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"How Ottawa Spends Making Change"Making Change
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"Public Policy Series" series; With illustrations. Paperback, 420 pages. Weight: 544g.
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ISBN: 0886292298
Publisher: Carleton University Press,Canada
Date: 1994 (Canada)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"The Judicial Branch of State Government"People, Process, and Politics
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"About State Government" series; Reveals the workings of a network of courts that generate tremendous legal activity. Beginning with the origins of American law, this volume examines the different types of state court cases, legal decision-making processes, court administration procedures and personnel, and political issues such as judicial selection and funding. With illustrations. Hardback, 450 pages. Size: 254 x 178 mm. Weight: 958g.
Author: (Hogan, Sean O., ed.)
ISBN: 1851097511
Publisher: Abc-Clio Ltd
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"The Macropolitics of Congress"
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Looks at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. This book includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. With 21 line illus. 19 tables.. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 406g.
Author: (Adler, E.Scott, ed.)
ISBN: 0691121591
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"The Practice of Fiscal Federalism"Comparative Perspectives
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"Global Dialogue on Federalism Series" series; Examines constitutional design and taxing, spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and local/municipal levels in several countries. This book explores the effects of intergovernmental fiscal relations on securing economic unions and improving social welfare. With 12 maps. Paperback, 440 pages. Size: 226 x 157 mm. Weight: 645g.
Author: (Shah, Anwar, ed.)
ISBN: 0773533028
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Date: 2007 (Canada)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Central Government
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"Professionals and New Managerialism"
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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there have been substantial changes to public sector organization and management. This book explores the relationship between professionals (and professionalism) and the managerialism by using studies from education, social work and medicine. With references, index. Paperback, 176 pages. Size: 228 x 152 mm. Weight: 277g.
Author: (Exworthy, Mark, ed.)
ISBN: 0335198198
Publisher: Open University Press
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"Public Sector Reform"Rationale, Trends and Problems
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This text presents a broad perspective on public sector reform in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK. Whilst emphasizing the framework of much reform, it also demonstrates that public sector reform deals not only with efficiency but also with questions of justice. With illustrations. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 478g.
Author: (Lane, Jan-Erik, ed.)
ISBN: 0761953671
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1997 (United States)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Central Government
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"Public Administration in Africa"Main Issues and Selecte Dcountry Studies
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This text addresses a broad variety of general topics, including governance context and reorientation of government, decentralization, and intergovernmental relations, public financial management, human resources management, and accountability and transparency. With 1 map. Hardback, 440 pages. Size: 229 x 153 mm. Weight: 500g.
Author: Adamolekun, Ladipo Adamolekun, Oladipupo
ISBN: 0813336538
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Date: 1999 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"Creating a Scottish Parliament"
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With 21 colour, 14 b/w illustrations. Paperback, 200 pages. Size: 170 x 125 mm. Weight: 213g.
Author: Balfour, Alan McCrone, David
ISBN: 0955001609
Publisher: Studiolr
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Central Government
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"Managing the Devolved Budget"Essential Skills for the Public Sector
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"Essential Skills for the Public Sector" series; With d.tabs.ch.. Paperback, 165 pages. Size: 234 x 153 mm. Weight: 310g.
Author: Bean, Jennifer Hussey, Lascelles
ISBN: 1899448012
Publisher: Hb Publications
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"Enemies of Intelligence"Knowledge and Power in American National Security
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Looks at how knowledge and power can work together to face the intelligence challenges of the twenty-first century. Outlining strategies for better intelligence gathering and assessment, the author describes how fixing one malfunction can create another; and in what ways expertise can be both a vital tool and a source of error and misjudgment. Hardback, 264 pages. Size: 236 x 159 mm. Weight: 495g.
Author: Betts, Richard K.
ISBN: 0231138881
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"The Northern Ireland Economy"Performance, Prospects and Policy
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This text reviews past development and future prospects of the Northern Ireland economy. It suggests that underlying convergence to UK standards of performance has been weak. It concludes that peace might be necessary for accelerated convergence to the UK and EU but it is not sufficient by itself. With figures, tables, bibliography. Hardback, 210 pages. Size: 155 x 223 mm. Weight: 408g.
Author: Birnie, Esmond Hitchens, D.M.W.N.
ISBN: 1840148489
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Date: 1999 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"Evaluating Public Management Reforms"Principles and Practice
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"Managing the Public Services" series; Develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and uses this framework to assess the impact of arrangements for public service delivery in the UK. This book deals with the problems of finding criteria for evaluating reforms; the shifts in public management; the impact of reforms; and the implications for public sector management. With references, index. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 228 x 154 mm. Weight: 289g.
Author: Boyne, G.A. Etc. Farrell, Catherine (Principal Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan) Law, Jennifer (Principal Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan) Powell, Martin (Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath) Walker, Richard (Senior Lecturer, Department of City a Nd Regional Planning, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 0335202462
Publisher: Open University Press
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Central Government
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"Merchants of Fear"Why They Want Us to Be Afraid
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This bracing expos by bestselling historian Catherwood and economist DiVanna looks at the ways in which fear is put to use by the American government and large corporations to shape public policy and control the media. Hardback, 272 pages. Size: 228 x 152 mm. Weight: 506g.
Author: Catherwood, Christopher
ISBN: 1599212811
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Central Government
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"Local Government Today"
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"Politics Today" series; Local government in the UK has undergone rapid change since 1996. This new edition discusses and analyses these changes, including the complete restructuring of the local government system in England, and the Local Government Bill. With maps. 3 rev ed. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 406g.
Author: Chandler, J.A.
ISBN: 0719060362
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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"Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia"
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The author explores the implications of policy transfer for standard accounts of policy formulation. By presenting original case studies of public management reforms in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore it contributes to our understanding of New Public Management outside the West. With tables, bibliography, index. Hardback, 300 pages. Size: 156 x 221 mm. Weight: 522g.
Author: Common, Richard
ISBN: 0754614867
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Date: 2001 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Central Government
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