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Book SynopsisThis book describes process mining use cases and business impact along the value chain, from corporate to local applications, representing the state of the art in domain know-how. Providing a set of industrial case studies and best practices, it complements academic publications on the topic. Further the book reveals the challenges and failures in order to offer readers practical insights and guidance on how to avoid the pitfalls and ensure successful operational deployment.The book is divided into three parts: Part I provides an introduction to the topic from fundamental principles to key success factors, and an overview of operational use cases. As a holistic description of process mining in a business environment, this part is particularly useful for readers not yet familiar with the topic. Part II presents detailed use cases written by contributors from a variety of functions and industries. Lastly, Part III provides a brief overview of the future of process mining, both from academic and operational perspectives.Based on a solid academic foundation, process mining has received increasing interest from operational businesses, with many companies already reaping the benefits. As the first book to present an overview of successful industrial applications, it is of particular interest to professionals who want to learn more about the possibilities and opportunities this new technology offers. It is also a valuable resource for researchers looking for empirical results when considering requirements for enhancements and further developments.Trade Review“The book should interest academics, executives, and professionals with an interest in the topic.” (Anoop Malaviya, Computing Reviews, October 13, 2021)Table of ContentsPart I Principles and Value of Process Mining.- 1 Process Mining in a Nutshell.- 2 How to get Started.- 3 Purpose: Identifying the right Use Cases.- 4 People: The Human Factor.- 5 Processtraces: Technology.- 6 Challenges, Pitfalls and Failures.- 7 Process Mining, RPA, BPM and DTO.- 8 Key Learnings.- Part II Best Practice Use Cases.- 9 Siemens: Driving global change with the Digital Fit Rate in Order2Cash.- 10 Uber: Process Mining to optimize Customer experience and Business performance.- 11 BMW: Process Mining @ Production.- 12 Siemens: Process Mining for operational efficiency in Purchase2Pay.- 13 athenahealth: Process Mining for Service Integrity in Healthcare.- 14 EDP Comercial: Sales and Service Digitization.- 15 ABB: From Mining Processes towards Driving Processes.- 16 Bosch: Process Mining – a Corporate Consulting Perspective.- 17 Schukat: Process Mining enables Schukat electronic to reinvent itself.- 18 Siemens Healthineers: Process Mining as Innovation Driver in Product Management.- 19 Bayer: Process Mining supports Digital Transformation in Internal Audit.- 20 Telekom: Process Mining in Shared Services.- Part III Outlook: Future of Process Mining.- 21 Academic View: Development of the Process Mining Discipline.- 22 Business View: Towards a Digital Enabled Organization.

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Book SynopsisThis edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015–2016 migration crisis. The contributions highlight the challenges small states and the European Union faced in addressing the massive irregular flow of migrants and refugees into Europe and the Schengen Area. Small states adopted a number of coping strategies and proved relatively effective in navigating the storm they faced. Externally they pursued strategies of shelter-seeking, hiding, hedging and norm entrepreneurship, while domestically they tended to securitize migration and to pursue scapegoating by blaming the EU and other states for the nature and magnitude of the crisis. During this crisis management, their small administrations proved resilient and flexible in their responses, despite suffering from limited resources and being subject to the shifting preferences of stronger actors. This book shows that independent of whether we view the migration crisis as a crisis for the European Union or Europe as a whole, or how we interpret the intensity and severity of the crisis, this was a crisis for small states in Europe. The crisis disrupted the liberal and institutionalized order upon which small states in the region had increasingly based their policies and influence for more than 60 years.Table of ContentsPART 1: Introduction and FrameworkSmall States and the Migrant Crisis in ContextAnalysing Small States in Crisis: Fundamental Assumptions and Analytical Starting PointsPART 2: Small States and the Current Political Turmoil Related to ImmigrationImmigration-Integration: A New Opportunity for the EU?Openness Versus Helplessness: Europe’s Border Crisis, 2015-2018PART 3: On the Frontline: The Experiences of the Border StatesThe (De)Europeanisation of Greece: Experience from the Eye of the Storm Migration and Security: The Case of GreeceMalta: A Janus Faced Migration and Integration PolicyPART 4: Waving Them on? The Experiences of Peripheral StatesCoping with the Migration Crisis in a Small States in the European Union: The Experience of SloveniaThe 2015 Migration Crisis as an Identity Crisis for Iceland Small States: “The Gatekeepers” of EU Borders During the Migration CrisisA Small Administration Facing a Complex Policy Challenge: Estonia and the 2015 Refugee CrisisPART 5: ConclusionSmall States and the European Migrant Crisis: New Challenges and Coping Strategies

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Book SynopsisThis open access handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of Vision Zero, an innovative policy on public road safety developed in Sweden. Covering all the major topics of the subject, the book starts out with a thorough examination of the philosophy, ideas and principles behind Vision Zero. It looks at conditions for the effectiveness of the policy, principles of safety and responsibility as well as critique on the policy. Next, the handbook focuses on how the Vision Zero ideas have been received and implemented in various legislations and countries worldwide. It takes into account the way Vision Zero is looked at in the context of international organizations such as the WHO, the UN, and the OECD. This allows for a comparison of systems, models and effects. The third part of the handbook discusses the management and leadership aspects, including ISO standards, equity issues, other goals for traffic and transportation, and opportunities for the car industry. Part four delves into tools, technologies and organizational measures that contribute to the implementation of Vision Zero in road traffic. Examples of specific elements discussed are urban and rural road designs, human factor designs, and avoiding drunk and distracted driving. The final part of the handbook offers perspectives on the transfer of Vision Zero policy to other areas, ranging from air traffic to suicide prevention and nuclear energy. Vision Zero is a public road safety policy including both a long-term goal that no one shall be killed or seriously injured as a consequence of accidents in road traffic and a safety principle stating that the design and function of the road transport system shall be adapted to meet the requirements that follow from that goal. It is a new road safety paradigm which has resulted in new types of responsibilities among stakeholders, technological innovations, and new strategies and organizational measures to achieve a safe system. The road safety work based on Vision Zero has shown promising results, and although Sweden has not yet reached a safe system, the number of fatalities and severe injuries has decreased substantially.This is an open access book.Table of ContentsPart I: Ideas and Principles.- Part 2: Vision Zero – an International Movement for Traffic Safety.- Part 3: Management and Leadership for Vision Zero.- Part 4: Tools and Technologies for Vision Zero.- Part 5: Vision Zero in Other Areas.

