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  • Law and Government in Israel
    This book explores the law and government in Israel from theoretical, comparative, positivist and critical approaches.This book was published as a special issue of Israel Affairs. ...
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    52,04 €

  • E-Government for Public Managers
    Robert A Cropf / Robert A. Cropf / Robert ACropf
    This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the operations of federal, state, and local government. It seeks to improve service delivery, human resource administration, political participation, and citizen input, also recognizing ICT’s role in the erosion of personal privacy. ...
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    49,17 €

  • It’s Time for High-Performance Government
    Howard Risher / Ronald Sanders / William Wilder
    Written by leading experts with decades of experience as managers and consultants, It's Time for High Performance Government provides executives, managers, and elected officials at all levels practical advice to improve government performance. ...
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    143,06 €

  • It’s Time for High-Performance Government
    Howard Risher / Ronald Sanders / William Wilder
    Written by leading experts with decades of experience as managers and consultants, It's Time for High Performance Government provides executives, managers, and elected officials at all levels practical advice to improve government performance. ...
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    68,33 €

  • Public Service Efficiency
    Rhys Andrews / Tom Entwistle
    The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. This book examines the topic of public service efficiency from a wide lens; examining theories and evidence relating to technical, allocative, distributive and dynamic efficiencies, rather than the simplistic input to output ratio of recen...
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    89,82 €

  • Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada
    Éric Bélanger / François Pétry / Richard Nadeau
    Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada examines perceptions about health care in the U.S. and Canada and their effects using an extensive cross-national survey made up of two public opinion polls of over 3,500 respondents from both countries. The authors present how perceptions on health care indicate elements of convergence or divergence between the vie...
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    73,53 €

  • The Book
    Amanda Beth Randall / K.A. Morini / K.AMorini
    The story of how one family was rocked by addiction, and how they stuck together through it all. ...
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    14,22 €

  • The Book
    Amanda Beth Randall / K.A. Morini / K.AMorini
    The story of how one family was rocked by addiction, and how they stuck together through it all. ...
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    28,51 €

  • International Public Policy Analysis
    George Guess / Thomas Husted
    International Public Policy Analysis is the first textbook to take a truly comparative and cross-cultural approach, organized around policy issues, to examine important policy ’lessons’ that affect the everyday lives of citizens. Guess and Husted demonstrate that incremental, marginal changes in sectoral policy systems using cross-national lessons can lead to larger changes in ...
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    339,21 €

  • International Public Policy Analysis
    George M. Guess / Thomas Husted
    Most public policy analysis books currently on the market are US-centric and focused on quantitative analysis, while comparative public policy textbooks are oriented around countries and specific policy processes. International Public Policy Analysis is the first textbook to take a truly comparative and cross-cultural approach, organized around policy issues, to examine importa...
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    108,73 €

  • Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform
    Aimed at academics, researchers and advanced students; this edited collection brings together many of the most eminent academics in the area of Public Policy and Management seeking to link to theory in part one and insights into specific thematic areas in part two, offering readers a display of theoretical perspectives to look at public sector reform. ...
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    267,79 €

  • Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers
    Donald C Menzel
    Concise and comprehensive, this book takes a public management perspective on constructing ethical organizations. It includes a discussion of the U.S. constitutional and administrative environment in which officials carry out their duties, descriptions and assessments of the tools available to elected and appointed officials who are committed to building ethical organizations, ...
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    85,07 €

  • Understanding Korean Public Administration
    Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, most of it has been written in Korean. This book aims to provide more accessible knowledge internationally by filling that gap, covering both the history and the current status of the Korean public administration. Each chapter covers historical contexts, key to understanding its public administration and an ...
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    281,40 €

  • Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers
    Donald C Menzel
    Concise and comprehensive, this book takes a public management perspective on constructing ethical organizations. It includes a discussion of the U.S. constitutional and administrative environment in which officials carry out their duties, descriptions and assessments of the tools available to elected and appointed officials who are committed to building ethical organizations, ...
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    321,79 €

  • Transformational Public Policy
    Mark Matthews
     Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. This book illustrates how new methods derived from signal processing techniques can improve the practice of public policy by transforming it through rapid learning and adaptation. Interventions are processes of discovery, not compliance. ...
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    281,64 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability
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    65,74 €

  • King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India
    Patrick Olivelle
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    74,31 €

