Law, Ethics and Governance: Law, Ethics and Governance
About the Book Series
Recent history has emphasised the potentially devastating effects of governance failures in governments, government agencies, corporations and the institutions of civil society. 'Good governance' is seen as necessary, if not crucial, for economic success and human development. Although the disciplines of law, ethics, politics, economics and management theory can provide insights into the governance of organisations, governance issues can only be dealt with by interdisciplinary studies, combining several (and sometimes all) of those disciplines. This series aims to provide such interdisciplinary studies for students, researchers and relevant practitioners.
Reimagining the International Legal Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Vesselin Popovski, Ankit Malhotra
May 27, 2025
International law is usually conservative, with lawyers and judges emphasizing consistency, stability and predictability as the major advantages of the law. Legal scholars often prefer not to challenge the status quo, to suggest amendments, or to reform institutions, advocating simply to focus on ...
Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals: On a Quest for a Sustainable World
1st Edition
Edited
By Narinder Kakar, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas A. Robinson
May 31, 2023
This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals. The 2030 Agenda for ...
Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy: An Analysis through the Human-Nonhuman Distinction
1st Edition
By Gustavo Gozzi
January 09, 2023
This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states. The work analyses the fraught relationship between the ...
Governing the Climate Change Regime: Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Cadman, Rowena Maguire, Charles Sampford
August 23, 2018
This volume, the second in a series of three, examines the institutional architecture underpinning the global climate integrity system. This system comprises an inter-related set of institutions, governance arrangements, regulations, norms and practices that aim to implement the United Nations ...
Improving Health Care Safety and Quality: Reluctant Regulators
1st Edition
By Judith Healy
February 27, 2017
Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care ...
Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory
1st Edition
By Wayne Hudson, Azyumardi Azra
February 27, 2017
Politically, Islam in Indonesia is part of a rich multi-cultural mix. Religious tolerance is seen as the cornerstone of relations between different faiths - and moderation is built into the country's constitutional framework. However, the advent of democracy coupled with the impact of the ...
Promoting Integrity: Evaluating and Improving Public Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian W. Head, A.J. Brown, Carmel Connors
November 15, 2016
What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that ...
Corporate Governance in Government Corporations
1st Edition
By Michael J. Whincop
October 31, 2016
Many governments across the world have responded to the need for greater efficiency in the delivery of government services by the reorganization of these bureaucracies along the lines of for-profit business corporations. In doing so, governments have relied on the capacity for governance practices...