Politics and Public Policy
-
Add to Wish List
Innovation and Culture in Public Services
Steven DeMello, Peder Inge Furseth
There is a growing trend toward the integration of public and private entities in the delivery of public services. This book aims to improve the ability to innovate successfully in large-scale public/private endeavors. The authors develo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Control
Laura Von Daniels
Fiscal Decentralization and Budget Control explores possible institutional solutions to fiscal instability in countries that have traditionally been caught up in problems of over-expenditure and over-indebtedness. How can governments con...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Migration and Freedom
Brad K. Blitz
Migration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in the European area. Drawing upon over 170 interviews, it provides an original account of the opportunities and c...eBook:Find out more$39.16
-
Add to Wish List
The Economics and Political Economy of Transportation Security
Kenneth Button
In this clear and observant book, Kenneth Button provides an overview of the economics and political economy of transport security, considering its policy from an economic perspective. His analysis applies micro-economic theory to transp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context
Kati Kuitto
This is the first book providing a comprehensive and systematic empirical assessment of the post-communist welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of their Western European counterparts. Based on the classical typolog...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, Forest Conservation and Climate Change
Silvia Irawan, Luca Tacconi
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) are an innovative way to create incentives for local public actors to support conservation. This book contributes to the debate about how to conserve tropical forests by implementing mechanisms f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State
Gunnar L.H. Svendsen, Gert T. Svendsen
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world’s highest levels of tax and generous social benefits. Denmark would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Analysis and Public Policy
Stuart Shapiro
How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-maki...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Corruption and Criminal Justice
Tina Søreide
The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real li...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
The Leadership Imagination
Donald R. LaMagdeleine
In the interest of reimagining leadership as a highly contextual activity with moral overtones, LaMagdeleine argues for blending sociology and history of religions scholarship in leadership analysis of black swan leadership dilemmas. His...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
The Politics of Public–Private Partnerships in Western Europe
Thomas Krumm
This comprehensive book provides a comparative policy analysis of public-private partnerships in 14 Western European countries from Scandinavia to Greece, bringing together insights from government, economics and politics. Thomas Krumm d...eBook:Find out more$40.00
-
Add to Wish List
Understanding China''s Urbanization
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao
China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host o...eBook:Find out more$40.00