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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most extraordinary period in modern British history, the years between the Great Recession and Brexit have often been dubbed ‘the lost decade’ because of the economic and political turmoil caused by those two great events. Michael Burton outlines how the first led to the second, assisted by a rare confluence of other, often unrelated, social and political factors that delivered the shock Leave verdict in the EU referendum of 2016. These included the longstanding grievances of voters in former industrial areas feeling left behind by globalism, stagnant incomes after the recession, austerity, the rise of social media, the refugee and Eurozone crisis in Europe, the deep split in the Conservative and Labour parties over the EU and rising wealth inequalities. The author also charts the chaotic political landscape that ended in the final Brexit deal. This book is ideal for the general reader as well as for students of politics, history and economics needing a concise and well-explained account of this turbulent period in British history.Table of ContentsIntroductionThis will briefly outline the book, explaining as above why the decade was so momentous and why the recession, austerity economics and Brexit are all linked.Chapter one: Britain in the depths of the Great RecessionThis chapter sets the scene in 2009/2010 outlining the undercurrent tensions in British society even before the recession such as income inequalities, generational divides, immigration, regional disparities, globalism, which were later to become starkly apparent during the next decade.Chapter two: austerity BritainThis chapter looks at the Cameron government’s austerity policies and considers their impact and whether they were necessary. Chapter three: the great dividesThe recession exposed great divisions within UK society, between prosperous London and the poorer outlying regions, between wealthy homeowners in London and young people struggling to get on the property ladder in the capital, between the baby boomers and Generation X. The Cameron government initiated ‘the Northern Powerhouse’ to drive growth to poorer regions but it was in the secondary cities, the Rotherhams, Barnsleys and Blackburns where local economies were weakest and where welfare cuts as part of austerity as a result had the greatest impact.Chapter four: the rise of the far rightThis chapter looks at attitudes to the EU within the UK and at the rise of immigration as a political issue following the big influx of EU workers in the mid to late 2000s. It then examines the rise of UKIP and how, in response to its polling success, David Cameron responded with his fateful decision to hold a referendum on the EU which led to Brexit.Chapter five: interregnum: Olympic UKThis chapter looks at a year, 2012, which appeared to tell the world that the UK was a cosmopolitan, multi-racial, open-minded society, in contrast to the message sent out by the referendum result four years later. The chapter covers the London Olympics, the sense of optimism which it briefly generated and the impact on the public mood, symbolized by internationalist London Mayor Boris Johnson. Chapter six: the disruptersThis chapter looks at one of the features of the lost decade, the rise of social media which disrupted established media providers and led to the rise of ‘fake news’ when it came to election coverage and public perceptions of controversial political issues. Politicians on the fringes were able to bypass traditional media and appeal directly to the public without the intervening firewall of informed commentary. The EU referendum campaign would ultimately be won through social media.Chapter seven: foreign quarrelsThis chapter looks at how international issues impacted on the UK, primarily from the rise of Isis in the Middle East and its attraction for some young Muslim males in the UK, the fall of Gadaffi in Libya, and the Syrian civil war and consequent refugee crisis. These all contributed to a rise of xenophobia reflected in growing support for UKIP. By the time of the EU referendum refugees from the Middle East and Africa, asylum seekers, homegrown Islamic terrorists and EU working immigrants were all conflated by unscrupulous politicians into a single threat that would boost the Leave vote.Chapter eight: Cameron makes historyThis chapter covers the 2015 general election and examines the impact of the recession on the public and on the public finances and at the socio-economic challenges Cameron now faced. It also covers the 2014 Scottish referendum which should have been a wake-up call to the possibility that a EU referendum could end in Leave.Chapter nine: headlong into BrexitThis chapter looks at the eventful year following the 2015 election. It covers the referendum campaign and the poll itself, Cameron’s resignation, the election of Theresa May, Corbyn’s own post-referendum troubles with his Shadow Cabinet and the start of the Brexit process. In particular it considers the reasons why the country – to the shock of the political class – voted Leave and examines the socio-economic profile of the Remainers and Leavers that exposed the deep divide in the country. Chapter ten: capitalism in crisisThis chapter looks at the disastrous general election campaign which saw May lose her majority and Corbyn emerge as the unlikely hero of Labour, cementing its leftwards march. Political commentators attributed much of his electoral success to young voters, furious about the Brexit result and at the government’s austerity. In a sign of post-referendum confusion, the middle classes tended to vote Labour while working class voters – mainly Leavers – backed the Conservatives. The elections also saw the disappearance of UKIP.Chapter eleven: party loyalties under pressureThis chapter looks at the negotiations for a Brexit deal during 2018 and early 2019 and the way Brexit broke traditional party loyalties among Labour and Conservatives. This chapter will cover the negotiations up to when (or if) the UK leaves the EU.Conclusion:This summarises the key undercurrents of the decade and sees Brexit and its impact on the UK body politic as the expression of underlying socio-economic changes in Britain.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in complex social relations and migration trajectories. By focusing on various cases – internal, international, return, economic and student female migrants – the book underlines that migration does not follow any kind of evolutionary development, according to which women go from 'traditional’ to ‘modern' gender relations. By providing a compelling account on the complex negotiations and tactics women employ to deal with gender inequalities, this book leads to a better understanding of gender and migration entanglements. It is a useful read to students, academics in migration and gender studies as well as social scientists and policy-makers in European countries.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 3. Albanian Context.- Chapter 4. Returned, Yet Still Not Back: the ‘Status Paradox’ of International Female Migrants Returning to Albania.- Chapter 5. Education as a Platform for Migration – Young Women Migrating to the ‘Big City’ on Their Own.- Chapter 6. International Student Returnees—Nowhere at Home.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how decisions made by the Conservative government during the COVID19 pandemic have increased economic inequality in the UK. Decades of austerity, asset-based welfare and financialization had already exacerbated social divisions in the UK prior to the pandemic. The political blueprint behind these measures combined Privatized Keynesianism and the Asset Economy. To explain, economists have highlighted that inequality derives from the fact that income from wealth increases at a faster rate than income from wages. The ensuing political assumption is that – in the face of pressures on public finances – promoting asset ownership is the best alternative to government-funded welfare schemes. What this meant, as the pandemic unfolded, was that when tough decisions about resource allocation needed to be made, the UK Treasury and the Bank of England found almost unlimited funds to rescue and protect asset-holders and middle-income homeowners, whilst reverting to a narrative of “misfortune” for the asset-less poor. This book assesses the political decisions taken by UK policymakers during 2020-21 and their consequences. In doing so, it challenges policymakers and the informed public to re-consider the morality of inequality, and to make alternative decisions to promote a more ecologically sustainable, caring, equal and prosperous society.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Inequality, Financialisation and the Asset EconomyChapter 2: The RichChapter 3: Middle-Income HouseholdsChapter 4: The PoorConclusion

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Book SynopsisThe countries in the Western Balkans have been severely affected by the wars and conflicts that led to the breakup of former Yugoslavia, by political instability and the effort of creating new states, weak economies and high levels of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, and inequality. As revealed by recent surveys, such as EBRD’s Life in Transition Survey and Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey, life satisfaction in the region is far below that elsewhere in Europe. In recent years they had achieved a strong impetus of economic growth with falling rates of unemployment and increasing optimism for the future. However, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has brought about a sudden reversal of these trends and a renewed deterioration in the economic outlook, and an increase in social hardships that heralds a repeat of past failures in economic inclusion policies. This book identifies the key challenges in the areas of economic inclusion, focusing on the themes of labour markets, vocational education and skills, female entrepreneurship and the integration of migrants. It considers the opportunities for solutions to “build back better” once the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis begins, and offers proposals for more acceptable, equitable and effective economic inclusion policies.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Key Challenges for Economic Inclusion in the Western BalkansPart I: Labour Market InclusionChapter 2: A Low-Wage, High-Tax Trap in the Western BalkansChapter 3: Envelope Wages in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Incidence and Distributional ImplicationsChapter 4: Horizontal Job-Education Mismatch in Kosovo: Is There a Gender Gap?Chapter 5: Cross-national Comparison of Job Types: Analysis Using the EU LFS and Albanian LFSPart II: Vocational Training and SkillsChapter 6: The Professional Training Programme in Montenegro: An Active Labour Market Policy or a Way to Fill the Structural Gap?Chapter 7: The Quality of Vocational Training and the Position of the Individual in the Labour market in SerbiaChapter 8: The Apprenticeship System in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Myth or Reality?Part III: Female EntrepreneurshipChapter 9: Case Study on Female Entrepreneurship in Bosnia and HerzegovinaChapter 10: Female Entrepreneurship in Albania: Financial Incentives and DisincentivesChapter 11: Economic Inclusion of Women Entrepreneurs During Covid-19 in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and HerzegovinaPart IV: Integrating Returning MigrantsChapter 12: The Relationship between Migration and Pensions Policy: The Case of AlbaniaChapter 13: The Role of Voluntary Return Migration in Supporting Economic Development in Albania Chapter 14: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Croatia Part V: ConclusionsChapter 15: Towards an Inclusive Model of Development in the Western Balkans

