Public Affairs Administration category: 1291 books
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...
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...
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...
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.
Rescuing EU Emissions Trading
The Climate Policy Flagship
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book draws upon a meticulous study of background documents and a string of fresh interviews to tell the fascinating story of how the EU’s climate flagship was significantly improved. The EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) covers almost half of its greenhouse gas emissions and has been hailed...
Policy Learning from Canada
Reforming Scandinavian Immigration and Integration Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model. To reveal how the Canadian immigration model has shaped the reform process in Scandinavia,...
Blaming the Government: Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies
Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work examines the impact of macroeconomic conditions on public support for the government in Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
by Dr. Steven J. Cann
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
In this new edition, author Steven J. Cann once again enlivens the topic of United States administrative law through the use of recent and "classic" legal cases to make it accessible and interesting to students. Administrative Law, Fourth Edition is an engaging casebook that presents a...
Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities
Insights from Agent-Based Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
As the study of environmental policy and justice becomes increasingly significant in today’s global climate, standard statistical approaches to gathering data have become less helpful at generating new insights and possibilities. None of the conventional frameworks easily allow for the empirical...
The Media War II
Evolution of the Media in Hungary 2010-2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The 2nd part of a two-part series describing the evolution of Media legislation in Hungary focusing on the period from 2010-2013. The author is a former member of the Hungarian Media Authority and noted television journalist. The purpose of the book is to provide a detailed account of some relevant...
Practical Program Evaluations
Getting from Ideas to Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Program evaluation requires attention to rationality, rigor, and careful methods. Yet precision and accuracy alone do not guarantee that program evaluations will be implemented. What prevents an evaluation from being thrown on a shelf to gather dust?
Author Gerald Emison, a practitioner with...