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  • Politics and Quality of Life

    The Role of Well-Being in Political Outcomes

    by Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior. Using carefully collected, granular data, the authors create a measurement of quality of life for each county in the United States. After applying the index to each county and calculating scores, the results are applied to key political and social questions, such as, variation in voter turnout, electoral ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • 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

  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

    by Gerard Murphy ...
    'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Data Analytics with Spark

    A Practitioner's Guide to Using Spark for Large Scale Data Analysis

    by Mohammed Guller ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Big Data Analytics with Spark is a step-by-step guide for learning Spark, which is an open-source fast and general-purpose cluster computing framework for large-scale data analysis. You will learn how to use Spark for different types of big data analytics projects, including batch, interactive, graph, and stream data analysis as well as machine learning. In addition, this book will help you become ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Working with Groupware

    Understanding and Evaluating Collaboration Technology

    by J.H. Erik Andriessen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This publication has grown out of two frustrations. One is the experience that so many applications in the area of information and communication technology (lCT) are built without an eye to what the users can handle or need for their work, systematic user oriented evaluation of new tools is therefore limited. The video recorder provides a good general example of this phenomenon, but more ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Governance Report 2017

    by The Hertie School of Governance ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    Looking at recent developments around the world, it seems that democratic values -- from freedom of association and speech to fair and free elections and a system of checks and balances -- have come under threat. Experts have, however, disproportionately focused on the problems of democracy in the West, and pointed to familiar sets of shortcomings and emerging deficiencies. By contrast, and with ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Dams and Development in China

    The Moral Economy of Water and Power

    by Bryan Tilt ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce hydroelectricity in a nation with a seeimingly insatiable appetite for energy. As hydropower responds to a larger share of energy demand, dams may also help to reduce the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Capacity for Civic Engagement

    Public and Private Worlds of the Self

    by D. Levine ...
    How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection is sometimes expressed in the language of civic engagement, public service, and commitment to the public good. While we do not lack for literature to guide us in thinking about public life, we have less to call on when our problem is not only to explore public ideals and institutions, but also to consider ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

    Edited by S.N. Nyeck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Logic of Charity

    Great Expectations in Hard Times

    by Beth Breeze, J. Mohan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and misconceptions of charitable activity in contemporary British society, especially insofar as these affect the thinking of politicians and policymakers. The authors present and discuss over a dozen studies, including public attitudes ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Gregory J. Inwood, Carolyn M. Johns ...
    Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape. Established to answer the tough questions, they have been charged with examining almost every aspect of public life.This collection brings together leading Canadian scholars working in political science, public policy, and law to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between commissions of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Beyond Networks - Interlocutory Coalitions, the European and Global Legal Orders

    by Gianluca Sgueo ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the activism promoted by organised networks of civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and negative impact that such networks of civil society actors – named “interlocutory coalitions” – may have on the convergence of principles of administrative governance across the European legal system and other ... Read more

    $89.09 USD