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El libro aborda las características y los postulados básicos de los enfoques utilizados en las políticas públicas y su estudio, además de describir cómo pueden emplearse éstas en el análisis de las decisiones que toma el Estado. Esta obra, preparada por un grupo de investigadores de la División...

India is primarily a rural country with a large number of villages still suffering from the pangs of poverty, illiteracy, diseases and unemployment. Despite framing and implementation of a number of rural development programmes such as Community Development Programme, IRDP, Jawahar Rozgar Yojana,...

In Branded, Erik Saelens, strategic director of Brandhome, describes the course of the N-VA campaign in the run-up to the mother of all Belgian elections on May 25, 2014. His personal account offers a suspenseful and above all disconcerting view from the inside of how opposing forces in the media,...

The book exposes many of the misunderstandings about the scientific method and its application to critical thinking. It argues for a better understanding of the scientific method and for nurturing critical thinking in the community. This knowledge helps the reader to analyze issues more objectively,...

A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in the area, and discusses aid policies and decisions,...

International organizations are the groups that promote close co-operation among several States. It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you international organizations. It clearly explains the United Nations. It throws light on its organs like the General Assembly, Security...

In recent years, authoritarian states in the Middle East and North Africa have faced increasing international pressure to decentralize political power. Decentralization is presented as a panacea that will foster good governance and civil society, helping citizens procure basic services and fight corruption....

Emergency Response for Business Professionals provides business managers who do not have in-house security expertise as well as the security professionals who advise them with an overview on how to prepare and react to potential unexpected incidents that can occur to their organization. The...

El objetivo de este libro es analizar a nivel teórico el papel que puede jugar en el futuro, durante las próximas tres décadas, el Estado y sus administraciones públicas. En primer lugar, se analizará el escenario más probable de pérdida de poder e influencia del Estado en el futuro. Las administraciones...

What has America done to protect its citizens from life-changing but common risks such as death of a family breadwinner, ill health, disability, involuntary unemployment, outliving retirement savings, and birth into a poor family? Each, in its own way, burdens—and possibly devastates—unlucky individuals...

In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.

The Struggle for Iraq is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people’s fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Later he worked in Baghdad through the dark days of...

Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens’ groups. This process of governance across levels of government, jurisdictions, and types of actors is called intergovernmental relations, and intergovernmental...

En Europe comme dans les Amériques, la décriminalisation est plus que jamais à l’ordre du jour. Le Portugal est allé plus loin en redirigeant les consommateurs de drogues, dures ou douces, vers le système de santé. Une idée à voler?