▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature on media and globalization. It develops the
argument that this literature foregrounds a problem that, ironically, it also largely disavows …

We report the results of a review of the Chinese‐and English‐language literatures on
service delivery in China, asking how well China's health‐care providers perform and what …

Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led
academics and policy-makers to consider how 'development'in all parts of the world should …

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly
international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health …

Do citizen and police initiatives have any impact on the incidence and fear of crime? This
volume brings together studies, undertaken by well-respected criminal justice scholars, of …

Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as
they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of …

Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments
who finance a larger share of their spending with taxes raised locally by themselves are …

Weak health systems are hindering global efforts for tuberculosis care and control, but little
evidence is available on effective interventions to address system bottlenecks. This report …

Designers and implementers of decentralization and other reform measures have focused
much attention on financial and structural reform measures, but ignored their human …

Background: The concept of decision space holds appeal as an approach to disaggregating
the elements that may influence decision-making in decentralized systems. This narrative …