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Introduction -- Structural violence, socioeconomic rights and transformative justice -- Network relationships, existing ties and opportunities -- Threats, limitations and political responsibilities in the network -- Transformative justice processes, policies and practice -- Conclusion.

In the aftermath of a global financial crisis, the past decade has been characterized by increased fiscal pressure. Against this backdrop, it is no surprise that many have called for strengthened efforts in domestic resource mobilization. Domestic resources are the largest untapped source of development financing, but the effective mobilization thereof poses significant challenges in terms of revenue policy and administration strategies. This book provides an overview of various policies that can significantly contribute to increasing domestic revenues by enhancing tax compliance, curbing tax evasion and improving the relationship between taxpayers and tax administrations. It consists of national reports from 33 countries around the globe, initially discussed at the conference "Improving Tax Compliance in a Globalized World" in Rust (Austria) from 30 June to 2 July 2016. The book explores various approaches to improving tax compliance. Access to tax information is at the centre of the debate, including the collection of third-party information, information obtained as a result of cooperation between tax administrations and as a result of inter-agency cooperation between tax administrations, financial intelligence units and law enforcement agencies. Moreover, the book sheds some light on alternatives to improve tax collection and suggests potential measures to enhance voluntary tax compliance. Finally, it looks forward to potential challenges that may be faced by tax administrations in the future. Taken as a whole, this study contributes to the challenging task of making tax administrations more effective and more efficient

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Background and context -- Transitional justice and transformative justice in South Africa -- Land and housing -- Advocacy networks -- Action taken by networks -- Structure, composition, capacity and resources -- Positioning of NGOs, trade unions and social movements in South Africa -- Aims and objectives of the book -- Themes -- Focus -- Political responsibility -- Research design -- Case study research -- Limits of case study research -- The case study in this book -- Case selection and purpose -- Research strategy -- Research tools and methods -- Use of sociograms -- Scope and contribution of the study -- Structure of the book -- 2 Structural violence, socioeconomic rights and transformative justice -- Introduction -- Structural violence and shortcomings of transitional justice -- Structural violence -- Critique of transitional justice -- Defining transformative justice -- Applying concepts to the case study of South Africa -- Relevant actors and relationships for a transformative approach -- Conclusion -- 3 Network relationships, existing ties and opportunities -- Introduction -- The case study network -- Interpreting data on network relationships -- Mapping the network diagrammatically -- Interrogating assumptions from the literature -- Boomerangs and spirals -- Framing, expertise and venue shopping -- Key findings from mapping the network -- What kinds of ties already exist? -- The Housing Assembly -- The Poor People's Alliance -- Ties between both clusters -- What threats to and opportunities for more effective collaboration exist? -- Specific characteristics of trade unions -- Capacity and resources of social movements and community-based organisations

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Structural violence, socioeconomic rights and transformative justice -- chapter 3 Network relationships, existing ties and opportunities -- chapter 4 Threats, limitations and political responsibilities in the network -- chapter 5 Transformative justice processes, policies and practice -- chapter 6 Conclusion.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: See That Mess? Blame Me -- Chapter 2: Selfies or Service -- Chapter 3: A Servant, Not a System -- Chapter 4: What's Love Got to Do with It? -- Chapter 5: A Closing Thought -- Appendix 1: Three-part Plan for National Cultural Transformation -- Appendix 2: Prayers for America -- Appendix 3: Questions to Consider -- Appendix 4: The Urban Alternative -- About the Author

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book provides a complete overview of the of parties in France. The social and ideological profiles of all the major parties are analysed chapter by chapter, highlighting their principal functions and dynamics within the system. These are complemented by analyses of bloc and system features, including the pluralist left, Europe, and the ideological space in which the parties operate. In particular, the book addresses the impressive capacity of French parties and their leaders to adapt themselves to the changing concerns of their electorates and to a shifting institutional context

