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The Private Collector's Museum Public Good Versus Private Gain

The Private Collector's Museum Public Good Versus Private Gain

The Private Collector’s Museum connects the rising popularity of private museums with evolving models of collecting and philanthropy and new inter-relationships between private and public space. It examines how contemporary collectors construct museums to frame themselves as cultural arbiters of global distinction. By exploring a range of in-depth contemporary case studies the book aims for a more complex understanding of the private collector’s museum assessing how it is realised funded and understood in a broader cultural context. It examines the ways in which this particular museum model has evolved within a historical Western tradition of collecting and museum-building and considers how private museums will endure alongside their public counterparts. It also sheds light on the shifting patterns of collecting such as the transition of personal art collections into the public sphere. The developments are situated within the wider context of private–public engagement in general. Providing a new analysis of philanthropy public access and the museum The Private Collector’s Museum is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the private museum and key reading for those interested in related issues. | The Private Collector's Museum Public Good Versus Private Gain

GBP 39.99
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Private Policing

Private Policing

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of policing and explores in depth each of the main categories examining the degree of privateness amongst several other issues. The main categories include the public police; hybrid policing such as state policing bodies specialised police forces and non-governmental organisations; voluntary policing; and the private security industry. This book explores how the public police and many other state bodies have significant degrees of privateness from outright privatisation through to the serving of private interests. The book provides a theoretical framework for private policing building upon the growing base of scholarship in this area. Fully revised this new edition not only brings the old edition up to date with the substantial scholarship since 2002 but also provides more international context and several new chapters on: corporate security management security officers and private investigation. There is also a consideration of what the book calls the ‘new private security industry’ working largely in cyber-space. Bringing together research from a wide range of projects the author has been involved with along with the growing body of private policing scholarship the book shows the substantial involvement of non-public police bodies in policing and highlights a wide range of issues for debate and further research. Private Policing is ideal reading for students of policing and security courses academics with an interest in private policing and security and practitioners from security and policing.

GBP 36.99
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Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity

Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity

Value-creation in Middle Market Private Equity by John A. Lanier holistically examines the ecosystem relationships between middle market private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Small business is the job creating engine in the US economy and consequently is a prime target market for private equity investment. Indeed private equity backs over six of each 100 private sector jobs. Both the small businesses in which private equity firms invest and the private equity firms making the investments face inter- and intra-company fiduciary leadership challenges while implementing formulated strategy. The architecture of each private equity firm-portfolio company relationship must be uniquely crafted to capitalize on the projected return on investment that is memorialized in the investment thesis. Given the leveraged capital structure of portfolio companies the cost of a misstep is problematic. Individual private equity professionals are typically members of multiple investment teams for the firm. Not only may each investment team have its own unique leadership style but its diverse members have to assimilate styles for each team in which they participate relative to a specific portfolio company. Acquisitions and their subsequent integrations add exponential complexity for both private equity investment and portfolio company leadership teams; indeed cultural integration ranks among the most chronic acquisition obstacles. Accordingly the stakeholders of private equity transactions do well to embrace leadership best practices in applying value-creation toolbox best practices. The perspectives of both the private equity investment team and the portfolio company leadership team are within the scope of these chapters.

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Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies

Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current research on private security and military companies comprising essays by leading scholars from around the world. The increasing privatization of security across the globe has been the subject of much debate and controversy inciting fears of private warfare and even the collapse of the state. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the range of issues raised by contemporary security privatization offering both a survey of the numerous roles performed by private actors and an analysis of their implications and effects. Ranging from the mundane to the spectacular from secretive intelligence gathering and neighbourhood surveillance to piracy control and warfare this Handbook shows how private actors are involved in both domestic and international security provision and governance. It places this involvement in historical perspective and demonstrates how the impact of security privatization goes well beyond the security field to influence diverse social economic and political relationships and institutions. Finally this volume analyses the evolving regulation of the global private security sector. Seeking to overcome the disciplinary boundaries that have plagued the study of private security the Handbook promotes an interdisciplinary approach and contains contributions from a range of disciplines including international relations politics criminology law sociology geography and anthropology. This book will be of much interest to students of private security companies global governance military studies security studies and IR in general. | Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies

GBP 48.99
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Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Mobile devices’ impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological environment (operating systems platforms apps) and media ecosystems (interface design participatory culture social media) influence how users deal with the public and private intimate and personal spheres. Leading researchers in communication art computer engineering education law sociology philosophy and psychology here explore current methodologies for studying the dichotomy of the public and private in mobile communication providing a foundation for further research. | Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

