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  • Calculus for Business and Economics

    An Example-Based Introduction

    by Jon Pierre Fortney, Linda Smail ...
    Calculus for Business and Economics: An Example-Based Introduction is designed for first-year university students specializing in business and economics. This book is crafted in a clear, easy-to-read style, covering all the essential calculus-related topics that students are likely to encounter in their studies. With real-world business and economics applications seamlessly integrated around the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration

    How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies

    Edited by Michael W. Bauer, B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, Kutsal Yesilkagit, Stefan Becker ...
    Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding features prominently in social science scholarship, especially the branches concerned with political parties and political behavior, public administration research ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Media and Governance

    Exploring the Role of News Media in Complex Systems of Governance

    by Anna Christmann, Daniel Küebler, Erik Hans Klijn, Frank Marcinkowski, Sharon Gilad, Karin Hasler, Andres Friedrichsmeier, Monika Djerf-Pierre, Saar Alon Barkat, Sandra Jacobs, B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores the intersections between governance and media in western democracies, which have undergone profound recent changes. Many governmental powers have been shifted toward a host of network parties such as NGOs, state enterprises, international organizations, autonomous agencies, and local governments. Governments ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics

    Edited by Jon Pierre ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics provides a state of the art analysis of political development in Sweden. Covering all essential aspects of politics in Sweden, this volume provides detailed accounts of policy making, governance, institutional arrangements, foreign relations, electoral behavior, the party system, the public administration, the constitutional framework, and the welfare state. ... Read more

    $41.39 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

  • Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

    An Example-Based Introduction

    by Jon Pierre Fortney ...
    Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science: An Example-Based Introduction is intended for a first- or second-year discrete mathematics course for computer science majors. It covers many important mathematical topics essential for future computer science majors, such as algorithms, number representations, logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, functions, combinatorics, algorithmic complexity, graphs, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Governance, Politics and the State

    by Jon Pierre, Professor B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Political Analysis
    Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in understanding national, subnational and global politics.The long-awaited second edition of this textbook takes into account the significant growth and proliferation of the field in recent years and offers a state of the art introduction ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Visual Introduction to Differential Forms and Calculus on Manifolds

    by Jon Pierre Fortney ...
    This book explains and helps readers to develop geometric intuition as it relates to differential forms. It includes over 250 figures to aid understanding and enable readers to visualize the concepts being discussed. The author gradually builds up to the basic ideas and concepts so that definitions, when made, do not appear out of nowhere, and both the importance and role that theorems play is ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Next Public Administration

    Debates and Dilemmas

    by Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters ...
    Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen relationship.Wide-ranging in scope, The Next Public Administration:Extends basic public ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Comparative Governance

    Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing

    by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre ...
    Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

    A Quest for Control

    Edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and systems used to handle appointees of prior administrations in the US, Canada, Germany, France, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform

    Edited by Jon Pierre, Guy Peters ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Adminstrative reform in most western democracies over the past couple of decades has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service delivery. This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. The contributors - experts on administrative reform - assess its scope and objectives, and also the ways in which these reforms have impacted on the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD