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  • 15 Jazz Etudes for Saxophone on the Melodic Minor Scale

    by Tom Christensen ...
    15 Jazz Etudes for Saxophone on the Melodic Minor Scale is a set of etudes for the advanced jazz student. The etudes demonstrate how the melodic minor scale is used in jazz improvisation. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organization Theory and the Public Sector

    Instrument, Culture and Myth

    by Tom Christensen ...
    Public-sector organizations are fundamentally different from their private-sector counterparts. They are part of the society’s political organizations and are major political actors. They are multifunctional, follow a political leadership and the majority do not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform, reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book offers a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

    by Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid ...
    This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This volume ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Universities as Agencies

    Reputation and Professionalization

    Edited by Tom Christensen, Åse Gornitzka, Francisco O. Ramirez ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and international markets of students, researchers and research projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize and rationalize their internal ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook to Accountability and Welfare State Reforms in Europe

    Edited by Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid ...
    There is growing concern that welfare states are inefficient, unsustainable and lack popular support. New Public Management reforms affected the balance between managerial and political accountability and disrupted administrative, legal, professional and social accountability, causing confusion as to whom public organizations are really accountable.The Routledge Handbook to Accountability and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Public Administration in the Globalisation Era: The New Public Management Perspective

    by Uma Medury ...
    This book explores the transformative effect of globalisation on the theory and practice of public administration in the twenty-first century. It outlines on the complex dynamics of worldwide changesthe reformulation of the fundamental premises of the discipline, restructuring actual administrative models and rapid technological advancement with accompanying changes in the traditional hierarchical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The New Public Governance?

    Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • Governing Urban Economies

    Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions

    Edited by Allison Bramwell, Neil Bradford ...
    Series series Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
    Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada’s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban governance an urgent national priority.Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform

    Edited by Steven Van de Walle, Sandra Groeneveld ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The book consists of three parts, the first addresses a number of conceptual and theoretical perspectives on public sector reform. It shows how ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Governance Report 2014

    by The Hertie School of Governance ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    Democratic governance faces unprecedented challenges across the OECD world and beyond. Enormous strains will be placed on states' resources and their governing capacities to deal with the combined effects of the financial crisis, climate change, and demographic change. The basic foundations of established 'statehood' will be tested. At the same time, the architecture of the state has fundamentally ... Read more

    $18.09 USD