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Regulating the Private Security Industry

Regulating the Private Security Industry

The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the industry requires further regulation and what is wrong with the current system. It begins by briefly defining the industry and explaining the need for more effective regulation before analysing three types of regulation: domestic international and informal (including self-regulation). | Regulating the Private Security Industry

GBP 160.00
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Infrastructure as Business The Role of Private Investment Capital

Infrastructure as Business The Role of Private Investment Capital

Infrastructure as Business brings new emphasis and clarity to the importance of private investment capital in large-scale infrastructure projects introducing investors policymakers and other stakeholders to a key element that is surprisingly absent from the discourse on public-private partnerships. Despite the importance of modernizing infrastructure across the globe governments often face challenges in securing the necessary capital to meet future need as well as developing policy to meet these goals. Explaining the structure of the private investment universe and flow of private capital in such projects this book ambitiously aims to bridge this infrastructure gap by elucidating shared terminology conceptual frameworks and an alignment of goals and objectives between public and private sectors—essential to meet increasing environmental social and governmental requirements for infrastructure in coming years. Appropriate for graduate-level courses in real estate public policy and urban planning that focus on infrastructure project finance and procurement and delivery models such as PPPs. Provides a clear understanding of private investment and PPPs to the investment community as well as professionals in real estate project finance and related fields who often learn mostly on-the-job and from colleagues. Equips government officials and policymakers with key terms and concepts needed to sit across the table with private financers and explore opportunities for private capital investment in early project stages. Outlines communication strategies for both public and private sectors which will increasingly need to collaborate to address climate change respond to new technologies and develop efficient ways to deliver services. Written to engage academic private investment and public policy/governance audiences alike Infrastructure as Business: The Role of Private Investment Capital invites discussion and opens doors to advancing new business models with international applications to offer increased value for private investors as well as more efficient flexible funding for innovative infrastructure development in the future. | Infrastructure as Business The Role of Private Investment Capital

GBP 56.99
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Private Risks and Public Dangers

Private Risks and Public Dangers

Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and ‘foetal alcohol syndrome’ to the nature of accidents. These seemingly diverse social situations within which emerges is that we need a more sociologically informed understanding of the personal shading the public dangers they are expected to manage.

GBP 21.99
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The Economics of U.S. Nonindustrial Private Forests

The Economics of U.S. Nonindustrial Private Forests

The nonindustrial private forests are a large and valuable national resource and the best possible understanding of their characteristics capabilities and potentials is useful for the formation of national policy on natural resources. In this title originally published in 1979 Marion Clawson presents an informative description and analysis of the nonindustrial private forests of the United States and offers his best judgement as to the economic potential of these forests to produce wood and other forest outputs. This book is directed to foresters economists policy makers conservationists and students interested in environmental issues. | The Economics of U. S. Nonindustrial Private Forests

GBP 36.99
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Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Originally published in 1985 this book analyses the development of private rented housing in Britain France the former West Germany the Netherlands and the USA. The book shows that the changing fortunes of the private rented sector are seen in some measure to be connected with the social economic and political conditions which surrounded the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the 19th Century. | Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

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Private Security and the Modern State Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Private Security and the Modern State Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Based on extensive research in several international contexts this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid contested and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies public policing and the criminal justice system. This book provides an overview of the history of private security provision in its multiple forms including detective agencies insurance companies moral campaigners employers’ associations paramilitary organizations self-protection and vigilantism. It also explores the historical evolution of private policing and security provision in a diverse set of temporal national and international contexts and compares the interactions between public and private security bodies structures strategies and practices in different countries cultures and settings. In doing so the volume fills the existing gaps in historical knowledge about the emergence of private and public security organizations and provides a more robust understanding of changes in the division of responsibility for security provision law enforcement and punishment between public and private institutions. This wide-ranging volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of history criminology sociology political science international relations security studies surveillance studies policing criminal justice and law. | Private Security and the Modern State Historical and Comparative Perspectives

GBP 38.99
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A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

This is Volume II of two of a history of the private bill legislation originally published in 1887. Meant by the author as serving as a Jubilee record of the Queen Victoria’s reign it covers the topics of highways the water supply of London from the seventeenth century local authorities before and after the Conquest corporation of the City of London Marine life and fire insurance the Docks on the Thames Fees on private bills and preliminary inquiries and public legislation. | A History of Private Bill Legislation (2 Volume Set)

GBP 32.99
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Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

