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Speaking out on human rights : debating Canada's human rights system
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ISBN: 0773591834 9780773591837 9780773543041 077354304X 9780773543058 0773543058 9780773591844 0773591842 Year: 2014 Publisher: Montreal, Canada : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"Shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development."--Publishers website.


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Evaluation : seeking truth or power?
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ISBN: 9781412811415 1412811414 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick Transaction Publishers

Designing government : from instruments to governance.
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ISBN: 077352844X 0773528458 9780773528451 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montreal McGill-Queen's university press

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How do governments govern today and how well do they do it? How do governments choose the tools or instruments they will use to get things done? In today's world, how could these decisions be improved from the standpoint of efficiency, effectiveness, legitimacy and accountability? "Designing Government" brings together leading experts to examine the "instrument choice" perspective on government and public policy over the past two decades. The authors examine such issues as accountability, effectiveness, sustainability, legitimacy, and the impact of globalization. The debate is enriched by contributors from several countries who provide a comparative context and, most importantly, help chart a course for the future.Moving beyond the traditional regulatory sphere and its preoccupations with deregulation and efficiency, the authors trace the complex relationships between instrument choices and governance. "Designing Government" encourages the reader to consider factors in the design of complex mixes, such as issues of redundancy, context, the rule of law and accountability. These latter factors are especially central in today's world to the design and implementation of effective instrument choices by governments and, ultimately, to good governance. The authors conclude, in fact, that seeing instrument choice itself as part and parcel of designing government and achieving good governance is both the promise and the challenge for instrum

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