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Comparative Policy Evaluation eBook Series

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  • Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation

    Increasing Relevance and Utility

    Edited by Kim Forss, Ida Lindkvist, Mark McGillivray ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation is the first book to advocate the virtues of a long-term perspective for policy evaluation as well as to show how evaluations can take a longer time perspective than they usually do. To get there, it is necessary to understand the decision-making context of evaluations and study the obstacles and the resistance toward long-term perspectives – as knowledge of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Speaking Justice to Power

    Ethical and Methodological Challenges for Evaluators

    Edited by Kim Forss, Mita Marra ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Efficiency, economy, and equity are policy goals pursued by governments around the world, but analysts and evaluators have devoted more effort to measuring and evaluating the first two. In Speaking Justice to Power, contributors examine the concept of equity, the role it plays, and its application in policy evaluation. Here some of the most valuable thinkers in the area of policy studies address ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • The Price of Loyalty

    George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

    by Ron Suskind ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times.This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the Bush presidency -- or any that is likely to be written soon. At its core are the candid assessments of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Big Data Imperatives

    Enterprise Big Data Warehouse, BI Implementations and Analytics

    by Soumendra Mohanty, Madhu Jagadeesh, Harsha Srivatsa ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on everyone’s mind: Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications?Big data is emerging from the realm of one-off projects to mainstream business adoption; however, the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Governance and the Democratic Deficit

    Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices

    by Victor Bekkers, Geske Dijkstra, Menno Fenger ...
    It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical, network-like structure through negotiation and cooperation between public and private actors at one ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration

    by Christopher Pollitt ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this Advanced Introduction, Christopher Pollitt starts a penetrating ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Decline of America

    100 Years of Leadership Failures

    by David D. Schein ...
    The Decline of America offers a carefully documented analysis of the last seventeen U.S. presidents. These men, eight Democrats and nine Republicans, have shaped the last 100 years, not only for America, but for the world. Each president is profiled with unsparing scrutiny so we can see where it’s all gone wrong.David Schein follows these critiques by proposing ways to improve America’s outlook ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Social Vulnerability in European Cities

    The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis

    Edited by C. Ranci, T. Brandsen, S. Sabatinelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Focussing on 20 European urban contexts, this book provides an empirical analysis of the socio-economic transformations driving the emergence of new social risks and of the capacity of welfare policies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Balancing the Federal Budget

    Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?

    by Irene S. Rubin ...
    In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Living in a Low-Carbon Society in 2050

    Edited by H. Herring ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, create a compelling picture of the potential perks and pitfalls of a low carbon future. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Social Insurance

    America’s Neglected Heritage and Contested Future

    by Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, John R. Pakutka ...
    What has America done to protect its citizens from life-changing but common risks such as death of a family breadwinner, ill health, disability, involuntary unemployment, outliving retirement savings, and birth into a poor family? Each, in its own way, burdens—and possibly devastates—unlucky individuals and families both emotionally and financially. It is the rare life that is untouched by one or ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh

    Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes

    by Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, in Beijing, in which a Platform for Action signed by heads of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD