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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...
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...
Gender Expertise in Public Policy
Towards a Theory of Policy Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Through a selection of in-depth interviews, a survey of experts working with the European Union and United Nations, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis of policy debates, this text rethinks our understanding of gender expertise and the circumstances that lead to expert success in public policy.
by Varios Autores
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La contratación pública en América Latina, no obstante su indiscutible relevancia, ha escapado, como objeto de análisis, a la creciente producción de investigaciones que buscan identificar, con una perspectiva comparada, las distinciones y las similitudes de cada ordenamiento jurídico de la...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
If the needs for training for leadership are recognized as urgent, we need to ask whether the training institutes are doing the right things and question the effectiveness of training institutions.
This book calls for a serious and critical reflection on the way in which we conceptualize training...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Environmental crimes are primarily driven by financial motives. The combined financial value of illicit trade in protected wildlife, illegal logging and waste trafficking is estimated to come directly after counterfeiting, the narcotic drugs trade and illegal gambling. Logically, the proceeds of these...
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Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Ce manuel propose pour la première fois une approche comparative du financement des politiques publiques. Après une présentation générale des instruments fiscaux et budgétaires, il expose pour chaque politique sectorielle en France et pour chacun des 12 autres pays retenus : les volumes et les...