Public Affairs category: 1291 books
The Politics of Public Budgeting
Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Using a “power struggles” theme to examine the dynamics of budgeting, Rubin’s classic text shines a bright light on the political jockeying between interest groups, parties, officials, policymakers, and the public. Expert at explaining budgeting changes over time, Rubin sets issues like the...
From Austerity to Abundance?
Creative Approaches to Coordinating the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This volume explores the ways in which civil society and governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating efforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight alternatives that are philosophically and pragmatically different from neoliberal austerity measures, which...
Führung, Steuerung und Aufsicht von öffentlichen Unternehmen
Public Corporate Governance für die Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Die Steuerung, Führung und Kontrolle von öffentlichen Unternehmen - auch bekannt unter dem Begriff «Public Corporate Governance» - ist ein aktuelles und wichtiges Thema. Dies zeigt schon die Tatsache, dass die Kantone der Schweiz rund 1000 Beteiligungen an 600 Unternehmen halten. Wie sollen diese...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
E-Government describes the utilization of technologies to improve the lives of citizens and business organizations while facilitating the operation of the government. With the rise of new technologies, governments need to consider implementing Web 2.0 and mobile technologies as a way to offer relevant...
The New Geo-Governance
A Baroque Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Over the last few decades, the Westphalian nation-state has lost its hegemonic position in the system of geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has led to the emergence of powerful newly networked business organizations, new subsidiary-focused governments, and increasingly virtual, elective, and...
by Winston Dookeran
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Power, Politics and Performance outlines a convincing case that the best route for the optimum development of Small States requires the dynamics of a Partnership Approach – with its citizens, regional institutions and the global community.
Most Hon. Percival Patterson, ON, OCC,...
Had Enough?
A Handbook for Fighting Back
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Have you had enough of George W. Bush and the Republican right? Are you sick and tired of the tax-cutting, environment-desecrating, secret-keeping, influence-peddling, war-mongering, free speech-hating hypocrites who occupy America's halls of power? If so, you have company -- James Carville.
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by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Government is a body of people who determine common policies, regulate common affairs, and promote common interests in the State.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you government.
It analyzes the functions of government and outlines how a government must act.
It...
My Career as U.S. Consul and Diplomat
A Conversation with Carl A. Bastiani
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
This volume reviews highlights of the authors twenty-eight-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service while he served in Romania, Italy, Poland, and Washington, as elicited in a multi-session conversation with the founder of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Historians and other readers may find...
Kiribati Social and Economic Report 2008
Managing Development Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
After two impressively peaceful decades, there are signs of a dangerous degree of complacency in Kiribati's view of its domestic and external affairs. Forms of cultural and political resistance to change have thus been encouraged, and these are handicapping the nation's response to development risks....
Making Things Simpler?
Harmonizing Aid Delivery in the Cook Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A 2001 report by the Australian Agency for International Development and the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade marked the beginning of efforts by both governments to increase their emphasis on aid harmonization in the Pacific. This was followed by a decision to pilot a cofunded program...
For Whom the Dogs Spy
Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
“This book is a great piece of history . . . After reading my uncle’s book, I feel just like I was an apple and he was my Big Tree” (Wyclef Jean).
When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States Raymond Joseph rushed back to his beloved country....
by Peter Clegg (Editor), Emilio Pantojas-García (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean. The status of the non-independent...
by Robert Fiedler
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1,8, Macquarie University, language: English, abstract: During the last two decades China gained rising influence in the international environment. Since this rise is observed by many countries...