wyszukanych pozycji: 3995
Globalization and Politics: Promises and Dangers
ISBN: 9781138357006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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156,46 zł |
New Public Management: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415231879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public sector itself grapples with 'internal markets'. Drawing on economics, organisational theory and poliltics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective. This book uses...
New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This...
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250,36 zł |
Culture and Politics: A Comparative Approach
ISBN: 9780754645788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. Combining a substantial theoretical overview with intricate comparative empirical research, it assesses the complex interplay of ethnicity, religion, history and values on macro- and micro-level outcomes. Striking a judicious balance between the use of global data on the topic and their selection of six key in-depth country studies, the book draws extensively on statistical material and 'hard data' rather than the literary evidence usual in...
Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. ...
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704,29 zł |
Globalization: Interdependencies and Coordination
ISBN: 9781412863025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual nations still have specific interests that present obstacles to globalization. While some challenges inspired by the need to coordinate are viewed as inevitable by many, they are less optimistic about prospects for success. Jan-Erik Lane argues that one should focus objectively upon the possibility of failures. Lane analyzes four kinds of challenges to interdependency, all of which are growing in geopolitical relevance. First, countries... Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual... |
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229,49 zł |
Public Sector Reform: Rationale, Trends and Problems
ISBN: 9780761953661 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is un...
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860,79 zł |
Comparative Politics: An Introduction and New Approach
ISBN: 9780745612577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a new introductory textbook on comparative politics and government, providing students with a guide to the literature and a new approach to the subject.
This is a new introductory textbook on comparative politics and government, providing students with a guide to the literature and a new approach to th...
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148,22 zł |
Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim Civilization
ISBN: 9781138376519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Muslim societies are struggling under the need for modernization and the drift towards Islamic fundamentalism. The balance between these two forces is struck differently in the various Muslim societies depending upon the constellation of groups as historical legacies. However, the tension is real. In this work, Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi look at the underlying social consequences of religious beliefs to account for the political differences between major civilizations of the world against a background of the rise of modern capitalism. Offering a timely new appraisal of the political...
Muslim societies are struggling under the need for modernization and the drift towards Islamic fundamentalism. The balance between these two forces is...
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104,29 zł |
Globalization and Politics: Promises and Dangers
ISBN: 9780815389279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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704,29 zł |
Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective
ISBN: 9780415432061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population. This book explores whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally. It combines a cross-sectional... Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices desig... |
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782,54 zł |
The Public Sector: Concepts, Models and Approaches
ISBN: 9780761967491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Third Edition of this successful textbook introduces students to the major concepts, models, and approaches surrounding the public sector. Now fully updated to include coverage of the New Public Management (NPM), The Public Sector is the most comprehensive textbook on theories of public policy and public administration. The Public Sector is introduced within a three-part framework: public resource allocation, redistribution and regulation. Jan-Erik Lane explains the basic concepts of each of these broad areas, and goes on to examine their consequences for various approaches to the making...
The Third Edition of this successful textbook introduces students to the major concepts, models, and approaches surrounding the public sector. Now ful...
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328,67 zł |
Constitutions and Political Theory: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780719083303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since constitutional arrangements are what make politics work, they are a central concern of political theory. This book, now completely updated, was the first comprehensive exploration of the political theory of constitutions.
Jan-Erik Lane begins by examining the origins and history of constitutionalism and answers key questions such as: what is a constitution? Why are there constitutions? From where does constitutionalism originate? How is the constitutional state related to democracy and justice? Constitutions play a major role in domestic and international politics in the early... Since constitutional arrangements are what make politics work, they are a central concern of political theory. This book, now completely updated, was ...
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109,78 zł |
Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective
ISBN: 9780415586788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population. This book explores whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally. It combines a cross-sectional... Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices desig... |
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229,49 zł |
New Public Management : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415231862 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organizations, as the public sector itself grapples with internal markets. Drawing on economics, organizational theory and politics, the text presents new public management from an analytical perspective. It uses game theory and empirical...
New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This...
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782,54 zł |
Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective
ISBN: 9780415370165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer resources employees, money and laws into policy outputs and outcomes. In well-ordered societies the teams who work for the state work under a rule-of-law framework, known as public administration. This book covers the key issues of:
A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments... |
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286,88 zł |
Culture and Politics
ISBN: 9780415673266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This concise, accessible text presents an overview of the relevance of culture for politics. Culture figures prominently in the theories of the great classics such as Marx, Durkheim and Weber. Recently, the cultural approach to politics has developed quickly, and the concept of political culture has played a role in these developments, particularly given the emergence of large-scale survey research into political value orientations. Seeking to outline this rapid development, the book is divided into three sections:
This concise, accessible text presents an overview of the relevance of culture for politics. Culture figures prominently in the theories of the gre... |
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229,49 zł |
Political Data Handbook: OECD Countries
ISBN: 9780198280538 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This fully revised and updated edition of an established reference book provides in one volume the most comprehensive and detailed statistical guide available to the government and politics of the twenty-four countries in the OECD.
This fully revised and updated edition of an established reference book provides in one volume the most comprehensive and detailed statistical guide a...
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784,72 zł |
Globalization: Interdependencies & Coordination
ISBN: 9781412853736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual nations still have specific interests that present obstacles to globalization. While some challenges inspired by the need to coordinate are viewed as inevitable by many, they are less optimistic about prospects for success. Jan-Erik Lane argues that one should focus objectively upon the possibility of failures. Lane analyzes four kinds of challenges to interdependency, all of which are growing in geopolitical relevance. First, countries... Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual... |
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704,29 zł |
The Swiss Labyrinth: Institutions, Outcomes and Redesign
ISBN: 9780714651422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It can be argued that Switzerland has a peculiar set of political institutions, for example decentralized federalism, active referendum democracy, and La formule magique (grand coalition). This volume focuses upon the political and social outcomes of these institutions in the 1990s.
It can be argued that Switzerland has a peculiar set of political institutions, for example decentralized federalism, active referendum democracy, and...
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505,98 zł |
State Management: An Enquiry Into Models of Public Administration & Management
ISBN: 9780415492348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation, tendering and bidding, decentralization, team production and privatization. This book argues that we should look upon the variety of models or approaches to public management or public... State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic que... |
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912,96 zł |
Globalization - The Juggernaut of the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780754673934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While some people debate whether globalization really exists, it proceeds apace, affecting all societies. It presents us with unknown challenges and, as governments start to discuss what to do about these challenges, it is becoming obvious that globalization is not manageable. With globalization the juggernaut of the 21st century, all countries of the world become interdependent in relation to the coming energy crisis, climate change, the sharper cleavages between rich and poor countries and people, and the emergence of a multicultural social structure. This interesting and erudite book...
While some people debate whether globalization really exists, it proceeds apace, affecting all societies. It presents us with unknown challenges and, ...
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453,82 zł |