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  • Command Transitions in Public Administration

    A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Proactive Strategies

    by James C. Brown, Raymond L. Philo, Anthony Callisto Jr., Polly J. Smith ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This Brief provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of proactive strategies for management transitions in criminal justice and other public administration civic service agencies. These organizations have a unique need for managing transitions effectively.Compared to private organizations: they have a relatively high frequency of management transitions due to the terms of elected and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Value and Virtue in Public Administration

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by P. Kim ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Smart City

    How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

    Edited by Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines

    Patronage, Emotion and Democracy

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare, and constitutes formal organizations. So intimately connected is it with the health of democracy and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • New Private Sector Providers in the Welfare State

    by Jonas Pieper ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a study of the rise of private sector providers in the welfare state. It compares for-profit firms as providers of hospital services and pensions and investigates the new private actors in social policy provision, whether they become political actors, and the extent of their power in welfare state politics. Focusing on Germany and the UK, the author’s analysis includes, amongst ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Governance

    Institutions, Political Performance and Elections

    Edited by Norman Schofield, Gonzalo Caballero ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Understanding the governance of nations is a key challenge in contemporaneous political economy. This book provides new advances and the latest research in the field of political economy, dealing with the study of institutions, governance, democracy and elections. The volume focuses on issues such as the role of institutions and political governance in society, the working of democracy and the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Public Management

    Theory and Practice

    by Konrad Raczkowski ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Public management is undoubtedly an acknowledged area of management science, but with meager empirical research. This book takes this challenge and presents a rare analysis of public management from the perspective of 12 Prime Ministers of Poland who governed between 1989 and 2014. The author features the concepts, practice and challenges of public management by making use of direct interviews ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Social Media in Politics

    Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media

    Edited by Bogdan Pătruţ, Monica Pătruţ ...
    Series Book 13 - Public Administration and Information Technology
    This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. The volume collects original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral marketing, riots and social revolutions, presenting a range of case studies from across the world as ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • South Asia in Transition

    Democracy, Political Economy and Security

    Edited by B. Chakma ...
    Series series International Political Economy Series
    Combining theoretical and empirical insights, this book provides an in-depth analysis of South Asia's transition in the areas of democracy, political economy and security since the end of the Cold War. It provides a close scrutiny to the state of democracy and political economy in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Soft Governance, International Organizations and Education Policy Convergence

    Comparing PISA and the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes

    by Tonia Bieber ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the extent to which international organizations have shaped reforms in education and training in federalist countries with regards to policy convergence. In advanced democracies, international organizations have become increasingly influential in government activity. This also applies to policy fields that have traditionally been nearly exclusively regulated by the nation-state. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

    Reforms, Participation and Accountability

    by Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series Book 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
    This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Digitally Supported Innovation

    A Multi-Disciplinary View on Enterprise, Public Sector and User Innovation

    Edited by Leonardo Caporarello, Fabrizio Cesaroni, Raphael Giesecke, Michele Missikoff ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level. It presents multi-disciplinary perspectives on organizational innovation in enterprises and the public sector, and on the ubiquitous social media-based user innovations. The book especially highlights innovation in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD