Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Mathew Kurian, Patricia McCarney,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: policy, planning, method, services, sanitation, urban, water, peri
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2010-08-19
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 9048194245
ISBN-13: 9789048194247

More than 2.6 billion people in the developing world lack access to safe water and sanitation service. The Millennium Development Goal’s (MDG) target is to halve the number of people without access to a sustainable source of water supply and connection to a sewer network by 2015. That target is unlikely to be met. If there is anything that can be learnt from European experience it is that institutional reform occurs incrementally when politically enfranchised urban populations perceive a threat to their material well-being due to contamination of water sources.

Authors:Glen A. Jones, Patricia McCarney, Michael L. Skolnik
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keywords: role, higher, education, changing, nations, knowledge, strengthening, creating
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2005-04-28
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0802038565
ISBN-13: 9780802038562

Globalization’s effects on universities have been little examined. Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations seeks to improve understanding by deepening the analysis of how universities contribute to economic growth and entrepreneurialism while also contributing to strategic societal goals of equity and redistributive justice. Editors Glen A. Jones, Patricia L. McCarney, and Michael L. Skolnik have brought together a diverse group of contributors to describe how internal and external forces arising from globalization are exerting pressure to change the role of higher education in society

Author: Joe McCarney
Publisher: Verso Book
Keywords: marxism, crisis, theory, social
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1990-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 086091948X
ISBN-13: 9780860919483

It is frequently asserted that Marxism as an intellectual tradition is in a state of crisis. The many defeats and disappointments suffered by socialist movements in the West, and the absence of a working model of a fully achieved socialist society, have prompted much self-questioning. In recent times, various strands of ’post-Marxist’ thought have developed which surrender the ideological initiative to the radical right. This philosophical reinterpretation of Marxism seeks to explain the nature and historical origins of the current crisis, and to point a way forward to rebirth. McC

Author: Joseph Mccarney
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, philosophy, guidebooks, history, guidebook, hegel
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-08-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0415116961
ISBN-13: 9780415116961

Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History is regarded as the best introduction to the fundamental themes in his philosophy. In this accessible guidebook, Joseph McCarney introduces and assesses Hegel’s life and background to the Lectures, examines key elements of Hegel’s theory of history and its place within his philosophy as a whole, discusses the reception and criticism of the theory, and explores the present condition and future prospects of Hegelian philosophy of history.

Authors:Robert W. Hefner, Patricia Hovwatich, Patricia Horva
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: renewal, muslim, southeast, asia, religious, politics, era, nation, states, islam
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 1997-12
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0824819578
ISBN-13: 9780824819576

Since the late 1970s, Southeast Asia’s Muslim population has experienced an unprecedented religious revival. This resurgence has created a new kind of Islamic discourse, one oriented to the needs of a broad public rather than to narrow circles of religious adepts. This text examines the history, politics and meanings of this resurgence in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It explores the implications for Southeast Asia, the larger Muslim world, and the West. The opening chapters document relations between the state and prominent Islamic political organizations. A second group of e

Authors:Patricia Hinton Walker, Betty M. Neuman, Patricia Hi
Publisher: NLN Press
Keywords: nursing, pub, national, league, administration, research, models, education, blueprint, practice
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-06
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0887376568
ISBN-13: 9780887376566