ilość książek w kategorii: 7259
The Oxford Handbook of Public Management
ISBN: 9780199226443 / Angielski / Miękka / 808 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management: some advocate the use of more managerialist approaches; while others see managerialism as undermining democratic institutions. New roles have arisen, such as programme evaluation, management consulting, and reliance on NGOs and partnerships, which require new assessments. There is an intensified need for an...
The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector man...
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267,25 zł |
The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty - And Blame
ISBN: 9780199269679 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a novel, analytical perspective on executive government, this timely book examines recent public sector reform policies in a number of countries. The book exposes key dimensions of the relationship between public servants and the wider political system, examining both the formalized and the implicit understandings between the two.
Providing a novel, analytical perspective on executive government, this timely book examines recent public sector reform policies in a number of count...
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720,21 zł |
Comparative Social Administration
ISBN: 9780202309385 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the fi rst work that systematically applies the comparative method to the study of social policy and administration. After a full discussion of this approach in the introduction, the book offers three authoritative national studies-France, Norway, Canada-each giving a rounded picture of social policy and administration in the particular country. Social needs, resources, and forms of social administration are related to the most signifi cant social, demographic, economic, and political factors of the area in question. The authors trace the development of social policies and indicate...
This is the fi rst work that systematically applies the comparative method to the study of social policy and administration. After a full discussion o...
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228,62 zł |
Administrative Reform
ISBN: 9780202309613 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from it? Does a theory of administrative reform exist? A survey of published research on administrative reform reveals that satisfactory answers to these questions are handicapped by methodological and theoretical shortcomings. There are no common definitions, no agreement over content, no selected boundaries, no clear links with the wide phenomenon of social reform, no firm hypothesis tested... What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approac... |
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228,62 zł |
City and Regime in the American Republic
ISBN: 9780226204666 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics equality and efficiency are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that a commercial republic could achieve both. He then takes the unusual step of addressing how the political institutions of the city can help to form the kind of citizenry such a republic needs.
The present workings of American urban political institutions are, Elkin maintains, characterized by a close... Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities ar...
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164,12 zł |
Justice by Lottery (Paper)
ISBN: 9780226303956 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this imaginative and provocative book, Barbara Goodwin explores the question of how lottery systems can achieve egalitarian social justice in societies with seemingly ineradicable inequalities.
She begins with the utopian fable of Aleatoria, a country not unlike our own in the not-too-distant-future, where most goods are distributed by lottery even the right to have children. She then analyzes the philosophical arguments for and against lottery distribution and a comparison of "justice by lottery" with other contemporary theories of justice. Goodwin also applies her theory to... In this imaginative and provocative book, Barbara Goodwin explores the question of how lottery systems can achieve egalitarian social justice in socie...
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164,12 zł |
The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems
ISBN: 9780226406534 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude of problems and make decisions about a variety of issues, from the economy and education to health care and defense. This has been true for years, but until now no studies have been conducted on how politicians manage the flood of information from a wide range of sources. How do they interpret and respond to such inundation? Which issues do they pay attention to and why? Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner answer these questions on decision-making processes and prioritization in "The Politics of Attention."
Analyzing... On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude of problems and make decisions about a variety of issues, from the economy and educ...
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164,12 zł |
Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues
ISBN: 9780226505299 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades, policymakers and analysts have been frustrated by the stubborn and often dramatic disagreement between experts and the public on acceptable levels of environmental risk. Most experts, for instance, see no severe problem in dealing with nuclear waste, given the precautions and safety levels now in place. Yet public opinion vehemently rejects this view, repudiating both the experts' analysis and the evidence.
In "Dealing with Risk, " Howard Margolis moves beyond the usual "rival rationalities" explanation proffered by risk analysts for the rift between expert and lay opinion.... For decades, policymakers and analysts have been frustrated by the stubborn and often dramatic disagreement between experts and the public on acceptab...
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153,17 zł |
Village and Bureaucracy in Southern Sung China
ISBN: 9780226560601 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In imperial China, workers drawn from the local populace performed many of the basic functions of local administration. Standing between the rulers and the ruled, these men mediated in both directions. McKnight's study concentrates on the nature of this village-level subbureaucratic activity in the Sung period; it sheds new light on the emergence of early Chinese society while providing a background against which to assess social changes during later dynasties.
