, for reducing GHGs, appears to have accomplished very little?

Twelve chapters analyze a host of global collective action problems, including orbiting satellites, transnational terrorism, AIDS, Smallpox, the United Nations, and nuclear proliferation.

1. Future Perfect
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends": Principles of Collective Action
3. Absence of Invisibility: Market Failures
4. Transnational Public Goods: Financing and Institutions
5. Global Health
6. What to Try Next? Foreign Aid Quagmire
7. Rogues and Bandits: Who Bells the Cat?
8. Terrorism: 9/11 and Its Aftermath
9. Citizen against Citizen
10. Tales of Two Collectives: Atmospheric Pollution
11. The Final Frontier
12. Future Conditional

Although the author writes in a dry, academic style there are occasional flashes of humor, and the book is filled with numerous charts, graphs, tables and figures that clearly illustrate his points. In addition he brings sharp insight and clear thinking to publicize important subjects that often end up being buried in dusty journal articles sitting on library shelves.

Full Disclosure: In 1997 the author oversaw my Ph.D. dissertation and some of our work is cited in the text.

How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective action.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS) : An article from: Global Governance

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How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective action.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS) : An article from: Global Governance
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Title: How to help reform multilateral institutions: an eight-step program for more effective collective action.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
Author: Simon Maxwell
Publication: Global Governance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
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Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Transformation in the Global Community.(Review) : An article from: Global Governance

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Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Transformation in the Global Community.(Review) : An article from: Global Governance
Samuel M. Makinda
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This digital document is an article from Global Governance, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 8556 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Transformation in the Global Community.(Review)
Author: Samuel M. Makinda
Publication: Global Governance (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2001
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Oxford conference on climate change stresses global collective action.(ENVIRONMENT): An article from: One Country

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Oxford conference on climate change stresses global collective action.(ENVIRONMENT): An article from: One Country
Jody Koomen
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Title: Oxford conference on climate change stresses global collective action.(ENVIRONMENT)
Author: Jody Koomen
Publication: One Country (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
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Identifies the laws with direct application to ordinary situations—planning an estate, preparing a will, creating a trust, and involving the rights of persons in property when their interests are projected into the future. Divided into five sections, text includes coverage of feudal heritage, characteristics of future interests, powers of appointment, construction of limitations, and rules against perpetuities.

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What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years? Per capita income increased fivefold, yet today it is lower in proportion to the industrial countries than it was a century ago. Modern infrastructure was built and industry grew to 20 percent of GDP, but the region's share of world trade was halved. Social indicators such as life expectancy and literacy improved dramatically, but inequity and poverty worsened.

This comprehensive economic history examines the political, institutional and economic forces that shaped Latin America's complex and often paradoxical development process over the twentieth century. By examining quantitative data alongside the region's political economies, the book provides historical context for the development strategies, choices, successes, and failures of the Latin American countries.

Commissioned by IDB President Enrique V. Iglesias, the book draws on studies and consultancies prepared by a number of specialists on Latin America. A comprehensive Statistical Appendix provides regionwide and country-by-country data in such areas as GDP, manufacturing, sector productivity, prices, trade, income distribution, and living standards.

Moving chronologically through the century, the book focuses on two dramatic waves of expansion that shaped regional growth: first, an export boom as the century began, and second, import-substitution industrialization corresponding to renewed expansion of the international economy following the Depression and the two World Wars. Following the debt crisis of the 1980s, Latin America at century's end has returned to where it began, with reliance on the free market and export-led growth. However, the book outlines the changes in economic structures and approaches that make today's economic scenario radically different from the old.

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A Fascinating Way to Study History!!!.......2001-02-10

"Progress, Poverty and Exclusion. An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century" is a fascinating book from the cover to the annexes. The contrast between a XX th century modern city and a shanty town showed in the cover gives the reader an initial idea of the position of the writer regarding Latin American economic development. Poverty, exclusion and income concentration are problems that are inherent to the vast majority of Latin American economies and Rosemary Thorp makes sure that the reader remembers that throughout the book. Her social focus is perfectly compatible with a serious economic analysis based on well-documented facts and statistical data. Every student of Latin American history, politics and economics should have this book in his or her shelves. Furthermore, any scholar dealing with Latin American issues should not forget to read Thorp's work "every morning" to remember what is that the Latin American economies achieved in the course of a hundred years. Finally, I highly recommend accompanying the reading of this book with another masterpiece, "The Economic History of Latin America" by Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America

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