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  • Administrative Culture in Developing and Transitional Countries

    Edited by Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik, Farhad Hossain ...
    The book explores theoretical, methodological, and empirical underpinnings of administrative culture as well as prospects and challenges associated with it in the context of and across developing and transitional countries. Referring to dominant norms and values in public organizations administrative culture is about the attitudes and perceptions of public officials. In many countries civil ... Read more

    $48.99 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

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    Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

    by Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Read more

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  • A World-Class Education

    Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation

    by Vivien Stewart ...
    In the 20th century, the United States was the world leader in education—the first country to achieve universal secondary education and the first to expand higher education beyond the elite class. Now other countries are catching up and leaping ahead—in high school graduation rates, in the quality and equity of their K-12 education systems, and in the proportion of students graduating from college ... Read more

    $27.99 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

    $15.99 USD

  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

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  • Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform

    by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Terry J. Crooks, Luis Crouch, Ori Eyal, Eva Forsberg, Martin Gustafsson, Batia P. Horsky, Dan Inbar, Barbara M. Kehm, Stephen T. Kerr, Ulf P. Lundgren, Peter Schrag, Hasan Simsek, Ryo Watanabe, Alison Wolf, Ali Yildirim, Robert W.McMeekin, Adam Nir, Kai-ming Cheng, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew, Ratna Ghosh, Allan Luke ...
    In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by "insiders". This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms in the context of societal and global change. In some countries, reforms are a response to major ... Read more

    $72.99 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

    $42.99 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment For Policies: An Instrument For Good Governance

    by Ahmed Kulsum; Sanchez-Triana Ernesto ...
    Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on the strengths and weaknesses of current SEA ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Development As Leadership-Led Change: A Report For The Global Leadership Initiative

    by Andrews Matthews; McConnell Jesse; Wescott Alison ...
    Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence.This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global Leadership Initiative and led by the World Bank Institute (WBI), to examine leadership in the change ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Development Management

    Theory and practice

    Edited by Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain, Asad K. Ghalib, Christopher J. Rees, Aminu Mamman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations. Development management typically involves complex interactions between governmental and non-governmental organisations, donors and members of the public, and can be difficult to navigate.This volume brings together a group of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Global Public Relations

    Spanning Borders, Spanning Cultures

    by Alan R. Freitag, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes ...
    This text provides a structured and practical framework for understanding the complexities of contemporary public relations. It is an instructional book that guides the reader through the challenges of communication and problem solving across a range of organizations and cross-cultural settings.Written in a straightforward, lively style, the book covers:foundational theories, and factors that ... Read more

    $99.99 USD