By Lina Svedin
September 11, 2014
This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions. Using Sweden as the case study, this book provides a framework to analyse accountability in crises and looks at how this affects trust in government. Crises test the fabric of governing ...
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By John Benington, Mike Geddes
May 29, 2001
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth,...
By Peter Somerville
January 24, 2001
Examining the rational individual, this book develops a new approach to the theory of social relations. It explores how far we make sense of society on the assumption that people act as independent and free individuals, exercising rational choice. Re-examining the family, community, workplace and ...
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By Noel Preston, Charles Sampford
October 01, 1999
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Mika Aaltola
August 10, 2011
Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political ...
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By Bruno Jobert, Beate Kohler-Koch
June 09, 2010
Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative democracy is combined with bureaucratic implementation. The success of the civil society myth contrasts with and consequently manifests ...
By Hubert Heinelt
February 25, 2010
Is the ‘golden age’ of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state? Within this book, Heinelt seeks to address the democratic deficit in political systems linked to limited Citizen Participation reflecting on the notion of democracy and ...
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By M. Ramesh, Eduardo Araral, Xun Wu
February 25, 2010
After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a response to the realization that privatization is not working as intended, especially in public ...
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By Hubert Heinelt, David Sweeting, Panagiotis Getimis
February 27, 2009
A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement. It explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance by drawing on ...
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By Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt, Murray Stewart
December 04, 2007
The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the relationship between two key issues of urban governance - leadership and community involvement - and how making these two elements more ...
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By B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre
August 02, 2004
This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and ...
By Dr Geoffrey Dudley, Geoffrey Dudley, Jeremy Richardson
August 02, 2004
The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. Why Does Policy Change? examines and explains the dynamics of major policy change by looking at case studies from British Transport policy since 1945. The significant ...