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  • Handbook on Trust in Public Governance

    Edited by Frédérique Six, Joseph A. Hamm, Dominika Latusek, Esther van Zimmeren, Koen Verhoest ...
    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management
    This Handbook explores the transformative power of trust for relations within and between governments, parliaments and politicians, administrations and regulatory agencies, courts, societal actors and citizens. Adopting a multi-actor and multi-level perspective, it highlights the centrality of trust in enhancing the resilience, effectiveness and legitimacy of current governance systems.Bringing ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Governance of Public Sector Organizations

    Proliferation, Autonomy and Performance

    Edited by P. Lægreid, K. Verhoest ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government organizations, and explain this layering process with multiple theories. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Government Agencies

    Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries

    Edited by K. Verhoest, S. Van Thiel, G. Bouckaert, P. Lægreid ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers through the crowded world of agencies, describing their tasks, autonomy, control and history. Evidence-based lessons and recommendations are formulated to improve agencification policies in post-NPM times. ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Planting a Rainbow

    by Lois Ehlert ...
    Narrated by P. J. Verhoest ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    In this perennial classic by Caldecott Honor–winning author Lois Ehlert, little ones learn the colors of the rainbow as they watch a plants grow in a beautifully vibrant garden.The story follows the progress of a mother and daughter in their backyard as they plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings and nurture their growth into flowers. Celebrate Earth Day, spring, and the basics of gardening while ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Wicked Problems in Public Policy

    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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  • Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy

    by Catherine Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can be made visible through combining these ... Read more

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  • Reforming Child Protection

    by Bob Lonne, Nigel Parton, Jane Thomson, Maria Harries ...
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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy

    Edited by Peter Hupe, Michael Hill, Aurélien Buffat ...
    This wide-ranging edited volume provides a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, gathering internationally acclaimed scholars to address the varying roles of public officials who fulfill their tasks while interacting with the public. These roles include the delivery of benefits and services, the regulation of social and economic behavior, and the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Policy Problems and Policy Design

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Horizons in Public Policy series
    B. Guy Peters presents a critique of conventional policy design methods, placing emphasis on the need to formulate interconnecting designs for issues that cross multiple policy areas. He advocates the use of analytic categories for understanding problems rather than functional categories, such as defence and health, to change the perspective of problems and modernise policy design.Whereas previous ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    Edited by Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Xun Wu ...
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including:Theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalismFrameworks – network theory, advocacy coalition and development modelsKey stages in the process – Formulation, ... Read more

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