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Policy Alienation and the Power of Professionals
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013;Professionals often have problems with governmental policies they have to implement. This ranges from Israeli teachers striking against school reforms, via British civil servants quitting their jobs as they have problems with New Public Management reforms focused on cost cutting, to US healthcare professionals feeling overwhelmed by a constant flow... more...
Challenges in City Management
CRC Press 2013; US$ 69.95Incorporating urban management and organizational management theories with actual practice, the author presents a series of case studies based on observations made during her extensive experience. Multiple cases are offered in common contemporary city topics ranging from personnel, policy-making, housing, homelessness, transportation, and budgeting.... more...
Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries
CRC Press 2013; US$ 89.95Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely closed off to the world for so long, there has yet to be... more...
No. 04: Assessing the Solvency of Insurance Companies
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 46.00This volume is the fourth of a series devoted to major policy issues in insurance. It comprises an in-depth analysis on the assessment and the management of the major technical and financial risks insurance companies have to face. It responds to the growing concerns of economic, financial, political and social actors in the insurance market. more...
Public Financial Management
CRC Press 2006; US$ 119.95Public Financial Management covers the five major pillars of this sub-discipline of public administration: context, public finance, retirement systems, performance measurement and budgeting, and international perspectives. This text offers practitioners information valuable in their day-to-day operations, while also providing students in public administration... more...
The Cost of Institutions
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00Contesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs. more...
The Federal Budget
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 24.95In this third edition of his classic book The Federal Budget, Allen Schick examines how surpluses projected during the final years of the Clinton presidency turned into oversized deficits under George W. Bush. more...
Hooligans, fans en fanatisme
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 44.85Supportersgeweld rond voetbalwedstrijden is geregeld aanleiding tot aanzienlijke maatschappelijke verontwaardiging. Dit boek plaatst hooliganisme en de bestrijding ervan in een internationaal vergelijkend perspectief. Het beschrijft de aard en ontwikkeling van hooliganisme bij zes West-Europese voetbalclubs: Feyenoord, Sparta Rotterdam, West Ham United,... more...
Budgetary Politics in American Governments Fifth Edition
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 51.95The public budgeting process intensifies political competition at all levels of the U.S. federal system. Gosling clearly explains the intergovernmental dynamics of the actors, institutions, and processes of U.S. public budgeting at the local, state, and federal levels?both now and through changes of the last several decades. This edition examines... more...
Financial Management for Local Government
Earthscan 2007; US$ 296.00This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition. Concepts of good governance transparency and accountability are woven into the text of every chapter and the needs and potential obstacles to greater decentralization and democracy are highlighted.... more...









