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New Approach to Audit, Control and Supervision of the Local Government
ISBN: 9783838355191 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The challenges facing local government and audit, control and supervision systems (ACSS) in the 21st century are complex and rapidly changing. This book discusses why the present paradigm of the treatment of the ACSS of local government cannot be a reliable means of contemporary good governance anymore. This book also presents and discusses a principally new theoretical approach to the audit, control and supervision model of the local government sector. Even though the authors research is based on the case of Estonia, known as a small constitutional democratic liberal society with...
The challenges facing local government and audit, control and supervision systems (ACSS) in the 21st century are complex and rapidly changing. This ...
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Competition and Cooperation Among Cities
ISBN: 9783838366289 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most cities in America today operate in a fragmented metropolitan system in which they compete with each other for residents and employers in much the same way that private companies compete for customers. Cities regularly seek out opportunities to meet the rising expectations of their residents for both higher services and lower property tax rates. One way cities can achieve cost savings is to cooperate with other cities in the delivery of goods and services. Such efforts often can improve the quality of the services being provided and reduce costs by taking advantage of economies of...
Most cities in America today operate in a fragmented metropolitan system in which they compete with each other for residents and employers in much the...
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Technical Education in Kenya, with a Focus on Youth Polytechnics
ISBN: 9783838383071 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nexus between education and development has for centuries preoccupied educationists and policy-makers. Kenya, like many other developing states in search for development, has not been left out of these debates. Immediately after independence, Kenyan policy-makers were already grappling with the high numbers of unemployment among the youth. Formal education, largely geared towards meeting the needs of the formal sector, was seen to be part of the problem. Consequently, the government of Kenya decided to streamline and strengthen vocational education whose roots lay in efforts made by the...
The nexus between education and development has for centuries preoccupied educationists and policy-makers. Kenya, like many other developing states in...
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Enhancing Urban Service Delivery Through Partnerships in Namibia
ISBN: 9783838373485 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public-private partnerships (PPP) have become an important instrument in sub-national government's development assistance. PPP also adds a new variant to cooperation between governments and the economy of their countries. It concerns the establishment of purposeful joint business ventures at programme level, which aims at providing a more efficient and effective service delivery. Furthermore, the aim of PPP arrangements is to ensure that the approach being use is pro poor. In this regard the City of Windhoek has embarked on such a PPP arrangement to enhance the living conditions of the...
Public-private partnerships (PPP) have become an important instrument in sub-national government's development assistance. PPP also adds a new variant...
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The Contradictions of Culture and Commerce
ISBN: 9783838373775 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through this book we trace the interventions of the: state, industry, and public in the development of public policy. An issue continually returned to throughout this analysis is how can public policy analysis link both the creative and analytical elements that arise out of economic, political and social forums as they interact with one another? This book suggests that to really understand the public policy process a synoptic type analysis needs to be undertaken, one that looks at a particular public policy, in this case feature film policy and the influences upon it over an extended period...
Through this book we trace the interventions of the: state, industry, and public in the development of public policy. An issue continually returned to...
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Administrative Reform in Post-War Lebanon
ISBN: 9783838314396 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1990s, Lebanon, a small Eastern Mediterranean country, engaged in a comprehensive administrative reform with intellectual and financial support from major donors such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the European Union. Administrative reform aimed at laying the foundation for a modern government sector premised on the latest models of public management advocated by donors as international 'best practice'. Yet, achieving this objective proved to be a daunting, quasi impossible task in Lebanon's dilapidated and outdated post-war public service. This book...
During the 1990s, Lebanon, a small Eastern Mediterranean country, engaged in a comprehensive administrative reform with intellectual and financial sup...
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Governing State Economies
ISBN: 9783838364407 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can state governments make policies that support sustainable economic growth without undermining it in the long term? This question reverberates throughout American states as the repercussions of the Great Recession take hold. Drawing upon the theory of contestable markets, this book develops a framework for analyzing how democratic politics and jurisdictional rivalries shape how states govern their economies. The institutional design and control of governments and configuration of jurisdictional competition for economic resources can limit problematic policy regimes. Using historical,...
