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“andreas corcoran”

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  • The Promise of Higher Education

    Essays in Honour of 70 Years of IAU

    Edited by Hilligje van't Land, Andreas Corcoran, Diana-Camelia Iancu ...
    This book is a collection of short essays, accessible through open access, which takes the interested reader on a tour across the global higher education landscape. It addresses pertinent themes and challenges in higher education. To mark the 70th anniversary of the International Association of Universities (IAU) and its role in higher education since 1950, experts from around the world share ... Read more

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • 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

    $42.29 USD

  • Public Administration in the Globalisation Era: The New Public Management Perspective

    by Uma Medury ...
    This book explores the transformative effect of globalisation on the theory and practice of public administration in the twenty-first century. It outlines on the complex dynamics of worldwide changesthe reformulation of the fundamental premises of the discipline, restructuring actual administrative models and rapid technological advancement with accompanying changes in the traditional hierarchical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    by Hayley Stevenson, John S. Dryzek ...
    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • U.S. Power in International Higher Education

    by Jenny J. Lee, Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Ellen Hazelkorn, Gerardo L. Blanco, John P. Haupt, Brendan Cantwell, Chrystal A. George Mwangi, Sean Jung-Hau Chen, Pempho Chinkondenji, Dale LaFleur0, Christina W. Yao1, Chris R. Glass2, Sharon Stein3, Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez4 ...
    2021 ASHE/CIHE Award for Significant Research on International Higher EducationU.S. Power in International Higher Education explores how internationalization in higher education is not just an educational endeavor, but also a geopolitical one. By centering and making explicit the role of power, the book demonstrates the United States’s advantage in international education as well as the changing ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

    Edited by Heidi Gottfried, Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter ...
    The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world.The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Universities in the Knowledge Economy

    Higher education organisation and global change

    Edited by Paul Temple ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Universities are fundamental to the contemporary knowledge economy. They directly and indirectly support economic growth in both developing and advanced economies. In addition to their traditional teaching and research functions, they often also have important roles in supporting regional development and urban regeneration, as well as involvement in fostering international relations, in , cultural ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Paradoxes of Aid Work

    Passionate Professionals

    by Silke Roth ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and tracing the pathways into and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD