1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698832503321

Autore

Shames Lisa

Titolo

U.S. Department of Agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : improved management controls can enhance effectiveness of key conservation programs : testimony before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, House Committee on Agriculture / / statement of Lisa Shames

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2009]

Descrizione fisica

12 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-09-528T

Soggetti

Agricultural subsidies - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 21, 2009).

"For release ... March 25, 2009."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957010403321

Autore

Allen Michael H. <1952->

Titolo

Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa : Revolution at a Bargain? / / by Michael H. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611369705

9781281369703

1281369705

9781403983077

1403983070

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 236 pages)

Disciplina

330.968

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

International economic relations

Political science

Globalization

African Politics

African Culture

International Economics

Political Science

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : questions from a gestalt moment -- 2. Theory and context -- 3. Violence, capital flows, and bargaining power -- 4. Financial globalization, debt negotiations, and reform in South Africa -- 5. Negotiating economic justice : globalization or socialism? -- 6. Revolution at a bargain? -- 7. Globalist and non-sexist? -- 8. Negotiating democracy -- 9. Conclusion : the failure of transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national



unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.