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How Great Cities Happen
John Stanley, Janet Stanley, Roslynne Hansen
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of ...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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![The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing]()
The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing
Ian Bache, Louise Reardon
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing. This book pr...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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![The Water-Sustainable City]()
The Water-Sustainable City
David L. Feldman
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water fr...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Governing Compact Cities
Philipp Rode
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriente...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Handbook on Theories of Governance]()
Handbook on Theories of Governance
Edited by Christopher Ansell, Jacob Torfing
In the past two decades, governance theories have arisen semi-independently across multiple disciplines. In law and regulation, planning, democratic theory, economics, public management, and international relations, among other disciplin...eBook:Find out more$60.76
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Public Administration Reforms in Europe
Edited by Gerhard Hammerschmid, Steven Van de Walle, Rhys Andrews, Philippe Bezes
Based on a survey of more than 6700 top civil servants in 17 European countries, this book explores the impacts of New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe from a uniquely comparative perspective. It examines and analyses empi...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Power, Policy and Profit
Edited by Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sörbom
Power, Policy and Profit investigates the manifold ways in which corporate actors attempt to broadly influence political activities. With intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of provisions of welfare services and accum...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Regulatory Impact Assessment
Edited by Claire A. Dunlop, Claudio M. Radaelli
This comparative Handbook provides a pioneering and comprehensive account of regulatory impact assessment – the main instrument used by governments and regulators to appraise the likely effects of their policy proposals. Renowned interna...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Transitions to Good Governance
Edited by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Michael Johnston
Why have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere façade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In t...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Public Policy in Action
Victor Bekkers, Menno Fenger, Peter Scholten
This comprehensive textbook explores the policy process from a multitude of perspectives, including rationalism, culturalism, institutionalism and from a political point of view. This allows students to discover key concepts from the pol...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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![Individualism and Inequality]()
Individualism and Inequality
Ralph Fevre
A belief in individual self-determination powered the development of universal human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism and feminism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of e...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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The Generational Welfare Contract
Simon Birnbaum, Tommy Ferrarini, Kenneth Nelson, Joakim Palme
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. This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparat...
