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  • Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change

    Exploring Accountability Processes in an Era of European Transformation

    by Johan P. Olsen ...
    Ongoing transformations of the political organization of Europe, where both the nation-state and the European Union are challenged, make it possible to explore phenomena that are difficult to see in stable periods. An upsurge in accountability-demands, where political leaders are required to explain and justify what they are doing, is one such phenomenon. Mainstream approaches to democratic ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Reforming Organization

    Making Sense of Administrative Change

    by Nils Brunsson, Johan P. Olsen ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Management
    Originally published in 1993. Organizations have become larger, more professionalized, more differentiated, and wealthier. At the same time, they are often subject to large-scale changes: either as a result of mergers and acquisitions, or simply in response to changed market conditions or new technologies. In this climate the people who run organizations frequently find themselves acting as ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia

    Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

    Edited by Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen, David Larsson Heidenblad ...
    Series series Knowledge Societies in History
    Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationship to ... Read more

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  • Arctic Tourism Experiences

    Production, Consumption and Sustainability

    by Isabelle Guissard, Arild Røkenes, Line Mathisen, Sara Davoudi, Claes Högström, Bård Tronvoll, Johan Edelheim, Kjell Olsen, Laura J Lawton, Stein R Mathisen, Hans Anton Stubberud, Carsten Blom Ruud, Ming-Feng Huang, Chuanzhong Tang, Raija Komppula, Beate Bursta, Peter Fischer, Giovanna Bertella, Sølvi Lyngnes, Carl Cater, Margaret E. Johnston, Elsa De Souza, R. Harvey Lemelin, Sergey Ilkevich, Per Strömberg, Peter Haugseth, Urban Wråkberg ...
    An exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences; this is the first compilation to concentrate on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences. Part 1 investigates the depth and dimensions of tourist experiences in the Arctic. Chapters examine ... Read more

    $119.59 USD

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  • Public Policy in Action

    Perspectives on the Policy Process

    by Victor Bekkers, Menno Fenger, Peter Scholten ...
    This comprehensive textbook explores the policy process from a multitude of perspectives, including rationalism, culturalism, institutionalism and from a political point of view. This allows students to discover key concepts from the policy science literature and gain a deeper understanding of how public policy is discussed academically and shaped empirically.Public Policy in Action gives a ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Spatial Planning and High-tech Development

    A comparative study of Eindhoven city-region, the Netherlands and Hsinchu City-region, Taiwan

    by Wei-Ju Huang ...
    n the past three decades, numerous high-tech city-regions have emerged with the rise of new high-tech industries across the world. Many of them have been specifically supported by national technology policies—in developed or developing countries—implemented to trigger economic growth and to enhance global competitiveness at the national and/or city-regional level. These policies have involved the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance

    Edited by David Levi-Faur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Analyzing Public Policy

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:institutionsgroups and networkssociety and the economyindividual interestsideas.The book explains each one, offers constructive criticisms and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Public Administration Theory Primer

    by H. George Frederickson ...
    The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches—from public institutional theory to theories of governance—and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important for the field. This book paints a full picture ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Governance

    by Mark Bevir ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    ′A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies′ - Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison′An authoritative short survey for which students and ... Read more

    $67.49 USD