This book examines the contributions of non-public organizations such as foundations philanthropies charities non-governmental organizations private businesses and entrepreneurs to public goods and services. Too often the impact of the contributions of such private actors are overlooked. However they are playing an increasing role in meeting societal needs across the developing world. Doing Public Good? lays out key elements that need to be considered in evaluating the net results achieved by these private actors. It uses case studies and analysis to show how to answer such questions as: Is it working? How do they and the public know they are doing good? And how to improve? Such questions are particularly important since little is known about the net results of private avenues for delivering public value. The contributors conclude that doing good organizations need to be more transparent and accountable regarding their operations and achievements. The book suggests perspectives on how better monitoring and evaluation systems can improve their accountability. | Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

GBP 35.99
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Regulating Private Military Companies Conflicts of Law History and Governance

Regulating Private Military Companies Conflicts of Law History and Governance

This work examines the ability of existing and evolving PMC regulation to adequately control private force and it challenges the capacity of international law to deliver accountability in the event of private military company (PMC) misconduct. From medieval to early modern history private soldiers dominated the military realm and were fundamental to the waging of wars until the rise of a national citizen army. Today PMCs are again a significant force performing various security logistics and strategy functions across the world. Unlike mercenaries or any other form of irregular force PMCs acquired a corporate legal personality a legitimising status that alters the governance model of today. Drawing on historical examples of different forms of governance the relationship between neoliberal states and private military companies is conceptualised here as a form of a ‘shared governance'. It reflects states’ reliance on PMCs relinquishing a degree of their power and transferring certain functions to the private sector. As non-state actors grow in authority wielding power and making claims to legitimacy through self-regulation other sources of law also become imaginable and relevant to enact regulation and invoke responsibility. | Regulating Private Military Companies Conflicts of Law History and Governance

GBP 35.99
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Business Basics for Private Practice A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Business Basics for Private Practice A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Business Basics for Private Practice is a step-by-step guide to developing a successful practice from initial conceptualization and business plan to future growth for the true entrepreneur. Dr. Bartolucci draws from interviews with fellow mental health practitioners and experts in business-related fields to make even the most intimidating parts of practice easy to understand. Business Basics is written to give the feel of mentorship and the author talks about lessons learned the hard way. She’s also included checklists and worksheets to help you stay organized and ready to meet the challenges of opening a private practice. | Business Basics for Private Practice A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

GBP 32.99
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Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe Productive Entanglements

Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe Productive Entanglements

Since the 1980s neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet as historians and social scientists have shown welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’ wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses its contents and targets often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local national international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors from municipalities to international organizations from older charities to modern NGOs. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe Productive Entanglements

GBP 38.99
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Between Coercion and Private Initiative Entrepreneurial Freedom of Action during the ‘Third Reich’

Between Coercion and Private Initiative Entrepreneurial Freedom of Action during the ‘Third Reich’

This book explores the extent of private companies’ freedom of action during the Nazi period through six case studies of different economic sectors. Since the mid-1990s historical research has intensively discussed the role played by private domestic and foreign enterprises during the ‘Third Reich’. Numerous case studies suggest that even under the extreme ideological circumstances of the ‘Third Reich’ the strategic decisions of private firms followed economic criteria. In fact the regime was especially able to control the economy successfully in those cases in which it operated with economic incentives and gave companies room for manoeuvre. This scope however became increasingly smaller towards the end of the war due to increasing state intervention and government control. The chapters discuss this scope of action and relate it to the National Socialist crimes. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History. | Between Coercion and Private Initiative Entrepreneurial Freedom of Action during the ‘Third Reich’

GBP 130.00
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Private Policing of Economic Crime Case Studies of Internal Investigations by Fraud Examiners

Private Policing of Economic Crime Case Studies of Internal Investigations by Fraud Examiners

This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime. The theory of convenience applies to the suspected crime while the maturity model applies to the conducted investigation. Private policing of economic crime by fraud examiners in internal investigations is a topic of increasing concern as there is a growing business for law firms and auditing firms to conduct inquiries and reviews when there is suspicion of misconduct wrongdoing and crime by white-collar offenders. The key features of this book are the application of a structural model for convenience theory and the application of a maturity model for fraud examinations. The structural model assesses convenience themes for motive opportunity and willingness in each case study while the maturity model assesses the level of private policing maturity in fraud examinations. For the first time two emerging frameworks to study white-collar offenses and private policing maturity are introduced and applied to a number of cases from Denmark Iceland Moldova the Netherlands Norway Sweden and Switzerland. This book will be essential to those studying law business and criminology as well as practicing fraud examiners. | Private Policing of Economic Crime Case Studies of Internal Investigations by Fraud Examiners

