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Democratic Policymaking: An Analytic Approach
ISBN: 9780521192873 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction applies analytic models to policymaking challenges, equipping students with tools to evaluate core policymaking dilemmas. Students are introduced to the approaches of game theory, social choice theory, research design and causal inference. Key terms, along with current research, are highlighted to build an understanding of public policy study. Exercises and thought questions enable students to develop skills to assess public policy dilemmas. The analytically rigorous style of the text is accessible and avoids lengthy descriptions. Supplementary resources for instructors...
This introduction applies analytic models to policymaking challenges, equipping students with tools to evaluate core policymaking dilemmas. Students a...
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The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems: Interests, Cultures and Resistance
ISBN: 9783319434278 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years.
This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 ...
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201,24 |
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International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting: Ambassadors of Participation, International Institutions and Transnational Networks
ISBN: 9783319433363 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the action of a group of individuals called "Ambassadors of Participation" was crucial to make PB part of the international agenda. This international dimension has been largely overlooked in the vast literature produced on participatory democracy devices. The book combines public policy analysis and the study of international relations, and makes a broad comparative study of PB, including cases from Latin...
This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now ...
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Rain's Realm: The Future In Bloom
ISBN: 9781514681183 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I wrote this book to make the world a better place just as our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to do the same. Recent history lessons are teaching many to believe the Founding Fathers were a bunch of fat, old white men. However, they were almost all 35 years old and had input from Native Americans and Slaves when writing it Ben Franklin was the oldest at 70 and two of them were only 18. The average age was 44 years old. This is why it is important to know history If you know history or find it out for yourself and remember your own life times' history, nobody can lie to you and...
I wrote this book to make the world a better place just as our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to do the same. Recent history lessons are teac...
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The Importance of Neglect in Policy-Making
ISBN: 9781349318049 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. De Vries argues that it is possible to explain when and in what direction policy change is likely to occur. He argues that what is neglected at present is likely to become dominant in policies of the near future. With the birth of a new policy generation a convergence towards meeting the dominant value of that generation will become evident.
De Vries argues that it is possible to explain when and in what direction policy change is likely to occur. He argues that what is neglected at presen...
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The Endangered West: Myopic Elites and Fragile Social Orders in a Threatening World
ISBN: 9781412864145 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bold political elites and unique forms of social order brought the West to world dominance, but both are weakening dramatically in the contemporary period. The Endangered West makes the case for the continuation of Western power on as wide a global basis as is prudent. Is the survival of Western influence possible, or must we resign ourselves to its eventually being subordinated to more ruthless powers? Higley lays out the main policy lines that successful leadership will have to follow to preserve and strengthen Western societies. These include avoiding futile involvements in the internal...
Bold political elites and unique forms of social order brought the West to world dominance, but both are weakening dramatically in the contemporary pe...
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The Endangered West: Myopic Elites and Fragile Social Orders in a Threatening World
ISBN: 9781412864152 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bold political elites and unique forms of social order brought the West to world dominance, but both are weakening dramatically in the contemporary period. The Endangered West makes the case for the continuation of Western power on as wide a global basis as is prudent. Is the survival of Western influence possible, or must we resign ourselves to its eventually being subordinated to more ruthless powers? Higley lays out the main policy lines that successful leadership will have to follow to preserve and strengthen Western societies. These include avoiding futile involvements in the internal...
Bold political elites and unique forms of social order brought the West to world dominance, but both are weakening dramatically in the contemporary pe...
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Westminster, Governance and the Politics of Policy Inaction: 'Do Nothing'
ISBN: 9781137487056 / Angielski / Twarda / 97 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how political inaction has shaped the politics, economy and society we recognize today, despite the fact that policymakers are incentivised to act and to be seen to act decisively.
This book shows how political inaction has shaped the politics, economy and society we recognize today, despite the fact that policymakers are incenti...
