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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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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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Public Procurement and Human Rights
Edited by Olga Martin-Ortega, Claire Methven O’Brien
This timely work reflects on the role and obligations of the state as a buyer of goods and services, from the dual disciplinary perspectives of public procurement and human rights. Through theoretical and doctrinal analyses, and practice...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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Public Policy Circulation
Edited by Tom Baker, Christopher Walker
Policy-making is more globally connected than ever before. Policy ideas, experiences and expertise circulate with great speed and over great distances. But who is involved in moving policy, how do they do it, and through which arenas? Th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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Interrogating Public Policy Theory
Linda C. Botterill, Alan Fenna
This book questions the way policy making has been distanced from politics in prevailing theories of the policy process, and highlights the frequently overlooked ubiquity of values and values conflicts in politics and policy. It examines...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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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The Economics of Fairness
Edited by Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden
A growing literature in economics has studied how fairness considerations shape human behavior. This research collection comprises forty key theoretical and empirical contributions spanning the last four decades, along with influential r... -
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The Internet City
Aharon Kellerman
Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception, to the possibilities of an Internet-based future, The Internet City presents ways in which the Internet and urban life intersect. The book interprets how the contemporary city i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Politics of Renewable Energy in China
Chen Gang
In this book, Chen Gang examines the real-world effectiveness of China''s approach to the promotion of green technologies and practices, and discusses the political landscape in which it is situated.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing
Edited by H. K. Colebatch, Robert Hoppe
This Handbook covers the accounts, by practitioners and observers, of the ways in which policy is formed around problems, how these problems are recognized and understood, and how diverse participants come to be involved in addressing th...eBook:Find out more$65.00