In imperial China, workers drawn from the local populace performed many of the basic functions of local administration. Standing between the rulers an...
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175,06 zł |
Cages of Reason: The Rise of the Rational State in France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain
ISBN: 9780226757377 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blending political, historical, and sociological analysis, Bernard S. Silberman offers a provocative explanation for the bureaucratic development of the modern state. The study of modern state bureaucracy has its origins in Max Weber's analysis of the modes of social domination, which Silberman takes as his starting point.
Whereas Weber contends that the administration of all modern nation-states would eventually converge in one form characterized by rationality and legal authority, Silberman argues that the process of bureaucratic rationalization took, in fact, two courses. One path is... Blending political, historical, and sociological analysis, Bernard S. Silberman offers a provocative explanation for the bureaucratic development of t...
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218,82 zł |
New Public Management in Europe: Adaptation and Alternatives
ISBN: 9780230006935 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations of reforms. This text demonstrates how NPM is crafted differently in various institutional contexts.
The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range ...
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385,52 zł |
The Regulatory State in an Age of Governance: Soft Words and Big Sticks
ISBN: 9780230500396 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an account of the regulatory state and governance. This book examines both key concepts and theories, and important policy domains, and utilizes comparative, historical and transnational perspectives. It questions whether the regulatory state that has developed over the decades is an authoritarian or a liberalizing mode of governance.
Presents an account of the regulatory state and governance. This book examines both key concepts and theories, and important policy domains, and utili...
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192,74 zł |
Improving Local Government: Outcomes of Comparative Research
ISBN: 9780230517523 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Local governments encounter many problems, and although there is not one panacea that works internationally, this book argues that there are mechanisms to improve local situations. By drawing on case studies from the developing world, the authors review best practices in good governance.
Local governments encounter many problems, and although there is not one panacea that works internationally, this book argues that there are mechanism...
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192,74 zł |
The New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora
ISBN: 9780230521070 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenomenon of re-emerging Jewish culture in Germany as a case study for wider developments in Europe and the international context.
Departing from the recent critical literature on the emergence of a new German Jewry, this volume proposes a new perspective on the post-1980s phenome...
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192,74 zł |
Community Organizing
ISBN: 9780231054621 / Angielski / Twarda / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how societies are broken down into several sections of community organization.
This book shows how societies are broken down into several sections of community organization.
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382,94 zł |
The Price of Life: The Future of American Health Care
ISBN: 9780231102940 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood-and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive redistribution of social and public health resources to the poor and elderly; at the same time, he describes sanctions that would encourage individuals to be more careful about their own health, and limit or change destructive behavior.
How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless ...
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494,34 zł |
What Motivates Bureaucrats?: Politics and Administration During the Reagan Years
ISBN: 9780231106979 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" --Ronald Reagan How did senior career civil servants react to Ronald Reagan's attempt to redirect policy and increase presidential control over the bureaucracy? What issues molded their reactions? What motivates civil servants in general? How should they be managed and how do they affect federal policies? To answer these questions, Marissa Martino Golden offers us a glimpse into the world of our federal agencies. What Motivates Bureaucrats?...
"Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" --Ronald Re...
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232,02 zł |
Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
ISBN: 9780252066320 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership, ten contributors present compelling arguments and analyses that shed new light on the power and leadership of the nation's presidency and on the space program. Setting the tone for the collection, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy maintain that the nation's presidency had become imperial by the mid-1970s and that supporters of the space program had grown to find relief in such a presidency, which they believed could help them obtain greater political support and funding. Subsequent chapters explore the roles and political leadership,...
In Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership, ten contributors present compelling arguments and analyses that shed new light on the power an...
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103,89 zł |
Practical Politics: Five Principles for a Community That Works
ISBN: 9780252067662 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wise and sensible guide to practising democracy, will be invaluable to members of community and neighbourhood organizations, parent-teacher associations, local government, citizens groups, and other grass-root organizations.
This wise and sensible guide to practising democracy, will be invaluable to members of community and neighbourhood organizations, parent-teacher assoc...
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114,28 zł |
New Media in the Muslim World, Second Edition: The Emerging Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780253216052 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." Digest of Middle East Studies This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet and the new uses of older media cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia,... "It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." Digest of Mid... |
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92,95 zł |