Civil service and public sector

The purpose of this book is to fill the lack of micro evidences on a structural change of African producers.

Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used - or not, as the case may be - in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elections to and within those chambers; and thirdly, in the various forms of governance, from no-party to multi-party and all-party, which have emerged as a result.

This book provides an alternative means of discussing the development and significance of managers and management in universities and colleges.

This edited volume takes a closer look at various European pension-plan models and the recent challenges, trends and predictions related to the design of such schemes.

In diesem Buch werden Strukturierungskonzepte für die Lösung organisatorischer Gestaltungsprobleme entwickelt.

This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador.

This volume describes the thinking on sustainable development and a variety of initiatives across Europe, illustrating regional efforts to foster sustainable communities and ecological and social innovation.

Sovereign risk and financial crises play a key role in current international economic developments, particularly in the case of economic downturns.

Is art for everybody?

Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace?

Die Finanzmärkte verdienen heute mehr Aufmerksamkeit, als es bislang der Fall war.

Equal treatment in access to credit has long been a fundamental social goal in the United States.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the popularity of basic income among the general public.

Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization.

The worldwide deployment of wind power plants is soaring.

Originally published in 1959, the author has observed at first hand the workings of public enterprise in Britain.

The absurdity of bureaucracy offers a humorous ethnographic account of policy implementation set in contemporary Danish bureaucracy.

Measuring government effectiveness is essential to ensuring accountability, as is an informed public that is willing and able to hold elected officials and policy-makers accountable.

This book analyzes the various problems of growth, trade and public policy from the perspective of applied economics, based on research in areas such as public policies, trade and regulation, and development economics.

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London.

A comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and nonprofit organizations for better service delivery Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration tackles the issues inherent in partnerships with nongovernmental actors for public service delivery, highlighting the choices available and the accompanying challenges and opportunities that arise.

This book explores the economic and social development of the Western Balkan region, a group of six countries that are potential candidates for EU membership.

Europeans are living longer, and fewer now remain in the labour force as they grow older.

Principles, Process and Practice of Professional Number Juggling (Volume 1 of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) sets the scene of TRACEability and good estimate practice that is followed in the other volumes in this series of five working guides.

The private sector involvement in public service is intended to achieve efficiency gain and better service quality through increasing private sector finance and expertise.

This book examines how India was placed and placed itself in the world during the first half of the 20th century in a period of global turmoil and set against the subcontinental contest for independence.

Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries.

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection.

This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

Responding to a critical need in government for ways to manage costs better and improve productivity, The author gives practitioners and advanced students of public administration not just the statistical methods they require but also the hands-on skills they need and will use daily.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change.

A unique study of public service evolution in the 15 post-soviet countries from independence to date.

This book makes a significant contribution to a hitherto much neglected area.

Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present.

New Accounting and Management challenges for Public Entities require a continuous introduction of innovations and reforms in accordance with new international trends, techniques and experiences.

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

Geschlecht wird in den wissenschaftlichen Studien häufig als eine unabhängige Kategorie behandelt.

A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concernsMuslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies.

Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered.