Meticulously researched and brimming with references to related resources on the politics of media, Masterpiece Theatre and the Politics of Quality is an essential work for teachers and students of English literature, political science, and film and television studies, as well as for fans of Masterpiece Theatre and PBS.

With the publication of ISO 26000: 2010 a new era began for Corporate Social Responsibility with institutionalization as a standard for corporate management by the most prestigious international standard-setting organization. However, serious contradictions complicate efforts to apply standards of corporate social responsibility on a global scale, due to definitional problems highlighted in a series of case studies in this paper.