  • Failure of Governance in Bell, California
    Thom Reilly / Thomas F Reilly
    In the late 2000s, the small southern California town of Bell erupted in a scandal that revealed a truly astonishing level of municipal corruption—one prosecutor called it “corruption on steroids.” This bookdetails why Bell was vulnerable to such massive malfeasance and what steps could be taken to reduce the chances of it happening again. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Succeeding as a Political Executive
    Mark A Abramson / Mark A. Abramson / Mark AAbramson / Paul R Lawrence / Paul R. Lawrence / Paul RLawrence
    Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with these individuals, gaining insights into running government organizations. This book is aimed at those...
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    46,32 €

  • Succeeding as a Political Executive
    Mark A Abramson / Mark A. Abramson / Mark AAbramson / Paul R Lawrence / Paul R. Lawrence / Paul RLawrence
    Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with these individuals, gaining insights into running government organizations. This book is aimed at those...
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    112,76 €

  • Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech
    Hollie Russon Gilman
    In a time when citizens are deeply dissatisfied with the basic institutions and elected officials that govern them, the participatory budgeting movement empowers citizens to get results for pressing community needs. It creates a transparent process where citizens can propose projects through traditional community meetings or use civic technologies to provide input online, work ...
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    13,68 €

  • The European Public Servant
    Patrick Fritz
    European integration is under pressure. At the same time, the notion of a European administrative space is being explicitly voiced. But does a shared idea of the public servant exist in Europe? This volume shows how the public servant has been conceived throughout history, and asks whether such conceptions are converging towards a common European administrative identity. It com...
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    69,06 €

  • Handbook of Research on Public Finance in Europe and the MENA Region
    Since the 1970s, globalization has created an economic environment of interdependency between nations. Now, many countries in European and the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) regions must grapple with the need to increase public revenue while maneuvering through a global 'race-to-the-bottom' tax competition. The Handbook of Research on Public Finance in Europe and the ME...
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    394,13 €

  • Statesmen and Mischief Makers
    Scott Crass
    My first two volumes of Statesmen and Mischief Makers portrayed the stories of officeholders who had tremendous impact on politics at the national level, either by way of Presidential proximity, legislative accomplishments or simply through living a life of idiosyncrasies that made a great anecdote - or two. Governors and big-city Mayors are no different. There were smart leade...
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    28,89 €

  • Do New Leaders Make a Difference?
    Valerie Bunce
    Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during the postwar era, with particular emphasis on the Soviet Union and the United States.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print bo...
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    179,82 €

  • West Bengal and the Federalizing Process in India
    Marcus F. Franda / Marcus FFranda
    Since its independence in 1947, India, as a large, diverse, and rapidly changing country, has had to meet federalizing problems of a magnitude unprecedented in history. The result has been a process that combines, modifies, and transforms many established ideas about federalism. Professor Franda deals with the complexities of India’s experience by analyzing the politics of cent...
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    156,50 €

  • Ottoman Civil Officialdom
    Carter Vaughn Findley
    In this sequel to his highly acclaimed Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire, Carter Findley shifts focus from the organizational aspects of administrative reform and development to the officials themselves. A study in social history and its cultural and economic ramifications, Findley’s new book critically reassesses Ottoman accomplishments and failures in turning an archa...
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    229,09 €

  • The German Diplomatic Service, 1871-1914
    Lamar Cecil
    In this investigation of the German foreign office from 1871 to 1914, Lamar Cecil focuses on the people who conceived and executed German diplomacy rather than on diplomatic policies and stratagems. The author analyzes the men and their careers, isolating the characteristics common to the diplomats, the reasons for their selection, and the effect on their careers of various con...
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    208,61 €

  • Structure of Decision
    Robert Axelrod
    This book outlines a new approach to the analysis of decision making based on 'cognitive maps.' A cognitive map is a graphic representation intended to capture the structure of a decision maker’s stated beliefs about a particular problem. Following introductory chapters that develop the theory and techniques of cognitive mapping, a set of five empirical studies applies these ne...
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    238,77 €

  • Evaluating Public Programs
    Patrick D. Larkey / Patrick DLarkey
    For effective program evaluation, it is necessary to specify a counterfactual state, i.e., what would have happened without the program. Conventional approaches to program evaluation, preoccupied with technical and value issues, fail to address directly the need for counterfactual arguments. They also fail to recognize the indispensable role of positive theories of technical an...
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    163,35 €