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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

Nico Steytler

The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems

&lt;p&gt;Chapter 1. Introduction (Nico Steytler).- Chapter 2. Argentina (Penelope Vaca Avila).- Chapter 3. Australia (Graham Sansom and Su Fei Tan).- Chapter 4. Austria (Karl Kössler).- Chapter 5. Brazil (Sol Garson and Kleber Castro).- Chapter 6. Canada ( Enid Slack and Zachary Taylor).- Chapter 7. Ethiopia (Zemelak Ayele).- Chapter 8. Germany (Henrik Scheller).-Chapter 9. India (Niranjan Sahoo).- Chapter 10. Italy (Elisabeth Alber, Alice Valdesalici, Greta Klotz).- Chapter 11. Mexico ( Monica Unda–Gutierrez and Alejandra Reyes).- Chapter 12. Nepal (Khim Lal Devkota and Gopi Krishna Khanal).- Chapter 13. Nigeria (Rotimi Suberu).- Chapter 14: South Africa (Jaap de Visser).- Chapter 15. Spain &amp;nbsp;(Francisco Velasco Caballero).-Chapter 16. Switzerland (Andreas Ladner).- Chapter 17. United States of America (Meryl Chertoff).- Chapter 18. Concluding Remarks (Nico Steytler).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Most businesses don't lose money because they aren't profitable - they lose money because their expenses, deductions, and depreciation are handled manually, inconsistently, and too late.

This book reveals how artificial intelligence is transforming business expense tracking into a powerful, always-on tax optimization system - one that finds deductions humans miss, applies depreciation with precision, and keeps businesses audit-ready by design.

Instead of reacting at tax time, you'll learn how to build a financial system that optimizes taxes automatically, every day of the year.
Inside this book, you'll discover how to:Identify hidden deductions buried in everyday expenses like software, education, travel, meals, vehicles, and home offices
Use AI to classify expenses correctly in real time, eliminating miscategorization and missed write-offs
Apply depreciation strategies automatically, including asset timing, partial use, upgrades, and disposals
Turn expense tracking into an audit-resistant system with consistent logic and machine-verified documentation
Eliminate end-of-year chaos by maintaining always-ready, compliant financial records
Use predictive AI to forecast tax liability before it happens, not after
Scale your business across teams, platforms, and jurisdictions without losing financial control
Transform expense management from bookkeeping into a long-term profit strategy


Who this book is for:Business owners and entrepreneurs
Online business operators and SaaS founders
CFOs, accountants, and financial advisors
Real estate investors and multi-entity operators
Anyone tired of overpaying taxes due to outdated systems


Why this book is different:
This is not about loopholes or risky tax tactics. It's about precision, structure, and intelligent automation.
By embedding AI into your expense and depreciation systems, you stop guessing, stop reacting, and start designing your tax outcomes intentionally - with confidence, clarity, and control.

If you want to keep more of what your business earns legally, consistently, and at scale, this book shows you exactly how the future of business taxation works - and how to implement it now.

