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“lynn bosetti”

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  • Understanding School Choice in Canada

    by Lynn Bosetti, Dianne Gereluk ...
    Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles that underpin the formation and implementation of school choice policies in the provinces and territories.Bosetti and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • The Black Hole of Public Administration

    by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all.In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Leverage for Good

    An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment

    by Lester M. Salamon ...
    With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation ballooning daily, new models for financing social and environmental objectives are urgently needed. Fortunately, a revolution is underway in the instruments and institutions available to meet this need. Loans, loan guarantees, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The PerformanceStat Potential

    A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

    by Robert D. Behn ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Beginning Apache Cassandra Development

    by Vivek Mishra ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Defending a Contested Ideal

    Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008

    by Luc Juillet, Ken Rasmussen ...
    Series series Gouvernance | Governance Series
    In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dams and Development in China

    The Moral Economy of Water and Power

    by Bryan Tilt ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce hydroelectricity in a nation with a seeimingly insatiable appetite for energy. As hydropower responds to a larger share of energy demand, dams may also help to reduce the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Why the Third Way failed

    Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'

    by Bill Jordan ...
    In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises the economic analysis on which the Third Way approach to policy was founded and suggests an ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Marketization of Employment Services

    The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare States

    by Ian Greer, Karen N. Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, Flemming Larsen ...
    Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating public services. In social policy, the welfare state is retreating from its historic task of protecting citizens from the discipline of the market. In industrial relations, labor and management are negotiating with an eye to ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Virtue and Responsibility in Policy Research and Advice

    by Berry Tholen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged. While many scientific policy advisors routinely present themselves as neutral or value free scientists, here is demonstrated that the ideal of scientific integrity as neutrality is misguided and that an alternative understanding is demanded. The book provides an overview of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

    Edited by Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik, Tek Nath Dhakal ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The pursuit for better governance has assumed center stage in developmental discourse as well as reform initiatives of all organizations working for the public welfare, and includes such issues as service delivery and responding to citizens’ needs and demands. In the era of globalization, multilevel and new modes of governance are changing the traditional governance models of nation states, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD