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  • Building Service-Oriented Governmentby Wu Wei

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 44.00

    Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and a harmonious society is central to the 12th Five-Year... more...

  • Civil Society and Participatory Governanceby Maureen M. Donaghy

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00

    Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence of civil society, however, appears to automatically... more...

  • Beyond Machiavelliby Beryl A. Radin

    Georgetown University Press 2013; US$ 26.95

    In this new edition of Beyond Machiavelli , Beryl Radin updates her popular overview of the field of policy analysis. Radin, winner of the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association, considers the critical issues that confront the policy analysis practitioner, changes in the field, including the globalization of policy analysis,... more...

  • The education debateby Stephen J. Ball

    The Policy Press 2013; US$ 24.95

    In this fully updated edition of this bestselling book, Stephen J. Ball, a leading author in the field, guides us through the flood of government initiatives and policies of the past 20 years. more...

  • Understanding the Modern Russian Policeby Olga B. Semukhina

    CRC Press 2013; US$ 99.95

    Understanding the Modern Russian Police represents the culmination of ten years of research and an ongoing partnership between the Volgograd Academy of Russian Internal Affairs Ministry (VA MVD) and the Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (VAPA). The book provides a timely and comprehensive... more...

  • The Invisible Hands of Political Parties in Presidential Electionsby Andrew Dowdle; Scott Limbocker; Song Yang; Karen Sebold; Patrick A. Stewart

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 45.00

    This book looks at networks of individual donors during early stages of presidential primary electons to determine party unity. It directly challenges the commonly-held perception that a "divisive" primary is a problem for the political party in the general election. more...

  • No. 04: Assessing the Solvency of Insurance Companiesby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 46.00

    This 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 Managementby Howard A. Frank

    CRC Press 2006; US$ 119.95

    Public 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 Institutionsby Jacob P. Rodriguez; Steven R. Loomis; Joseph G. Weeres

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00

    Contesting 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 Budgetby Allen Schick

    Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 24.95

    In 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...