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Reforming Public and Corporate Governance
Edited by Byong-Man Ahn, John Halligan, Stephen Wilks
Reforming Public and Corporate Governance will be of interest to political scientists, political economists and East Asian scholars, as well as academics, researchers, policymakers and NGOs involved in public policy and management. -
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Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage
Edited by Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough
This book analyses the conception of economic development in modern regions, which has gone through a fundamental change since the early 1980s. Regions are today increasingly looked upon as independent market places that are connected vi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Success and Failure in Public Governance
Edited by Mark Bovens, Paul ’t Hart, B. Guy Peters
Why do some policies succeed so well while others, in the same sector or country, fail dramatically? The aim of this book is to answer this question and provide systematic research on the nature, sources and consequences of policy failur...eBook:Find out more$75.96
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The Economics of Heritage
Edited by IIde Rizzo, Ruth Towse
Based on the assumption that without understanding institutions, economists cannot make satisfactory policy prescriptions, this book draws some insightful conclusions on the strengths and limitations of applied economics in the field of ... -
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Valuing Cultural Heritage
Edited by Ståle Navrud, Richard C. Ready
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovati...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Procurement
Edited by Sue Arrowsmith, Keith Hartley
Public procurement is big business. International organisations and governments at national, regional, state and city levels are major buyers of goods and services. However, public procurement is a relatively under-researched and new dis... -
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The Internationalization of Public Management
Edited by Willy McCourt, Martin Minogue
The Internationalization of Public Management constitutes one of the first attempts to examine the conceptual and practical problems which attend such policy transfers, and to make preliminary judgements about the successes and failures ... -
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Consensus, Cooperation and Conflict
Henning Jørgensen
Denmark is regarded by many as a model European country. In a short space of time unemployment rates have more than halved, inflation has remained low and the welfare state has not only been consolidated but improved. A new policy-mix ha... -
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The Dynamics of Full Employment
Edited by Günther Schmid, Bernard Gazier
Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offer...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Analytical Transport Economics
Edited by Jacob B. Polak, Arnold Heertje
Analytical Transport Economics opens with a critical examination and overview of the scope of transport economics. Next, the production of transport, travel demand, transport externalities and transport markets are thoroughly analysed. T... -
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The Economics of Public Law
Richard A. Posner, Francesco Parisi
Judge Richard A. Posner’s work on the economics of public law is a critical component of the interaction between the new law and economics movement and public choice theory. It exemplifies the parallel influence that these two important ... -
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The Global Market for Higher Education
Tim Mazzarol, Geoffrey N. Soutar
The authors of The Global Market for Higher Education discuss this industry from a strategic and services marketing perspective and suggest a model to explain how to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage. The book draws on more tha...