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Governing the pandemic: the politics of navigating a mega-crisis
This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logist…
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- 9783030726805
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- IX< 130 p.
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- 320.901 BOI g
Learning policy, doing policy : interactions between public policy theory, pr…
When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public servants are undertaking policy training through postgraduate qualifications and/or through short courses in policy training. Learning Policy, Doing Policy explores how poli…
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- 9781760464219
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- XXI, 329 p.
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- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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- 374.934 LEA l
Asylum matters : on the front line of administrative decision-making
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’…
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- 9783030615123
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- xvii, 203p. : ill.
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- 342.494083 AFF a
Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their a…
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- 9781760462796
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- xix, 529p. : ill.
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- 320.994 SUC s
Guardians of public value : how public organisations become and remain instit…
This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times. It builds upon the scholarly tradition of instit…
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- 9783030517014
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- xiii, 353p. : ill.
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- 352.367 GUA g
Co-creating digital public services for an ageing society : evidence for user…
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons i…
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- 9783030528737
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- xviii, 228p. : ill.
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- 352.3802854678 JAR c
Research assessment in the humanities : towards criteria and procedures
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for …
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- 9783319290164
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- xviii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.26 RES r
Information infrastructures within European health care : working with the in…
This book consolidates experiences from across Europe on the design, development, implementation and evolution of inter-organisational information infrastructures for healthcare. It provides insights with practical relevance for those involved or interested in the planning and implementation of such infrastructures and includes 11 empirical cases on the introduction of core infrastructural arra…
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- 9783319510200
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- vi, 263p. : ill.
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- 610.285 INF i
Practical economics : economic transformation and government reform in Georgi…
In this book, Nika Gilauri reveals his formulas for government reform and economic recovery, including how to fight against corruption, reform fiscal policy and tax systems, privatize state-owned enterprises, build a welfare system for those most in need, create a competitive education and healthcare system, and streamline procurement. All formulas are corroborated by practical experience and e…
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- 9783319457697
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- xv, 213p. : ill.
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- 330.94758 GIL p
From Colonialism to International Aid External Actors and Social Protection …
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and contemporary donor agencies. Following an introduction to the analysis of external actors in social policy making in the Global South, the contributions explore which externa…
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- 9783030382001
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- xxv, 384p.: ill.
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- 341.584
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