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Swiss public administration : making the state work successfully
Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public admin…
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- 9783319923819
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- xxix, 384p. : ill.
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- 320.6 SWI s
Designing urban food policies : concepts and approaches
This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of f…
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- 9783030139582
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- xx, 142p. : ill.
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- 363.8 DES d
Understanding risks and uncertainties in energy and climate policy : multidis…
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits o…
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- 9783030031527
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- xvi, 259p. : ill.
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- 333.79 UND u
Data-driven policy impact evaluation : how access to microdata is transformin…
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national statistics offices and various research centers present modern econometric methods for an efficient data-driven policy evaluation and monitoring, assess …
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- 9783319784618
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- xii, 346p. : ill.
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- 320.6 DAT d
Why knowing what to do is not enough : a realistic perspective on self-reliance
This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal f…
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- 9789402417258
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- ix, 157p. : ill.
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- 179.9 KEI w
Volcanic unrest : from science to society
This open access book summarizes the findings of the VUELCO project, a multi-disciplinary and cross-boundary research funded by the European Commission's 7th framework program. It comprises four broad topics: 1. The global significance of volcanic unrest 2. Geophysical and geochemical fingerprints of unrest and precursory activity 3. Magma dynamics leading to unrest phenomena 4.…
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- 9783319584126
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- viii, 312p. : ill.
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- 551.21 VOL v
Politics of (dis) integration
This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation. This affects individual lives as well as social cohesion. The book highlights the variety of ways in which integration and disintegration are related t…
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- 9783030250898
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- xiv, 217p. : ill.
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- 305.8 POL p
Accountability in public policy partnerships
Public-private partnerships have become an important tool for delivering essential public goods, but critics fear that they erode public accountability. Making partnerships more accountable requires a clear understanding of what accountability means for partnerships and which mechanisms can be used to strengthen it. Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships develops a new model of accountabi…
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- 9780230290617
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- xiii, 264p. : ill.
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- 352.34 STE a
Reforms, organizational change and performance in higher education : a compar…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes wit…
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- 9783030117382
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- xx, 326p. : ill.
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- 320.6 REF r
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