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  • Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy

    The European Mayor

    Edited by Hubert Heinelt, Annick Magnier, Marcello Cabria, Herwig Reynaert ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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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

    $95.99 CAD

  • Make or Break

    How the next three years will shape South Africa’s next three decades

    by Richard Calland ...
    The next three years will determine whether South Africa succeeds or fails in the long term.• Jacob Zuma’s term as president is due to end in 2019, though he could go earlier. Who will succeed him and what will be the impact on policy?• The ANC’s dominance has been significantly dented after opposition parties gained ground in the 2016 local government elections, but will the minority and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Deputy Ministers in Canada

    Comparative and Jurisdictional Perspectives

    Edited by Jacques Bourgault, Christopher Dunn ...
    Collectively, provincial deputy ministers command the largest assembly of government budgets, employees, and influence in Canada, but despite their importance, they have not been the subject of systematic study until now. This unique volume, which deals with a uniquely significant topic, reviews the role of deputy ministers within government, providing a major new understanding of their ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The End of British Party Politics?

    by Roger Awan-Scully ...
    Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred, and why it matters.Electoral choices across Britain became increasingly differentiated ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe

    Edited by Edoardo Ongaro, Sandra Van Thiel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Handbook offers a systematic review of state-of-the-art knowledge on public administration in Europe. Covering the theoretical, epistemological and practical aspects of the field, it focuses on how public administration operates and is studied in European countries. In sixty-three chapters, written by leading scholars, this Handbook considers the uniqueness of the European situation through ... Read more

    $628.99 CAD

  • William Armstrong and British Policy Making

    by Kevin Theakston, Philip Connelly ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the British government policy-making machine for over 30 years – the very incarnation of the ‘permanent government’ of the country. He ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Comparative Political Leadership

    Edited by Ludger Helms ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume has been designed as a key resource in the field of international political leadership research. Written by a team of distinguished leadership scholars from three continents and nine countries, the original chapters gathered in this volume cover all the major fields of political leadership, from executive, legislative and party leadership to leadership in social movements and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Local Government in England

    Centralisation, Autonomy and Control

    by Mark Roberts, Rachel Wall, Colin Copus ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local self-government and makes the term ‘government’ in local government a misnomer. The book will examine how the erosion of the autonomy, powers, roles, functions and responsibilities of English local ... Read more

    $128.49 CAD

  • European Union External Environmental Policy

    Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders

    Edited by Katja Biedenkopf, Camilla Adelle, Diarmuid Torney ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts the EU’s attempts to shape environmental governance beyond its borders. Key questions addressed include: What environmental norms, rules and policies does the EU seek to promote ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • The Impact of Networks on Unemployment

    by J. M. Hurst ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates why networks, some with joined-up governance remits, appeared ineffective in handling neighbourhood unemployment even in periods when the national unemployment levels dropped. It deploys a multi-theoretical and methodological framework to investigate this empirical puzzle, and to test and analyse the causal factors influencing network outcomes. Chapters examine network ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Design for Policy

    by Christian Bason ...
    Series series Design for Social Responsibility
    Design for Policy is the first publication to chart the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. Drawing on contributions from a range of the world’s leading academics, design practitioners and public managers, it provides a rich, detailed analysis of design as a tool for addressing public problems and capturing opportunities for achieving better and more ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD