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  • Max Weber's Theory of the Modern State

    Origins, structure and Significance

    by A. Anter ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Andreas Anter reconstructs Max Weber's theory of the modern state, showing its significance to contemporary political science. He reveals the ambivalence of Weber's political thought: the oscillation between an étatiste position, mainly oriented to the reason of state, and an individualistic one, focussed on the freedom of individuals ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Advanced Introduction to Public Policy

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Making effective public policies is a difficult task, but considering policymaking as a problem of design analogous to architecture or engineering can assist in that process. This book outlines three vital components of policy design: understanding the causes behind the problem being addressed; identifying means of intervention, including selection and implementation of policy instruments; and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • For Whom the Dogs Spy

    Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond

    by Raymond A. Joseph ...
    When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States, found himself rushing back to his beloved country. The earthquake ignited a passion in Joseph, inspiring him to run for president against great competition, including two well-known Haitian pop stars, his nephew Wyclef Jean and Michel Martelly. But he couldn’t compete in a democratic system ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times

    Modeling the Public Career of George C. Marshall

    by Gerald M. Pops ...
    In Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times, leadership and organizational theory are blended with early 20th Century history to model public leadership that is both monumentally effective and classically ethical. What is leadership? What makes leadership good or bad? To answer these questions, Gerald M. Pops draws on the multi-faceted career of George C. Marshall as an extended case study, focusing ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Wiki Government

    How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

    by Beth Simone Noveck ...
    Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. In the process ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Business Information Systems Workshops

    BIS 2014 International Workshops, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 22-23, 2014, Revised Papers

    Edited by Witold Abramowicz, Angelika Kokkinaki ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014. The 27 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions and were revised and extended after the event. The workshop topics covered ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • History and Future of Two Parties

    by Julio Camino ...
    THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICAN in the last half century is a "drama in three acts". Act one: Dictatorships overthrow the armed left in the military field. Act two: Democracy is back and the end of the soviet communism coincides with a decade of "free market economies" (the '90). Act three: Former guerrilla take power in almost all the countries.What happened?In the First World it was not that ... Read more

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies for 21st Century Leaders

    Edited by Samuel O. Idowu, John O. Okpara ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In today's global business environment it is no longer acceptable that a corporation does well simply by doing good. It is expected. With increasing pressures from stakeholders to improve the bottom line as well as to be good corporate citizens, business leaders face tough decisions. What social issues should we support? What initiatives should we develop that will do the most good for the company ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A Presidential Civil Service

    FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management

    by Mordecai Lee ...
    Series series Public Administration: Criticism and Creativity
    Revealing the overlooked agency that transformed presidential personnel management and modern federal governance.A Presidential Civil Service offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt’s Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Radical Reform in Yeltsin's Russia

    What Went Wrong?

    by Julie Nelson, Irina Y. Kuzes ...
    This work examines the political and organizational factors that have shaped Russian economic reforms since the demise of the Soviet Union. The author draws on a variety of sources - including interviews conducted in Ekaterinburg, Voronezh and Smolensk - to present a multilayered portrait of the successes, failures and umintended consequences of the reforms. The book covers: the consequence of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Wealth and Welfare States

    Is America a Laggard or Leader?

    by Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, Timothy Smeeding ...
    This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere. It is widely believed that the welfare state undermines productivity and economic growth, that the United States has an unusually small welfare state, and that it is, and always has ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD