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Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
Michael Barzelay
‘The author’s ambition to revisit the intellectual foundations of public management and consider our field as a design-oriented professional discipline is clearly achieved. Barzelay’s book will spark debate among public management schola...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Governance Analysis
Edited by Emma Carmel
'Trenchant and urgently needed analysis. Emma Carmel aims to "rescue" governance from the bin of irrelevancy and rescue she does. With a scholarly eye alert to real-world practices, the authors tackle how governing is actually done, feat...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe
Attila Ágh
‘This book is a well-written, thorough analysis of the political and social landscape of ECE since the collapse of communism. It offers a convincing explanation of the dynamics that have led to the emergence of authoritarian populist gov...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regional Governance in the EU
Edited by Gabriele Abels, Jan Battke
‘Although hopes for a “Europe of the regions” have long been quashed, this important volume recognises and explores the obstinacy of regions in contemporary politics. The interdisciplinary and broad-ranging discussion provides a rigorous...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum
‘Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation is a timely contribution to academic debates around social innovation (SI). Written in an accessible style, yet empirically rich and scientifically rigorous, this book offers a comprehensive in...eBook:Find out more$19.96
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Dependent Self-Employment
Colin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic
‘How can we tackle the deficit of work faced by dependent self-employed workers? This topic is timely, complex and under review by policy-makers, academics and researchers in the EU, OECD and ILO. The book sheds light on the phenomenon a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Responsible Innovation in Digital Health
Edited by Tatiana Iakovleva, Elin M. Oftedal, John Bessant
‘People ageing and the welfare society demand the intensive use of technology to provide a modern and sustainable care service. But the use of technology also raises new ethical questions about the way the knowledge is obtained and patie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Logic of Public–Private Partnerships
Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve
‘This book is a very welcome addition to the PPP bookshelf as the authors draw together many years of insight into the concepts and rationales underpinning our understanding of this institutional phenomenon of our time. Most importantly ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities
Edited by Richard D. Knowles, Fiona Ferbrache
‘Academics and practitioners should find Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities to be an excellent reference either for those who want to gain a quick understanding of current thinking on TOD or those who want to delve deepe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Science and Public Policy
Edited by Dagmar Simon, Stefan Kuhlmann, Julia Stamm, Weert Canzler
‘Without any doubt, the relation between scientific practices and public policies has changed considerably over the past quarter of a century. Internationalization has increased, in the form of both co-operation and competition. Innovati...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Beyond Public Policy
Peter K. Spink
‘The language we use shapes and limits our understanding of the problems we face and the solutions we can imagine. In this elegant and insightful book, rich with historical byways and international perspectives, Peter Spink reflects on h...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Street-Level Bureaucracy
Edited by Peter Hupe
‘Street-level bureaucracy is an established concept in the social sciences, and it might be thought difficult to find anything new and important to say about the concept. This Research Handbook demonstrates that this assumption is most d...eBook:Find out more$65.00