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Capacity Development eBook Series

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  • Improving Government

    by Michael Heppell ...
    Series series Capacity Development
    Capacity development is central to improving standards of living and reducing poverty in developing member countries. It is much more than just training or skills transfer; it is about effective institutions, a sound unpoliticized policy environment, accountability systems, effective relationships, and appropriate incentives. As noted in this study, capacity development should be firmly rooted in ... Read more

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    The Case Against Bill Clinton

    by Ann Coulter ...
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    $9.99 USD

  • Professionalism and Public Service

    Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan

    Edited by David Siegel, Kenneth Rasmussen ...
    Representing the leading scholars in the field, Professionalism and Public Service assesses the state of public administration in Canada while also moving the discipline forward both as a profession and an academic discipline.The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration institutions and explore issues such as the protection and improvement of the public service, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Democratic Illusion

    Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

    by Genevieve Fuji-Johnson ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites.In Democratic Illusion, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • State Management

    An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation, tendering ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times

    Modeling the Public Career of George C. Marshall

    by Gerald M. Pops ...
    In Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times, leadership and organizational theory are blended with early 20th Century history to model public leadership that is both monumentally effective and classically ethical. What is leadership? What makes leadership good or bad? To answer these questions, Gerald M. Pops draws on the multi-faceted career of George C. Marshall as an extended case study, focusing ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Votes, Parties, and Seats

    A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Parliamentary Elections, 1962–2014

    by Vani Kant Borooah ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    'This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of the largest festival – the elections – of the world's largest democracy. Hailing from a political family, the author conveys his passion and knowledge on the intricacies, as well as the heat and dust of his national fête. All data and events have been methodically examined in this absorbing analytical work which is an indispensable and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Auditing Good Government in Africa

    Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse

    by M. Gustavson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Watching the Watchers

    Parliament and the Intelligence Services

    by H. Bochel, A. Defty, J. Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has sought to scrutinise the British intelligence and security agencies and the government's use of intelligence. ... Read more

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  • Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education

    8th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2015, Gdansk, Poland, September 25, 2015, Proceedings

    Edited by Stanislaw Wrycza ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2015 titled Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education, held in Gdansk, Poland, in September 25.The objective of this symposium is to promote and develop high-quality research on all issues related to systems analysis and design (SAND). It provides a forum for SAND researchers and practitioners in ... Read more

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  • Awake America

    Ii Chronicles 7:14

    by Barlane Ronald Eichbaum ...
    The United States entered the third century of its existence facing many social, political, and religious issues. Socialism, Communism, and terrorism are such threats. Christianity is not practiced as in the past. Many US citizens neglect the Word of God, and moral decay has risen rapidly. May our people seek Gods direction, as per II Chronicles 7:14, so God will bless America and its future ... Read more

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  • Mandate for Change

    Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond

    by Chester Hartman, Catherine Albisa, Robert Alvarez, Sarah Anderson, Nan Aron, Dean Baker, Phyllis Bennis, Angela Glover Blackwell, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Robert L. Borosage0, Kate Bronfenbrenner1, John Cavanagh2, Oscar Chacón3, Chuck Collins4, Stuart Comstock-Gay5, Charlie Cray6, Sheila Crowley7, Martha F. Davis8, Karen Dolan9, Peter Edelman0, Carroll L. Estes1, John Feffer2, Bill Fletcher Jr.3, Maria Foscarinis4, Kim Gandy5, Jaime Grant6, Mark Greenberg7, Jim Harkness8, Farrah Hassen9, Simon Heller0, Alan W. Houseman1, Tomás R. Jiménez2, Barbara B. Kennelly3, Gloria Ladson-Billings4, Saul Landau5, Erik Leaver6, Nicole Lee7, Gerald LeMelle8, Ben Lilliston9, Bart Lubow0, Eric Mann1, Ben Manski2, Marc Mauer3, Patrice McDermott4, Dedrick Muhammad5, Douglas W. Nelson6, Miriam Pemberton7, Manuel Pérez-Rocha8, Frances Fox Piven9, Sam Pizzigati0, Ron Pollack1, William Quigley2, Miles S. Rapoport3, Marcus Raskin4, Janet Redman5, Michael A. Replogle6, Jon Rynn7, Rebecca Sawyer8, Daniel Scheer9, Ben Scott0, Rinku Sen1, Amy Shannon2, Cynthia Soohoo3, Nancy Starnes4, Betsy Taylor5, Sanho Tree6, Katrina vanden Heuvel7, Dorian Warren8, Emira Woods9, Daphne Wysham0 ...
    Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of ... Read more

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