Civil service and public sector

This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society - but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror.

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Martin Albrow, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association Martin Albrow, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association

This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe.

Economics has always been a heated research topic and green development is rising and integrating with various fields for interdisciplinary studies.

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years.

Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern.

This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China's rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.

This book focuses on the FDI in western China and aims to explore the logic behind the regional development.

This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth.

Economic globalization is a complex phenomenon where the links between social security expenditures and globalization are not well understood so far.

This book identifies and explores the mechanisms linking political institutions and variation in capitalist systems.

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

In den letzten zwei Dekaden wurden in ganz Westeuropa zahlreiche ehemals staatliche Unternehmen privatisiert und über einen Börsengang einer breiten Aktionärsbasis übertragen.

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?

Artificial intelligence is rapidly and radically changing our lives and world.

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CLAUDEJEANRENAUD NILS SOGUEL Smoking is a very common habit all over the world.

Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture.

YOUR GUIDE TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR There may be no simple formula for success in public-sector projects, but Public-Sector Project Management delivers the next best thing: a complete set of skill-building strategies that puts success well within your reach.

¿Cómo mejorar la gestión en organizaciones públicas no empresariales en América Latina para lograr el desarrollo y el bienestar de la sociedad?

This book explores the ideas of nine renowned economists to present the evolution of economic thought on the development and trajectory of capitalism as a system.

The Law Officer's Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examples showing how those rules are applied.

Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future.

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas.

A group of leading social science and management specialists show how management can be harnessed to improve public services.

Sustainability has become a topic of global relevance: Corporations and other economically acting organizations increasingly need to realize economic, environmental and social objectives in order to survive.

Using empirical data, this book uniquely presents the dynamics of innovation within public sector organisations and identifies the most crucial factors that promote innovation or the determinants that enhance innovation activities.

The phenomenon of excess volatility in the context of share prices and of the term structure of interest rates has been documented by the existing literature, highlighting the limitations of traditional models of rational expectations and of reliance on the efficient market hypothesis.

Was the European Union ever a liberal dream?

The vast majority of Canadians are blissfully unaware that every man, woman and child in Canada now owes a $35,000 share of government debt and must pay this back, with interest!

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

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Woran liegt es, wenn sich Wirtschaft tot(-langweilig) anfühlt?

This book explores the central economic and political issues defining the modern world.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The purpose of this book is to offer insights into the complex and often unclear context of public sector management, providing a new theoretical and practical approach to the analysis and interpretation of these issues.

This book focuses on developing a systematic approach to understanding the transformations in Africa's public sector social media landscape.

Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations.