Civil service and public sector

At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services, this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management.

Economic development and social welfare depend on the existence of effective and efficient infrastructure systems, particularly in health, energy, transportation and water, many of which are developed and managed through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).

This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarity.

This book examines survey data to consider the extent to which public support for immigration, international trade, and foreign direct investment exists in a cohort of 38 heterogeneous countries.

Harrie de Swart is a Dutch logician and mathematician with a great and open int- est in applications of logic.

Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels.

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels.

Security concerns, the AIDS epidemic, environmental degradation, and financial contagion are salient features of today's landscape of threats to global stability.

Ein Buch zur Notwendigkeit, dass in der globalen Krise sorgend gewirtschaftet werden muss.

This volume addresses different issues related to green innovation procurement as well as exploring the challenges involved in public procurement.

A Short Economic and Social History of Twentieth Century Britain (1968) overcomes the statistical complexities of the twentieth century by establishing long-term social and economic trends to provide a succinct analysis of Twentieth Century Britain.

Just the Facts Ma'am is the only book written from an economics perspective that addresses one of the most remarkable cases of the reversal of corruption in the history of the United States - a case of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department.

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The revolution in financial technology (FinTech) has created many advancements in the lending and investment space across the world.

While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations.

Aims to give to the reader the tools necessary to apply semi-Markov processes in real-life problems.

This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement.

This memoir attempts to capture the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education.

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.

Learning, Unlearning and Re-learning Curves (Volume IV of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) focuses in on Learning Curves, and the various tried and tested models of Wright, Crawford, DeJong, Towill-Bevis and others.

Das Buch fasst in kurzen, leicht verständlichen Aufsätzen die wichtigsten Trends und Entwicklungen am Finanzdienstleistungssektor zusammen.

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.

This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement.

Despite the success of policymakers and the European Central Bank in calming down financial markets since the summer of 2012, European leaders are still facing formidable challenges in making the single currency work in a complex environment.

This Handbook discusses the use of public-private partnerships in law enforcement and security.

New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades.

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.

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

A major objective of this monograph is to present an agent-based simulation of artificial populations.

The research team makes the following forecasts: First, in 2013 China's growth will remain stable and reach 8.

This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?

This book examines the interpretation of the risk-based approach (RBA) and its application across the banking industry.

Non-communicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries.

Peter Fishburn has had a splendidly productive career that led to path-breaking c- tributions in a remarkable variety of areas of research.

This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory.

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.

The book tries to answer the most fundamental question of whether there is a link between abundant food supply and economic growth with respect to a higher degree of human development.