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the methods used in the Criminal Justice system in the United States to counsel and treat offenders. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and early graduate-level students for courses in Correctional Treatment or Rehabilitation, or Community Corrections more broadly. The sections in the book provide: - Aims and Scope of Correctional Counseling and Treatment -Tools that Corrections Workers Use (including counseling and case management) - Behavioral Modification Treatments: Examples and Applications - Cognitive Therapies: Examples and Applications Throughout the text, there is an emphasis on the big picture: the interaction of the correctional component of the justice system with other components, particularly courts (including special courts like family courts, drug courts, veterans courts and other programs).Chapters in this book address the diverse population of correctional facilities, including juvenile offenders; those with mental illness, addiction and substance abuse problems, physical and mental disabilities; and homeless populations. The author also provides analysis of how legislation influences the corrections process. This work is also enhanced by providing comparative analysis of the criminal and juvenile justice systems: their goals, objectives, and how these can affect counseling and treatment available within these two systems. This pedagogical features of this engaging text include: excerpted interviews with correctional practitioners about the problems and challenges they encounter, discussion questions, classification instruments and real-world examples of specific treatments programs, and case studies that give students the chance to select the appropriate interviewing, counseling or treatment approach to deal with the problem/ issues of the case. This work provides students with an overview of the methods used for Correctional Treatment and Counseling, and the tools to begin to think critically about how and when to apply these methods. Trade Review“This book discusses treatment modalities that are used in correctional settings both community and institutional. … This book is well written by experts in the field, and addresses both children and adults. It explores the major treatment modalities in corrections today. Students will benefit greatly from this book.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2017) Table of ContentsSection I: Correctional Counseling and Treatment: Past and Present.- Chapter 1: The Scope and Purpose of Correctional Treatment.- Chapter 2: Applying Restorative Justice Models in the Correctional Process.- Chapter 3: The Criminal Justice System in Transition: Assisting Victims of Crime.- Section II: The Diverse Roles of Counselors in Correctional Treatment.- Chapter 4: Continuity and Change in the Roles of Correctional Personnel.- Chapter 5: Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing.- Chapter 6: Diverting Special Categories of Offenders to Community Treatment Programs.- Chapters 7: The Functions of Classification and Assessment Models in Correctional Treatment.- Chapter 8: Community Based Sanctions: Probation and Post Release Supervision.- Chapter 9: Community Residential Treatment and Institutional Treatment.- Section III: Treatment Models Used in Corrections.- Chapter 10: The Interview: A Basic Tool Used in Correctional Counseling and Treatment.- Chapter 11: Behavior Modification Programs in Corrections.- Chapter 12: Group Counseling in Corrections.- Chapter 13: Brief Therapy and Crisis Intervention.- Chapter 14: Cognitive Behavioral Therapies in Correctional Treatment.- Chapter 15: Future Perspectives on Counseling and Treatment of Criminal and Delinquent Offenders.

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Book SynopsisThis Palgrave Policy Essential maps and assesses key changes in the Whitehall model over the last two decades. It argues that the traditional Whitehall model is being replaced by a system of ‘New Political Governance’ (NPG) centred on politicised campaigning; the growth of political advisory staff relative to the permanent civil service; the personalisation of bureaucratic appointments; and the creation of a government machine that is ‘promiscuously partisan’. It provides a snapshot of the institutional changes that are unfolding at a critical moment, as Whitehall prepares to support Ministers in carrying out the Brexit process while addressing a series of long-term structural challenges from the demographic pressures of the ageing society to the impact of climate change. Austerity since 2010 has had a further transformative effect on Whitehall, with drastic reductions in the civil service workforce, the restructuring of government agencies, and a reconfiguration of the traditional roles and responsibilities of the permanent civil service.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Government by ‘Permanent Campaign’Chapter 3: The Growth of Political Advisory StaffChapter 4: The Personalisation of AppointmentsChapter 5: A ‘Promiscuously Partisan’ BureaucracyChapter 6: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisGiven the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement, Anja Zenker examines the potential of free trade benefits as an incentive mechanism for an effective and stable climate change cooperation of states. She addresses the question of how the specific policy design affects the success of the agreement, market and trade outcomes, as well as the compatibility with multilateral WTO obligations.Table of ContentsMitigation Incentives in the Post‐2020 Climate Change Framework.- International Climate Agreements: A Survey of the Game‐Theoretic Literature.- Building a Climate‐Trade Coalition in a Downstream vs. Upstream System of Emission Trading.- WTO Compatibility of a Climate‐Trade Agreement.

