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The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-04-08
Format(s) : PDF
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'A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2008-12-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives.The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-12-18
Format(s) : PDF
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The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in 'ivory towers', as increasing government intervention and a growing 'target culture' has changed the way they work. Increasingly...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-08-16
Format(s) : PDF
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Written from a global perspective on risk, hazards, and disasters, Introduction to International Disaster Management provides practitioners, educators and students with a comprehensive overview of the players, processes and special issues involved in the management of...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2006-10-17
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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This book is about public administration in India, which is often synonymous with the role and performance of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The author stresses the indispensability of the civil service in a democratic polity like India and the decisive role...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2006-06-05
Format(s) : ePub
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The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized and implicit understandings? What are the key dimensions of such...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-06-01
Format(s) : PDF
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INTRODUCTION TO HOMELAND SECURITY was the first book to provide practitioners, educators, and students with a comprehensive account of the original and ongoing developments in the Department of Homeland Security's reorganization, as well as the practices, policies and...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2006-03-30
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world.The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2005-10-27
Format(s) : PDF
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The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2002-02-22
Format(s) : PDF
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The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2002-02-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Why does public management–the art of the state–so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different ways in which control or regulation can be applied to government?Why do we find contradictory recipes for the improvement of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-07-10
Format(s) : PDF
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New Media and American Politics is the first book to examine the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloid journalism, television talk shows, entertainment media, and computer networks. Davis and Owen discuss the new media's cultural...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1998-05-28
Format(s) : PDF
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