Public Affairs category: 1291 books
The Politics of PublicPrivate Partnerships in Western Europe
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
This comprehensive book provides a comparative policy analysis of public-private partnerships in 14 Western European countries from Scandinavia to Greece, bringing together insights from government, economics and politics. Thomas Krumm describes and analyses the forms and extents of collaboration between...
by James W. Conrad Jr., Susan Dudley, George M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional...
Beyond Brexit?
How to assess the UK’s future
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
As the UK negotiates Brexit, what are the effects, implications and challenges that lie ahead? Janice Morphet takes a long term view on the range of institutional and operational options that may be deployed by the UK, EU and other international institutions seeking to influence the negotiations and...
Labour Protest in Poland
Trade Unions and Employee Interest Articulation After Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book is an account of protests organized by trade unions from the late socialism to the 21st century. It uses protest event analysis and mass surveys to examine the impact of trade unions on institutions before and after systemic change. Social protest in the post-war Poland was primarily a working-class...
by Paul Cairney
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The Politics of Evidence Based Policymakingidentifies how to work with policymakers to maximize the use of scientific evidence. Policymakers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy problems. They use two shortcuts: ‘rational’ ways to gather enough evidence, and ‘irrational’ decision-making,...
Decision Making (Routledge Revivals)
A case study of the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September 1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman’s pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of Directors...
Healthcare Policy in Africa
Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A comparative study of healthcare policy in Africa, the book explores the impact of historical institutions, multilateral organizations, and informal norms, such as, respectively, colonialism, the World Health Organization, and the Western-inspired biomedical approach to disease on health policy choices,...
American Energy
The Politics of 21st Century Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
There are rapid, and sometimes radical, changes now transforming energy production and consumption in the United States. Utilizing contemporary examples throughout his narrative, Walter A. Rosenbaum captures this transformation in American Energy: The Politics of 21st Century Policy while analyzing...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication...
by Michael J. Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
"The Devil Inside the Beltway". This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public. Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers...
The Crisis of Authority – Workforce Tensions
A Desperate Call for Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
The public service in South Africa faces an enormous challenge in improving service delivery not only to meet the citizens expectations but to ensure quality life for the nation. The urgent need exists to establish what went wrong and how can the situation be turned around. The book established the...
Building a Citizens' Partnership in Democratic Governance
The Delhi Bhagidari Process through Large-group Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Building a Citizens’ Partnership in Democratic Governance covers 10 years of efforts (2000–2010) in building and sustaining citizens’ partnership with the government and in creating a working democracy in a large city like Delhi.
It provides an in-depth coverage of the theory, principles,...
by Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such...
by Olin Bray
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our political system is in trouble. Myths and opinions often override facts, data, and analysis in determining policy and elections. This book identifies one of our problems, political incompetence in both the electorate and officials. It identifies critical political competence skills, such as political...