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Book SynopsisIs Japan prepared for an ethnically diverse society? The volume examines the past and future trajectory of Japan’s immigration and integration policies and related institutions, taking a cross-disciplinary approach in social sciences. The authors highlight critical issues and challenges that the nation is facing as a result of the government’s inarticulate migrant-acceptance policy, e.g. in the fields of deportation, refugee policy, multicultural education and disaster protection. How can the situation be improved? The book investigates the changes and initiatives needed to build a resilient policy regime for a liberal, pluralistic, and inclusive Japan.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I National Immigration Policies Chapter 1: Problems from Leviathan’s Cells (Toake Endoh) Chapter 2: Refugee Policy (Ryuji Mukae) Part II Who Foreign Workers/Residents Are: From Micro-level Perspectives Chapter 3: Forty-Five Years of Multiculturalism in Japan: A Personal Narrative (J. F. Morris) Chapter 4: Socially Different: Diversity of Vietnamese Residents in Japan (Setsuko Shibuya) Chapter 5: The Unexplored Potential of Foreign Workers in Japan’s Travel and Tourism Industries (Hidekazu Iwamoto) Part III Issues of Migrant Integration on the Subnational Level Chapter 6: Japan’s Immigration Policy and Japanese Language Requirements (Uichi Kamiyoshi) Chapter 7: The Significance of Multicultural Coexistence in Post-Pandemic Japan (Akiyoshi Kikuchi) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the financial contagion of the 2007 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) to viral contagion in the recent COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore has been severely impacted by ripples and shockwaves that have emanated from global financial and healthcare crises. At the same time, it has proven to be highly resilient amidst such instability. This book provides an in-depth account of Singapore's policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and GFC. It focuses on the policy capacity-building efforts that have taken place in the aftermath of earlier crises such as the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.Linked across time and space, these four crises — SARS, COVID-19, the AFC and GFC — reflect a consistent pattern in Singapore's approach to crisis management. This is a pattern that involves policy learning and capacity-building after each crisis, and the application of these lessons and capacities to subsequent crises. In focusing on the role of policy capacity in Singapore's crisis response measures, this book will provide policymakers and practitioners with a useful framework that can be used to plan for future crises and pandemics.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of essays by thought and advocacy leaders, policymakers, and academics in Singapore who have been and are in positions of influence in shaping social policies, and hence the social context, in the country. These essays are meant to initiate discussion, promote debate and broaden understanding of the social issues at play, the challenges faced, and the trade-offs involved in enhancing social policies, strengthening the social compact, and shaping the social context in Singapore.This is done through addressing issues and challenges in (1) Government and Civil Society; (2) Education; (3) Employability and Employment; (4) Social and Family Development; (5) Demographics and Social Spending; (6) Healthcare and Healthcare Financing; (7) Urban Planning and the Environment; (8) Disruptions, New Technologies and Smart Nation.It is hoped this book will be useful for students of sociology, social policy or public policy, as they discuss the dynamics and trade-offs involved in planning, shaping and implementing social and public policies in Singapore. This book also hopes to inform and initiate dialogues among Singaporeans on the social issues and challenges we face in our city-state and which we have to collectively address as a nation.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents the first step towards building socio-life science, a field of science investigating humans in such a way that both social and life-scientific factors are integrated. Because humans are both living and social creatures, a human action can never be understood fully without knowing both the biological traits of a person and the social scientific environments in which he exists. With this consideration, the editors of this book have initiated a research project promoting a deeper and more integrated understanding of human behavior and human health. This book aims to show what can, and could be, achieved through our interdisciplinary project. One important product is the newly formed three-party collaboration between Pasteur Institut, Kyoto University, and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. Covering many different fields, including medicine, epidemiology, anthropology, economics, sociology, demography, geography, and policy, researchers in these institutes, and many others, present their studies on the COVID-19 pandemic. Although based on different methodologies, the studies show the importance of behavioral change and governmental policy in the fight against a huge pandemic. The book explains the unique genome cohort–panel data that the project builds to study social and life scientific aspects of humans.Table of ContentsSARS-CoV-2 variants: Past, present and future.- COVID-19 pandemic and behavioral change: The cases of Florida and Ohio.- Integrating social sciences to mitigate against covid.- Re-thinking the infodemic: Social media and offline action in the COVID-19 pandemic.- Mapping COVID-19 in Japan and greater Tokyo area, socio-spatial and political analysis of the epidemic.- Application of SARS-CoV-2 serology testing: A case study

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Book SynopsisAt a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power, Jonathan Baker shows how laws and regulations can be updated to ensure more competition. The sooner courts and antitrust enforcement agencies stop listening to the Chicago school and start paying attention to modern economics, the sooner Americans will reap the benefits of competition.Trade ReviewThe Antitrust Paradigm is a call to action by a premier scholar of competition policy. Baker makes a compelling case to change the guidepost for U.S. antitrust enforcement from ‘do no harm’ to ‘do some good.’ Anyone with a keen interest in antitrust should read this book, and I hope that includes some judges. -- Richard J. Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of JusticeBaker’s timely book will be required reading for competition policymakers. It provides a concise, sophisticated, and informed account of nearly fifty years of change that has reshaped antitrust law and legal doctrine, and uses that account to identify much-needed reforms that would contribute to greater competitive vitality in the American economy. -- Andrew I. Gavil, Howard University School of LawJonathan Baker has written a superb and timely treatment of one of the hottest economic issues: how to make the economy more competitive, especially in the face of rapidly changing technology. Baker draws on his research and policy experience to write a book that avoids the heated rhetoric that often dominates these debates to instead present a compelling analysis and prescription that is firmly grounded in economic research. -- Jason Furman, Harvard Kennedy School and former Chairman of the Council of Economic AdvisersJonathan Baker is one of the country’s leading antitrust scholars. This well-written and thought-provoking book meticulously sets forth the theoretical and empirical foundation for his view that antitrust policy needs to be radically changed and must become much more active if the United States is to remain a dynamic economy. Even readers who disagree will be challenged to reexamine the reasons for their views. -- Dennis W. Carlton, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of JusticeBaker’s powerful and accessible prose makes the case for more vigorous twenty-first-century antitrust enforcement focused on market realities. He both diagnoses the problems and offers practical solutions. A must-read for those who care about ensuring markets that work to benefit consumers. -- Bill Baer, former Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and former Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade CommissionContains a meticulous exploration of the most common theories of antitrust harm, spanning the rules on agreements, monopolies, and mergers. Baker focuses on these problems within the digital economy, seeking to make the case that despite its nineteenth century origins, the current US antitrust framework is sufficiently nimble to meet contemporary challenges. -- Niamh Dunne * Project Syndicate *Why are citizens not experiencing market competition in daily life? And is there hope that antitrust enforcement might rise to the challenge? Jonathan Baker provides an insightful analysis of antitrust enforcement from the origin of the Sherman Act, through the anti-enforcement ideology of the Chicago School, to present-day, corporate-friendly policies. The Antitrust Paradigm illuminates why antitrust is fashionable again in policy circles. It presents the economic and legal evidence of the decline in competition in an accessible and compelling fashion and then goes on to provide intelligent and interesting recommendations of changes to make to address particular competition problems that characterize the modern economy. -- Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University School of ManagementJonathan Baker’s book is a stirring and painstaking achievement in both intellectual and political terms. It offers not only a subtle takedown of the Chicago School’s conceptual dominance over American antitrust law but a powerful redefinition of how intensifying market concentration actually hurts our economy and our people. The Antitrust Paradigm builds up into the most rousing kind of call to arms: one that is rooted in rigorous analysis, vivid facts, and a margin of practical hope. Baker has written a profoundly useful book. -- Congressman Jamie Raskin (Maryland)A good overview of the current debate about competition policy, and the Chicago School versus neo-structuralist (aka ‘hipster’) clash going on in the U.S. at the moment. -- Diane Coyle * Enlightened Economist *Shows how antitrust reforms ostensibly aimed at spurring competition ended up causing an increase in market power. * ProMarket *A powerful argument for antitrust reform to bring about the benefits long and emptily promised by the Chicago School. * Harvard Law Review *An extremely valuable contribution to what he rightly notes is one of the most compelling current debates. -- Zephyr Teachout * Democracy *An informed, thoughtful, and provocative antitrust manifesto that every antitrust thinker should read. -- Barak Orbach * Antitrust Source *

