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Competency Management in the Public Sector
IOS Press 2002; US$ 97.00Designed for both practitioners and academics, this work seeks to inform the reader about the practice of competency management services in the public sector. It throws light on the origins and meanings of the concept and traces the competency movement from the 1980s in the UK and USA. more...
Governing Scotland
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 132.00Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasised a professional bureaucracy... more...
Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies. Research on the future and quality of contemporary democracy is usually restricted to focus either on political participation, on particular aspects of citizenship, or on social activities, exclusively.... more...
Whitaker's Scottish Almanack 2004
A&C Black 2003; US$ 32.50Designed for those living in, working in or visiting Scotland, this book is a comprehensive guide to the people, history, culture and institutions of Scotland. This edition contains thousands of facts and figures and fully explores who's who and what's what in Scotland today. more...
Regeln und Verfahren der Entscheidungsfindung innerhalb von Staaten und Staatenverbindungen
Springer 2008; US$ 99.99Eine sowohl für die Rechtswissenschaft als auch die Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften zentrale Frage ist, wie welche Entscheidungen von wem nach welchen Regeln und Verfahren in Kollegialorganen von Staaten und Staatenverbindungen zu treffen sind. Da es bislang, ungeachtet der Bedeutung von Regeln und Verfahren für den Ausgang von Entscheidungen,... more...
Europeanization
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 42.00This cutting-edge handbook, written by foremost authoritative scholars, presents the main theoretical and empirical issues involved in current Europeanization research. It evaluates the achievements and shortcomings of the growing literature. As an advanced reference book it also sets the parameters for Europeanization research in the coming years. more...
Political Handbook of Europe 2007
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2006; US$ 149.50This new regional political guide covers issues such as the European Union, common currency, NATO and the challenges of security and expansion, immigration, counterterrorism, and important sub-regional issuesunemployment rates in Eastern Europe, religious and labor tensions in France, and much more. Modeled after the renowned Political Handbook... more...
The Future of our Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00This book presents the results of a new comparative research project on the trajectories, motivations, perceptions and attitudes of young members (aged 18-25) of 15 different European political parties in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Norway and Hungary. The project combined a mass survey of 2919 young party members with 517 in-depth interviews. more...
The Independence of Scotland
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 94.99After three hundred years, the Anglo-Scottish Union is in serious difficulty. This is not because of a profound cultural divide between England and Scotland but because recent decades have seen the rebuilding of Scotland as a political community while the ideology and practices of the old unionism have atrophied. Yet while Britishness is in decline,... more...
Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day
Trine Day 2008; US$ 7.99The highs and lows of the Bush administration from the vantage point of a political dissenter are revealed in this undaunted analysis of American government. Formerly an executive at a Fortune 500 company, Wayne Madsen quit his job and moved to Washington, DC, in 2000 to launch a journalistic, grassroots campaign that sought to cut through media... more...









