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Strategic Management in Public Organizations
European Practices and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic management practices at various levels of government and public service in European countries. It shows that strategic management is much more than a management...
Cooperative Innovation
Science and Technology Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Research cooperation in a nation is a fundamental key to national competitiveness in technology that supports growth in a national economy. To fully understand why some nations are more successful in innovation than others, one must examine the structure and process of knowledge creation and use —...
The Democratic Party of Japan in Power
Challenges and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized by a two-party system. However, in addition to the triple disasters of March 2011, the DPJ faced numerous difficulties arising from its controversial...
Hungarian Uprising
Budapest's Cataclysmic Twelve Days, 1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Public Development for Mobile and Open Data
Fostering innovation and social benefit through technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Open Data provides social and economic benefit for governments and citizens. Mobile applications are an enabler for Open Data to reach a broad range of citizens. This book will provide an overview of both Open Data and mobile technologies. The book will also profile organizations...
by Jerry Crouso
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Covert operation is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial. CIA is the US Government agency legally allowed to carry out covert action. These special activities include covert political influence and paramilitary operations. A black op...
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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 Mike Tipping
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The improbable and compelling story of Paul LePage’s ascent to the governor’s office in 2010 and the impact of his first term. Not one quote, statistic, or conclusion of this book has ever been refuted, and no one who reads it will be surprised by LePage’s second term.
IMAGINE THAT THE...
Breaking the Bargain
Public Servants, Ministers, and Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that 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,...
The Essential Debate on the Constitution
Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world today
When the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that...
by Michal Shamir
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The elections to the 18th Knesset (legislature of Israel) were held on February 10, 2009, almost three years after the elections to the 17th Knesset and approximately twenty months before the original date set for them to be held. The elections are best understood in the context of the wars that were...
The Art of Policymaking
Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr....
Getting to Zero
Canada Confronts Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Canadians have been coming to a greater understanding of the threat posed by global warming and the need for urgent action by governments, industry and the public at large. The Trudeau government has, more or less, taken up the cause. Provinces are recognizing the need for action, even as they fight...