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  • Constituent Perceptions of Political Representation
    Robin M. Lauermann
    This book examines the nature of representation in democracy, focusing on constituent evaluations of Congress members and the implications these results have on citizens’ influence on government. This analysis elaborates on the complex relationship citizens have with their representatives, shedding light on the constituent perspective in two ways. First, the model unpacks the r...
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    65,68 €

  • The Blame Game
    Christopher Hood
    The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing h...
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    37,75 €

  • A Journey Through Governance
    William a. Morrill / William aMorrill
    A Journey through Governance: A Public Servant’s Experience under Six Presidents is a memoir revealing how the United States government works behind closed doors, through the eyes of a public servant who spent nearly twenty-five years in the midst of it. William A. Morrill, the quintessential public servant, takes the reader by the hand, inside the White House fence and through...
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    29,19 €

  • IT in the Public Sphere
    Mahmood / Mahmood Zaigham
    To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collaborate with their citizens. IT in the Public Sphere: Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning evaluates current research and best practices in the adoption of e-government technologies in developed and deve...
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    262,49 €

  • The Promise of Participation
    Daniel Altschuler / Javier Corrales
    Political scientists have long wondered whether civic participation can have spillover effects - that is, whether civic participation in one particular domain of public life can lead to more participation in other areas. This book argues that participation can indeed be generative. New participants in participatory governance initiatives can acquire new skills, apply them to ne...
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    65,07 €

  • The Field of Eurocracy
    The term ’Eurocracy’ is a word that exists in all European languages. Yet beyond fantasized representations of the ’Brussels bubble’, we know little about members of the European Parliament, Commissioners, European civil servants, lobbyists, members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, European trade unionists, diplomats and journalists who work in or around t...
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    64,94 €

  • Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
    Sean Richey
    Social networking lies at the heart of a number of fascinating political questions and social concerns, including citizen competence, social movements, and voter mobilization. In The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen, Sean Richey provides an empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. ...
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    117,19 €

  • Basic Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Local Public Projects
    Barry P. Keating / Barry PKeating / Maryann O. Keating / Maryann OKeating
    CBA is an attempt to fully account for all costs associated with a new proposal along with a detailed calculation of specific private and public benefits. Properly employed, CBA is simply a method for assessing a proposal prior to a collective decision by calculating net benefits relative to an alternative project or the default option of doing nothing. ...
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    18,65 €

  • Perspectives on Management and Leadership in Social Work
    This book examines developments in management and leadership in the social work environment, from both practice-based and academic perspectives. The chapters reflect developments in a range of international settings including those of Europe, South Africa and New Zealand. They represent a range of different approaches also, from the critical to the more affirmative and liberati...
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    107,15 €

  • Parliamentary Representation in France
    Olivier Costa
    This book provides, for the first time in decades, an in-depth analysis of parliamentary representation in France by looking at MPs’ profiles, behaviour and expectations, citizens’ views on representation, and National Assembly activities and influence. It is a must-read for students and scholars interested in legislative studies or French politics. ...
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    281,90 €

  • Functions, Methods and Concepts in Evaluation Research
    Reinhard Stockmann / Wolfgang Meyer / Gareth Bartley
    Evaluation research has been subject to a tremendous boom in recent years advancing to become an important instrument for analysing the effectiveness of government programmes as well as reviewing the performance of and auditing both public and private sector organisations. The purpose of this book is to explore the advances that have taken place in evaluation research and to pl...
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    132,28 €

  • Bidding for Development
    Maggie Pavelka / Mary Trina Bolton / Ngiste Abebe
    In 2012, over four billion people tuned in to watch the London Summer Olympics. As the single largest mega-event in the world, the Olympics has the power to captivate the global imagination. Long before athletes vie for a gold medal, however, competition between cities eager to host the Games kicks off with a rigorous bid process. The lengthy and expensive endeavor to host the ...
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    48,67 €

  • Russia 2025
    In early 2010 Russia once again entered a turbulent period. From the system of property distribution, to structure of the political elites and relations between the Center and the regions - various spheres of Russian life are in a state of flux. Two major factors are driving this change: oil prices which are unlikely to grow the way they did in the 2000s and the rapidly deterio...
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    64,89 €

  • Rebound
    Kim R. Holmes / Kim R. Holmes Kim R. Holmes / Kim RHolmes
    There is a huge concern in America today that the country is in decline, one of the few sentiments that – nationally – our increasingly polarized political leaders can agree on. Americans fear that the economy and our culture itself are in deep crisis. They are also frustrated that the ruling classes are unable to fix America’s problems. Kim R. Holmes’ Rebound taps into these...
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    20,12 €

  • Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition
    Two issues have been central within political philosophy in the last decade or so. The first is the debate over ’the politics of distribution versus the politics of recognition,’ which is usually associated with the work of Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser. The second is discussion of the phenomenon known as globalization, focusing on the notions of cosmopolitanism and global just...
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    132,85 €

