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  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    by Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to Public Management and Administration

    by Christopher Pollitt ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this Advanced Introduction, Christopher Pollitt starts a penetrating ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Unbundled Government

    A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

    Edited by Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot ...
    Public sector bureaucracies have been subjected to harsh criticism. One solution which has been widely adopted over the past two decades has been to 'unbundle government' - that is to break down monolithic departments and ministries into smaller, semi-autonomous 'agencies'. These are often governed by some type of performance contract, are at 'arm's length' or further from their 'parent' ministry ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Filip Ilkowski ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred against the backdrop of global economic integration, but also against the contradictions in its ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Adam Leszczyński ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • Institutional Reforms in the Public Sector

    What Did We Learn?

    by Mahabat Baimyrzaeva ...
    Series Book 22 - Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management
    What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes? What have we learnt about the attempts to deliberately design and redesign public sector institutions in different countries? What works and what doesn't, and why? What happens when reforms fail? This book looks at what the existing academic literature tells us about these questions, and intends to answer ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Capitalism and Commerce

    Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise

    by Prof Edward W. Younkins ...
    In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school teaching, Younkins's work offers the student of political economy and the educated layperson a clear, systematic treatment of the philosophical concepts that underpin the idea of capitalism and the business, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Black Hole of Public Administration

    by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented young bureaucrats have been joining the public service with fresh ideas capable of creating real change, but the black hole consumes all.In The Black Hole of Public Administration, experienced public servant Ruth Hubbard and public administration ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis

    by Barbara Carkenord ...
    Business analysis is the fastest growing field in business today and the role of the business analyst is both strategic and tactical. Business analysts are part strategist, part program or project manager, part architect and part systems analyst. They work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, and communicate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Blame Game

    Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government

    by 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 how blame avoidance ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • America's Failing Experiment

    How We the People Have Become the Problem

    by Kirby Goidel ...
    America’s Failing Experiment: How We the People Have Become the Problem, makes the controversial claim that the American political system suffers from too much democracy. An accomplished public policy expert coeditor of the Journal Survey Practice, Kirby Goidel argues that our elected officials are overly responsive to public opinion which is often poorly informed, incoherent, and uncertain. The ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Noam Chomsky on Language, Democracy and Social Justice

    Noam Chomsky’s Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna

    by Pierre W. Orelus ...
    Series Book 560 - Counterpoints
    Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues, such as unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated ... Read more

    $47.09 USD