ilość książek w kategorii: 6846
Remaking Governance: Peoples, Politics and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9781861346391 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism - encounter existing institutions. It explores different sites and practices of governing, from the remaking of Europe to the increasing focus on 'community' and 'personhood' in governing social life. The authors critically engage with existing theory across political science, social policy, sociology and public administration and management to explore how 'the social' is constituted through governance practices. This includes the ways in which...
Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, partnership working, consumerism -...
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147,77 zł |
Accountable government in Africa : perspectives from public law and political studies
ISBN: 9789280812053 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A number of leading experts in the fields of public law, political science and democratization studies contributed to this book to identify ways of making African governments accountable and describe the extent to which these mechanisms work in practice. It presents new knowledge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries that are relevant to the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent. This book is of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the fields of public law, public...
A number of leading experts in the fields of public law, political science and democratization studies contributed to this book to identify ways of ma...
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260,05 zł |
Interactive Policy Making, Metagovernance and Democracy
ISBN: 9781907301568 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional forms of top-down government are being challenged by the growing complexity and fragmentation of social and political life and the need to mobilize and activate the knowledge, ideas, and resources of private stakeholders. In response to this important challenge there has been a persistent proliferation of interactive forms of public governance that bring together a plethora of public and private actors in collaborative policy arenas. This book explores how these new forms of interactive governance are working in practice and analyses their role and impact on public policy making...
Traditional forms of top-down government are being challenged by the growing complexity and fragmentation of social and political life and the need to...
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261,00 zł |
Government Institutions: Effects, Changes and Normative Foundations
ISBN: 9789401038058 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research on government institutions is one of the most exciting intellectual areas in political science and policy studies today. Increasingly it is recognized by scholars in these fields that effective and legitimate policies depend on the design and maintenance of complex institutional arrangements. This book brings together some of the leading scholars in institutional research in The Netherlands. Their work addresses such perennially difficult questions in institutional research such as: How do we understand institutional change? How do we measure the effects of institutions on...
Research on government institutions is one of the most exciting intellectual areas in political science and policy studies today. Increasingly it is...
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389,98 zł |
Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries : Paradoxes and Practices
ISBN: 9780415858564 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest groups that can constrain behaviour, as well as provide incentives for collaborative action. Paradoxes inevitably emerge in policy network practice and design. The ability to manage government departments and operations has become less important than the ability to navigate the complex world of...
The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealisti...
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739,10 zł |
Civic Duty: Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries
ISBN: 9781443835015 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries and answers the following questions: who provided public facilities in urban communities and in which ways did public amenities change in the period between 1500 and 1800? It throws light on the ways in which responsibilities were shared between city dwellers and the factors which influenced the allocation and reallocation of public services between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The present study looks at those who provided various services to their communities, the ways in which they were rewarded and...
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries and answers the following questions: who provided public facilities ...
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203,84 zł |
Gun Policy in the United States and Canada: The Impact of Mass Murders and Assassinations on Gun Control
ISBN: 9781623567682 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 was one of the worst mass murders in the U.S., but it did not lead to any new federal gun control policy. In contrast, following a similar event in Montreal in 1989, Canada created new comprehensive gun policy. Such different outcomes are the focus of this survey, which sets out to explore the gun policymaking process in the U.S. and Canada in the aftermath of major events. It explores the many factors that lead to the drastically different reactions of the federal governments in each state if the aftermath of a mass shooting or assassination. To... The shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 was one of the worst mass murders in the U.S., but it did not lead to any new federal gun control policy. In ... |
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193,64 zł |
Economic Assessment of Election Programmes: Does It Make Sense?
ISBN: 9781461350064 / Angielski / Miękka / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Netherlands, the election programmes of the political parties are assessed for their economic impact by an independent economic bureau. The result of this analysis is published just before the elections take place. In this way, the voter will be protected against political parties that try to win the elections by making popular but unfounded financial promises. Economic Assessment of Election Programmes contains contributions of several distinguished economists and philosophers who consider the gains of this procedure to society. Does the analysis by the... In the Netherlands, the election programmes of the political parties are assessed for their economic impact by an independent economic bureau. The ... |
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389,98 zł |
Designing Service Excellence: People and Technology
ISBN: 9781439840467 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The moment of truth that instant when consumers experience and judge service quality is often a deciding factor in business success. Designing Service Excellence: People and Technology provides practical information on the design, management, and organization of many different types of service industries, such as hotels, restaurants, banks and financial institutions, retail, and the public sector. The authors investigate the consumers experience and judgment on service quality, which ultimately determines the success or failure of the service. They then consider people, usability,... The moment of truth that instant when consumers experience and judge service quality is often a deciding factor in business success. Designing S... |
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382,24 zł |
What Water Is Worth: Overlooked Non-Economic Value in Water Resources
ISBN: 9780230340763 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Water is Worth addresses both conventional and non-conventional values of water, discussing the value of water as it relates to conventional microeconomics, water's true utility and government regulation, and new and current practices in water management.
What Water is Worth addresses both conventional and non-conventional values of water, discussing the value of water as it relates to conventional micr...
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389,98 zł |
The Political Economy of Bureaucracy
ISBN: 9780415747349 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementation as an economic process. It addresses the common and vexing question of why managing federal agencies for results is so difficult by challenging traditional assumptions of institutional design and policy analysis. Using creative methods that focus on relationships that constrain the choices of executives and managers in a political hierarchy, the author reveals control and coordination as goals that are imperfectly achieved and often...
The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementati...
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142,67 zł |
The King and His Dominion Governors, 1936
ISBN: 9780415760485 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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224,23 zł |
Negotiating Corruption: Ngos, Governance and Hybridity in West Africa
ISBN: 9780415825269 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption within continually recurring debates about the political inclusion or banishment of 'others'. NGOs are characterised as intermediaries between the local and the international, and between the state and the population. In both of these roles they are understood to reform... Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phe... |
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739,10 zł |
Renewing International Labour Studies
ISBN: 9780415850322 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands. Through a combination of theoretical works and a series of case studies, the volume highlights the cutting edge of international labour studies. Its expands on three pivotal areas of study within the discipline:1) the social construction of new labour forces across an expanding international division of labour; 2) the...
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, ...
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219,12 zł |
Higher Civil Servants in Britain: From 1870 to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780415863735 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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219,12 zł |
London Government and the Welfare Services
ISBN: 9780415864732 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was first published in 1963.
This book was first published in 1963.
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219,12 zł |
The Government and Misgovernment of London
ISBN: 9780415864763 / Angielski / Miękka / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was first published in 1939.
This book was first published in 1939.
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101,89 zł |
Autos, Transit, and Cities
ISBN: 9780674421097 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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294,83 zł |
A Complexity Theory for Public Policy
ISBN: 9781138015746 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in North America and Europe, but a comprehensive framework for these applications is lacking. A Complexity Theory for Public Policy proposes a conceptual synthesis and sets a foundation for future developments and applications. In this book, Goktu Morcol convincingly makes the case that complexity... Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understand... |
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275,19 zł |
Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning
ISBN: 9780137495092 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving planning and policy issues at state, regional, and urban levels. Divided into two parts, Methods which presents quick methods in nine chapters and is organized around the steps in the policy analysis process, and Cases which presents seven policy cases, ranging in degree of complexity, the text provides readers with the resources they need for effective policy planning and analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods are systematically... Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving pla... |
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560,70 zł |