How Algorithms Find Every Legal Deduction

AI Expense Tracking, Write-Offs & Depreciation

In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory.'FASCINATING' The Times'Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers ... A treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike' Richard DawkinsAnimals rarely treat sex as a simple or mutually beneficial transaction. Choosing a mate is often a transcendent event to be approached with reverence, suspicion, angst and quite a bit of violence. For Matt Ridley, nowhere is this more acute than in birds.From a freezing hide on the Pennine moors at dawn, Ridley closely studies the rare Black Grouse. He is there for the lek - an elaborate courtship ritual of squabbling and strutting males. They dance and sing for hours each day to attract a mate over several months. With most males leaving exhausted and unsuccessful, Ridley looks at how females make their choice to cast fresh light on how such rituals have evolved and why.His pursuit follows five generations of biologists from Darwin and Wallace to the present day, uncovering how they have grappled with the implications of sexual selection as an eccentric, gonzo form of evolution. While most Victorian scientists found it impossible to believe female birds could select mates, Darwin was obsessed with the idea of sexual as well as natural selection.Drawing on his own lifelong passion, Ridley eavesdrops on the elaborate displays of bird species around the world, from the complex art installations made by Bowerbirds in Australia to the bubbling calls of Curlews in the UK's declining moorlands. In a wonderful blend of nature writing and elegant exploration of recent evolutionary theory, Birds, Sex and Beauty shows not only how mate choice has shaped the natural world, including humans, but how the song and plumage of birds can be thrillingly, breathtakingly beautiful.'Clear and entertaining ... Ridley explains all this history with lucidity and wit'New Statesman'Most of this fascinating and accessible book is about birds ... Ridley, very clearly, loves birds - and the enthusiasm is infectious'The Times'This is a fascinating story told with wit, scholarship and the passion of a true conversationist. Lord Ridley writes in the best tradition of great British naturalists' Country Life'Birds, Sex &amp; Beauty is a good read. It is a compelling history of sexual selection, rather than a synthesis that moves the field forwards'Nature

The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea

Birds, Sex and Beauty

Governing AI is about getting AI right. Building upon AI scholarship in science and technology studies, technology law, business ethics, and computer science, it documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists proposed solutions to AI-related problems around the world, and assesses their impact. The book presents a vast range of theoretical debates and empirical evidence to document how and how well technical solutions, business self-regulation, and legal regulation work. It is a call to think inside and outside the box. Technical solutions, business self-regulation, and especially legal regulation can mitigate and even eliminate some of the potential risks and actual harms arising from the development and use of AI. However, the long-term health of the relationship between technology and society depends on whether ordinary people are empowered to participate in making informed decisions to govern the future of technology - AI included.

A Primer

Governing AI

Fundamentals of Indian Contract Law offers an accessible yet comprehensive account of the law of contract in India. Authored by two experienced lawyers, it examines the vast and complex body of Indian judicial precedent to identify underlying structural principles. This carefully organized book covers: (i) formation of contracts, (ii) vitiating factors, (iii) illegality, (iv) interpretation, (v) performance, (vi) discharge, and (vii) remedies for breach. Students and practitioners will find it to be an invaluable map with which to navigate a foundational subject.

The Fundamentals of Indian Contract Law

'A testament to love's fortitude in a tumultuous world' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Passionate and powerful, a love story that will grip you until the very end' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM, author of WHAT A SHAME 'A beautiful, vivid, gut-punch of a novel' EMMA STONEX, author of THE LAMPLIGHTERS 'A powerful and emotional novel which spans continents' MIRROR 'Compelling and deeply moving . . . so absorbing' EXPRESS 'Beautiful . . . a wonderful and remarkable novel that I would happily read all over again' ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS, author of THE THREE OF US 'Rings true on every level . . . above all, in its glorious depiction of love' CATHERINE MAYER, author of ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMEN London, 1990. Zivoin is newly arrived in a strange country. The dependable oldest son, he works all hours of the day and night, sending every penny he can save back to his family. On the news, he watches his homeland, Yugoslavia, slowly fracturing. Thousands of miles away, in the tropical heat of Uberlândia, Brazil, Alegria prepares to leave behind the country - and the family - she loves dearly. Bright and ambitious, she strives to give her parents the life they deserve, even if it takes her far from them. A chance meeting throws Alegria and Zivoin together - and for a brief moment, they feel at home. But their journey is just beginning, and what follows will draw them irresistibly across countries and continents, leaving them both forever changed. The powerful, exhilarating debut novel from an award-winning new voice in fiction, Strangerland is a heartfelt testament to the endurance that has come to define a generation of immigrants. Above all, it is a soaring, emotionally rich story about the power of love to transcend languages, borders and time.

