Public Policy

Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries

Edited by John Halligan

Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries presents a comprehensive overview of the important issues in modern bureaucracies, combined with a comparative analysis of the civil service systems and administrative traditions of five ...

Hardback (2004)

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Modernizing Civil Services

Edited by Tony Butcher, Andrew Massey

Civil services in Western liberal democracies have undergone significant changes since the early 1980s, so much so that many of the traditional assumptions underpinning their role and operating practices have been fundamentally questione...

Hardback (February 2004)

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Private Property in the 21st Century

Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs

Private property is central to American character, culture and democracy. The founding fathers understood it as key to the liberties America was designed to foster. However, over the last 200 years what one owns has evolved; ownership is...

Hardback (2004)

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Learning from Science and Technology Policy Evaluation

Edited by Philip Shapira, Stefan Kuhlmann

Learning from Science and Technology Policy Evaluation presents US and European experiences and insights on the evaluation of policies and programs to foster research, innovation, and technology (RIT). In recent years, policymakers have ...

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The Economics of Higher Education

Edited by Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin

Higher education is beginning to play an increasingly important role in the process of globalization, which promotes information technologies, development and diffusion of innovations and the ability of economies to benefit from rapid sh...

Hardback (November 2003)

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Evaluation in Public-Sector Reform

Edited by Hellmut Wollmann

With an assembly of articles written by internationally renowned scholars and experts, Evaluation in Public-Sector Reform is unique in its broad geographical range. It explores countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and...

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Pension Policy in an Integrating Europe

Edited by Onorato Castellino, Elsa Fornero

This book focuses on pension policies in Europe and interestingly includes comparisons both within the EU and between EU countries and the US. The authors show how different countries are confronted with similar problems and that compari...

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Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies

David Rooney, Greg Hearn, Thomas Mandeville, Richard Joseph

The purpose of this book is to illustrate how these social and cultural conditions are identified and analysed through new conceptual frameworks. Such frameworks are necessary to penetrate the surface features of knowledge-based economie...

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Competition and Regulation in Utility Markets

Edited by Colin Robinson

This volume is the latest in an annual series, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which provides an up-to-date review of the state of utility regulation in Britain, with some r...

Hardback (June 2003)

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Handbook on Development Policy and Management

Edited by Colin Kirkpatrick, Ron Clarke, Charles Polidano

This important Handbook on international development policy and management covers a broad spectrum of contemporary topics across all the major areas of interest. With over 40 chapters, the book comprehensively explores the many themes an...

Paperback (2003)

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Hardback (2002)

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Incentives to Improve Education

Robert McMeekin

Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of ex...

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