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Governing : Essays in Honour of Donald J. Savoie
ISBN: 9780773541252 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To honour the distinguished career of Donald Savoie, Governing brings together an accomplished group of international scholars who have concerned themselves with the challenges of governance, accountability, public management reform, and regional policy. Governing delves into the two primary fields of interest in Savoie's work - regional development and the nature of executive power in public administration. The majority of chapters deal with issues of democratic governance, particularly the changing relationship over the past thirty years between politicians and public servants. A second set...
To honour the distinguished career of Donald Savoie, Governing brings together an accomplished group of international scholars who have concerned them...
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333,05 |
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The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China: A Social History of Examinations, New Edition
ISBN: 9780791424247 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the profound cultural impact of the civil service examinations during the period when they first became the primary means of government recruitment.
This book explores the profound cultural impact of the civil service examinations during the period when they first became the primary means of gov...
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139,20 |
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In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective
ISBN: 9780817316853 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and skewed priorities. Supporters of this anti-political stance have become even more strident in recent years, many of them advancing scientific models for the study and practice of public administration and governance.Michael Spicer argues that politics deserves to be defended as a vital facet of public administration on the grounds that it can promote moral conduct in government and in public...
Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interest...
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141,98 |
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Governance Reform: Bridging, Monitoring, and Action
ISBN: 9780821370322 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing-country governance and its monitoring have risen to the top of the development agenda. This mounting interest is in response to compelling evidence that links governance to development performance-policy quality, public service provision, the investment climate, and the extent of corruption. 'Governance Reform: Bridging, Monitoring, and Action' lays out a broad framework for analyzing and monitoring governance in developing countries. It identifies fourteen core indicators for governance monitoring both broad measures of overall patterns and specific 'actionable' measures that can...
Developing-country governance and its monitoring have risen to the top of the development agenda. This mounting interest is in response to compelling ...
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102,81 |
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Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries: An Impossible Dream?
ISBN: 9780857248190 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries their governments have introduced many anti-corruption measures since the 1950s. This book analyzes and evaluates the anti-corruption strategies employed in Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. These countries are selected because they represent the three major patterns of corruption control with Japan adopting Pattern 1 (anti-corruption laws without any anti-corruption agency ACA]); India, the Philippines and Taiwan employing Pattern 2 (anti-corruption laws...
As corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries their governments have introduced many anti-corruption measures since the 1950s. This book ...
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644,39 |
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Emerging and Potential Trends in Public Management: An Age of Austerity
ISBN: 9780857249975 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question by the financial and banking crises of 2008, this title investigates public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.
Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question by the financial and banking c...
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479,41 |
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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780857932655 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach, combining complexity science and institutionalism. Part 1 is concerned with the conceptualisation of socio-economic change. It integrates complexity science and institutionalism into a coherent ontology of social and policy dynamics. Part 2 is concerned with models and measurement. It combines some of the principal approaches developed in...
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result...
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226,58 |
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Better Writing: Better Business: An Interactive Writing Skills Programme for United Kingdom Businesses
ISBN: 9780958260626 / Angielski / CD-ROM Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,63 |
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Measuring the Performance of Public Services: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9781107004658 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Measuring the performance of public agencies and programmes is essential to ensure that citizens enjoy quality services and that governments can be sure that taxpayers receive value for money. As such, good performance measurement is a crucial component of improvement and planning, monitoring and control, comparison and benchmarking and also ensures democratic accountability. This book shows how the principles, uses and practice of performance measurement for public services differ from those in for-profit organisations, being based on the need to add public value rather than profit. It...
Measuring the performance of public agencies and programmes is essential to ensure that citizens enjoy quality services and that governments can be su...
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317,17 |
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Corruption and Reform in India
ISBN: 9781107019058 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks why some governments improve public services more effectively than others. Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this fundamental question. In contrast to factors such as economic development or electoral competition, this study highlights the importance of access to rents, which can dramatically shape the opportunities and threats of reform to political elites. Drawing on a sub-national analysis of...
This book asks why some governments improve public services more effectively than others. Through the investigation of a new era of administrative ref...
