1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452216803321

Titolo

China's crisis management / / [edited by] Jae Ho Chung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-63452-5

0-203-80357-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

China policy series ; ; 20

Altri autori (Persone)

ChongChae-ho <1960->

Disciplina

363.34/80951

363.340951

363.3480951

Soggetti

Crisis management - China

Emergency management - China

Electronic books.

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

China's Crisis Management; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; 1 China's anti-crisis macro-economic management: effectiveness and limitation; 2 Managing political crises in China: the case of collective protests; 3 Chinese military crisis behavior: from confrontation and conflict prevention to win-win management; 4 Managing ethnic minority crises: the Tibetan areas and Xinjiang; 5 Managing pandemic/epidemic crises: institutional setup and overhaul; 6 China's management of environmental crises: risks, recreancy, and response

7 China's management of natural disasters: organizations and normsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

"This book presents a comprehensive overview of crisis management in China. It considers economic, political and military crises, and also natural disasters and public health problems. In each area it considers the nature of potential crises and their possible effects, and the degree to which China is prepared to cope with crises."--Publisher's description.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910671826503321

Autore

McIntosh Simeon C. R.

Titolo

Reading text and polity : hermeneutics and constitutional theory / / Simeon C.R. McIntosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston ; ; Miami : , : The Caribbean Law Publishing Company, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

976-8167-67-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 398 pages)

Disciplina

342.729

Soggetti

Constitutional law - West Indies, British - Philosophy

Constitutional law - United States - Philosophy

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Toward a West Indian hermeneutics: the role of the Caribbean Court of Justice -- 1. Legal hermeneutics: a philosophical critique -- 2. Controversial propositions of law and the positivist embarrassment: the Hart/Dworkin debate reconsidered -- 3. On reading the Ninth Amendment: a reply to Raoul Berger -- 4. A poetic for law: constitutional theory as metaphor -- 5. Reading Dred Scott, Plessy, and Brown: toward a constitutional hermeneutics -- 6. West Indian constitutional discourse: a poetics of reconstruction.