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Book Synopsishealth care system.Trade ReviewThis slender volume offers value on several dimensions. First, it is an explication of recent history that connects the dots from prospective payment to Medicare-based deficit reduction to cost shifting to managed care. By the same token, the story here serves as a bracing corrective to the mythology of market-based reform and the assumption that government's role in health is inescapably a negative one. Health Affairs 2007 Whether discussing the Social Security Amendments of 1972 or the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Mayes and Berenson entertain readers with insider anecdotes about the ideological and practical battles government policymakers fought with powerful provider lobbies. New England Journal of Medicine A highly readable book that traces the history of Medicare prospective payment systems from their enactment in 1983 until today. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law This book provides an excellent primer for physician leaders on the recent history of Medicare and the politics of elected officials using it as a cash cow. The authors challenge practicing physicians to carefully consider what may work in society's best interests to improve health outcomes, rather than primarily focusing on how Medicare benefits their net incomes. JAMA 2008 Mayes and Berenson offer an admirable product in this book, one that we should use to improve our own studies of the state and the agents who help define it. -- Andrew B. Whitford International Public Management Journal 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction1. Origins and Policy Gestation2. Development, Growing Appeal, and Passage of Prospective Payment3. The Phase-In Years and Beginning of "Rough Justice" for Hospitals4. Medicare Policy's Subordination to Budget Policy, Increased Hospital Cost Shifting, and the Rise of Managed Care5. The Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale Reforms for Physician Payment6. The Calm before the Storm7. The Reckoning and ReversalConclusion: How Medicare Does and Should Shape U.S. Health CareAppendix: InterviewsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn attorney, scholar, and health policy expert, Dawes is also a capable storyteller . . . Dawes is insistent: We're approaching an inflection point, and we can't afford to embrace a partial commitment to equality in health care. The final chapter of his book argues that the future of health equity begins and ends with the political determinants of health. What follows is a rallying cry to harness the political process to implement more equitable and inclusive health policies. As the COVID-19 pandemic underlines the ways in which our nation is sharply divided by racial and socioeconomic disparities, we need to address the political determinants of health or risk an incalculable setback.—Leslie Erdelack, Health AffairsThis book deserves to be in classrooms, community reading programs, and government public health agencies. Although the 2016 elections were a setback for the health equity movement, Dawes has given us a rich and important resource for planning ahead.—Monica Unseld, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health PolicyThis is a must-read for all those who advocate toward a 'healthy, equitable, and inclusive society.'—Claire Hancock, The Florida Bar JournalPolitical Determinants of Health should be commended for packing an immense amount of theory, history, and health advocacy into a relatively concise text.—Kenneth W. Lin, MD, MPH, Family MedicineTable of ContentsForeword, by David R. WilliamsChapter 1. The Allegory of the Orchard: The Political Determinants of Health InequitiesChapter 2. Setting the Precedent: America's Attempts to Address the Political Determinants of Health InequitiesChapter 3. The Political Determinants of Health ModelChapter 4. How the Game Is Played: Successful Employment of the Political Determinants of HealthChapter 5. Winning the Game That Never Ends: Success Means Continuous Employment of the Political Determinants of HealthChapter 6. Growing Pains: Tackling the Political Determinants of Health Inequities during a Challenging PeriodChapter 7. The Future of Health Equity Begins and Ends with the Political Determinants of HealthAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDemocracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These “hidden heroes” struggle to align universal rules and compliance demands with the unique circumstances facing their organizations and communities. David Campbell recounts compelling stories of the workarounds, sidesteps, informal agreements, and grantor–grantee negotiations that help policy initiatives succeed as intended. The settings include schools, human services departments, workforce development agencies, and community-based organizations. He explains why it is difficult, though necessary, to translate locally attuned implementation dynamics into accountability metrics for distant funders. Drawing on 2,000 interviews, Democracy’s Hidden Heroes is the culmination of decades spent talking to people who must reconcile bureaucratic

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Book SynopsisFirst published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book presents original critical reflections on the value of design approaches and how they relate to the classical idea of public administration as a design science.Table of Contents1. Improving Public Policy and Administration: Exploring the Potential of Design – Arwin Van Buuren, Jenny M Lewis, B Guy Peters and William Voorberg 2. Applying Design in Public Administration: A Literature Review to Explore the State of the Art – Margot Hermus, Arwin Van Buuren and Victor Bekkers 3. Challenges in Applying Design Thinking to Public Policy: Dealing with the Varieties of Policy Formulation and Their Vicissitudes – Michael Howlett 4. Designing Environments for Experimentation, Learning and Innovation in Public Policy and Governance – Maurits Waardenburg, Martijn Groenleer and Jorrit De Jong 5. Policy Labs: The Next Frontier of Policy Design and Evaluation? – Karol Olejniczak, Sylwia Borkowska-Waszak, Anna Domaradzka-Widła and Yaerin Park 6. When Design Meets Power: Design Thinking, Public Sector Innovation and the Politics of Policymaking – Jenny M Lewis, Michael McGann and Emma Blomkamp 7. Designing Institutions for Designing Policy – B Guy Peters 8. Applying Design Science in Public Policy and Administration Research – A Georges L Romme and Albert Meijer 9. Using a Design Approach to Create Collaborative Governance – John M Bryson, Barbara Crosby and Danbi SEO 10. Policy-Making as Designing: Taking Stock and Looking Forward – Arwin Van Buuren, Jenny M Lewis, B Guy Peters and William Voorberg

