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  • The Impact of Networks on Unemployment

    by J. M. Hurst ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped. It deploys a multi-theoretical and methodological framework to investigate this empirical puzzle, and to test and analyse the causal factors influencing network outcomes. Chapters examine network ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • 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

    $51.89 USD

  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

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  • Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change

    Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation

    by Johan P. Olsen ...
    Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are doing, is one such phenomenon. Mainstream approaches to democratic ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Local Government in England

    Centralisation, Autonomy and Control

    by Mark Roberts, Rachel Wall, Colin Copus ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local self-government and makes the term ‘government’ in local government a misnomer. The book will examine how the erosion of the autonomy, powers, roles, functions and responsibilities of English local ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The End of British Party Politics?

    by Roger Awan-Scully ...
    Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred, and why it matters.Electoral choices across Britain became increasingly differentiated ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democracy Deferred

    Civic Leadership after 9/11

    by D. Woods ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, civic leaders began to organize four coalitions that aimed to give ordinary citizens a chance to meet, to heal, and to be heard in rebuilding decisions. This book tells the inside story of the civic renewal movement they founded. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe

    Edited by Edoardo Ongaro, Sandra Van Thiel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Handbook offers a systematic review of state-of-the-art knowledge on public administration in Europe. Covering the theoretical, epistemological and practical aspects of the field, it focuses on how public administration operates and is studied in European countries. In sixty-three chapters, written by leading scholars, this Handbook considers the uniqueness of the European situation through ... Read more

    $485.09 USD

  • William Armstrong and British Policy Making

    by Kevin Theakston, Philip Connelly ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the British government policy-making machine for over 30 years – the very incarnation of the ‘permanent government’ of the country. He ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Being American on the Edge

    Penurbia and the Metropolitan Mind, 1945-2010

    by J. Goddard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities. These landscapes are central to American mindsets as they combine the dreams, expectations, and experiences of the nation in expressive cultural landscapes. An interpretive-analytical methodology is used in this single ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy

    The European Mayor

    Edited by Hubert Heinelt, Annick Magnier, Marcello Cabria, Herwig Reynaert ...
    Series series Governance and Public Management
    This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • European Union External Environmental Policy

    Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders

    Edited by Katja Biedenkopf, Camilla Adelle, Diarmuid Torney ...
    Series series The European Union in International Affairs
    This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts the EU’s attempts to shape environmental governance beyond its borders. Key questions addressed include: What environmental norms, rules and policies does the EU seek to promote ... Read more

    $152.09 USD