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For-Profit Organizations For Social Change
ISBN: 9783639135794 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporate philanthropy is an attempt by for-profit
organizations to improve social conditions, and over time, this activity is ubiquitous with a firms financial performance and long-term goals. A for-profit organizations involvement in seemingly non-profit activities is, therefore, of significant interest for research. This study examines the decision-making process pertaining to the selection of nonprofit organizations for support. By applying case study methodology and through in-depth interviews of executives from corporations based in the North Texas region, the researcher studies... Corporate philanthropy is an attempt by for-profit
organizations to improve social conditions, and over time, this activity is ubiquitous with... |
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Multilevel Asssessment of Hierarchical Governance
ISBN: 9783639128772 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book estimates the impacts on the use of local
management innovations (e.g., adopting performance measures) related to local service delivery contracting. The previous research has only tested local management innovations from an individual local level, rather than estimate how state factors influence local practices, which obviously ignore the federalism in the United States. The model strategies this book employs include local and state variables with a time linear growth and a growth curve estimated by a Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) and a Hierarchical Generalized Linear... This book estimates the impacts on the use of local
management innovations (e.g., adopting performance measures) related to local service de... |
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263,91 |
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Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation
ISBN: 9781560002567 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making. Meanwhile, the intergovernmental nature of political and policy governance has been ignored. Whether it is Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Japan, or any other industrial country, the governmental structure is essentially a web of interrelated...
Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and project...
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438,05 |
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Decentralization and Local Government: Danish-Polish Comparative Study
ISBN: 9780887387302 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cleaner Production: Myth and Reality
ISBN: 9783639124460 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cleaner production is considered the ideal solution
to environmental problems as it reduces pollutants and at the same time improves product quality, reduce raw materials and energy inputs. While the objectives of cleaner production, that is a better product at the lowest inputs, have been always been the ultimate goals of inventors and investors throughout human history, long before the term cleaner production was coined, the intervention of the international political system in promoting cleaner production in developing countries has been unprecedented. The author examined the... Cleaner production is considered the ideal solution
to environmental problems as it reduces pollutants and at the same time improves product... |
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Texas Homeland Security
ISBN: 9783639129137 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Policy implementation and intergovernmental relationships are most often examined from a federal/state perspective. Texas Homeland Security, however, examines the effectiveness of the working relationships between the agencies that actually implement homeland security policies within the State of Texas. Utilizing elite interviews conducted with principal homeland security officials from regional Councils of Government and survey responses from chiefs of police across the state, Ms. Brown examines what environmental, agency, and individual characteristics are associated with effective working...
Policy implementation and intergovernmental relationships are most often examined from a federal/state perspective. Texas Homeland Security, however, ...
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Evaluating the U.S. Human Genome Project
ISBN: 9783639128871 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, Evaluating the U.S. Human Genome Project,
presents a comprehensive policy appraisal of a large-scale science program. Sponsored in the United States by the National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy, the Human Genome Project (HGP) endeavored to sequence a reference human genome. A genome is the complete set of DNA comprised of nucleotide bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine, in a cells nucleus. The HGPs scientific goal was to determine the order of these chemical bases within the 23 pairs of chromosomes. Project promoters justified the public investment,... This book, Evaluating the U.S. Human Genome Project,
presents a comprehensive policy appraisal of a large-scale science program. Sponsored in ... |
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If We Can Put a Man on the Moon...: Getting Big Things Done in Government
ISBN: 9781422166369 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare reform, the moon landing. We need more successes like these to reclaim government's legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, William Eggers and John O'Leary explain how to do it. The key? Understand-and avoid-the common pitfalls that trip up public-sector leaders during the...
The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that se...
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Policy Transfer in European Union Governance: Regulating the Utilities
ISBN: 9780415543507 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities. Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how the nature of institutions, interdependence between trans-national and national jurisdictions and social systems, relate policy actors across geographical boundaries, identifying four basic types of EU policy transfer and learning:
This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical st... |
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Ernest Gowers: Plain Words and Forgotten Deeds
ISBN: 9780230580251 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil servants. Gowers was highly influential in public policy throughout his long civil service career, which began in 1903 and culminated in running London's civil defence throughout the Second World War.
Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil ser...
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Handbook of Research on E-Government Readiness for Information and Service Exchange: Utilizing Progressive Information Communication Technologies
ISBN: 9781605666716 / Angielski / Twarda / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Research on E-Government Readiness for Information and Service Exchange: Utilizing Progressive Information Communication Technologies formulates leading ICT strategies for the development of efficient and effective e-government systems.
The Handbook of Research on E-Government Readiness for Information and Service Exchange: Utilizing Progressive Information Communication Technologies ...