  • The Political Implications of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
    Golan Moshe Lahat
    Immanuel Kant has long been considered one of the leading exponents of the theory of knowledge with his philosophical writings inspiring generations of political theorists, underpinning many notions and ideas on the concept of progress. Based on and innovative reading of Kant’s theory of knowledge, this book challenges contemporary critiques of the concept of progress from post...
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    64,82 €

  • Public Policies in Shared Societies
    Mari Fitzduff
    Through various factors from the globalization of skills to wars and refugee movements, societies and communities throughout the world are changing to become increasingly diverse in their racial, ethnic and religious make up. The result is that many governments and societies face a considerable struggle over how to manage community tensions within and between their borders. Thr...
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    64,83 €

  • Political Communication in Europe
    Francisco Seoane Perez
    The patent disconnection between the institutions of the European Union and the citizens of Europe has been widely attributed by political leaders and scholars to a ’communications gap’, that is, to the way EU affairs are mediated by the media, and to the apparent lack of interest by national elites in conveying the importance of Europe. This book challenges this ’mediation the...
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    64,89 €

  • The Treaty of Lisbon
    David Phinnemore
    Decisive rejection by French and Dutch voters in 2005 forced the EU to abandon the Constitutional Treaty agreed the previous year. Yet by the end of the 2007, contrary to all expectations and after an intergovernmental conference essentially devoid of substantive negotiation, EU leaders had agreed and signed the Treaty of Lisbon containing the bulk of the Constitutional Treaty’...
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    64,82 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union
    The character of social democracy in the constituent countries of the European Union is more significant and much better understood than the available literature would appear to suggest. This thought-provoking and edifying handbook aims to redress this disparity by bringing together a range of top political scientists from across Europe to provide a definitive collection on soc...
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    266,21 €

  • Democracy, Gender, and Social Policy in Russia
    Andrea Chandler
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago, Russia has undergone a dizzying and complex transition that has seen it transform from a communist state into a democracy before regressing back to the more authoritarian regime that exists today. Through a compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare pl...
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    65,06 €

  • What Water Is Worth
    A. Smith Zachary / Kira Artemis Russo / Zachary A. Smith
    Water managers tend to have narrow views on what they consider to be the value of water. However, not all water use is market driven; therefore, a comprehensive understanding of local community values associated with water can inform decision making by water managers. We use the term ’water manager’ to encompass not only the singular person assigned this community duty but also...
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    133,47 €

  • Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance
    Dennis Grube
    It is a well-known fact that Prime ministers are fond of talking, in fact at times it seems impossible to get them to do anything else. The reason for this constant talking is that Prime Ministers are all too aware of the importance of frequently talking to and communicating with the electorate. Political rhetoric has a central function that goes far beyond the need to rouse pe...
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    65,29 €

  • The Institutional Dynamics of China’s Great Transformation
    Xiaoming Huang
    This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. Unlike existing literature, it offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines - including law, economics, politics, international relations and communication studies - to consider whether institutions form, evolve and change differently according to their ...
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    73,09 €

  • Anatomy of Government Deficiencies
    H. Hanusch
    This volume contains the papers, along with the discussant’s remarks, presented at a symposium on 'Government Inefficiency' held at Diessen am Ammersee, Germany, on 22-25 July, 1980. In addition, the editor has included an introductory essay which tries to set forth the main background ideas that shaped the spirit of the con­ ference. Moreover, this a...
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    66,71 €

  • Evidence for Public Policy Design
    Paola Coletti
    Learning from the successes and failures of others is a necessity in the field of public sector innovation. The rapid diffusion of policy innovations in different countries has been characterized by a schizophrenic adoption of practices with governments utilizing those considered the ’best’ as well as those deemed capable of actually providing solutions to policy problems. Neve...
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    65,84 €

  • The Devil Inside the Beltway
    Michael J. Daugherty
    'The Devil Inside the Beltway'. This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public. Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers and details an extraordinary government surveillance program that compromised nationa...
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    37,99 €

  • The Devil Inside the Beltway
    Michael J. Daugherty
    'THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN WATCHING YOUR WORKSTATION LONGER THAN YOU THINK.' Small business owner Michael J. Daugherty is fighting back against US Government's sinister surveillance tactics in his book, The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine, and Small Business. During the past decade the US...
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    24,87 €

  • Eu Railway Policy-Making
    Helene Dyrhauge
    The railways have a long tradition in Europe and the impact that they have on history is as much political as it is social or economic. National governments have traditionally had an active interest in the railways and indeed railways have become synonymous with ideas of state building and intervention. Similarly, on the supra-national level, the EU Commission sees the railways...
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    65,41 €

  • Branding the Nation
    Melissa Aronczyk
    National governments around the world are turning to branding consultants, public relations advisers and strategic communications experts to help them "brand" their jurisdiction. Using the tools, techniques and expertise of commercial branding is believed to help nations articulate more coherent and cohesive identities, attract foreign capital, and maintain citizen loyalty. In ...
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    39,50 €


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