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Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
Michael Barzelay
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-... -
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Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe
Attila Ágh
The dramatic decline of democracy in East-Central Europe has attracted great interest world-wide. Going beyond the narrow spectrum of the extensive literature on this topic, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of ECE region – Czech...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regional Governance in the EU
Edited by Gabriele Abels, Jan Battke
The role of regions in the European Union has been frequently debated since the 1980s. This comprehensive book provides a thorough overview of the issue from a variety of perspectives, analysing regional governance and territorial dynami...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Logic of Public–Private Partnerships
Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve
This book examines Public–Private Partnerships (PPP), and tracks the movement from early technical optimism to the reality of PPP as a phenomenon in the political economy. Today''s economic turbulence sees many PPP assumptions changed: w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland
Franziska Ehnert
By opening a new dialogue between scholars of public policy and those of public administration, Climate Policy in Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Poland offers a timely contribution to climate policy analysis. This innovative book explores...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Beyond Public Policy
Peter K. Spink
Public policy is an expression that has come to dominate the way people talk about doing government and public administration and is seen as a central component of the modern democratic order. Adopting an innovative ‘public action langua...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Street-Level Bureaucracy
Edited by Peter Hupe
When the objectives of public policy programmes have been formulated and decided upon, implementation seems just a matter of following instructions. However, it is underway to the realization of those objectives that public policies get ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy
Edited by Holger Straßheim, Silke Beck
Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy. Behavioural instruments such as ‘nudging’ apply insights from behavioural economics and behavioural sciences, psychology and neurosciences across a broad range of policy areas....eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation
Leonardo Avritzer
This book evaluates democratic innovations to allow a full analysis of the different practices that have emerged recently in Latin America. These innovations, often viewed in a positive light by a large section of democratic theorists, e...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Making Policies Work
Edited by Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, Altaf Virani
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Policy design efforts are hampered by inadequate understanding of how policy tools and actio... -
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Introduction to Comparative Public Administration
Sabine Kuhlmann, Hellmut Wollmann
This introduction into comparative public administration provides an in-depth analysis of the state of public administration and recent administrative reforms in European countries. By focusing on the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy a...eBook:Find out more$51.16
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Institutional Theory in Political Science, Fourth Edition
B. Guy Peters
Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional approaches in the discipline, as well as considering the...eBook:Find out more$46.36