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Book SynopsisThe manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous foodways.Despite claims to the contrary by governments, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), and the contemporary North West Company (NWC), the exorbitant cost of food in the North is not a naturally occurring phenomenon or the result of free-market forces. Rather, inflated food prices are the direct result of government policies and corporate monopolies. Using food as a lens to track the institutional presence of the Canadian state in the North, Burnett and Hay chart the social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s. They explore the roles of state food policy and the HBC and NWC in setting up, perpetuating, and profiting from food insecurity while undermining Indigenous food sovereignties and self-determination.Plundering the Northprovides fresh insight into Canada’s settler colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities. An important re-evaluation of northern food policies, this timely contribution to scholarship on settler colonialism in Canada enables better understandings of the ways the state and corporations endanger the health and well-being of northern Indigenous communities.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Food Sovereignty: The Assault on Indigenous Hunting, Fishing, Trapping, and Trading Chapter Two Constructing Dependency: The Hudson’s Bay Company Before the Second World War Chapter Three “Making Proper Use”: The Family Allowance Program and Forced Purchasing Lists Chapter Four “Left at the Trader’s Mercy”: The HBC and the Northern Stores Department Chapter Five “Preferred Perishable Foods”: Origins and Outcomes of the Food Mail Program Chapter Six “We Blanket the North”: The Expansion of the NWC, 1987–2007 Chapter Seven “Direct, Effective and Efficient”: Nutrition North Canada and the Restructuring of Federal Food Subsidy Programs, 2008–2017 Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] superbly argued and important book. America is no longer the home of the free-market economy…The great obstacle to action in the U.S. is the pervasive role of money in politics. The results are the twin evils of oligopoly and oligarchy…Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting. Is that still imaginable? All believers in the virtues of competitive capitalism must hope so. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *A fascinating case study of rising corporate concentration and why this reflects not just impersonal economic forces but political choices… [Philippon] concludes competition has indeed declined to the detriment of consumers. His novel contribution, though, is to contrast this with the experience of Europe… Where the U.S. was once the world’s teacher, it may be time to be the pupil. -- Greg Ip * Wall Street Journal *Fascinating…In one industry after another, [Philippon] writes, a few companies have grown so large that they have the power to keep prices high and wages low. It’s great for those corporations—and bad for almost everyone else…Too often, both parties are still confusing the interests of big business with the national interest. And American families are paying the price. -- David Leonhardt * New York Times *Philippon sees today’s Europe, ironically the home of government-driven market intervention, as the place that has figured out how to set markets free by spurring competitiveness and thus keeping services up and prices down…The Great Reversal argues that the United States has much to gain by reforming how domestic markets work but also much to regain—a vitality that has been lost since the Reagan years. We don’t know if Philippon is a fan of Donald Trump, but his analysis points to one way of making America great again: restoring our free-market competitiveness. -- Arthur Herman * Wall Street Journal *[A] primer on the recent woes of the U.S. economy…It attributes these troubling developments to a decline in competition that has been brought about in large part by the rise of very powerful technology companies and above all by the lack of enforcement of antitrust policies. Philippon also points to the damaging role of politicians who protect the interests of their wealthy donors by sponsoring and creating loopholes in tax and regulatory laws. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *Examines money in politics, and carefully knocks down tendentious arguments that such behavior does not simply reflect the rich purchasing policy outcomes that benefit themselves…Some of Philippon’s findings are eye-popping. -- Ryan Cooper * American Prospect *In this seminal book, economist Philippon uses detailed evidence to argue that, far from being the home of free-market competition, the U.S. today has less competition than the much-maligned EU, particularly in its product markets, which are riddled with monopoly and monopsony. This is not the result of natural forces, but of deliberate policy. Declining competition has raised profits, depressed wages, weakened investment and undermined productivity growth. The U.S. needs a reinvigoration of antitrust. * Financial Times *A compelling read for those interested in the dynamics of the overall innovation economy or the political debate over antitrust and Big Tech…A timely analysis of the weakening of America’s regulatory regime for protecting free market competition. -- Eric Peckham * TechCrunch *The Great Reversal is a must-read for anyone who cares about the single most important issue of our time—the growing concentration of economic and political power in the hands of too few corporations and individuals. Philippon shows us that America is no longer the home of free markets, and Old Europe is a lot more competitive than we think. Data-driven, readable economic myth-busting at its best. -- Rana Foroohar, Associate Editor and Global Business Columnist, Financial TimesProvides an in-depth, evidence-based examination of how unchecked corporate power harms workers, consumers, and the economy, all while making a passionate case in favor of competitive markets. * ProMarket *A timely diagnosis of what fundamentally ails the American economy. Philippon, using solid empirical evidence and careful research, asserts that the level of competition has declined in the U.S. -- Vivekanand Jayakumar * The Hill *Everyone in tech or interested in tech ought to read this book—it provides a rigorous, but easy-to-grasp look at the economics of consolidation and what it does to markets, prices, and products. -- Nilay Patel * The Verge *Excellent. -- Diane Coyle * Project Syndicate *Fascinating…Philippon’s work is impressive. -- Ali Nikpay * The Telegraph *Philippon argues for a surprising conclusion: Europe is making a better job of running a competitive market economy than the home of capitalism…Time also, Philippon argues, for America to relearn the virtues of competitive capitalism from its erstwhile pupil across the pond. -- Colm McCarthy * Irish Times *Should we love American capitalism, or hate it? Are large corporations making our lives better through endless innovation and price reductions, or are they exploiting their workers and their customers to enrich the few? Would European-style regulation make things better, or worse? Thomas Philippon’s eloquent book has the answers. It is an invaluable contribution to one of today’s most important debates. -- Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economic SciencesIn this hugely important book, Thomas Philippon shows that America’s most urgent economic problem is not too much capitalism, but rather too little competition. A clarifying guide to the political reforms we need to make the market work for ordinary people. -- Yascha Mounk, author of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save ItSuperbly exposited and replete with examples, this marvelous book illustrates the challenges the United States faces today in reversing its decades-long slide into monopoly and economic oligarchy. A master class in political economy, it draws on the author’s own pathbreaking academic research, yet shows great respect for competing points of view. Philippon’s quantitative contrast between highly monopolized U.S. markets and highly competitive European markets is particularly striking. The data suggests that Americans should not be so complacent about their apparent economic superiority. -- Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard UniversityThe Great Reversal is a terrific book that tackles a hot, policy-relevant, and fascinating question: what has happened to competition in the United States? It’s essential reading to understand twenty-first-century capitalism. -- Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"US president Harry Truman longed for a one-handed economist, because 'All my economists say ‘on one hand’ then ‘but on the other’.' He was wrong to. Equivocal books do not usually do well in a polarised world. This one deserves to buck the trend."---Giles Wilkes, Financial Times

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Book SynopsisPublic Management: A Research Overview provides a structured survey of the state of the art of public management research. Looking at the enduring themes of bureaucracy, autonomy, markets and collaboration, each chapter introduces key foundational studies before reviewing contemporary research. Although originally intended to maximise efficiency, work on bureaucracy points to the problems of red tape, contested accountabilities, performance management, merit and public service motivation. Autonomy research asks whether reforms intended to free subservient agencies from red tape and political interference have delivered the goods. Are autonomous service managers more focused on the needs of citizen-consumers and more entrepreneurial in their appetite for innovation? Marketisation reforms take a further step away from bureaucratic forms of control by exposing public services to market forces of one form or another. Competitive contracting and privatisation put public servicesTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bureaucracy and public management 3. Autonomy and public management 4. Marketisation and public management 5. Collaboration and public management 6. Changing agendas of public management research

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Book SynopsisAgeing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.Table of Contents1: Greg Bognar and Axel Gosseries: Introduction 2: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen: Age Discrimination: Is It Special? Is It Wrong? 3: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Does the Badness of Disability Differ from that of Old Age? 4: Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen: In Defence of Age-Differentiated Paternalism 5: Matthew D. Adler: Age and the Social Value of Risk Reduction: Three Perspectives 6: Paul Bou-Habib: Can Egalitarians Justify Spending More on the Elderly? 7: Axel Gosseries: Age Limits and the Significance of Entire Lives Egalitarianism 8: Simon Birnbaum and Kenneth Nelson: Age Universalism will Benefit All (Ages) 9: Anca Gheaus:

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the evolution of British welfare policy, politics, discourse, and public opinion since the 1980s, and addresses two main questions: questions: why Britain reformed its welfare system so radically, and why, until recently, these reforms were so popular with the public.Table of ContentsPreface List of figures 1: Introduction: Welfare Stories 2: What Has Changed? Public Opinion and Policy Reforms 3: Explaining British Exceptionalism 4: Political Discourse 5: Discourse in the Print Media 6: Public Opinion 7: Welfare Politics in the 1990s: New Labour's Policy Revolution 8: Compassionate Conservatism? Conservative Welfare Policy Since 2005 9: Political Discourse and Public Opinion in Other Countries 10: Conclusion: Welfare Futures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right?In addressing this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an annual series tackling different aspects of governance around the world-makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure. This implies moving beyond rational economic analysis of what should be done towards an analysis of the political, institutional, and societal mechanisms that shape decision-making about infrastructure investment, planning, and implementation. Engaging with theories from sociology, political science, and public administration, and drawing on empirical analyses bridging OECD and non-OECD countries, the contributions to this volume dissect the logics of infrastructure governance in a novel way, providing timely analyses that will enrich both scholarly and policy debates about how to get infrastructure governance right.Table of ContentsPART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; PART II DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE; PART III REGIONAL CHALLENGES