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The Affordable Care Act is Working: A Special Report on Cost Savings
ISBN: 9781534679610 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the most dramatic and hard-fought political battle of our time-after decades of failed attempts by both Democratic and Republican presidents-Democrats in 2010 finally succeeded in passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). With all of its length and complexity, it had three simple objectives: (1) provide quality health insurance for every citizen, (2) improve the quality of health care for every person, and (3) bring health care costs under control. Democrats demonstrated their commitment to making quality affordable health care available to every American through their...
In the most dramatic and hard-fought political battle of our time-after decades of failed attempts by both Democratic and Republican presidents-Democr...
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Civil Society and Mirror Images of Weak States: Bangladesh and the Philippines
ISBN: 9781137554611 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies.
This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies con...
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Universities and the Europe of Knowledge: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Union Higher Education Policy, 1955-2005
ISBN: 9781349516070 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of the EC at work over 50 years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a rich background narrative to current strategic efforts to develop the Europe of Knowledge, and to the Bologna Process. Its analytic interest in ideas and individual 'policy entrepreneurs' underpins the story and advances understanding of the EU policy process and of the phenomenon of policy entrepreneurship.
This is a story of the EC at work over 50 years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a rich ...
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Public Policy Values
ISBN: 9781349363681 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so.
More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. ...
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201,24 |
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Observing Policy-Making in Indonesia
ISBN: 9789811022418 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conducted at the School of Government and Public Policy (Indonesia), the research presented here provides original insights into the country's public policy processes by exploring the conditions on the ground that shape implementation.
Conducted at the School of Government and Public Policy (Indonesia), the research presented here provides original insights into the country's public ...
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Becoming a Knowledge-Sharing Organization: A Handbook for Scaling Up Solutions Through Knowledge Capturing and Sharing
ISBN: 9781464809439 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale-up successes. Its recommendations are grounded on the insights gained from the past seven years of collaboration between the World Bank and its clients around the world--ministries and national agencies operating in various sectors--who are working to strengthen their operations through robust knowledge sharing....
This volume offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling enviro...
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Translating Agency Reform: Rhetoric and Culture in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781349368655 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea.
Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political culture...
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Us Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry
ISBN: 9781138881877 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the geographic displacement of the illicit drug industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. To reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin from abroad, the US has relied on coercion against farmers, traffickers and governments, but this has only exacerbated the world's drugs problems. US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs develops and applies a causal mechanism to explain the displacement, analyzing US anti-drug initiatives at different times and in various regions. The findings clearly show that American foreign policy has been a major driving force... This book examines the geographic displacement of the illicit drug industry as a side effect of United States foreign policy. To reduce the supply ... |
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Public Sector Performance and Development Cooperation in Rwanda: Results-Based Approaches
ISBN: 9783319421438 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according to their actor constellation and shared characteristics. Though the importance of functioning public sector agencies and organizations for sustainable development is accepted, public sector reform efforts have achieved only modest success. Results-Based Approaches aim at improving public sector performance through the establishment of reward modalities on the domestic and international levels, and the authors evaluate the potential of these... This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according... |
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Public Service Innovations in China
ISBN: 9789811017612 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China's public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand service recipients, adopt new technologies, engage partners, and streamline service processes have been employed widely in China to increase service efficiency, enhance quality, enlarge coverage,... This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China's public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experie... |
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Laws That Shape Our Lives: Public Policy Essays
ISBN: 9780692736388 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological & genetic material.
Written in an academic style based on research and primary source documents, Laws That Shape Our Lives presents a comprehensive analysis of the history, major points of debate, and the current state of affairs of these topics and more. Laws That Shape... From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives
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Unsafe on Any Campus? College Sexual Assault and What We Can Do about It
ISBN: 9781940869759 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover here an unsparing and unflinching look into the reality of today's campus life and why it puts students at risk for sexual assault and rape each year. Read why strategies that rely on the U.S. court system to achieve justice fall short of achieving meaningful resolution. Sam Staley, a social scientist by training and vocation, taps into the personal stories of rape survivors, recent academic research, and his experience as a self-defense coach to frame a bold strategy for dealing with this ongoing scourge. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of advocates, campus rape...
Discover here an unsparing and unflinching look into the reality of today's campus life and why it puts students at risk for sexual assault and rape e...
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