Can state governments make policies that support sustainable economic growth without undermining it in the long term? This question reverberates throu...
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A framework for multi-sphere disaster risk reduction
ISBN: 9783838360881 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1960s there has been a constant evolution in the common understanding of international disaster management. Despite international efforts aimed at reducing the impact of hazards on humankind, very little progress was made. Disaster losses are on the increase. Unsustainable developmental activities could in most instances be blamed for the high level of disaster risk present in communities. This monograph aims to develop a comprehensive multi-sphere disaster reduction framework that is tailor-made for the strategic management arena in South Africa. The research provides the...
Since the 1960s there has been a constant evolution in the common understanding of international disaster management. Despite international efforts ...
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Local Development
ISBN: 9783838365459 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the context of the new millennium, the local development becomes an important pillar in view to achieve public management reform and to valorize the communities endogenous resources. Supported through specific mechanisms by OECD, EU, UNDP etc., the local development policies turn into account own analysis and assessment methods, based on traditional or modern outcomes of public economics, systemic analysis or input-output as well as social statistics. Structured in six chapters, the book accomplishes relevant syntheses between the theoretical and empirical approaches on systemic...
In the context of the new millennium, the local development becomes an important pillar in view to achieve public management reform and to valorize ...
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Participatory Implementation of Endangered Species Policy
ISBN: 9783838301617 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines implementation of the Colorado Species Conservation Partnership (CSCP), a voluntary, landowner-initiated state endangered species program. The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of implementation success in achieving wise habitat preservation and species management agreements between landowners, the implementing agency - Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) - and in certain cases, a third party, non- governmental organization; for critical, threatened and endangered species. Since most human activities harmful to wildlife and its essential habitat...
This book examines implementation of the Colorado Species Conservation Partnership (CSCP), a voluntary, landowner-initiated state endangered specie...
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Good Governance in Government Agencies
ISBN: 9783838301471 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public management and quality in the public sector have a number of unique conditions in comparison with the private sector. They presume basic preconditions, common to socio-political and administrative culture: legitimacy, the rule of law and ethical behaviour based on common values and principles such as openness, accountability, participation, diversity, equity, social justice, solidarity, collaboration and partnerships. Public policy is implemented in and by government agencies; this is the very place where the concept of good governance gets promoted first. The case study...
Public management and quality in the public sector have a number of unique conditions in comparison with the private sector. They presume basic pre...
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Creating Public Value Through Collaborative Networks
ISBN: 9783838355719 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The evolution of the first one hundred years of public administration established the pallet upon which we function today. Organizations of the 21st Century are challenged to emerge from their "silos" to function more effectively in complex environments. Their challenge is to create, sustain and maintain their public value that ensures their sustainability to tackle todays and tomorrows wicked problems. This book examines collaborative networks from a number of perspectives including decision making, membership and the factors relating to policy influence on home organizations....
The evolution of the first one hundred years of public administration established the pallet upon which we function today. Organizations of the 21s...
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Migrants as 'The Other'
ISBN: 9783838339818 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under the registration policy, rights of migrant workers in Thailand are very limited. Additionally, migrants face particular difficulties in their daily life in some provinces when provincial decree has been issued and implemented. This book discloses the background and implementation of the provincial decree and tells about its impact on the daily life of migrant workers. The provincial decree is also a catalyst in the expansion of abuse. In fact, the violations are directly connected with the mindset of Thai citizens that views migrants as "the other". This mindset can be said...
Under the registration policy, rights of migrant workers in Thailand are very limited. Additionally, migrants face particular difficulties in their...
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Land Reform in Namibia
ISBN: 9783838346700 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Land Reform in Namibia: . The primary objective of the research is to identify the prevailing values behind the land reform, formulate precise objectives that reflect the inherent values, and analyse the existing options with a view to identifying the delivery mechanism(s) most appropriate to meeting the land reform objectives and to delivering the desired outcomes in a sustainable way. Namibia inherited skewed land ownership. The land reform debate focuses mainly on the redistribution of commercial farms, which are mostly owned by whites, and the tenure reform in the communal areas. The...