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Book SynopsisBy whatever name they are known (Parliaments, Legislatures, or Assemblies, to name but three) legislative assemblies in democratic societies face the twin challenges of institutional capacity and accountability to their citizens. In addressing these challenges, assemblies vary in the extent to which they serve the respective interests of three critical sets of actors: their members, party leaders, and voters. In this book, Shane Martin and Kaare W. Strøm identify three ideal types of democratic assemblies - the members'' assembly, the leaders'' assembly, and the voters'' assembly - and analyze national legislative assemblies in the world''s 68 most populous democracies, from Finland to Papua New Guinea, in light of these models. Based on extensive new cross-national data, they trace the implications of the three assembly types for the design, internal organization, resources, and powers of democratic national assemblies, develop indices of each assembly type, and score each of the 68 lTable of Contents1: Understanding Legislative Assemblies 2: Comparing Legislative Assemblies 3: Electing the Legislative Assembly 4: Membership and Congruence 5: Cameral Structure 6: Organization and Leadership 7: Parties in the Legislature 8: Committees 9: Lawmaking 10: The Budgetary Process 11: The Elective Function 12: Executive Oversight 13: Legislative Assembly Types 14: Incumbency and Re-Election 15: Democratic Assemblies and Contemporary Challenges

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Book SynopsisEvery government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from levying taxes to enforcing laws and monitoring compliance to regulations. The challenge, the author argues, is that power is not enough; the populace must also be willing to be led. He addresses this political conundrum unabashedly, using the US and Britain as his prime examples.Trade Review“This is a terrific book that I can imagine readers turning back to again and again. It is a major contribution to the literature of political science. One of Ringen's greatest accomplishments here is that he reminds readers why this field was interesting in the first place."—Alan Wolfe, Boston College -- Alan Wolfe“Nation of Devils crackles with dry epigrams. It reminds readers of how the supply-side of politics—law and government—is often neglected for the noisy demand-side that is the purview of voters and lobbyists”—The Economist * The Economist *“Cast[s] fresh light on a tired subject. . . . Nation of Devils crackles with dry epigrams. It reminds readers of how the supply-side of politics—law and government—is often neglected for the noisy demand-side that is the purview of voters and lobbyists. Demanding and idealistic, yes. But also a democracy for grown-ups.”—The Economist * The Economist *".. lively and thoughtful .. crisp and no-nonsense. Ringen's thesis is that better political leadership is possible."—Mark Mazower, Financial Times -- Mark Mazower * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisIn a recent paradigm shift, local governments find themselves shouldering more responsibility for day-to-day governance and crisis management, thanks to regulations and federal spending cuts. While 20 years ago a book on local government administration might have been considered complete with chapters on budgeting, public personnel management, productivity and responsivity, and community engagement, any discussion of local government must now also include resilience, emergency management, climate change, smart cities, social media, and infrastructure funding. Bringing together key voices from the academic and public sectors, Local Government Management offers techniques and insight into how local government can most effectively lead and manage their resources in an evolving politicalâand environmentalâlandscape.Featuring examples from expert contributorsâ own decades of public service and research, this forward-thinking book explores the rapid speed of change in local communities and the need for local government to not only adapt but also proactively plan for the future. Local Government Management is essential reading for local government officials, public stakeholders, practitioners, and students of public administration and management.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2.Elected Officials and City Managers 3.The City Manager’s Perspective 4.Civic Engagement, Policy and Management through Digital Strategy and Communication Networks 5. Budgeting and Financial Management 6. Human Resources 7. Economic Development, Land Use, and Resilience Impact on Growth Policy 8.E-Government, Privacy, Technology, and Innovation 9. The Sharing Economy: A Disruptive Innovator for City Government 10. Business Stakeholders in Local Government and the Community 11. Local Government Management and Paramedicine 12. Municipal Government Relations 13. School Districts 14. Local Government and Nonprofit Relationships 15. Urban Planning and Affordable Housing 16. Homelessness and Affordable Housing in the Urban Areas 17. Immigration and the American City 18. Green Movement: Environmental Concerns 19. Accountability 20. Strategic Planning and Non-Routine Management Challenges: Homeland Security and Emergency Management, e.g. COVID-19 21. Epilogue: Trends and Current Issues

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Book SynopsisDesign for Policy is the first publication to chart the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. Drawing on contributions from a range of the worldâs leading academics, design practitioners and public managers, it provides a rich, detailed analysis of design as a tool for addressing public problems and capturing opportunities for achieving better and more efficient societal outcomes. In his introduction, Christian Bason suggests that design may offer a fundamental reinvention of the art and craft of policy making for the twenty-first century. From challenging current problem spaces to driving the creative quest for new solutions and shaping the physical and virtual artefacts of policy implementation, design holds a significant yet largely unexplored potential. The book is structured in three main sections, covering the global context of the rise of design for policy, in-depth case studies of the application of design to policy making, and a guide to concrete design tools for policy intent, insight, ideation and implementation. The summary chapter lays out a future agenda for design in government, suggesting how to position design more firmly on the public policy stage. Design for Policy is intended as a resource for leaders and scholars in government departments, public service organizations and institutions, schools of design and public management, think tanks and consultancies that wish to understand and use design as a tool for public sector reform and innovation.Trade Review'This book masterfully combines cutting-edge research, findings from practice, and real-world examples of how design approaches are being used to improve societal outcomes across the globe. It introduces new avenues for pursuing design-based policies and is an essential resource for anyone exploring social innovation and design processes as a tool for meaningful public sector reform. Christian Bason has successfully delivered a volume that captures the essence of design and social innovation in policy development and offers useful lessons for those faced with the challenge of serving in the twenty-first century.' Jocelyne Bourgon, President, Public Governance International 'Design for Policy is a valuable and fresh insight into policymaking. It underscores the urgent need to bring design to the very heart of modern public policy. Through highly pertinent and illuminating examples from a variety of fields, this book shows that it is possible to transform the policy making process and make it much more innovative. I hope that policymakers across Europe will read it, so that they can become policy designers - and we can shape together the future we aspire to.’ Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner, Research, Innovation & Science ’Can design improve the ways we address such 'super-wicked' challenges as climate change, energy precarity, or public health? It's a big ask, but this highly intelligent book makes a convincing case. Its succinct case studies show the ways that design has become a powerful tool for public administrations around the world. Design for Policy does not over-promise. Its clear and well-balanced texts illustrate the potential but also the limits of design when societal issues are massive, integrated and highly complex - all at the same time. Design, it emerges, is helping to drive transformation in the ways we govern. This important book marks a shift in models of public policymaking: from problem-solving, to envisioning; from service dTable of ContentsDesign for Policy