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442,46 |
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Ethics Challenge 3e
ISBN: 9781118109861 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Ethics Challenge in Public Service is the classic ethics text used in public management programs nationwide. The book serves as a valuable resource for public managers who work in a world that presents numerous ethical challenges every day. It is filled with a wealth of practical tools and strategies that public managers can use when making ethical choices in the ambiguous and pressured world of public service. The book also contains new material on topics such as social networking, the use of apology, ethics as applied to... This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Ethics Challenge in Public Service is the classic ethics text used in public manage... |
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309,33 |
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Social Media in the Public Sector: A Guide to Participation, Collaboration and Transparency in the Networked World
ISBN: 9781118109946 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grounded in solid research, Social Media in the Public Sector explores the myriad uses of social media in the public sector and combines existing practices with theories of public administration, networked governance, and information management. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes best practices, the strategic, managerial, administrative, and procedural aspects of using social media, and explains the theoretical dimensions of how social behavior affects the adoption of social media technologies. Praise for Social Media in the Public Sector -Mergel... Grounded in solid research, Social Media in the Public Sector explores the myriad uses of social media in the public sector and combines ex... |
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309,33 |
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The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in Government Organizations
ISBN: 9781118555934 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Effective Public Manager Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of The Effective Public Manager offers public administrators and students a classic resource and a highly-accessible guide to the fundamentals of leading and managing public organizations. In this new edition the authors cover the key areas of the field and present in-depth analysis through the strategic use of fresh case studies and real-world examples. The book is designed to give real-world managers and aspiring managers the information and tools needed to meet the demands of their jobs... The Effective Public Manager Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of The Effective Public Manager offers public admin... |
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335,11 |
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Organizational Innovation in Public Services: Forms and Governance
ISBN: 9781137011831 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to deliver better services. Organisational Innovation in Public Services develops new theoretical models and analyses case studies to provide an important insight into how to modernise public services.
In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to d...
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201,24 |
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Functions, Methods and Concepts in Evaluation Research
ISBN: 9781137012463 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific roots of Evaluation and offers an overview of its fundamental theories and concepts. The process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting is explored giving an insight into the course of an evaluation.
By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific root...
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402,53 |
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New Technology, Organizational Change and Governance
ISBN: 9781137264220 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly innovative practices. This book analyzes the impact of new technologies testing empowerment, engagement and democratization against the new organizational morphology of political parties and corporations.
Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly innova...
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201,24 |
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European Union Civil Society Policy and Turkey: A Bridge Too Far?
ISBN: 9781137274410 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increasing importance of civil society and civil society actors in recent decades has ensured that they now feature prominently in the European Union's enlargement strategy with the EU now possessing a series of policies on civil society in line with its perceived importance in the expansion of the Eurozone. Drawing on interviews with civil society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institutional environment in Turkey, this book questions the impact that these policies have had on Turkish civil society suggesting that it is,...
The increasing importance of civil society and civil society actors in recent decades has ensured that they now feature prominently in the European Un...
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201,24 |
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Eu Railway Policy-Making: On Track?
ISBN: 9781137274489 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The railways have a long tradition in Europe and the impact that they have on history is as much political as it is social or economic. National governments have traditionally had an active interest in the railways and indeed railways have become synonymous with ideas of state building and intervention. Similarly, on the supra-national level, the EU Commission sees the railways as central to the EU Transport Policy, the Single Market and Sustainable Development. It is perhaps strange then that the creation of an EU Railway Policy has been slow in the making. This book focuses on the role of...
The railways have a long tradition in Europe and the impact that they have on history is as much political as it is social or economic. National gover...
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201,24 |
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Public Administration
ISBN: 9781285434018 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encourages students to become active participants in public administration. This title helps readers teach how to influence the operations of public agencies - helping them learn to get involved and effect positive changes, regardless of whether they are working outside the agency as citizens or within the agency as managers.
Encourages students to become active participants in public administration. This title helps readers teach how to influence the operations of public a...
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489,72 |
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Rethinking Public Services
ISBN: 9781403921574 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important new text, Rajiv Prabhakar reviews the evidence for different models of public services arguing that a combination of state, market and civil society provision is essential in the twenty-first century and drawing out the implications for different contexts, services and forms of provision.
In this important new text, Rajiv Prabhakar reviews the evidence for different models of public services arguing that a combination of state, market a...
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226,79 |
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