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  • Bureaucracy and Political Science

    Policy, Democracy, and Power

    by Tobias Bach, Kai Wegrich ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Bureaucracy is often seen as background machinery or as an obstacle to effective government. Bureaucracy and Political Science offers a different view. It shows that public bureaucracies are political organizations: shaped by political institutions and actors, but also deeply involved in shaping policy, implementation, reform, and democratic governance. The book explains why bureaucracies cannot ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • How to Do Public Policy

    by Anke Hassel, Kai Wegrich ...
    How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy analysis and studies of the policy process to develop a framework that conceives policy-making as structured by two spheres of action - the 'engine room' of specialists and experts in government agencies, NGOs, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination

    Edited by Tobias Bach, Kai Wegrich ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades. However, few attempts have been made to connect these concerns with the growing body of research on biases and blind spots in decision-making. This book attempts to make that connection. It explores how day-to-day decision-making in public ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Governance of Infrastructure

    Edited by Kai Wegrich, Genia Kostka, Gerhard Hammerschmid ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an annual series tackling ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Development Aid Confronts Politics

    The Almost Revolution

    by Thomas Carothers, Diane de Gramont ...
    A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically.Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Public Policy Primer

    Managing the Policy Process

    by Xun Wu, Michael Howlett, Scott A. Fritzen, M Ramesh ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges they entail, and how the challenges may be addressed by policy actors. Written from a comparative ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

    Edited by Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters ...
    The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry.Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform

    Edited by Steven Van de Walle, Sandra Groeneveld ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The book consists of three parts, the first addresses a number of conceptual and theoretical perspectives on public sector reform. It shows how ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Empowered Educators in Canada

    How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

    by Carol Campbell, Ken Zeichner, Ann Lieberman, Pamela Osmond-Johnson ...
    BEST PRACTICES FROM CANADA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMSEmpowered Educators in Canada is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Governance Report 2014

    by The Hertie School of Governance ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    Democratic governance faces unprecedented challenges across the OECD world and beyond. Enormous strains will be placed on states' resources and their governing capacities to deal with the combined effects of the financial crisis, climate change, and demographic change. The basic foundations of established 'statehood' will be tested. At the same time, the architecture of the state has fundamentally ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

    by Simone Dietrich ...
    Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while others bypass such local authorities? Weaving together scholarship in political economy, public administration and historical institutionalism, Simone Dietrich argues that the bureaucratic institutions of donor countries shape donor–recipient interactions differently despite similar international ... Read more

    $38.59 USD