Regionala och lokal självstyrelse

Förnyelse och förändring är honnörsord i landets kommuner och har så varit under de senaste decennierna. Den nationella politiken förändras, medborgarna förändras, nya idéer om statlig och politisk styrning formuleras. Det är också på grund av des...

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In this first English language commentary on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Rachael Murray sets out the negotiating history of each provision along with the relevant case law, decisions, and resolutions of the African Commission...

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Författaren har varit fritidspolitiker i såväl kommun, landsting som region. 1994 blev han landstingsråd i Skaraborg. Han deltog i processen vid bildandet av Västra Götalandsregionen. När regionens bildades 1999 valdes han till regionfullmäktiges ...

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Kommuner, landsting och regioner befinner sig i en omställningsperiod. Medborgarnas krav på delaktighet förändrar förutsättningarna för både politiker och tjänstemän. Boken ger ett statsvetenskapligt perspektiv på den lokala självstyrelsen. Idédeb...

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Success and failure are key to any consideration of public policy but there have been remarkably few attempts to assess systematically the various dimensions and complex nature of policy success. This important new text fills the gap by developing...

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Readings in Urban Economics: Issues and Public Policy gathers popular press articles, reviews of applied economics literature, and regression-based empirical studies to examine pressing public policy issues in urban areas.

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This book provides rare insights into the nature of contemporary, technologically-facilitated government. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrates that information technology is more than a tool for politicians and policy-makers. E-government h...

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As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy. This book explores the causes of the current crisis of democracy and advocates new ways for more representative, effective, and accountable governance in an interd...

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More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choic...

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How do today's political parties relate to other organisations? Do they prefer rather distant relationships with a wide range of interest groups - or have they virtually detached themselves from civil society altogether? Scholars seem to agree tha...

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Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importanc...

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Im Rahmen des 'Militärischen Kunstschutzes' arbeiteten deutsche Kunsthistoriker im Zweiten Weltkrieg in mehreren besetzten Ländern, ab Herbst 1943 auch in Italien. Zu ihren Aufgaben zählten u.a. die Erfassung schützenswerter Bauwerke sowie die Unt...

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Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued b...

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Decentralise authority and let managers manage' has been an almost universal message in UK public services over the last 15 years. But does it really work? Drawing on their own - and a wide range of other research - the authors show that behind th...

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Öresundsbron fyller 20 år! Vad har hänt under dessa år? Och vart är vi på väg? Danska och svenska forskare, analytiker och journalister ger i denna antologi en aktuell bild av brons betydelse och utvecklingen i regionen. Gräns- och id-kontroller, ...

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Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres a...

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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key ...

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Over the past forty years, conservatives have mastered the art of pursuing policy change across the states, while similar liberal efforts have floundered. Using a diverse array of original evidence, State Capture explains why and how conservatives...

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I den lilla byn Grez i Frankrike fanns i slutet av 1800-talet en konstnärskoloni där många svenska konstnärer samlades. Där var Carl Larsson, Karin, Bergöö, Eva Bonnier och många fler. Där träffade Carolina Bennedicks sin kanadensiske make William...

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"Barbara M. Hobson . . . makes a compelling case for the reform of prostitution policy in . . . Uneasy Virtue. [This volume] demonstrates an effective analytical approach to understanding public policy and its impact on prostitution policy. ....

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Förtroendevald - känn på det ordet en stund och njut. Att vara vald för att man har människors förtroende är något att vara stolt över. Det är en position som ger möjligheter och som förpliktar. Även om du aldrig får glömma bort vem du är och vad ...

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Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond tillsatte under 2004 en områdesgrupp för att stimulera och initiera forskning om offentlig ekonomi, styrformer och ledarskap . Bakgrunden till gruppens tillkomst är behovet av långsiktigt bedriven forskningsver...

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Winner of The Alexander Nove Prize 2018 The nomads of Central Asia were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of Petrograd. Yet after the fall of the Tsar, the n...

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The specialisation, knowledge and innovation brought about by universities often play a key role in the economic success of cities and regions. Yet higher education is also increasingly regarded, in some European countries and regions, as an econo...

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The second edition of this text provides a lively, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the emergence and evolution of the EU from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present era. It explains the forces, events, and individuals tha...

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For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania, one of the longest-lasting political unions in European history. This volume is the first detailed study of the making...

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Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary po...

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The famously candid two-term governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie was the first major official to endorse Trump for president. Christie quickly became one of Trump's most trusted advisors, tapped with running Trump's transition team and nearly b...

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A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life course What makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what rea...

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What threatens the property rights of business owners? And what makes these rights secure? This book transcends the conventional diagnosis of the issue in modern developing countries by moving beyond expropriation by the state ruler or by petty bu...

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