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Strategies for School Equity: Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society
ISBN: 9780300184105 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the pursuit of a first-rate education for all students, America's public schools have struggled to achieve fuller racial integration and higher academic standards. Yet sharp inequities between prosperous school districts and poorer districts remain, reinforced by traditional ways of funding and administering public education. This book brings together cutting-edge ideas and strategies of prominent advocates of school equity reform. Discussing their first-hand experiences in forming coalitions, framing court cases, and dealing with state politics in New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, Michigan,...
In the pursuit of a first-rate education for all students, America's public schools have struggled to achieve fuller racial integration and higher aca...
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Tax Cheating: Illegal--But Is It Immoral?
ISBN: 9781438442709 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From unreported gambling winnings and inflated claims of the value of clothing donated to charity to money hidden in Swiss bank accounts and high-profile tax schemes plotted by celebrities and business leaders, the range of tax cheating opportunities is wide and the boundaries and moral status can be hazy. Considering the behavior of individuals and small businesses as well as the involvement of congress and the IRS, Donald Morris combines insights from law, psychology, sociology, criminology, accounting, economics, and philosophy to examine the ethical issues surrounding tax cheating and...
From unreported gambling winnings and inflated claims of the value of clothing donated to charity to money hidden in Swiss bank accounts and high-prof...
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Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California
ISBN: 9781439880128 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quality public education, modern highway systems, and reasonably priced housing-these are just some of the qualities that once made California one of the most desirable places to live. Just a few decades later, the state finds itself with an education system that is failing its citizens, one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, and a quickly evaporating dream of home ownership. Illustrating each step of the breakdown that led to its current state of dysfunction, Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California provides insight into a system gone... Quality public education, modern highway systems, and reasonably priced housing-these are just some of the qualities that once made California one ... |
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Collaboration in Public Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Boundary Spanners
ISBN: 9781447300304 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collaborative working is an established feature of the public, business and third sector environments, but its effectiveness can be hampered by complex structural and personal variants. This original book explores the influence of agency through the role of individual actors in collaborative working processes, known as boundary spanners. It examines the different aspects of the boundary spanner's role and discusses the skills, abilities, and experience that are necessary. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in this field of study, and provides learning for...
Collaborative working is an established feature of the public, business and third sector environments, but its effectiveness can be hampered by comple...
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The Apartisan American: Dealignment and the Transformation of Electoral Politics
ISBN: 9781452216942 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using 60 years of electoral surveys, Russell J Dalton's friendly and concise book shows students how apartisans are introducing new volatility into electoral politics, changing the calculus of electoral decision-making and altering the behaviour of political parties.
Using 60 years of electoral surveys, Russell J Dalton's friendly and concise book shows students how apartisans are introducing new volatility into el...
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290,87 |
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What You Must Do For Your Country
ISBN: 9781456495992 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States is facing mounting threats to its hegemony and to the standard of living of its citizens. What You Must Do for Your Country highlights a number of practices that threaten the quality of life of Americans. The author points to the resource-intense housing arrangement and transportation systems as significant risks. He stresses the dangers of the country's dependence on fossil fuels. He argues the merits of a carbon tax and a steep gasoline tax. Gendreau regards mounting public debt as another threat to the quality of life of Americans. He proposes bold measures to balance the...
The United States is facing mounting threats to its hegemony and to the standard of living of its citizens. What You Must Do for Your Country highligh...
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America's True Green Future: 100 Common Sense Reasons to Legalize Cannabis
ISBN: 9781462892228 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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America's True Green Future: 100 Common Sense Reasons to Legalize Cannabis
ISBN: 9781462892235 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Managing E-Government Projects: Concepts, Issues, and Best Practices
ISBN: 9781466600867 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. E-government promises efficient communication, streamlined operations, citizen involvement, improved services, and increased transparency. However, despite huge investments in e-government, evidence suggests numerous e-government projects are late, over budget, and inadequate. Managing E-Government Projects: Concepts, Issues, and Best Practices collects the work of some of the best scholars and practitioners in the fields of e-government and project management, who explore how e-government projects can be managed, planned, and executed with effective project management techniques and...
E-government promises efficient communication, streamlined operations, citizen involvement, improved services, and increased transparency. However, de...
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The Measure of a Nation : How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing
ISBN: 9781616145699 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to the author, that hypothetical analyst would label America a corporate dinosaur and recommend that the nation either change or face extinction.
This book focuses on how to improve America by first comparing its performance with thirteen competitive industrial nations, then identifying the best practices found throughout the world that can be adopted here in the United States. The author lays out some disturbing facts about America's lack of... If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to the author, ...
