Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Hindu Nationalism
A Threat to the Indian Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft), course: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Racism - the problem and power of identities, language: English, abstract: This essay...
by United States Government US Senate, Senator Tom Coburn M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
Dear Taxpayer,
As the year 2010 ends, millions of Americans are still struggling to find work. Even those lucky enough to have jobs have had to tighten their belts and trim household budgets. For some this has meant cutting out luxuries; for others, having to make tough...
by Jan-Erik Lane, Uwe Wagschal
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This concise, accessible text presents an overview of the relevance of culture for politics. Culture figures prominently in the theories of the great classics such as Marx, Durkheim and Weber. Recently, the cultural approach to politics has developed quickly, and the concept of political culture has...
Challenging choices
Ideology, consumerism and policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Choice pervades our society: it is founded on political rights to choose and our economy on market choices, but we have now reached the point where choice is extended almost everywhere. This lively and topical book provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy, arguing that we can...
Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care
A Decision Space Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
While health system decentralization is often associated with federations, there has been limited study on the connection between federalism and the organization of publicly financed or mandated health services. Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care examines eight federations that differ...
Mandate for change
policies and leadership for 2009 and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies,...
Measuring the Effectiveness of Regional Governing Systems
A Comparative Study of City Regions in North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Regional governance is a topical public policy issue and is receiving increased attention from scholars, government officials and civic leaders. As countries continue to urbanize and centralize economic functions and population in metropolitan regions, the traditional governing system is not equipped...
Policy Transfer in European Union Governance
Regulating the Utilities
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities.
Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how...
Government for the Future
Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look...
Contratti pubblici - Concorso Istruttore Enti Locali
Aggiornato alla L. n. 55 del 14 giugno 2019 (conversione D.L. Sblocca-cantieri n. 32/2019))
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Tutte le norme sui contratti pubblici per superare i concorsi a Istruttore e Istruttore Direttivo nell'area Amministrativa, Economico-finanziaria, Tecnica e Sociale degli Enti locali.
Sintesi ragionata del Codice dei contratti pubblici (decreto legislativo n. 50 del 2016), aggiornata alla Legge di...
E-Government Success around the World
Cases, Empirical Studies, and Practical Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
While some e-government projects fail to deliver the expected benefits due to numerous technical, organizational, institutional, and contextual factors, information technology continues to be utilized by international governments to achieve countless benefits. E-Government Success around the World: Cases,...
by Johannes Lindvall
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should put in place electoral procedures that identify...
Engendering Governance Institutions
State, Market and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The question of engendering has emerged as a dominant theme in the development theory and practice in the past few years, mainly due to partial achievement of the desired goals of development in terms of attaining gender equality and women`s empowerment. Most studies in this regard focus largely on...
Macro Socio-economics: From Theory to Activism
From Theory to Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Contributors to this volume respond to the normative capsule framing economic behaviour that Amitai Etzioni has explored. The text also looks at his works on organisations, public policy, socio-economics and communitarianism.