Land Reform in Namibia: . The primary objective of the research is to identify the prevailing values behind the land reform, formulate precise objecti...
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Collaborative Governance and The Implementation of Ryan White CARE Act
ISBN: 9783838346991 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complex problems of the twenty-first century cannot be effectively addressed with twentieth century top-down bureaucratic governance alone because of limited stakeholder participation in collective decision making and/or implementation.The somewhat limited stakeholder participation in the policy process, especially, that of target populations, can impact generating viable solutions to complex problems.This book uses collaborative governance concept to underscore its promising alternative to traditional management in addressing contemporary complex problems by drawing on the experiences of...
The complex problems of the twenty-first century cannot be effectively addressed with twentieth century top-down bureaucratic governance alone because...
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Politics of Small Business Policymaking in Japan, 1955 to 1993
ISBN: 9783838391915 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who is the most influential in Japan's policymaking process? How does the most powerful actor exert influence? What kind of role does a particular political actor play in the process? Although it has been said that bureaucrats rule Japan, I would like to argue that the ruling party is the dominant political actor in policymaking process. And the book's main goal is to elaborate what kind of political power structure the ruling party has developed, and to demonstrate how the ruling party overrules policy preferences of other political actors, such as interest groups, opposition parties, and...
Who is the most influential in Japan's policymaking process? How does the most powerful actor exert influence? What kind of role does a particular pol...
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A Novel Instrument of Regional Development in Turkey
ISBN: 9783838393773 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Turkey, regional development has been grasped as an extension of national development and top-down policies have been applied.However, these policies have not been successful and created deep socio-economic disparities between the regions.With Turkey's highly motivated accession bid to EU, at the end of the 1990s, effects of Copenhagen Criteria have been influential in the country.Europeanization process obliges amendments in many parts of Turkish polity as well as the administrative structure of Turkey.The process favors bottom-up, decentralized policies where regional actors become more...
In Turkey, regional development has been grasped as an extension of national development and top-down policies have been applied.However, these polici...
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Regional Governance in Namibia
ISBN: 9783843352390 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study examines the importance of consultation and communication regarding service delivery in Namibia, with specific emphasis to the Oshana region. The research problem is that inadequate consultation and communication between Regional Councillors and community members takes place, resulting in inequitable service delivery at grassroots level. The research includes a case study that assesses the degree and the extent to which consultation and communication takes place at constituency level in the region. The findings of the research indicate that a great effort has been made...
The study examines the importance of consultation and communication regarding service delivery in Namibia, with specific emphasis to the Oshana reg...
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Presidential Policy Rhetoric
ISBN: 9783843352048 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book undertakes a holistic analysis of President George W. Bushs 2005 Social Security Reform Campaign arguing for the option to set aside a portion of ones contributions into a personal account with several investment alternatives. The campaign represents a particularly useful example of a concerted effort by a president to persuade the nation, partly because he led on the issue so publicly. In this attempt, the President did not succeed. Making use of classical and modern understandings of rhetoric, psychology, and political science, the book looks at the Presidents language, likely...
This book undertakes a holistic analysis of President George W. Bushs 2005 Social Security Reform Campaign arguing for the option to set aside a porti...
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The Distribution of Student Financial Aid and Social Justice in China
ISBN: 9783838394152 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last two decades a series of student financial aid (SFA) schemes have been established in Chinese higher education institutions. The Chinese government's stated objective of SFA policy is to help students from low-income families to access higher levels of education. This thesis explores the extent to which this objective has been achieved. Situated in the context of the significant educational changes since 1985, it considers the patterns of distribution of SFA among students with various socio-economic and demographic backgrounds, and examines the social and administrative...
During the last two decades a series of student financial aid (SFA) schemes have been established in Chinese higher education institutions. The Chines...
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