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Book SynopsisUsing case studies and first-person accounts from interviews and fieldwork in post-conflict settings, Peace, Preference, and Property suggests policies that would provide greater choice for displaced people in terms of property restitution and solutions to displacement.Trade ReviewSo far, few books have paid attention to the historical patterns of displacement, legal solutions, and IDP/refugee attitudes. Joireman successfully breaks the pattern of single-case studies in this area by providing an array of comparative empirical evidence and first-hand policy experience to demonstrate the misalignment of international law and preferences of victims of displacement. An excellent contribution to the field, re-orienting our understandings of durable solutions to displacement." —Neophytos Loizides, University of KentTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and acknowledgements Chapter 1: Forced Migration and its Troublesome Solutions Chapter 2: International Law on Return Chapter 3: Challenges to Return: Preferences of Displaced People Chapter 4: Children Displaced by Violence Chapter 5: Property and Return Chapter 6: Global Governance and the International Migration Regime Appendix Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book responds to an on-going perception of a 'crisis' in public accountability in modern-day governance caused by globalization and increased power of private economic interests. It provides the most comprehensive survey to-date of how different organizations hold persons acting in the public interest to account and the problems involved.Trade Review"Dowdle has amassed an all-star cast of established and ascendant scholars in the areas of public law and administrative law whose essays approach the topic from a variety of angles. Indeed, one could not imagine a better list of contributors for this topic. This makes reading the collection a pure treat offering something for every intellectual palette." - The Law and Politics Book Review Ariel Meyerstein, University of California-BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction: accountability and method: 1. Public accountability: conceptual, historical and epistemic mappings Michael W. Dowdle; Part I. Accountability and the State: 2. Accountability and responsibility through restorative justice John Braithwaite; 3. The myth of non-bureaucratic accountability and the anti-administrative impulse Edward Rubin; 4. Extending public accountability through privatization from public law to publicization Jody Freeman; Part II. Accountability and Design: 5. Accountability and institutional design: some thoughts on the grammar of governance Jerry L. Mashaw; 6. Emerging labor movements and the accountability dilemma: the case of Indonesia Michele Ford; 7. Spontaneous accountability Colin Scott; Part III. Accountability and Participation: 8. Accounting for accountability in neoliberal regulatory regimes Christine Harrington and Z. Umut Turem; 9. The mark of responsibility (with a postscript on accountability) John Gardner; 10. Technocratic vs. convivial accountability Bronwen Morgan; Part IV. Accountability and Experience: 11. Understanding NGO-based social and environmental regulatory systems: why we need new models of accountability Sasha Courville; 12. Problem-solving courts and the judicial accountability deficit Michael Dorf; 13. Public accountability in ailen terrain: exploring for constitutional accountability in the People's Republic of China Michael Dowdle.

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Book SynopsisAdministrative Leadership in the Public Sector is an ideal resource for any Public Administration course involving leadership and public management. Each of the book's nine main sections begins with introductory text by the volume's editors, Monty Van Wart and Lisa Dicke, followed by relevant readings. The volume includes some of the most important readings on public leadership published in the last eight decades. More than just an anthology, Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector provides a unique and useful framework for understanding the vast subject of leadership. Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1. Leadership and Its ContextJames W. Fesler 2. Public-Sector Leadership Theory: An AssessmentMontgomery Van Wart 3. Different Perspectives on the Practice of LeadershipMatthew R. Fairholm 4. Leaders and LeadershipJohn J. Corson Part 2: The Preliminary Assessments That Leaders Need to Make 5. Organizing Around the Head of a Large Federal DepartmentPaul H. Appleby 6. Total Quality Management: An Opportunity for High Performance in Federal OrganizationsRudolph B. Garrity 7. Reevaluating Methods of Establishing Priorities for Governmental ServicesMary M. Hale and Aimee L. Franklin Part 3: What Are the Proper Goals and Priorities of Administrative Leaders? 8. Administrative Responsibility in Democratic GovernmentHerman Finer 9. Reconciling Public Entrepreneurship and DemocracyCarl J. Bellone and George Frederick Goerl 10. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership?James M. Banovetz 11. Accountability and Entrepreneurial Public Management: The Case of the Orange County Investment FundKevin P. Kearns Part 4: What Are the Best Traits and Skills for Leaders in the Public Service? 12. Government Bureaucrats Are DifferentJames F. Guyot 13. A Technique to Capitalize on Human Intelligence in Organizations: Brain Skill ManagementWeston H. Agor 14. CreativityMarshall Dimock 15. Successful Leadership in Local Government Programs: Hillsborough County’s Productivity InitiativesHelen D. Levine 16. Notes on the Governmental Executive: His Role and His MethodsDonald C. Stone Part 5: What Are the Best Styles for Public-Sector Leaders to Use? 17. Changing Patterns in the Philosophy of ManagementCarl F. Stover 18. Administrative Leadership and Use of Social PowerSven Lundstedt 19. Leadership and Regional Councils: A Mismatch Between LeadershipStyles Today and Future RolesRobert W. Gage 20. Research and Interventions for Stress Reduction in a Hospital SettingSusan R. Raynis and Margaret A. Cleek Part 6: What Are the Best Techniques for Administrative Leaders to Use? 21. Gender Differences and Managerial CompetenciesDennis M. Daley and Katherine C. Naff 22. The Cost of Not Listening to Employees: The Case of a Union Movement at Bradford HospitalR. Wayne Boss, Leslee Boss, and James A. Johnson 23. Loose Cannons and Rule Breakers, or Enterprising Leaders?Some Evidence About Innovative Public ManagersSandford Borins 24. Mixed-Scanning: A “Third” Approach to Decision MakingAmitai Etzioni Part 7: How Do You Evaluate Leadership in the Public Sector? 25. Defining and Measuring Effectiveness in Public ManagementSteven A. Cohen 26. Executive Evaluation: Assessing Probability for Success in the JobLawrence S. Buck Part 8: How Do You Develop Leaders? 27. The Manager’s View of Management Education and TrainingJames K. Conant 28. Succession Management Strategies in Public Sector OrganizationsDahlia Bradshaw Lynn 29. Reflections on “Educating Executives”Raymond A. Katzell Part 9: Examples and Exemplars of Public-Sector Leadership 30. The Patriotism of Exit and Voice: The Case of Gloria FloraH. George Frederickson and Meredith Newman 31. Leaders and LeadershipJohn J. Corson 32. Branch Rickey as a Public Manager: Fulfilling the Eight Responsibilities of Public ManagementRobert D. Behn

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Book SynopsisDesigned to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in Public Administration, this innovative work provides students with an understanding of the basic management functions that are covered in all standard textbooks with two important differences.First, it is written to address the needs of both the experienced practitioner and the entry-level public servant. Case examples bridge the content-rich environment of practitioners with the basic principles of public administration sought by pre-service students.Second, the discussion of basic management practices is grounded in the political and ethical tensions inherent in the American constitutional form of governance. This reflects the author''s belief that public administration operates as an integral part of the country''s political traditions, and thereby helps define the political culture. The book provides a framework for understanding American political traditions and how they inform public administration as a political praTable of ContentsPart I. Public Organizations and Democratic Governance Part II. Designing and Managing Organizational Systems Part III. Financing and Budgeting for the Public’s Business Part IV. Strategic Management of Public Organizations

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Book SynopsisIntelligence is a human's ability to think and understand the environment for problem-solving. This Element deals with using interdisciplinary insights on intelligence and integrating it with knowledge in governance, administration, and management in public and non-profit sectors in the IntelliGov framework.

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