Skip to main content

Winkelwagen

Je krijgt de VIP-behandeling!

Artikel(en) niet beschikbaar voor aankoop
Bekijk je winkelwagentje. Je kunt de niet-beschikbare artikelen nu verwijderen of we verwijderen ze bij de kassa automatisch.
artikelenartikel
artikelenartikel

Aanbevolen voor jou

Loading...
  • New Actors and Alliances in Development

    Bewerkt door Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte ...
    Serie series ThirdWorlds
    This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. The contributors also trace a changing set of key relations and alliances in development – those between business and consumers; NGOs and celebrities; ... Meer lezen

    54,78 €

Mensen die dit lazen genoten ook van

  • What Is Government Good At?

    A Canadian Answer

    door Donald Savoie ...
    Winner: Donner Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Public Policy Writing by Canadians (2016)Winner: New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2016)Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions "What is government good at?" and "What is government ... Meer lezen

    23,84 €

  • Power

    door Donald Savoie ...
    In this informative critique of contemporary leadership renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to ... Meer lezen

    19,28 €

  • Thinking Government

    Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition

    door 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 ... Meer lezen

    50,61 €

  • Public Administration

    A Very Short Introduction

    Serie series Very Short Introductions
    Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to ... Meer lezen

    7,13 €

  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    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 ... Meer lezen

    21,83 €

  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Meer lezen

    44,60 €

  • Policy Analysis in Canada

    Serie series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy ... Meer lezen

    49,96 €

  • The Economics of International Development

    Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor

    Foreign aid and overseas military intervention have been important and controversial political topics for over a decade. The government’s controversial target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid has been widely welcomed by some, but strongly criticised by others. Furthermore, the controversy of the Iraq war rumbles on, even today. This is all happening amongst much instability ... Meer lezen

    5,69 €

  • Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    door Ian Goldin ...
    With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of ... Meer lezen

    9,80 €

  • Professionalism and Public Service

    Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan

    Bewerkt door David Siegel, Kenneth Rasmussen ...
    Representing the leading scholars in the field, Professionalism and Public Service assesses the state of public administration in Canada while also moving the discipline forward both as a profession and an academic discipline.The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration institutions and explore issues such as the protection and improvement of the public service, ... Meer lezen

    64,23 €

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development

    Is Business the Solution?

    door Michael Hopkins ...
    The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the solution and the ... Meer lezen

    59,65 €