ilość książek w kategorii: 8141
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The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
ISBN: 9780674863453 / Angielski / Twarda / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the... Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administra... |
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283,29 |
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Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications and Cases
ISBN: 9780765636881 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector. The book features a practical, case-study approach, and includes plentiful exercises and examples. It is designed as a textbook for courses on public financial management or public budgeting that focus on the application of budgeting and financial management tools. Public service professionals will also benefit from this handy primer.
The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector. The bo...
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881,59 |
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Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications and Cases
ISBN: 9780765636898 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector. The book features a practical, case-study approach, and includes plentiful exercises and examples. It is designed as a textbook for courses on public financial management or public budgeting that focus on the application of budgeting and financial management tools. Public service professionals will also benefit from this handy primer.
The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector. The bo...
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303,61 |
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Beyond the Storms: Strengthening Homeland Security and Disaster Management to Achieve Resilience
ISBN: 9780765641953 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the current era of global climate change. The topics of preparedness, critical infrastructure investments, and risk assessment are covered in detail. The author takes the reader beyond counterterrorism statistics, better first responder equipment, and a fixation on FEMA grant proposals to a holistic analysis and implementation of mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. The recent Oklahoma tornadoes and West Texas storage tank explosion show...
This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the c...
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710,17 |
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Beyond the Storms: Strengthening Homeland Security and Disaster Management to Achieve Resilience
ISBN: 9780765641960 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the current era of global climate change. The topics of preparedness, critical infrastructure investments, and risk assessment are covered in detail. The author takes the reader beyond counterterrorism statistics, better first responder equipment, and a fixation on FEMA grant proposals to a holistic analysis and implementation of mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. The recent Oklahoma tornadoes and West Texas storage tank explosion show...
This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the c...
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225,25 |
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Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9781107627864 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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206,36 |
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De La Pauvrete A La Prosperite: Decentralisation et Developpement Economique en Haiti
ISBN: 9781532876158 / Francuski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "De La Pauvrete A La Prosperite: Decentralisation et Developpement Economique En Haiti" est le deuxieme ouvrage de Montfort Alexis. A travers ce document didactique, l'auteur a le merite d'entamer un plaidoyer convaincant pour une Haiti decentralisee sur le plan politique, administratif et fiscal, ce qui pourra amener a la reduction de la pauvrete, a l'utilisation efficace des ressources du pays, a la participation citoyenne, a la gestion democratique et efficace des institutions centrales et locales et a la croissance economique. Issu d'un travail intellectuel, ce livre decrit les effets...
"De La Pauvrete A La Prosperite: Decentralisation et Developpement Economique En Haiti" est le deuxieme ouvrage de Montfort Alexis. A travers ce docum...
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60,65 |
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Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781442271784 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collaborative and conflicting relationship between nonprofits and government at all levels: local, national, and international. The contributors all leading experts explore how government regulates, facilitates, finances, and oversees nonprofit activities, and how nonprofits, in turn, try to shape the way government serves the public and promotes the civic, religious, and cultural life of the country. Buttressed by rigorous scholarship, a solid grasp...
Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collabo...
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303,66 |
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Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict
ISBN: 9781442271777 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collaborative and conflicting relationship between nonprofits and government at all levels: local, national, and international. The contributors all leading experts explore how government regulates, facilitates, finances, and oversees nonprofit activities, and how nonprofits, in turn, try to shape the way government serves the public and promotes the civic, religious, and cultural life of the country. Buttressed by rigorous scholarship, a solid grasp...
Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collabo...
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612,21 |
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Statesmen and Mischief Makers: Volume Iii: Officeholders and Their Contributions to History from Kennedy to Reagan
ISBN: 9781514469767 / Angielski / Miękka / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My first two volumes of Statesmen and Mischief Makers portrayed the stories of officeholders who had tremendous impact on politics at the national level, either by way of Presidential proximity, legislative accomplishments or simply through living a life of idiosyncrasies that made a great anecdote - or two. Governors and big-city Mayors are no different. There were smart leaders, courageous leaders, visionary leaders, and inevitably, small-minded and even unscrupulous leaders. In other words, leaders who were anything but. Whatever the case, the Governors that ushered their state structure...
My first two volumes of Statesmen and Mischief Makers portrayed the stories of officeholders who had tremendous impact on politics at the national lev...
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123,76 |
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Governance in Developing Asia: Public Service Delivery and Empowerment
ISBN: 9781784715588 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governance in Developing Asia is one of the first books of its kind to provide an overview of the role that better governance and citizen empowerment can play in improving public service delivery in developing Asia. The World Development Report 2004 set a framework for public service delivery in terms of the short and long roads to accountability of service providers to citizens. More than a decade on, this important book revisits the issue and departs from the WDR framework, highlighting its shortcomings and offering alternative solutions. The contributors present fresh evidence on the...
Governance in Developing Asia is one of the first books of its kind to provide an overview of the role that better governance and citizen empowerment ...
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205,96 |
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Multi-Level Governance: Essential Readings
ISBN: 9781783479788 / Angielski / Twarda / 1520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term 'multi-level governance' (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering three waves of MLG scholarship; the first wave focuses largely on debates around Europe and the regions; the second on the nature and impact of MLG in wider settings (local, national and global) and the implications for accountability; and the third discusses MLG of different types and in new terrains (geographical or policy).
The term 'multi-level governance' (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politic...
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3722,27 |
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Public Service Anti-Corruption and Performance Reform
ISBN: 9783659772566 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, corruption and anti-corruption have dominated talk on public sector reform. Governments around the world have enacted laws, set up special anti-corruption agencies; and increased salaries for public servants.Yet, corruption levels continue to persistently soar. The study puts forward two possible schools of thought that could offer a partial explanation to this paradox. One, reform focused on rules and punishments (legal approach) are expensive to pursue in contexts of societal acceptance of corruption - in which even those supposed to enforce the law cannot stand...
Over the past two decades, corruption and anti-corruption have dominated talk on public sector reform. Governments around the world have enacted laws,...
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178,47 |
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One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast
ISBN: 9780691621920 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Zolberg brings the factual material about the Ivory Coast's social, economic, and political development since 1961-1962. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly... Professor Zolberg brings the factual material about the Ivory Coast's social, economic, and political development since 1961-1962. Originally... |
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284,07 |
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West Bengal and the Federalizing Process in India
ISBN: 9780691622767 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its independence in 1947, India, as a large, diverse, and rapidly changing country, has had to meet federalizing problems of a magnitude unprecedented in history. The result has been a process that combines, modifies, and transforms many established ideas about federalism. Professor Franda deals with the complexities of India's experience by analyzing the politics of center-state relations as they affect one Indian state. He explores the various ways in which central and state leadership groups in India and West Bengal have developed working relationships, and examines the effect of... Since its independence in 1947, India, as a large, diverse, and rapidly changing country, has had to meet federalizing problems of a magnitude unpr... |
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195,91 |
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From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9781466619098 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government to E- Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age attempts to introduce innovative theoretical frameworks and fresh insights derived from the latest empirical research findings in the area of comparative e-governance. The impact that ICTs have in our society in general as well as on...
In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of ...
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922,53 |
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Building a Competitive Public Sector with Knowledge Management Strategy
ISBN: 9781466644342 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organizational strategies in the public sector are constantly changing and growing. In order for organizations to remain successful and competitive, they must ensure that the stream of knowledge is managed effectively. Building a Competitive Public Sector with Knowledge Management Strategy explores different practices and theories of knowledge management, providing an efficient way of sustaining knowledge to improve organizational learning and enhance company performance. By intelligently analyzing current research, this publication is beneficial to managers, practitioners, and researchers...
Organizational strategies in the public sector are constantly changing and growing. In order for organizations to remain successful and competitive, t...
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948,15 |
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IT in the Public Sphere: Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning
ISBN: 9781466647190 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collaborate with their citizens. IT in the Public Sphere: Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning evaluates current research and best practices in the adoption of e-government technologies in developed and developing countries, enabling governments to keep in constant communication with citizens, constituents, corporations, and other stakeholders in modern societies. Within these chapters, scholars, administrators, managers,...
To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collabo...
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1025,03 |
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Strengthening Urban Management: International Perspectives and Issues
ISBN: 9781468475883 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing cities and providing housing, essential infra structure and public services in an era of great pressures on municipal resources are challenging domestic issues in all parts of the world. Increasingly, city administrators and local government authorities in developing countries and western industrial nations are seeking to share experiences and exchange information in a search for solutions. This highly informative volume attempts to meet this critical need and to aid development cooperation among municipalities. Strengthening Urban Management presents the practical problems and...
Managing cities and providing housing, essential infra structure and public services in an era of great pressures on municipal resources are challengi...
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201,24 |
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City Management Snapshots: On the Run
ISBN: 9781490369068 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,37 |