Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance -- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development...

This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry. Readers will find a variety of...

This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical...

Chapter 1. AI, Artificial Incompetence – The Ubiquitous Use of Binary Voting -- Chapter 2. Oh Lord, Give Me Consensus, but not Yet – Pluralism is Possible -- Chapter 3. The Art and Science of Compromise -- Chapter 4. The GOAT is a GNU – Electing an All-party Power-sharing Executive --...

1. Introduction: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Governance for Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development in Latin America -- PART 1. INNOVATION POLICY -- 2. Toward a typology of public innovation. Eccentric, discrete, flat and transformative innovation -- 3. Mission-Oriented...

Chapter 1. ESG investment (by Tadahiro Nakajima) -- Chapter 2. Does ESG index have strong conditional correlations with sustainability related stock indices? (by Wenting Zhang, Tadahiro Nakajima, and Shigeyuki Hamori) -- Chapter 3. Measuring Tail dependencies Between ESG and Renewable Energy...

1. A Brief Economic History of Repeated Defaults -- 2. The Institutional Evolution and the Failed Modernizing Attempts -- 3. The Geostrategic Settings, National Resources, and the Systemic Risks -- 4. The Formation of Idiosyncratic Structure of Institutions and Culture -- 5. Sustainable...

Introduction: Civil Society in the era of Globalization: emerging concerns as a social welfare provider -- Part I: Changing South Asian Society and Developmental Challenges -- Chapter 1: Role of Civil Society Organization in the Welfare of People with Deaf and blindness in South Asia: A Case...

Part 1. Governance as an interaction space -- Chapter 1. The hidden side of co-creation in a complex multi-stakeholder environment: when self-organization fails and emergence overtakes -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on hybridity -- Chapter 3. Bringing Society Back in: Actors, Networks, and Systems...