Strangerland

A silent revolution is underway in India today. Starting in 2020, twelve states have rolled out unconditional cash transfers to nearly 118 million women. While the media disparages these transfers as 'freebies', Wages for Housework: India's Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women offers the first book-length study of these transfers, using social reproduction feminism, particularly the wages for housework campaign, to theorize unconditional cash transfers as providing economic recognition of women's unpaid domestic and care work. Against the backdrop of a low female labour force participation rate, a residual welfare regime, and an entrenched culture of gendered familialism wherein women are presumed responsible for care, the book addresses arguments for and against unconditional cash transfers in feminist economics and welfare theory. In doing so, it recollects the vision of the founding mothers of the Indian Constitution who advocated for the recognition of women's unpaid work. It traces how Indian courts have, since Independence, treated women's unpaid domestic and care work as being on par with an occupation to hold that the economic recognition of unpaid work is a step towards the constitutional vision of equality and dignity. Through an in-depth study of unconditional cash transfers in three states, namely, Goa, Assam, and West Bengal (implemented in 2013, 2020, and 2021, respectively), Kotiswaran elaborates on state-specific welfare regimes and analyses the implementation of cash transfers through interviews with bureaucrats, academics, feminist activists, and women beneficiaries to understand if and how they have resulted in women's empowerment, whether in terms of education, paid employment, or the gendered division of labour. In conclusion, the work posits that unconditional cash transfers represent an unprecedented and welcome expansion of the Indian welfare regime and to be truly gender transformative, they need to be embedded in a broader feminist agenda for care. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read on Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

India's Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women

Wages for Housework

Post-Soviet Development Economics and Society

Heterodox Approaches to Development in Central Asia

Multinational Enterprises’ Behaviour in Corrupt Environments

Foreign Direct Investment and Corruption

Governance and Public Management

This open access book analyses whether and to what extent fiscal transfers from central to local governments affect democracy at sub-national level. Fiscal transfers are often perceived to undermine democracy, as politicians utilise them to build patronage networks, weaken opposition candidates, and reward local governments that support them. On the other hand, others have argued that fiscal transfers serve to improve local governance, increase transparency, reduce corruption, and promote democracy. &nbsp;Drawing on eleven country case studies from Europe, Asia, and Africa, this book examines the extent to which local governments are affected with the risks connected with intergovernmental fiscal transfers. It will appeal to all those interested in public administration, public finance studies, and public policy.Juraj Nemec
 is Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic and part-time Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Slovakia. 
 Michal Plaček
 is Professor of Public Policy at Charles University, Czech Republic.
 Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy
 is Emeritus Professor at the School of Management, IT and Governance, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

This open access book analyses whether and to what extent fiscal transfers from central to local governments affect democracy at sub-national level. Fiscal transfers are often perceived to undermine democracy, as politicians utilise them to build patronage networks, weaken opposition candidates, and reward local governments that support them. On the other hand, others have argued that fiscal transfers serve to improve local governance, increase transparency, reduce corruption, and promote democracy. &nbsp;Drawing on eleven country case studies from Europe, Asia, and Africa, this book examines the extent to which local governments are affected with the risks connected with intergovernmental fiscal transfers. It will appeal to all those interested in public administration, public finance studies, and public policy.

Enhancing or Weakening Democracy?