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Accountability in Public Expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean: Revitalizing Reforms in Financial Management and Procurement
ISBN: 9780821379844 / Angielski / Miękka / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiscal discipline and public sector efficiency became prominent issues in Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1980 s following external debt crises that troubled many countries in the region. Resolution of the debt crises necessitated a first wave of reforms that largely focused on upgrading legal and regulatory frameworks or improving information systems. Nearly twenty years later progress in matching OECD practices and performance in public financial management and procurement has been uneven and has been one of the factors that impeded higher growth and competitiveness in Latin...
Fiscal discipline and public sector efficiency became prominent issues in Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1980 s following external debt c...
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Civil Service Reform: Strengthening World Bank and IMF Collaboration
ISBN: 9780821350959 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In September 2001, staff from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met with the objective of strengthening collaboration between the two organizations in projects of civil service reform. This strengthened collaboration will have key benefits in ensuring consistency between the conflicting goals of the two organizations, establishing realistic objectives within the reform process, and maintaining a core set of wage and employment data. The principal conclusion arrived at was that World Bank and IMF staff should be engaging in collaboration earlier in the reform process. To guide...
In September 2001, staff from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met with the objective of strengthening collaboration between the two...
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Global Banking Regulation & Supervision: What Are the Issues & What Are the Practices?
ISBN: 9781607413158 / Angielski / Miękka / 97 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past two decades have witnessed change and growth in the financial sector. This study draws on recent research and detailed cross-country data, including data from a World Bank survey of bank regulation and supervision world-wide, to focus on the underlying reasons for and implications of developments in a variety of areas.
The past two decades have witnessed change and growth in the financial sector. This study draws on recent research and detailed cross-country data, in...
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Achieving Competencies in Public Service: The Professional Edge: The Professional Edge
ISBN: 9780765623478 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'skills triangle' of technical, ethical, and leadership abilities. This concise and readable work focuses on these three essential skills, and describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. Essential reading for both professionals and students, "Achieving Competencies in Public Service: The Professional Edge" sets standards for anyone who conducts the public's business, and links them with performance management, human...
The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'ski...
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Sustainable Development for Public Administration
ISBN: 9780765622723 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking text focuses on the application of sustainability and sustainable development theories to public administration practice. It's designed to guide planning, resource management, and outcomes measurement for future and current non-profit and public managers. The book introduces sustainable development and related theories; ties these theories to public administration practice; and, elaborates on applications to specific PA specializations including energy management, transportation, water, waste management, urban development, wildlife conservation, and higher education. It...
This groundbreaking text focuses on the application of sustainability and sustainable development theories to public administration practice. It's des...
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Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It
ISBN: 9780674034785 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hear commentary by Paul Light on why young, talented workers are steering clear of jobs in the federal government (from National Public Radio). The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called "the true test" of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government. Employing Hamilton's seven measures of an energetic federal service, Paul Light shows how the government is wanting in each... Hear commentary by Paul Light on why young, talented workers are steering clear of jobs in the federal government (from National Public Radio).<... |
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Self-Organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas
ISBN: 9780521764933 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the self-organizing responses of governments and interests to the institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas of particular concern to students of federalism, urban governance, and regional management of natural resources. ICA dilemmas arise in fragmented systems whenever decisions by one independent formal authority do not consider costs or benefits imposed on others. The ICA framework analyzes networks, joint projects, partnerships, and other mechanisms developed by affected parties to mitigate ICA decision externalities. These mechanisms play a widespread but...
This book investigates the self-organizing responses of governments and interests to the institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas of particular ...
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Innovations in Governance and Public Administration: Replicating What Works
ISBN: 9789211231588 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication sheds light on the many challenges and opportunities of innovations in governance as a developmental tool. The publication provides key ideas and useful tools to transfer and adapt successful practices and innovations in governance and public administration. By providing governments with a menu of innovations to solve economic and social problems effectively and with tools to adapt to their own context, the international community can play a critical role in promoting good governance. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN).
This publication sheds light on the many challenges and opportunities of innovations in governance as a developmental tool. The publication provides k...
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Institutional Review Boards
ISBN: 9783639083453 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Issues involving the risks and benefits of human
subjects research converge at the intersection of research in engineering, science, ethics, medicine, and technology and society. By law, research organizations must establish an institutional review board (IRB) to decide whether to approve research with human participants. With over 6500 IRBs in the US, IRB decision-making can vary beyond the basic federal guidelines. Both policymakers and researchers increasingly are focusing on the adequacy of the existing oversight system. As tension mounts over applicability of the guidelines... Issues involving the risks and benefits of human
subjects research converge at the intersection of research in engineering, science, ethics,... |
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