This book analyzes various important aspects of methodology and substance regarding economic, social, and political policy in Asia directed toward achieving more effective, efficient, and equitable societal institutions.
The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same legal principles on pay equality.
A clear and practical examination of complex issues, Local Economic Development and the Environment: Finding Common Ground provides a broad, academic look at the intersection of two important areas for local administrators.
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline.
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Der Band fasst in kompakter und verständlicher Form die wesentlichen Aspekte von Veranstaltungs- und Konfliktmoderation zusammen und richtet sich damit an all diejenigen, die an der Ausrichtung von Dialog- und Beteiligungsformaten interessiert sind.
Providing a critical examination of government in American cities, this volume presents the innovative view that mayors in council-manager cities are better positioned to develop positive leadership than their peers in mayor-council cities.
Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function.
This book shows how telecom, broadcast, and Internet researchers as well as experts from Japan's leading mobile operators interpret, analyze, and evaluate the emerging phenomenon of the Japanese broadband ecosystem.
The ninth edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity.
Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service joins a long-standing debate about what drives the behavior of government employees and others who are engaged in the public's business.
Dieses Buch bringt das Wesentliche auf den Punkt: Höchstleistungen bringt, wer entsprechend seinen Stärken und Talenten … im Unternehmen den für ihn besten Platz einnimmt.
This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability.
Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies?
The concept of social innovation offers an alternative perspective on development and territorial transformation, one which foregrounds innovation in social relations.
The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest.
Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to examine issues of meaning in language and art, elaborate a politics of listening, illuminate rhythmic and performative elements in her fiction, and explore how music itself provides a potential structural model that facilitates the innovation of her method in The Waves.
As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring budget.
Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presents a negotiation framework based on the principles of network/collaborative governance in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This title was first published in 2001: This innovative text applies new institutional economics, public choice theory, and new public management concepts to the political arena of the Mexican administration.
With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the health workforce is moving towards greater public engagement and increased transparency.
Ministerial Leadership offers a practice-based account of how ministers in UK governments perform their roles and exercise leadership in their spaces of activity.
This book focuses on processes of bordering and governmentality around the Greek border islands from the declaration of a 'refugee crisis' in the summer of 2015 up until the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Theoretical Foundations of Development Planning in five volumes presents a unique collection of papers contributed by a group of outstanding international economists.
This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since the beginning of space travel itself.
This is the first technical book that considers tests as public tools and examines how to engineer and process test data, extract the structure within the data to be visualized, and thereby make test results useful for students, teachers, and the society.
