The COVID-19 pandemic and other highly transmissible diseases outbreaks have given a new significance to the concept of "e;resilience"e;, placing it in the spotlight of built environment-related studies.
Health Disparities, Disasters, and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters.
This book challenges the perceived underlying causes and culprits of the ongoing challenges in Canadian defence procurement, arguing that although headlines often put the blame on the political leadership, the defence procurement bureaucracy, ongoing pressures in the defence industry and continuous demands placed on Canada though its alliances also carry a large part of the responsibility.
This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.
This book offers a rigorous, detailed, and balanced analysis of the various contributions to the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) debate, incorporating both the arguments of proponents and those who point to its limitations and obstacles.
This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.
Yifei Yan's ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in part and as a whole.
Yifei Yan's ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in part and as a whole.
Health Disparities, Disasters, and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters.
This book delves into questions of whether the European Commission is effectively regulating large corporations in Europe, and the public perceptions of the legitimacy of its decisions, by examining state aid cases and when and how actors choose to politicise or depoliticise them.
The Human Resource Management of Political Staffers: Insights from Prime Ministers' Advisers and Reformers explores the human resource management of political staffers and advisers who work for politicians.
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.
El libro de Owen Fernández habla de la política pública deportiva desde una mirada más integral, con datos y comparaciones con países de la región y más allá.
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.
This insightful text rigorously examines and accounts for contemporary developments - and crucially a reversal of "e;democraticness"e; - in democratic polities and related political processes comparing 38 democracies across the world.
This insightful text rigorously examines and accounts for contemporary developments - and crucially a reversal of "e;democraticness"e; - in democratic polities and related political processes comparing 38 democracies across the world.
Este libro contiene un conjunto de reflexiones sobre el tema de la gestión pública, realizadas pensando en Colombia, con el propósito de contribuir a la construcción de un paquete conceptual que responda a las inquietudes sobre la realidad de la Administración pública en este país, que desde 1991 viene adelantando un proceso de transformación al que han llamado modernización del Estado, el cual no es cosa distinta al abandono del modelo burocrático para introducir el modelo gerencial.
This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration, offering a fresh array of perspectives, with the lofty aim of ending the marginalization of communities in public policy implementation.
This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China's Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on China's rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc.
Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.
Rating Valuation: Principles and Practice has long been the standard go-to guide for both students studying rating valuation and practitioners needing a comprehensive reference book covering rating law, valuation and, importantly, practice.
This monograph assesses the intersections between social tipping points (STP), a relatively understudied social-ecological concept, and various public policy concepts, such as governance, state capacity and resilience of the state and non-state actors, all within the context of the EU Eastern and Southern periphery.
This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China's Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on China's rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc.
The Human Resource Management of Political Staffers: Insights from Prime Ministers' Advisers and Reformers explores the human resource management of political staffers and advisers who work for politicians.