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The Blueprint : Conservative Parties and their Impact on canadian Politics.
Table of Contents: “…Immigrants, Minorities, and Conservatives in Canada; 6 Equality of Opportunity but Not Result: Women and Federal Conservatives in Canada; 7 With or without You: Quebec, the Conservative Movement, and the Pursuit of Majority Government.…”
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The Blueprint : Conservative Parties and their Impact on canadian Politics.
Table of Contents: “…Immigrants, Minorities, and Conservatives in Canada; 6 Equality of Opportunity but Not Result: Women and Federal Conservatives in Canada; 7 With or without You: Quebec, the Conservative Movement, and the Pursuit of Majority Government.…”
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Rethinking Democracy
Table of Contents: “…; The Westminster system; Double majority government; The issue-by-issue majority; Second chambers; Conclusion; Notes; 7. …”
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Oil wealth and development in Uganda and beyond : prospects, opportunities and challenges /
Table of Contents: “…Byaruhanga -- Part III. Other major governance policies and changes -- Environmental sustainability: an afterthought or a key objective for Uganda's oil sector? …”
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Ethics and Governance of Biomedical Research : Theory and Practice /
Table of Contents: “…A thematic text analysis of author instructions in psychiatry journals Improving common domains of research governance; Jonathan Kimmelman, PhD -- Risk/Benefit Assessment in Launching Early Human Trials; Annette Rid, MD -- Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects Setting Thresholds of Acceptable Research Risk: Lessons from the Debate about Minimal Risk; Sapfo Lignou, MSc, MA et al -- Towards an Alternative Account for Defining Acceptable Risk in Non-beneficial Pediatric Research; Roger Brownsword, PhD -- Big biobanks: Three Major Governance Challenges and Some Mini-Constitutional Responses; Bettina Schmietow, MA -- Dynamic Consent to Biobank Research – Paradigm Shift or Red Herring?.…”
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Source code China the new global hub of IT outsourcing /
Table of Contents: “…-- Captive versus partner -- Build-operate-transfer -- Dual-shore delivery -- Going captive and avoiding the expat trap -- Ten lessons learned -- What works elsewhere does not necessarily work in China -- Develop a vision of the future beyond the next shareholder meeting -- Establish the right partnerships from the beginning -- Do your homework -- Commit for the long haul -- Prepare yourself for an unprecedented speed of change -- Choose an outsourcing city based on-- -- People, people, people -- Never give up -- It is all about face -- Winning the talent war -- English makes the world go round -- Recruiting staff -- Salaries on the rise -- Chinese work ethics -- Retaining staff: employee retention and loyalty programs -- China's outsourcing cities -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Dalian -- Chengdu -- Xi'an -- Jinan -- Hangzhou -- Guangzhou -- Nanjing -- Shenzhen -- IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and knowledge process outsourcing in China -- Scope of outsourcing -- Global outsourcing options for customers -- Advantages of outsourcing to China -- Disadvantages to outsourcing to China -- Selection of vendor partners -- Due diligence of the capabilities of vendors -- Importance of business process standards -- Importance of standards in BPO -- Application of standards to different process types -- Process selection for outsourcing -- China's legal framework -- Market entry and establishing a business in China -- Intellectual property rights protection -- Employment issues -- Government policy -- Currency and taxation -- Dispute resolution and litigation -- China 2020 -- Pillar of the economy: focus on the high-tech sector -- Growth of the services sector -- Satisfying a fast-growing global IT and business processes services demand -- Overseas promotions leap forward -- Stable China market economic prospects -- Rise of globalization: in the front row -- China 2020: wild cards -- Appendix A: Exclusive survey of selected cities in cooperation with MOFCOM-- Appendix B: Case studies -- Appendix C: Contact information for major government offices, outsourcing centers, and online resources -- Index.…”
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Which reminds me-- : a memoir /
Table of Contents: “…Political columnist5 Minister of Trade and Commerce, 1963-1965; Former civil servants become ministers; How Pearson ran his cabinet; Parliamentary secretaries; How to use ministerial staff; Agenda for a minority government; The Gordon budget; Trade promotion and trade policy; Nuclear weapons; The Great Blackout; Expo 67; Wheat sales; The Canadian flag; The 1965 try for majority government; 6 Minister of Finance, 1965-1968; From Trade to Finance; Keynesian budgeting; Why deficits later rose; The Carter Commission; Preparing budgets; Federal-provincial financial arrangements…”
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The politics of legislative debates /
Table of Contents: “…-- Conclusions -- References -- 6: Collecting Large-scale Comparative Text: Data on Legislative Debates -- Introduction -- Best Practices for Collecting Large-scale Text Data on Legislative Debates -- An Example: The Updated ParlSpeech Corpora -- Pitfalls of Text-based Inference Across Parliamentary Settings and Languages -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Argentina: Debates and Consensus in a Post-bipartisan Congress -- Introduction -- Institutional and Party System Background -- The Institutional Setting of Legislative Debate -- The Determinants of Floor Access in Argentina -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8: Australia: Speaker Time in an Adversarial System -- Introduction -- Institutional and Party System Background -- The Institutional Setting of Legislative Debate -- The Determinants of Floor Access in Australia -- Minority and Majority Government Dynamics in Australia -- Conclusions -- References -- 9: Austria: Individual Talent, Official Functions, and Party Size -- Introduction -- Institutional and Party System Background -- The Institutional Setting of Legislative Debate -- The Determinants of Floor Access in Austria -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 10: Brazil: Legislative Debate under Coalition Presidentialism Model -- Introduction -- Institutional and Party System Background.…”
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