GBP 38.99
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Medium Secure Psychiatric Provision in the Private Sector

Medium Secure Psychiatric Provision in the Private Sector

First published in 1998 this volume assesses issues of privatisation and mental health provision in the Medium Secure Psychiatric Care sector including case studies on two regional secure units and Stockton Hall Psychiatric Hospital between 1989 and 1992. It emerged at the end of a period of Conservative Party dominance of almost two decades in which privatisation had been at the forefront of discussion and focused on the midpoint of that era. Despite this privatisation of psychiatric care had received little discussion. Here Katrina R. Moss discusses the role of private medical care in the UK healthcare landscape with focus on the meaning of privatisation attitudes towards privatising the criminal justice system along with relevant legal and medical issues related to regulation by the Mental Health Act 1983. | Medium Secure Psychiatric Provision in the Private Sector

GBP 14.99
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Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine

Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine

Originally published in 1986 Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all twenty-six of the obstetrician-gynecologists in “Daleton ” a city that did not have an abortion clinic. The decision as to whether when and how to perform abortions was therefore essentially up to the individual doctor. Imber begins the volume with a historical survey of medical views on abortion and the medical profession’s response to the legalization of abortion in the United States. Quoting extensively from his interviews he looks at various characteristics of doctors that may affect their professional opinion on abortion: their age gender religious background and length of residence in the community; the nature of their training and prior experience; and the setting of the practice (whether group or solo). Imber found that the physicians’ reasons for agreeing or refusing to perform abortions revealed considerable differences of opinion about how they construe their responsibilities.

GBP 42.99
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Exploring Public-Private Partnerships in Singapore The Success-Failure Continuum

Exploring Public-Private Partnerships in Singapore The Success-Failure Continuum

This book looks at what drives effective management of public-private partnerships (PPPs). It examines widely cited Singaporean cases pertaining to successful PPPs as well as those in failure (and subsequently contracted back in the public-sector provision) in diverse areas of public service such as water services educational services trade and logistical data services residential services acquisition and maintenance of military systems research and development services infrastructure and sport services. The book begins each case with an overview (e. g. project goals (motivators) types of PPPs stakeholders time period assigned budget and capital planning) and then specifically discusses critical success factors and/or risk factors pertaining to the decisions to proceed with ongoing PPPs or to return to self-operation (in-house public production) of services later respectively. The book concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from Singaporean cases and contexts of PPPs and suggests more feasible strategies and conditions toward successful collaborative governance between public agencies and private counterparts for the new century. This book will appeal especially to public policymakers. | Exploring Public-Private Partnerships in Singapore The Success-Failure Continuum

GBP 19.99
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Public Problems - Private Solutions? Globalizing Cities in the South

Public Problems - Private Solutions? Globalizing Cities in the South

Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation. They are prime locations of innovation while at the same time facing growing problems of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion. By addressing these problems cities become forerunners for new patterns of governance which include increasingly private actors. While research on 'global' cities has focused primarily on the world's leading financial and economic centres comparative research on the changing role of large complex cities in the developing world is less advanced. But it is here where public problems are most seriously threatening the cohesion of urban society and where the need for new answers is most urgent. Illustrated by in-depth examinations of four city regions: Shanghai Mumbai Johannesburg and São Paulo this book readdresses this balance. The book revisits the same set of cities from different angles thereby reflecting urban contradictions juxtapositions and disjunctures. | Public Problems - Private Solutions? Globalizing Cities in the South

GBP 38.99
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Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice A Practical Guide

Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice A Practical Guide

With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners for therapy for their children when they need expert emotional or psychological support. Working privately with children and families can be a rewarding experience for counsellors and psychotherapists but it can also be fraught with concerns for both practitioners and families alike. These concerns can seem so daunting that therapists with clinical experience of therapy with children continue to limit themselves to working only in education or statutory settings. This book offers comprehensive guidance to both experienced and novice counsellors to assist them in the process of setting up or adapting their private practice to include children and young people. It coherently and systematically addresses the obstacles which stand in the way of practitioners offering this important service effectively and ethically. The book is divided into four parts and uses case material to bring to life the areas covered by each chapter. Each chapter concludes with a summary of key points covered. | Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice A Practical Guide

GBP 130.00
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