Civil service and public sector

Drawing on theoretical research and empirical studies, this book examines how public governance can be transformed in order to enhance public innovation.

First published in 1979, Supplies Management for Health Services looks at the characteristics and problems of hospital suppliers and examines the way in which the hospital and the National Health Service deal with supplies problems and relations with suppliers.

This book highlights the importance of economic knowledge in government decision-making.

What are the political forces which drive the process of change in the health service?

This collection of case studies in public management bridges the gap between mainstream CSR - confined to the for-profit corporations -and the vast bodies of workers and organizations that make up government and its public administration.

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This book first shows that the past 40 years of China's economic reform and opening up represents the greatest magnitude of economic growth in history.

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Federalism has generally been characterized as a system of government that is friendly to liberty.

This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments.

Sie möchten als Lehrgangteilnehmer oder Studierender ergänzend zum Unterricht und zu den Vorlesungen ein Lehrbuch nutzen, das sich an Ihren Bedürfnissen orientiert?

What counts is what works - but how can we actually tell what works?

Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective.

This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding.

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

During the past decade, globalization and democratization have been the major forces that helped transform the structures, functions, and processes of Asian public sectors.

In Mental Health Social Work, Colin Pritchard draws on his many years of experience in research, teaching and practice in order to explore key issues for social workers who want to work in the mental health field.

History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one's situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effect of ageing population in China on labour market.

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas.

Geleitwort Die im Sommer 2005 entfachte Kapitalismus- und Heuschreckendebatte stellte den Ausgangspunkt vieler zuletzt erstellten wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen im Bereich der Beteiligungsfinanzierung dar; so auch die vorliegenden Arbeit.

Over the last 10 years, the concept of value has emerged in both business and public life as part of an important process of measuring, benchmarking, and assuring the resources we invest and the outcomes we generate from our activities.

The proceedings shed light on selected topics including economic management, public administration, and green development.

The papers collected in this volume are those presented at the sixteenth Colloquium arranged by the Societe Universitaire Europeenne de Re- cherches Financieres (SUERF), which took place in Lisbon in May 1991.

Risk, Opportunity, Uncertainty and Other Random Models (Volume V in the Working Guides to Estimating and Forecasting series) goes part way to debunking the myth that research and development cost are somewhat random, as under certain conditions they can be observed to follow a pattern of behaviour referred to as a Norden-Rayleigh Curve, which unfortunately has to be truncated to stop the myth from becoming a reality!

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This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

Sich mit dem politischen Streit in der Demokratie zu beschäftigen, scheint derzeit nicht »en vogue«.

This book is the product of a study conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ministry of Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA).

This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale.

Die moderne Steuerung kommunaler Schuldenportfolios erfordert ein aktives Schulden- und Zinsmanagement, das kommunale Finanzierungsentscheidungen unter Berücksichtigung des Marktumfeldes ganzheitlich betrachtet, laufend überprüft und bei Bedarf anpasst.

Developments across the millennia suggest that, even though democracies and free market economies are continuously challenged by crises and disturbances, such as natural disasters, wars, or technological revolutions, in the countries where they take roots civil liberties deepen and per capita prosperity increases.

This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffer's economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy.

What does it take to design effective government institutions and sustain positive changes?

In 1968 a theory of social equity was developed and put forward as the "e;third pillar for public administration, with the same status as economy and efficiency as values or principles to which public administration should adhere.