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Public Policy Disasters in Europe
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 180.00This book considers some recent and spectacular failures in policy-making and asks what is meant by policy 'disaster', the different forms that they can take and why they have occured. These issues are explored in nine contrasting cases drawn from both the European Union and its member states. These include: the devastating crisis in the Belgium political... more...
Governing after Crisis
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00Examines post-crisis investigations and addresses the longer term impact of crisis-induced politics. more...
Observing Government Elites
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries, describing the world through their eyes. It explores how their beliefs, practices and traditions create meaning in politics and public policy making. It provides unique data on life of politicians and practical advice on how to conduct fieldwork. more...
The Real World of EU Accountability
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 84.99The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance. The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate the key arenas where European public policy is made or implemented are held accountable.... more...
How Power Changes Hands
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical evidence from comparative political research. more...
Dispersed Democratic Leadership
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 39.99This book examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a topic that has been relatively neglected by a political science literature dominated by studies of executive power. Individual chapters investigate the many loci of leadership found in modern democracies, some ancient and some newly... more...
Success and Failure in Public Governance
Edward Elgar Publishing 2001; US$ 40.00?Success and Failure in Public Governance fills a void . . . This valuable book should . . . prompt research that moves away from the present, somewhat static, institutional analysis toward studies that focus on political actors and their crafting of strategies that more or less successfully meet policy challenges that always contain a poisonous mixture... more...
The Politics of Crisis Management
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. Here, in a uniquely comprehensive analysis, the authors examine how leaders deal with the strategic challenges they face in crises, the political risks and opportunities they encounter, the errors they make, the pitfalls they need to avoid. more...
The New Eurocrats
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 35.00Offers unique and invaluable insights into the activities of national civil servants' working practices in the EU and into some of the secrets of this somewhat hidden world of EU governance more...
War along the Border
Texas A&M University Press 2012; US$ 24.95Table of Contents: Foreword, Tatcho Mindiola Introduction, Arnoldo De León Beyond Borders: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Revolution, Paul Hart The Mexican Revolution?s Impact on Tejano Communities: The Historiographic Record, Arnoldo De León La Rinchada: Revolution, Revenge, and the Rangers, 1910?1920, Richard Ribb The Mexican... more...
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