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Public Services and Financial Austerity
Getting Out of the Hole?
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'. It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practical ways it could be implemented. It also explores the threats and opportunities that such an approach might face.
Taking Action on Internet Gambling
Federal Policymaking 1995–2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book uses the case of the rise and fall of the Internet gambling industry to illustrate a new approach to understanding how public policy is made in the United States. The theory advanced is that different phases of the policy process are governed by three distinct political dynamics: constraint,...
New Forms of Governing
A Foucauldian inspired analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Triantafillou analyzes the changing ways of governing the public sector and the ways in which public organizations have become the target of interventions seeking to improve their efficiency and quality. He exposes how political and social science theories were adopted in often unpredictable ways in the process of reforming the public sector.
Christy Clark
Behind the Smile
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A political insider offers a revealing perspective and examines the public and private life of BC’s controversial premier.
In the blood-sport arena of provincial politics, BC’s enigmatic premier, Christy Clark, has defied the pundits to win both party leadership and an upset election victory...
Transforming Government and Building the Information Society
Challenges and Opportunities for the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
Information and communication technology (ICT) is central to reforming governance, innovating public services, and building inclusive information societies. Countries are learning to weave ICT into their strategies for transforming government as enterprises have learned to use ICT to innovate and...
Making Democracy Work Better
Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details...
China's Sent-Down Generation
Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Asian Leadership in Policy and Governance examines contemporary challenges facing public leaders in Asia, providing insight into leadership processes and contexts past practices affecting effective governance and policy leadership. The book provides a broad range of insightful and detailed cases of...
by Colin Knox, Padraic Quirk
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now referred to as a post-conflict society largely due to the absence of political...
Public Relations
2017, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This is a Public Relations book designed for tertiary learning students and institutions
Health and Climate Change
Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for...
Inter and Intra Government Arrangements for Productivity
An Agency Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Inter and Intra Governmental Arrangements for Productivity - An Agency Approach focuses on public productivity. It addresses long standing and current questions on government productivity. Its scope and coverage range from theory to very specific applications. First of all it demonstrates the applicability...
The Coming Age of Direct Democracy
California's Recall and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2007
This book examines the new, hybrid democracy that has been taking shape in California since the historic recall of Gov. Gray Davis and election of former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. During the recall and its aftermath, California has reached unprecedented levels of use of direct democracy,...
Trained Capacities
John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey’s wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture’s fundamental conflicts between self and society,...