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  • Productivity and Efficiency Analysis

    Edited by William H. Greene, Lynda Khalaf, Michael Veall, Marcel-Cristian Voia, Robin Sickles ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume examines the state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing research by bringing together a selection of the best papers from the 8th North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW). It also aims to analyze world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed. The volume ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • Value and Virtue in Public Administration

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by P. Kim ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Productivity and Inequality

    Edited by William H. Greene, Lynda Khalaf, Paul Makdissi, Robin C. Sickles, Michael Veall, Marcel-Cristian Voia ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge (including data analysis) of productivity, inequality and efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers are relevant to academia, but also to public and private sectors in terms of the challenges that firms, financial institutions, governments, and individuals may ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia

    Parliament, Civil Service and Local Government

    Edited by Nizam Ahmed ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries. Divided into three parts, it addresses the implications of uniformity and diversity for the substantive representation of women in parliament, civil service and local government. The contributing authors explore the scope and limits of ‘positive ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Interpreting Hashtag Politics

    Policy Ideas in an Era of Social Media

    by S. Jeffares ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life? This book reveals how policy analysis can adapt in an increasingly mediatised to offer interpretive insights into the life and death of policy ideas in an era of hashtag politics. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • New Technology, Organizational Change and Governance

    Edited by E. Avril, C. Zumello ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly innovative practices. This book analyzes the impact of new technologies testing empowerment, engagement and democratization against the new organizational morphology of political parties and corporations. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Public Policy and Performance Management in Democratic Systems

    Theory and Practice

    by Shlomo Mizrahi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book applies various theoretical tools to explore the advantages and disadvantages of performance management systems, the ways in which they can be improved, and the strategies through which they can be designed and integrated into the policy making process. By providing both theoretical insights and practical applications, it offers a unique perspective. Using four methods of research that ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • New Forms of Governing

    A Foucauldian inspired analysis

    by P. Triantafillou ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Triantafillou analyzes the changing ways of governing the public sector and the ways in which public organizations have become the target of interventions seeking to improve their efficiency and quality. He exposes how political and social science theories were adopted in often unpredictable ways in the process of reforming the public sector. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Policy Capacity and Governance

    Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Michael Howlett, Xun Wu, M Ramesh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and practice, each focusing on a specific aspect of policy capacity and its influence on policy formulation, decision-making, ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines

    Patronage, Emotion and Democracy

    by Rupert Hodder ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare, and constitutes formal organizations. So intimately connected is it with the health of democracy and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Accountability and Regulatory Governance

    Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation

    Edited by A. Bianculli, J. Jordana ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • School Funding and Student Achievement

    Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee

    by Andy Spears ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan, designed to foster equity in funding among the state’s schools. Initiated as a result of lawsuits ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD