Governing Metropolitan Areas
14,592円 Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Ye...
User-Centric Technology Design for Nonpro...
12,154円 Due to the increased global political importance of the nonprofit sector, its technological support and organizational characteristics have become important fields of research. In order to conduct effective work, nonprofits need to communicate and coordinate effectively. However, such settings ar...
Globalization and Public Sector Reform in...
7,129円 This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that effici...
Social Media in Politics
19,447円 This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. The volume collects original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral m...
American Trade Politics and the Triumph o...
10,943円 A deep and unresolved tension exists within American trade politics between the nation’s promotion of an open world trading system and the operations of its democratic domestic political regime. Whereas most scholarly attention has focused on how domestic politics has interfered with the United S...
Corruption and Legislatures
8,124円 This book investigates parliaments’ role in curbing corruption. In addition to discussing the definition, causes, and costs of corruption and the role that parliaments have in reducing corruption, the authors consider contemporary issues that parliamentarians – and others – need to be aware of. T...
Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable ...
9,616円 Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, as a concept guiding public action, encourages city officials to integrate policy and programs addressing the economic, environmental...
The Media War II
1,657円 The 2nd part of a two-part series describing the evolution of Media legislation in Hungary focusing on the period from 2010-2013. The author is a former member of the Hungarian Media Authority and noted television journalist. The purpose of the book is to provide a detailed account of some releva...
Higher Education beyond Job Creation
6,500円 Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial secur...
International Trends in University Govern...
12,767円 Governance is becoming increasingly important in universities just as it is in the wider world of commerce and banking. Historically, universities were run by their academic communities but as mass higher education has taken root, as university research has become a critical element in national e...
Bad Time Stories
9,818円 The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts be...
La corrupción política en Cataluña
263円 La corrupción política, sobre todo la que tiene lugar en el ámbito municipal, es la que genera más recursos recursos a las redes del poder político regional. Va invariablemente ligada a la penuria económica de los ayuntamientos y a la tentación de resolverla mediante el milagro de transformar el ...
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