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The Tools of Government
Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 54.99The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving... more...
Democratic Control of Intelligence Services
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95This comprehensive volume discusses the various challenges of establishing and maintaining accountable and democratically controlled intelligence services, drawing both from states with well-established democratic systems and those emerging from authoritarian systems and in transition towards democracy. more...
Political Marketing
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 49.95Political Marketing is the first comprehensive textbook to focus on political marketing, and introduces students to how candidates, parties, elected officials and governments around the world utilise marketing concepts and tools win elections and remain in office. Drawing on the latest theoretical work and providing the broadest collation of international... more...
Improving Intelligence Analysis: Bridging the gap between scholarship and practice
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more established academic disciplines of political science and international... more...
Espionage: Past Present and Future?
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 53.95Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the... more...
Ethics and Management in the Public Sector
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the public interest, becomes blurred. Using extensive... more...
Representative Bureaucracy in Action
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00The book explores one of the most topical issues of public bureaucracies worldwide: the relationship between the composition of the public sector workforce and the nature of the society it serves. Taking a comparative and analytical perspective, the authoritatively, yet accessibly written, country chapters show how salient the politics of representativeness... more...
Theorising Democide
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 45.00Beginning with the premise that democracies are often deeply implicated in their own downfall, The Theory of Democide challenges the conventional view of how and why democracies collapse by demonstrating that democratic collapse is often a direct result of the inherent logic of democracy itself. more...
Public Management Reform in Countries in the Napoleonic Administrative Tradition
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00The aim of this e-book is to provide a contribution to enlarging the empirical base and widening the range of theoretical perspectives to the comparative study of public management reform. What gathered and motivated the Authors of this e-book have been the shared conviction of the necessity to fill a gap: not just an empirical gap but... more...
Selected Papers from the E-Government Workshop
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book consists of papers selected from the eGov 2007 Workshop which was organized by the eGISE (eGovernment Integration and Systems Evaluation) Research Network and hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University. The e-book addresses both the practice and theory of eGovernment, and includes topics such as the eGovernment programme in Jordan and the... more...









