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  • At the Margins of Victorian Britain

    Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century

    by Dennis Grube ...
    Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. Yet, not all Britons were seen as possessing the characteristics that defined what it actually meant to be 'British.' At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted 'others' in Victorian society: the Irish, Catholics and Jews, atheists, ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Megaphone Bureaucracy

    Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal

    by Dennis C. Grube ...
    A revealing look at how today’s bureaucrats are finding their public voice in the era of 24-hour mediaOnce relegated to the anonymous back rooms of democratic debate, our bureaucratic leaders are increasingly having to govern under the scrutiny of a 24-hour news cycle, hyperpartisan political oversight, and a restless populace that is increasingly distrustful of the people who govern them. ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Why Governments Get It Wrong

    And How They Can Get It Right

    by Dennis C. Grube ...
    **Now with new Preface.'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be – or currently serving – politician of the pitfalls to avoid' – TLS**As the list of U-turns grows ever longer, the cost of living crisis intensifies and mortgage rates rise, we really need those in charge to get it right. In Why Governments Get It Wrong, Cambridge's Professor Dennis C. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Why Governments Get It Wrong

    And How They Can Get It Right

    by Dennis C. Grube ...
    Narrated by Dennis C. Grube ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    **'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be – or currently serving – politician of the pitfalls to avoid' - TLSBarely a week goes by without another government U-turn and with the cost of living crisis and rising mortgage rates we really need those in charge to get it right. In this timely book Cambridge Professor Dennis C. Grube explores the ... Read more

    $23.96 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Comparing Cabinets

    Dilemmas of Collective Government

    by Patrick Weller, Dennis Grube, R.A.W. Rhodes ...
    Why is cabinet government so resilient? Despite many obituaries, why does it continue to be the vehicle for governing across most parliamentary systems? Comparing Cabinets answers these questions by examining the structure and performance of cabinet government in five democracies: the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Australia. The book is organised around the dilemmas ... Read more

    $70.89 CAD

  • Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government

    by Alastair Stark, Hridesh Gajurel, Jack Corbett, Dennis C. Grube, Heather Lovell, Rodney J. Scott ...
    Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government examines the way in which government suffers from institutional amnesia, meaning that it cannot hold or use memory of the past. Consequently, a great deal of important knowledge is erased and those who work in government find themselves repeating the mistakes of the past. The book explores these issues through a comparison of the public services of ... Read more

    $65.49 CAD

  • Institutional Memory as Storytelling

    How Networked Government Remembers

    by Jack Corbett, Dennis Christian Grube, Heather Caroline Lovell, Rodney James Scott ...
    Series series Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
    How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • The Unbroken Machine

    Canada's Democracy in Action

    by Dale Smith ...
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What if it is not our political system that is broken, but our understanding of it?Everybody thinks that it’s the system that’s broken in politics; but what if it’s not the system that’s broken but rather our understanding of it? What if everyone’s proposals to make the system “more democratic” only wind up making things worse, and weaken our systems of ... Read more

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  • Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Quantification in Global Public Policy

    by Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek, Marlee Tichenor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and ... Read more

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  • Turning Parliament Inside Out

    Practical Ideas for Reforming Canada's Democracy

    Edited by Michael Chong, Scott Sims, Kennedy Stewart ...
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  • Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom

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