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  • Evaluation for the Real World

    The Impact of Evidence in Policy Making

    by Colin Palfrey, Paul Thomas, Ceri Phillips ...
    Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policy-making process, yet in reality they are often disregarded. This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating public policies and services. It further examines the nature of evidence and its use and non-use by ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining

    by Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya, Tong Zhang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This successful textbook on predictive text mining offers a unified perspective on a rapidly evolving field, integrating topics spanning the varied disciplines of data science, machine learning, databases, and computational linguistics. Serving also as a practical guide, this unique book provides helpful advice illustrated by examples and case studies. This highly anticipated second edition has ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Populist Parties in Europe

    Agents of Discontent?

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as something adverse and, in the European context routinely related to xenophobic politics. What populism exactly is and who its main representatives are, however, often remains unclear. This text has two main aims: to identify ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Innovating Government

    Normative, Policy and Technological Dimensions of Modern Government

    Edited by Simone van der Hof, Marga M. Groothuis ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Governments radically change under the influence of technology. As a result, our lives in interaction with public sector bodies are easier. But the creation of an electronic government also makes us more vulnerable and dependent. Dependent not just on technology itself, but also on the organizations within government that apply technology, collect and use citizen-related information and often ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Applied Policy Research

    Concepts and Cases

    by J. Fred Springer, Peter J. Haas, Allan Porowski ...
    Where many textbooks on policy research focus on methodological and statistical theories, leaving students to wonder how they will apply those theories to future policy positions, this innovative textbook takes theories of policy research and puts them into practice, demystifying the subject by translating it into real-world situations in which students can actively engage. Beginning with an ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Singapore Perspectives 2012 - Singapore Inclusive: Bridging Divides

    by Soon Hock Kang, Chan-hoong Leong ...
    Series series Singapore Perspectives
    The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the broad policy discussions that animate thought leaders, policy-makers and the public in the country during the immediate period or that are likely to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Business Modeling and Software Design

    6th International Symposium, BMSD 2016, Rhodes, Greece, June 20-22, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Boris Shishkov ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2016, held in Rhodes, Greece, in June 2016, organized by the Institute IICREST in cooperation with BPM-D, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, TU Delft, CTIT - University of Twente, IMI-BAS, the Dutch Research School SIKS, and AMAKOTA Ltd.BMSD ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Crisis of Authority – Workforce Tensions

    A Desperate Call for Intervention

    by Myrah K. Mashigo-Tshabalala ...
    The public service in South Africa faces an enormous challenge in improving service delivery not only to meet the citizens expectations but to ensure quality life for the nation. The urgent need exists to establish what went wrong and how can the situation be turned around. The book established the root causes and the link between two key challenges identified by the government; management ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • China’s Population Aging and the Risk of ‘Middle-income Trap’

    Edited by Xueyuan Tian ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book includes a series of reports that mainly discuss the Middle Income Trap against the backdrop of population ageing in China. It also offers practical suggestions on how to avoid it properly. Concretely, it argues that the government should accelerate the transition of economic development modes, resolve concentrated social conflicts, promote a balanced rural and urban development during ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Reflections on Public Administration

    by John Merriman Gaus ...
    “In this classic, Gaus writes perceptively of the ‘ecology’ of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century led citizens repeatedly to look to government for relief. Politicians, in turn, created or expanded the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Practice of Enterprise Modeling

    10th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2017, Leuven, Belgium, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Geert Poels, Frederik Gailly, Estefania Serral Asensio, Monique Snoeck ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 8.1 Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling held in November 2017 in Leuven, Belgium. The conference was created by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.1 to offer a forum for knowledge transfer and experience sharing between the academic and practitioner communities.The 20 full papers ... Read more

    $49.49 USD