Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Ziping Jiang, Paul L. Chazot, M. Emre Celebi, Danny Crookes et al.
Behavioural phenotyping of drosophila is an important means in biological and medical research to identify the genetic, pathologic, or psychological impact on animal behavior. Automated behavioral phenotyping from videos has been a desired capability that can waive long-time boring manual work in be...
David W. Eyre, Sheila Lumley, Denise O’Donnell, Mark Campbell et al.
Article Figures and data Abstract Introduction Results Discussion Materials and methods Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract We conducted voluntary Covid-19 testing programmes for symptomatic and asymptomatic staff at a UK teach...
Nakwon Kwak, Joong-Yub Kim, Areum Han, Catherine Berry et al.
Background The optimal dosing strategy of linezolid for treating multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis remains unclear. We conducted an individual patient data meta-analysis to determine the optimal linezolid dosing strategy. Methods We searched for randomised controlled trials a...
Graham Sansom, Munawwar Alam, Phillip Amis, Richard Crook et al.
Group -Kenya, South Africa, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Canada (the Federation of Canadian Municipalities is Vice-Chair). The Group is undertaking a major project in Ghana, and is working with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum in Zimbabwe.
Elisabetta Marino
ABSTRACTThe consistent presence of historical narratives within Mary Shelley’s oeuvre is remarkable: she composed several short stories and two novels set in the Middle Ages, not to mention the biographical profiles of eminent literary figures of the past she penned for Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet C...
Frank Castles, Gwyn Singleton, Jennifer Curtin, Andrew P.W. Bennett et al.
Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation by John Wiseman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.viii + 202, £40 hb, £14.95 pb). Collaborative Federalism: Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s by Martin Painter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.ix + 207,...
Darren C. Zook, Nalini Iyer, Michael H. Fisher, Prabhu Guptara et al.
People, Law and Justice: Casebook on Public Interest Litigation (2 Vols). Sangeeta Ahuja, London: Sangam, 1997, ISBN: 0–86311–684–1 Kashmir Dispute: An International Law Perspective. Ijaz Hussain, Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, 1998, ISBN: 969–8329–03‐X Women, Democracy and the M...
Richard Crook, James Manor
In each of the four countries both a mass and an elite survey were undertaken using, as far as possible, a common questionnaire. In all, 2,030 respondents were interviewed. In Bangladesh a written Bangla (Bengali) translation of the questionnaire was used, and in India a written Kannada version. Bot...
Richard Crook, James Manor
The Bangladeshi experiment in democratic decentralisation was the creation of H. M. Ershad who had seized power in a military coup in 1982. His government created new elected councils at the sub-district (upazila or thana) level (with an average population of 245,000), and linked them to long-standi...
Richard White, Trevor Carolan, Rob Jenkins, Iftikhar H. Malik et al.
Historical Handbook of Muslim India, 1700–1947, Volumes 1 & 2. K. K. Aziz. Lahore: Vanguard Books Pvt. Ltd., 1995, Rs 1000, ISBN 969–402–126‐X The Crooked Line. Ismat Chughtai (Translated by Tahira Naqvi). Oxford: Heinemann, 1995, $11.95, ISBN 0435–950–894 India: Facing the Twenty‐First Century. Bar...
Olufẹmi Vaughan, Paul Nugent, Richard Crook, Katabaro Miti et al.
The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria edited by Adebayo O. Olukoshi (London: James Currey, 1993, pp.192, £35 hb, £9.95 pb). The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982–1991 by Jeffrey Herbst (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993, pp.xii + 180, £40). African Eldora...
J. A. C. Mackie, A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi, Richard O. Clemmer, Nigel Crook et al.
Abstract The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History, by Robert W. Hefner. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. Pp.xx + 278. US $34.95. ISBN 0 520 06933 1 Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh, by Sarah C. White. London: Zed Books, 1992. Pp.192...
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Vernon Hewitt, Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu et al.
Resistance and Control in Pakistan by Akbar S. Ahmed, foreword by Francis Robinson (London and New York, Routledge, 1991, pp.xxiii + 207, £12.99). Pakistan's Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis by S. M. Burke and Lawrence Ziring (Oxford University Press, 1990 2nd edn., pp.xii +, £18). The Sikhs o...