Island enclaves : offshoring strategies, creative governance, and subnational island jurisdictions /

Islands have a unique hold on our imagination as intriguing places where - as Thomas More and Jonathan Swift showed in their fiction - fantastic utopic or dystopic worlds are possible. This book highlights the idiosyncratic forms of governance that occur in places that are both a part of, and apart...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baldacchino, Godfrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Islands > Economic conditions.
Islands > Politics and government.
Jurisdiction, Territorial.
Economic development.
Îles > Conditions économiques.
Îles > Politique et gouvernement.
Compétence territoriale.
Développement économique.
economic development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Economic development
Islands > Economic aspects
Islands > Politics and government
Jurisdiction, Territorial
Insel
Politik
Wirtschaft
Recht
Verwaltung
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Table of Contents:
  • Autonomy without Sovereignty: An "Island Studies" Approach
  • Borders within Borders and the New Offshoring
  • Island Subnationalism and "Upside Down" Decolonization
  • A Review of Economic Performance: Tapping the Hinterland Beyond
  • Patterns of Creative Governance for Development
  • Offshoring Strategies: Lessons from Subnational Island Jurisdictions
  • Island Paradiplomacy and Smaller Island State Diplomacy Compared
  • Environmental Policies and Politics: Economic versus Ecological Development Strategies
  • An Enduring "Rich Seam" of Jurisdictional Capacity
  • Appendix.

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