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Man made punishment -- chapter 2 From sex-specific to gender-responsive justice: opening up punishment to a feminist lens -- chapter 3 Gender-responsive justice in action -- chapter 4 Gender responsivity and the male gaze -- chapter 5 Gender-responsive justice: critical appraisals -- chapter 6 Gender-responsive justice: feminism and resistance.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Justice: Being careful what you wish for-Civil libertarian-A national bill of rights-Law reformer-Failed constitutional reformer-The joys of opposition-Becoming Attorney-General-Biggles-Combe-Ivanov-The trials of Lionel Murphy-Ministerial dreams and realities -- 2 Race: Death in Alice-Growing up in the 1950s-Aboriginal legal services and land rights-Mabo in the Senate-Mandela and apartheid-The changing face of Australian racism-Indigenous recognition and reconciliation-Legislating against race hatred -- 3 Enterprise: Minister for Pipes and Holes-Energy-Mining-Water-Minister for Transport and Communications-Corporatising the state-owned enterprises-Labor's brand of socialism-Tough love for the ABC-Relevance deprivation in opposition-Contemporary economic challenges -- 4 Diplomacy: New dawn-Inheriting the Labor tradition-Becoming Foreign Minister-'His mind craves structures'-National interests and good international citizenship-National capabilities-United States alliance-Middle power diplomacy-Setting priorities-South Pacific-Aid, human rights and the environment-Cooperative security-Australia and the United Nations -- 5 Cooperation: At home in Asia-Indonesia-East Timor-Peace in Cambodia-Regional economic and security architecture-ASEAN-Japan-China v. United States-India and the Indo-Pacific-Middle East-UK and Europe-Russia-Effective foreign policymaking -- 6 Conflict: Vietnam at war-When is it right to fight?-Leading the International Crisis Group-What makes for successful NGOs-Lessons for preventing deadly conflict-Staying optimistic in a dangerous world -- 7 Atrocities: Life and death in Cambodia-The horror of Rwanda and the Balkans-Conceiving the responsibility to protect-Birth of a new international norm-What R2P has achieved-Why pessimism is premature.

Since 2011, the use of emoji - deriving from the Japanese, meaning picture character - has become a global phenomenon. We send over 6 billion emoji every day and regularly send emoji-only messages, and, when Oxford Dictionaries named the 'Face with Tears of Joy' emoji as their 'Word of the Year 2015', it received an enormous amount of criticism. Whenever emoji are covered in the popular media the same burning questions come up: Can an emoji really be a word? How language-like is it? Will emoji make us dumber? Or more lazy? Will they make us less adept at communicating with our nearest and dearest? And does this signal the death knell for language as we know it? Drawing on findings from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, archaeology and anthropology, this groundbreaking book explores human capacity to communicate, and addresses these questions in the process. The Emoji Code sheds light on emoji's vital role in the expression of emotion in digital communication and more, pointing the way for the future of international communication in a provocative and entertaining way.

Introduction: Transnational agricultural history in the North American West / Sterling Evans -- Agricultural connections across North America. Dependent harvests: grain production on the American and Canadian plains and the double dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Meat in the middle: converging borderlands in the US Midwest, 1865-1900 / Kristin Hoganson -- Little Liberia: the African-American agricultural colony in Baja California / Laura Hooton -- Commodity histories in the borderlands. Breaking sod or breaking even? Flax on the northern great plains and prairies, 1889-1930 / Joshua D. MacFadyen -- Colonizing the borderlands: citriculture and boosterism in Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1910-1930 / Tim Bowman -- Red and green on the border: the nature and technology of southern New Mexico's chile peppers / Todd Meyers -- Baja and beyond: toward an environmental and trans-regional history of the tomato industry of Baja California / Sterling Evans -- A sense of place for ranching and farming in the North American borderlands. Disturbed belt or rancher's paradise? Frontier exploration and place-making in a western Canadian-American borderland / Peter S. Morris -- Croplands and pastures: local agricultural landscape evolution on the transnational northern Great Plains, 1935-2006 / Andrew Dunlop -- Ranching across borders: the making of a transnational cattle industry in the Texas-Mexico borderlands, 1749-1945 / Alicia Dewey --