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Subject(s)

• States, Small—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Briguglio, Lino [Browse]
• Byron, Jessica [Browse]
• Moncada, Stefano [Browse]
• Veenendaal, Wouter [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context. While different definitions of governance are given in the chapters, most authors associate governance with the setting and implementation of policies aimed at managing a country or territory, and with the related institutional structures and interventions by political actors. Generally, good governance is associated with concepts such as policy effectiveness, accountability, transparency, control of corruption, encouragement of citizens' voice and gender equality-factors which are, in turn, linked with democracy. What emerges from the book is that the societies of small states are being re-shaped by various forces outside their control, including the globalization process and climate change, rendering their governance ever more complex. These problems are not solely faced by small states, but small country size tends to lead to a higher degree of exposure to external factors. The chapters are grouped into four sections broadly covering political, environmental, social and economic governance. Governance is influenced by many, often intertwined, factors; the division of the book into four parts therefore does not detract from the fact that governance is multifaceted, and such division was based on the primary focus of each particular study and its main disciplinary background. The expert authors have, moreover, used a variety of approaches in the studies, the subject of small states being well suited to scholarly work from different disciplines using qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches to arrive at useful conclusions"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• The editors and contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Governance complexities in small states
• PART 1: POLITICAL GOVERNANCE
• 1. Governing small states: A review
• 2. Navigating hyper-fragmentation in small states: A comparison of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
• 3. Small island states with strong democracies? The experience of decentralization in Cabo Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe
• 4. Parties, elections and political maturation in the UK Overseas Territories
• 5. An examination of the institutional governance mechanisms to promote political integrity in Barbados
• 6. Public administration in small European states: Size, characteristics and performance
• 7. Nordic cooperation as a form of governance: Iceland's sheltered society
• 8. The nature and extent of fragility traps in small states
• PART 2: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
• 9. Policy measures addressing nearly zero-energy buildings in the small island state of Malta
• 10. A comparative case study of environmental governance in Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands
• 11. Integration of climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and development in Vanuatu: A systems perspective
• 12. Dealing with climate change at all levels: Small island developing states between global climate negotiations and national climate policies
• 13. Environmental governance in small island developing states: Challenges and opportunities for transformation using a Trinidad and Tobago case study
• 14. Emissions and economic development in small states: The role of governance
• 15. Environmental governance in Mauritius: Evidence from the Environmental Performance Index
• PART 3: SOCIAL GOVERNANCE
• 16. South-South mobility, regionalism and governance in Pacific islands.
• 17. Against the tide? A socio-legal review of Caribbean SIDS' (non-)ratification of and (non-)compliance with international agreements on migrants and refugees
• 18. Social protection data management in small states: The case of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
• 19. Enabling adaptive governance through social capital in small island developing states
• 20. Social governance in the Eastern Caribbean small island states
• PART 4: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
• 21. Strengthening fiscal frameworks and improving the spending mix in small states
• 22. Size, governance and expenditure on defence and education: Realpolitik and the peace dividend for small economies
• 23. Building resilience and reducing vulnerabilities through innovative financing in the Caribbean
• 24. The "remittance trap": Should we be concerned for small Paci c island countries?
• 25. Policy prescriptions for growth and broad-based development in the Pacific island countries
• 26. Economic governance and economic growth in Mauritius
• Author Index
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-429-06135-8
• 0-429-59012-1

LCCN

2020031113

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