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  • De machinerie van de stadby Stefan Couperus

    Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 50.50

    Industrialisering en verstedelijking maakten de steden in Nederland en elders in Europa vanaf het einde van de negentiende eeuw tot de machinekamer waar nieuwe sociale, economische en ruimtelijke verhoudingen vorm kregen. Wonen, werken, handeldrijven, verplaatsen en recreëren in de stad werden mogelijk gemaakt door de stedelijke overheid. Daarmee werd... more...

  • A Politics of Inevitabilityby Ross Beveridge

    Springer 2011; US$ 47.99

    This book provides a detailed analysis of the controversial privatisation of the Berlin Water Company (BWB) in 1999. As with other cases of privatisation around the world, the city's government argued there was no alternative in a context of public debts and economic restructuring. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, the analysis presented here... more...

  • Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.by Henning Biermann

    Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 94.90

    Hauptbeschreibung Die Untersuchung gibt einen Überblick über 20 Jahre Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Eingebettet in die völker-, europa- und verfassungsrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen stellt sie unter Betonung historischer und politikwissenschaftlicher Bezüge die Bemühungen um Verwaltungsreformen in einem strukturschwachen und... more...

  • Resources for Renewalby Satu Kalliola; Risto Nakari

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 102.00

    In the 1990s, the public sector has experienced the same kind of productivity pressures as has the private sector in most of the western countries. In Finland, the state and the local government organs have pursued to meet these demands by cutting down their personnel costs and by applying various models of New Public Management. This book sheds light... more...

  • Boston Politicsby Tilo Schabert

    De Gruyter 1989; US$ 133.00

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  • Liberal City, Conservative Stateby Robert William Thurston

    Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 124.99

    This book examines Moscow's politics and urban history between the failed 1905 revolution and the outbreak of the First World War. more...

  • Urban Politics and Democratisation in Russiaby Cameron Ross

    Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95

    This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia?s highly politicized and negotiated form of asymmetrical... more...

  • Federalism and Local Politics in Russiaby Cameron Ross; Adrian Campbell

    Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95

    This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia. Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition under way in Russia that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-local... more...

  • Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman Cityby Andrew Bell

    OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 49.99

    Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion... more...