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Financing Decentralized Expenditures
Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad
Financing Decentralized Expenditures presents new original research papers on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in virtually all types of countries and the design and implementation of transfer mechanisms between differ... -
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European Integration and Local Government
Edited by M. J.F. Goldsmith, Kurt K. Klausen
European Integration and Local Government is an original comparative review of the impact of the European Union on local and regional governments throughout Europe. -
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The Social Challenge of Job Creation
Edited by Jordi Gual
The Social Challenge of Job Creation brings together a distinguished group of economists and sociologists to provide a broad, accessible and multidisciplinary assessment of job creation in Europe. -
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Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union
Edited by Christos C. Paraskevopoulos, Ricardo Grinspun, Theodore Georgakopoulos
This collection of essays is a state-of-the-art analysis of key issues confronting the European Union. Identifying European economic integration as one of the defining features of modern international economics, the authors examine many... -
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Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe
Mark Kleinman
Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe identifies a divergence in housing policy between, on the one hand, the majority of relatively affluent households and, on the other, an impoverished minority. The legal, financial and economic c... -
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Budgeting and the Management of Public Spending
Edited by Donald J. Savoie
This authoritative new volume contains a selection of the most important articles and papers spanning over 20 years on budgeting and managing public spending. It is divided into five succinct parts, covering the main areas of the field ... -
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Public Policy
Wayne Parsons
Public Policy provides a lively, clear and highly accessible introduction to the theory and practice of public policy. Interdisciplinary and comparative in scope, this text covers agenda setting, and problem definition, policy making, im... -
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Bureaucracy in the Modern State
Edited by Jon Pierre
Public administration is under increasing pressure to become more efficient, better geared to the demands and opinions of citizens, more open to contacts with transnational bureaucracies, and more responsive to the ideas of elected polic...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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URBAN AND REGIONAL POLICY
Edited by Jon Pierre
This title provides the most important essays and papers on urban and regional policy, making it a convenient summary of the key theories, approaches and research results. The study of sub-national politics is no longer mainly concerned... -
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Policy Evaluation
Edited by Ray C. Rist
Policy Evaluation provides a systematic assessment of the impact that public policy evaluations have on the governance of democratic societies. This book emphasises the impacts of policy evaluations on the formulation, implementation an... -
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THE ECONOMICS OF AGEING
Edited by John Creedy
The fundamental role of individual ageing is something that everyone is necessarily aware of, and the division of the life cycle into a number of distinct stages has been recognised for many centuries. This volume collects 32 articles c... -
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THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RENT SEEKING
Edited by Robert D. Tollison, Roger D. Congleton
This collection brings together the classic papers on the economics of rent seeking. These papers date from Gordon Tullock’s original 1967 paper which first put forth the idea that the pursuit of transfers was socially costly. Other cl...