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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorized EU Health Claims, Volume Three, provides an overview of how health claims are regulated in the European Union, along with detailed scientific and regulatory information about permitted health claims for foods and ingredients. The latest volume...
Public Policy and Performance Management in Democratic Systems
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process. By providing both theoretical insights...
Social Media in Politics
Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. The volume collects original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral marketing,...
Politics of Autonomy and Sustainability in Myanmar
Change for New Hope…New Life?
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book focuses on the tensions between and conflict resolution processes concerning minority ethnic groups in Myanmar’s rural areas and the State. It covers topics such as relations and communication between the central government, the Kokang Chinese community and the Kachin State; the impact...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Have the underlying ideas behind New Public Management (NPM) been forgotten ? This book investigates whether this idea is reflected in the real world of public administration or if it is mere wishful thinking. The investigations in this volume comprise studies of not only European countries, but...
Community-Based Reconstruction of Society
University Involvement and Lessons from East Japan Compared with Those from Kobe, Aceh, and Sichuan
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This volume presents an academic proposal, developed by a joint research group of leading scholars in the social and natural sciences from universities affected by global-scale mega disasters occurring in Asia in recent decades. These include Kobe University, which experienced the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji...
Governing the Climate Change Regime
Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume, the second in a series of three, examines the institutional architecture underpinning the global climate integrity system. This system comprises an inter-related set of institutions, governance arrangements, regulations, norms and practices that aim to implement the United Nations Framework...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The various and different Middle Eastern countries are addressing new key reform and governance reform processes but also administration and policy issues of enduring importance; decentralization and local government, non-profit organizations, political culture, and reform of the policy process. This...
Adult Education
The Legislative and Policy Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The studies contained in this volume present a sampling of policy and legislation relating to adult learning in various parts of the world. They were produced in the context of a more complete survey, under the auspices of the UNESCO Institute for Education (VIE) in cooperation with the University...
Governing India's Northeast
Essays on Insurgency, Development and the Culture of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the...
Frontiers of Governance
The OECD and Global Public Management Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The first detailedanalysis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) influence on global public sector reform. Based on extensive interviews and internal documents, this book explores the evolution of the OECD's approach to governance issues over the last 50 years and what its future agenda should be.
Toward Information Justice
Technology, Politics, and Policy for Data in Higher Education Administration
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book presents a theory of information justice that subsumes the question of control and relates it to other issues that influence just social outcomes. Data does not exist by nature. Bureaucratic societies must provide standardized inputs for governing algorithms, a problem that can be understood...
Setting Sail into the Age of Digital Local Government
Trends and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The Internet and related technologies have dramatically changed the way we live, work, socialize, and even topple national governments. As the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive across societies, we find more often that governments adopt Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) as part of...
Police Brutality, Misconduct, and Corruption
Criminological Explanations and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct. Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.
According to an examination of 50 years of police...