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  • Developing Quality in Personal Social Services

    Concepts, Cases and Comments

    Edited by Adalbert Evers, Riitta Haverinen, Kai Leichsenring, Gerald Wistow ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this volume is about the challenge of introducing business-originated concepts of quality assurance, personal social services are currently confronted with all over Europe. Undoubtedly, the new orientation towards a more business-like approach in social welfare settings will raise professionalism, "client-orientation" and controlling (instead of mere inspection). There is ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutionalised Politics

    In Search of Intermediating Capacities

    Edited by Adalbert Evers, Johan von Essen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume focusses on the interplay of civic engagement and institutionalised politics and its role in both the erosion and retrieval of intermediate capabilities and procedures. Rather than discussing democracy as a relationship between citizens as individual voters and state power, the book studies the relationship between citizens engaged in or through organisations, movements and networks in ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Social Innovations in the Urban Context

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has ... Read more

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    Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

    by Tassilo Herrschel, Yonn Dierwechter ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    In recent years "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around what "smart" actually means, both theoretically and empirically, have emerged within the interdisciplinary arenas of urban and regional studies. This book explores the changes in discourse, rationality and selected responses of smartness through the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development

    Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER Programme

    by Leo Granberg, Kjell Andersson ...
    Series series Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
    The LEADER programme, initiated in 1991, aims to improve the development potential of rural areas in the European Union by drawing on local initiatives and skills. Highlighting this unique policy approach, this book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias

    Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism

    by Andrew Griffith ...
    Canada is known for its inclusive citizenship and multiculturalism policies that have been largely successful in integrating an increased diversity of Canadians. In contrast to the previous approach, in 2007, the Conservative government initiated a fundamental change to make citizenship more meaningful and emphasize integration in multiculturalism. Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting ... Read more

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  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    by Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

    Edited by J. Raadschelders, T. Toonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This revised and expanded edition of a benchmark collection compares how civil services around the world have adapted to cope with managing public services in the 21st century. The volume provides insights into multi-level governance, juridification and issues of efficiency and responsiveness as well as exploring the impact of fiscal austerity. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Be Creative

    Making a Living in the New Culture Industries

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the ‘euphoric’ moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.McRobbie makes some bold arguments about the staging of creative economy as a mode of ‘labour reform’; she ... Read more

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  • The Good Project

    Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason

    by Monika Krause ...
    NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsunamis, wars, and pandemics. But with so many ailing areas in need of assistance, how do these organizations decide where to go—and who gets the aid?In ... Read more

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  • Working in the Service Sector

    A Tale from Different Worlds

    Edited by Gerhard Bosch, Steffen Lehndorff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the ... Read more

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  • 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

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