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Thirty Years of Public Sector Reforms in Africa. Selected Country Experiences
ISBN: 9789970252329 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past three decades, African countries have been reforming their public sector with a view to improving efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and transparency as part of efforts to improve the delivery of public services. Reform actions have included privatisation, public/private partnerships, commercialisation and adoption of private sector approaches in managing public organisations. This book, put together by OSSREA, reviews measures by African countries in that regard, the extent to which the measures have achieved their intended results, as well as the factors behind the...
Over the past three decades, African countries have been reforming their public sector with a view to improving efficiency, effectiveness, accountabil...
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The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy
ISBN: 9781847875754 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A much needed book that weaves together the varying strands of the growing term 'The Creative Industries'. International in coverage, the book traces the historical and contemporary ideas that make the term more relevant today that its ever been.
A much needed book that weaves together the varying strands of the growing term 'The Creative Industries'. International in coverage, the book traces ...
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Organized Innovation C
ISBN: 9780199330706 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Organized" and "innovation" are words rarely heard together. But an organized approach to innovation is precisely what America needs today. This book presents a blueprint for coordinating technology breakthroughs to advance America's global competitiveness and prosperity. That prosperity is at risk. As other nations bolster technology innovation efforts, America's research, development, and commercialization enterprise is falling behind. An "innovation gap" has emerged in recent decades, where US universities focus on basic research and industry concentrates on incremental product...
"Organized" and "innovation" are words rarely heard together. But an organized approach to innovation is precisely what America needs today. This book...
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Common Sense Solutions to Real Problems
ISBN: 9781935991168 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four problems currently vexing our nation are: 1) Education: how can we provide an environment for our kids that is conducive to actually learning? 2) How do we solve our energy problems? 3) What is the "war" on drugs really doing? Has it ever worked, and can we do something better? 4) The recent federal budget and debt ceiling crisis are merely the rumblings of far worse to come. What is the solution? Common Sense Solutions to Real Problems takes these four key social problems and searches for solutions from a unique perspective. Each problem is analyzed, and the solution is arrived at from...
Four problems currently vexing our nation are: 1) Education: how can we provide an environment for our kids that is conducive to actually learning? 2)...
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Policy Capacity and Governance: Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9783319546742 / Angielski / Twarda / 445 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies.
This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research fronti...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
ISBN: 9783319543949 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. It examines innovations in survey methodology and how survey scholars and practitioners should think about survey data in the context of the explosion of new digital sources of data.
This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. It examines innovatio...
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Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management
ISBN: 9780857935434 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining theory development, international comparison and original case study analysis, two of Europe's leading public policy and management scholars apply and develop some of the main models of policy change and offer a revealing long-term view of policy developments since 1965. Drawing on an extensive programme of elite interviews and documentary analysis they provide an integrated treatment of national and local policymaking in two major public services - hospital care and the police - in England and Belgium. This timely book addresses the 'paradigm wars' in public policy, arguing for a...
Combining theory development, international comparison and original case study analysis, two of Europe's leading public policy and management scholars...
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Evaluation in Public-Sector Reform: Concepts and Practice in International Perspective
ISBN: 9781843761600 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume aims to close the gap in the international debate and literature by exploring the connections and the interdependence, which exist between public sector reform and evaluation. USA, as well as categorically addressing countries which have remained neglected in the international debate, including: the Netherlands, Germany and Italy as continental European countries and Japan and Latin America. This focus brings to the fore the double function which evaluation has typically acquired in the context of public sector reforms: its twofold mission, is, on the one hand, to create...
This volume aims to close the gap in the international debate and literature by exploring the connections and the interdependence, which exist between...
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Consensus, Cooperation and Conflict: The Policy Making Process in Denmark
ISBN: 9781840640915 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Denmark is regarded by many as a model European country. In a short space of time unemployment rates have more than halved, inflation has remained low and the welfare state has not only been consolidated but improved. A new policy-mix has proved to be effective, but what exactly does it entail? This book provides an historical, systematic analysis of Danish policy developments, taking a critical, post-positivist approach. It highlights the internal lines of conflict but also demonstrates the cooperative nature of Danish decision-makers. The author describes and explains the individual...
Denmark is regarded by many as a model European country. In a short space of time unemployment rates have more than halved, inflation has remained low...
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Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative Analysis
ISBN: 9781840640885 / Angielski / Twarda / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do some policies succeed well while others, in the same sector or country, fail dramatically? The aim of this work is to answer this question and provide systematic research on the nature, sources and consequences of policy failure. It explores four policies in six European countries.
Why do some policies succeed well while others, in the same sector or country, fail dramatically? The aim of this work is to answer this question and ...
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