Analyses other countries' major efforts to reform entitlement programs, the pressure(s) that led countries to undertake the reforms, how reform proposals were developed, and to what extent enacted reforms built in triggers requiring future actions under certain conditions.

In this replacement for Governing in the UK in the 1990s , the legacy of 18 years of Conservative Government is fully analyzed and the agenda and impact of New Labour evaluated. This study aims to inform and guide students on the state of governance in the UK at the start of the third millennium.

An investigation into the chasm between the good intentions of legislators and the results of their legislation. Gillon discusses welfare policy, community mental health reform and immigration acts, and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment.

In this groundbreaking study, Stansfield identifies the principal dynamics of Iraqi Kurdish politics and analyses the record and potential of the 'Kurdish democratic experiment' and explores the development of the Kurdish political system since 1991.

Provides an introduction to political, economic and social life in Britain. Illustrated with maps, charts and tables throughout, this book places developments in their historical, cultural, international and comparative context. It is useful for students and general readers.

Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. This book explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.

Examining power and policy in France, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom, this textbook study integrates the field of policy studies with more traditional approaches to comparative politics.

This volume brings together a collection of essays on the changes occurring in South African politics and society since the unbanning of the exile liberation movements in 1990. It examines the debates over changes in the economy, the state, the legal system and the position of women.

Contains revised papers from a June 1994 conference held at the University of Melbourne, plus two specially commissioned papers, examining political and social changes in the country since 1990. Discusses the 1994 elections, the restructuring of government and the constitution, the homelands issue, women in the debate on land reform, and ethnic and

Since September 2001, the United States has been concerned with radical Islamist groups in Southeast Asia, particularly those in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore that are known to have ties to the Al Qaeda terrorist network. Southeast Asia is a base for past, current, and possibly future Al Qaeda operations.

This book argues there is no single best institutional arrangement for organizing modern societies.