Executive Politics and Governance – serie
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29 produkter
Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government
Av Carl Dahlström, Lena Wängnerud
Inbunden, 2015
1316 kr
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To a large extent, elite politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen hold the fortunes of their societies in their hands. This edited volume describes how formal and informal institutions affect elite behaviour, which in turn affects corruption and the quality of government.
Olympic Risks
Inbunden, 2012
1425 kr
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An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk – …
Executive Politics in Times of Crisis
Av M. Lodge, K. Wegrich
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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Executive Politics in Times of Crisis brings together leading international scholars to consider key trends and challenges that have defined executive politics over the past decade. It showcases key debates in executive politics and contributes to an understanding of the 'executive factor' in …
Auditing Good Government in Africa
Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse
Av M. Gustavson
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the …
Governance, Performance, and Capacity Stress
The Chronic Case of Prison Crowding
Av S. Bastow
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Public policy systems often sustain chronic capacity stress (CCS) meaning they neither excel nor fail in what they do, but do both in ways that are somehow manageable and acceptable. This book is about one archetypal case of CCS – crowding in the British prison system – and how we need a more …
Accountability and Regulatory Governance
Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in …
Olympic Risks
Häftad, 2012
1425 kr
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An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk – …
Executive Politics in Times of Crisis
Av M. Lodge, K. Wegrich
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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Executive Politics in Times of Crisis brings together leading international scholars to consider key trends and challenges that have defined executive politics over the past decade. It showcases key debates in executive politics and contributes to an understanding of the 'executive factor' in …
Auditing Good Government in Africa
Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse
Av M. Gustavson
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the …
Governance, Performance, and Capacity Stress
The Chronic Case of Prison Crowding
Av S. Bastow
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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Public policy systems often sustain chronic capacity stress (CCS) meaning they neither excel nor fail in what they do, but do both in ways that are somehow manageable and acceptable. This book is about one archetypal case of CCS – crowding in the British prison system – and how we need a more …
Accountability and Regulatory Governance
Audiences, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in …
Building EU Regulatory Capacity
The Work of Under-Resourced Agencies in the European Union
Av Eva Heims
Häftad, 2018
773 kr
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This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resources to the regulatory processes taking place in these …
Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination
Häftad, 2018
1643 kr
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How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades. However, few attempts have been made to connect these concerns with the growing body of research on biases and blind spots in …
Representative Bureaucracy and Performance
Public Service Transformation in South Africa
Inbunden, 2019
829 kr
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"Representative Bureaucracy and Performance: Public Service Transformation in South Africa is a first-rate blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis of one of the major transitions in modern governance. Fernandez makes a major theoretical contribution to the literature on representative …
Representative Bureaucracy and Performance
Public Service Transformation in South Africa
Häftad, 2020
555 kr
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"Representative Bureaucracy and Performance: Public Service Transformation in South Africa is a first-rate blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis of one of the major transitions in modern governance. Fernandez makes a major theoretical contribution to the literature on representative …
Leveraging Financial Markets for Development
How KfW Revolutionized Development Finance
Häftad, 2021
555 kr
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This book investigates how development institutions created and promoted marketized development financial instruments to increase the speed and scope of assistance by leveraging private financial markets for development objectives. To attract private investors, donor governments agreed to bear the …
New Politics of Numbers
Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
Av Andrea Mennicken, Robert Salais
Inbunden, 2021
555 kr
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple …
New Politics of Numbers
Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
Av Andrea Mennicken, Robert Salais
Häftad, 2021
445 kr
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple …
Recentralisation in Colombia
Inbunden, 2021
1321 kr
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This book tackles the question of how to characterise and account for recentralisation in Colombia between central and lower levels of government across a 26-year period. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the distribution of responsibilities, resources, and authority …
Recentralisation in Colombia
Häftad, 2022
1321 kr
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This book tackles the question of how to characterise and account for recentralisation in Colombia between central and lower levels of government across a 26-year period. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the distribution of responsibilities, resources, and authority …
Problem of Governing
Essays for Richard Rose
Av Michael Keating, Ian McAllister m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1541 kr
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This book provides an appreciation of the work of renowned scholar Richard Rose. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Rose has explored a vast range of subjects related to British, American and comparative politics. His work, however, has always been concerned with an underlying theme: …
Problem of Governing
Essays for Richard Rose
Av Michael Keating, Ian McAllister m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1541 kr
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This book provides an appreciation of the work of renowned scholar Richard Rose. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Rose has explored a vast range of subjects related to British, American and comparative politics. His work, however, has always been concerned with an underlying theme: …
Mapping Behavioral Public Policy
Citizens' Preferences and Trust
Inbunden, 2024
539 kr
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This book provides a new perspective on behavioral public policy. The field of behavioral public policy has been dominated by the concept of ‘nudging’ over the last decade. As this book demonstrates, however, ‘nudging’ is one of many behavioral techniques that practitioners and policymakers can …
Recentralization Around the World
Av Juan C. Olmeda, Alejandra Armesto
Inbunden, 2025
1538 kr
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The 1990s witnessed a surge in decentralization, as national governments around the world sought to transfer responsibilities and prerogatives to regional and local authorities. The last two decades have seen a reversal of this trend, as national authorities have attempted to regain control over …
Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Countering Crisis
Inbunden, 2017
1316 kr
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This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers …
Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination
Inbunden, 2018
1647 kr
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How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades. However, few attempts have been made to connect these concerns with the growing body of research on biases and blind spots in …
Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Countering Crisis
Häftad, 2018
1321 kr
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This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers …
Building EU Regulatory Capacity
The Work of Under-Resourced Agencies in the European Union
Av Eva Heims
Inbunden, 2018
771 kr
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This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resources to the regulatory processes taking place in these …
Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement
Anti-Corruption Agencies in Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia
Inbunden, 2019
552 kr
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This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012). Contrary to the conventional theory …
