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  • Networked Governance

    The Future of Intergovernmental Management

    Edited by Kurt Thurmaier, Jack W. Meek ...
    In a unique contributed volume that features chapters written by top scholars paired with practitioner responses, students can see just how much the landscape of intergovernmental relations has evolved in recent years, with diminishing vertical flows of resources, and increased horizontal flows in the form of cross-jurisdictional and interlocal collaboration. Contributors include Robert Agranoff, ... Read more

    $108.79 CAD

  • Business Improvement Districts

    Research, Theories, and Controversies

    Edited by Goktug Morcol, Lorlene Hoyt, Jack W. Meek, Ulf Zimmermann ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    Initiated and governed by property or business owners under the authorization of state and local governments, business improvement districts (BIDs) have received a very mixed reception. To some, they are innovative examples of self-governance and public-private partnerships; to others, they are yet another example of the movement toward the privatization of what should be inherent government ... Read more

    $272.08 CAD

  • Citizenship and Ethics

    From the Neighborhood to the City, Country to the World

    by Seongho An, Mahabat Baimyrzaeva, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Stephanie Britt, Thomas A. Bryer, Chao Guo, Alfred Tat-Kei Ho, So Hee Jeon, Pradeep Chandra Kathi0, Pamela S. Medina1, Jack W. Meek2, Mehnaaz Momen3, Vishnu Muraleedharan4, Cristian Pliscoff5, Daniel Seigler6, Wanzhu Shi7, Ruechagorn Trairatananusorn8, Feng Wang9, Weijie Wang0, Michael Yusheng Wu1, Wai-Hang Yee2 ...
    Series series Democratic Dilemmas and Policy Responsiveness
    Scholarship is a multi-generational collective enterprise with a commitment to advancing knowledge, inspiring reflection, and facilitating stronger neighborhoods, cities and countries. This book explicitly adopts this lens as a recognition of the contributions of Prof. Terry Cooper to scholarship and practice, and as a mechanism to connect the past to the present and ultimately the future of ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?

    by Eliza W. Y. Lee, Charles Kirschbaum, Ben Farr-Wharton, Achim Oberg, Torbjörn Einarsson, Filip Wijkstrom, Kerstin Sahlin, Anna Schulz, Christopher Koliba, Asim Zia, Esther Conrad0, Robyn Keast1, Lisa Maria Dellmuth2, Chris Ansell3, Jack Meek5, Bodil Damgaard6, Peter Triantafillou7, Eva Sørensen8 ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across or at multiple scales and of moving between scales.First published as a special issue of Policy & ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, And Voice

    by Odugbemi Sina; Jacobson Thomas ...
    Although necessary and often first rate, technocratic solutions alone have been ineffective in delivering real change or lasting results in governance reforms. This is primarily because reform programs are delivered no in controlled environments, but under complex, diverse, sociopolitical and economic conditions. Real-world conditions. In political societies, ownership of reform programs by the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Transnational Education

    Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education

    by Grant McBurnie, Christopher Ziguras ...
    While the international mobility of students is a well-established feature of higher education, the international mobility of institutions and courses on a large scale is a more novel phenomenon. Transnational education is at the leading-edge of the most fundamental changes taking place in higher education today.Topics discussed in this new volume include:the extent and form of offshore ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector

    Edited by J Steven Ott, Lisa Dicke ...
    The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector is a collection of insightful and influential classic and recent readings on the existence, forms, and functions of the nonprofit sector—the sector that sits between the market and government. The readings encompass a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines and cover everything from Andrew Carnegie’s turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy to the most ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Thinking Government

    Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition

    by David Johnson ...
    Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources management, and accountability and responsibility. Johnson explores the ways that the ideological ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Over Here and Undertaxed: Multinationals, Tax Avoidance and You

    by Richard Murphy ...
    Tax has rocketed to the top of the news agenda. When Amazon, Google and Starbucks were pulled up in front of the Public Accounts Committee, many were stunned at how little corporation tax they paid (if at all) in a time of austerity and government cuts. How can a tax gap of �12 billion be justified, when a CEO can take home $101 million a year? There is a growing realization that maybe we aren't ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."― Zelizer Best Book in Economic ... Read more

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  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD