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Who Rules Japan?
Edited by Leon Wolff, Luke Nottage, Kent Anderson
The dramatic growth of the Japanese economy in the postwar period, and its meltdown in the 1990s, has attracted sustained interest in the power dynamics underlying the management of Japan’s administrative state. Scholars and commentators...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Politics of Representative Bureaucracy]()
Politics of Representative Bureaucracy
Edited by B. Guy Peters, Patrick von Maravić, Eckhard Schröter
What is the relationship between the composition of the public sector workforce and the nature of the society it serves? Taking a comparative and analytical perspective, the authoritative and accessible chapters illustrate the salience o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe]()
Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe
Colin Crouch
In this illuminating book Colin Crouch examines the diverse approaches presented by advanced societies in their attempts to resolve a central dilemma of a capitalist economy: the need to combine buoyant mass consumption with insecure wor...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Public Administration in the Context of Global Governance]()
Public Administration in the Context of Global Governance
Edited by Soonhee Kim, Shena Ashley, Henry W. Lambright
This collection explores the frontiers of knowledge at the intersection of public administration and international relations scholarship. The culturally, generationally and academically diverse team of editors stake a meaningful claim in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Constitutional Sunsets and Experimental Legislation
Sofia Ranchordás
This innovative book explores the nature and function of ‘sunset clauses’ and experimental legislation, or temporary legislation that expires after a determined period of time, allowing legislators to test out new rules and regulations w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corruption, Grabbing and Development
Edited by Tina Søreide, Aled Williams
All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, can collectively be described as forms of ‘grabbing’. This unique volume addresses how grabbing ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Quality of Government and Corruption from a European Perspective
Nicholas Charron, Victor Lapuente, Bo Rothstein
In this book the authors tackle the concept of ‘quality of government’ (QoG) both conceptually and empirically and apply their focus to EU countries and regions. In a pioneering empirical effort, they map out regional QoG for the first t...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Size and Local Democracy
Bas Denters, Michael Goldsmith, Andreas Ladner, Poul Erik Mouritzen, Lawrence E. Rose
How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector refo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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State and Local Financial Instruments
Craig L. Johnson, Martin J. Luby, Tima T. Moldogaziev
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital fi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Handbook of Innovation in Public Services]()
Handbook of Innovation in Public Services
Edited by Stephen P. Osborne, Louise Brown
Leading researchers from across the globe review the state of the art in research on innovation in public services, providing an overview of key issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Topics explored include: context for innovatio...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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The Political Economy of Ageing and Later Life
Edited by Alan Walker, Liam Foster
This timely new collection presents the most important and influential articles and papers on ageing and later life of the past half century. The editors examine policy creation and implementation, practice and critical gerontology inclu... -
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![Police Corruption: Essential Readings]()
Police Corruption: Essential Readings
Edited by Leslie Holmes
Police corruption is unquestionably one of the worst forms of corruption, as it can become a serious security issue and undermine a state’s legitimacy. This single volume brings together the most informative scholarly and practitioner ...