Local Government and Fiscal Transfers

The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science

The book provides an empirically rich analysis of Bangladesh’s economic transformation through globalization, with particular focus on the emergence of its globally competitive garment export industry. It emphasizes the crucial role of internal ideational factors within the state, arguing that policy learning—driven by key technocrats and political executives—was central to designing strategies that enabled industrialization and export-led growth.
Challenging conventional narratives that attribute policy reforms primarily to external pressures from international financial institutions, the book highlights how endogenous political agency and state-led planning facilitated the rise of the private sector. The garment sector, in particular, became a catalyst for socio-economic transformation, advancing women's economic participation, enhancing household incomes, and contributing significantly to GDP growth.
Drawing on a political economy approach and the framework of historical institutionalism, the book traces the evolution of policymaking across successive governments. It demonstrates how internal ideas, institutions, and strategic decisions—rather than external imposition—shaped the country’s development path.
This book will be of great interest to policymakers, economists, scholars of international political economy and development studies, policy and business schools, and those focused on the dynamics of export-led growth and industrial transformation in emerging economies.
• &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Explores the evolution of policy learning in Bangladesh through the concept of the policy committee—a unique contribution to governance studies in the Global South. • &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Analyzes technocratic ideas and political agency in facilitating garment exports and driving socio-economic transformation in a post-aid agrarian society. • &nbsp; &nbsp;Offers a nuanced account of political decision-making and state–society interactions in public policy formation.

The book provides an empirically rich analysis of Bangladesh’s economic transformation through globalization, with particular focus on the emergence of its globally competitive garment export industry. It emphasizes the crucial role of internal ideational factors within the state, arguing that policy learning—driven by key technocrats and political executives—was central to designing strategies that enabled industrialization and export-led growth.Challenging conventional narratives that attribute policy reforms primarily to external pressures from international financial institutions, the book highlights how endogenous political agency and state-led planning facilitated the rise of the private sector. The garment sector, in particular, became a catalyst for socio-economic transformation, advancing women's economic participation, enhancing household incomes, and contributing significantly to GDP growth.Drawing on a political economy approach and the framework of historical institutionalism, the book traces the evolution of policymaking across successive governments. It demonstrates how internal ideas, institutions, and strategic decisions—rather than external imposition—shaped the country’s development path.This book will be of great interest to policymakers, economists, scholars of international political economy and development studies, policy and business schools, and those focused on the dynamics of export-led growth and industrial transformation in emerging economies.
 • &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Explores the evolution of policy learning in Bangladesh through the concept of the policy committee—a unique contribution to governance studies in the Global South.
 
 • &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Analyzes technocratic ideas and political agency in facilitating garment exports and driving socio-economic transformation in a post-aid agrarian society.
 
 • &nbsp; &nbsp;Offers a nuanced account of political decision-making and state–society interactions in public policy formation.

State, Ideas, Policy Learning, and Globalization in Bangladesh

Garments and Growth

*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*?*Now in paperback!*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her own invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice.”—From the introductionFor decades, Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists&nbsp;of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians—from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile—and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as—with the other arm—she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting.In&nbsp;Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer’s childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell’s musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after&nbsp;the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life.Along this journey, Powers’ wide-ranging musings on the artist’s life and career reconsider the biographer’s role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, Traveling illustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan.Kaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, Traveling is a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell canon, written by a biographer in full command of her gifts who asks as much of herself as of her subject.&nbsp;

On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Traveling

Obsidian Throne

The second epic instalment of the Obsidian Throne fantasy trilogy, melding Indian myth and history into a story of a witch and a prince determined to burn an empire to the ground in order to raise it up out of the ashes.An empress with vengeance in her heartPrince Ashoka's sister, Aarya, has named herself empress and is determined to reverse her brother's mercy for the mayakari.A witch lost in dreamsShakti is being held by shadowy figures, drugged and forced to commit an unspeakable crime. When she wakes, she finds herself prisoner, but gaps in her memory around the curse she has cast trap her more thoroughly than any cage.The prince trying to change the worldAshoka must find allies and quickly if he is to usher in a new dawn for the mayakari, but the tougher the decision he makes, the farther he gets from his true self. He must determine what he is willing to lose in pursuit of his vision of the future.The first blow has been dealt by Ashoka and Shakti, but the empire not only remains, it appears stronger - and more brutal - than ever. Both must find ways to fight back before nature is deprived of its spirits and guardians, and the reign of the new empress spreads its destruction and oppression to lands beyond.

The Witch Without Memory

The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems

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