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Book SynopsisCarrie Manning’s illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed and reproduce an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating path-dependent outcomes that produce unintended consequences which are rarely traced back to state and local revenue models. This book combines historical American political development with the study of state formation. It provides a clear-eyed investigation into the past, present, and future of the social contract between America’s local governments and citizens.Table of Contents1. Taxes and the Social Contract 2. States, Taxes, and the Polities They Create 3. The US Tax State and the Limited Social Contract 4. Tax and Expenditure Limitations vs. an Expanding Social Contract 5. Implications of the Reliance on Fines and Fees 6. Taxing Democracy: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis volume analyses the impact of globalization on civil service systems across the Middle East and North Africa. A collaboration between practitioners and academic public policy experts, it presents an analytical model to assess how globalization influences civil servants, illustrated by case studies of countries where there have been increased engagement with international actors. It demonstrates how this increased interaction has altered the position of civil servants and traces the shifting patterns of power and accountability between civil servants, politicians and other actors. It is an original and important addition to the debate about globalization’s role in transnational public administration and governance.Trade Review"The authors have really done a splendid job of carefully outlining a gap in knowledge and a gap in approach and are consistently writing within the conceptual arena they created. That is a reason why this book makes for an excellent and exemplary reading for doctoral students interested in researching international organizations." PARTable of ContentsPart 1: Analytical Framework and Regional Context 1. Globalization and the Changing Role of Civil Servants: Towards an Analytical Framework 2. Chapter 2: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Globalization Part 2: Civil Servants’ Response to Globalization 3. Drilling down on Globalization: Performance Indicators and Rankings as Features of Multi-Level Governance 4. Deepening Engagement with International Development Institutions: Impact on Civil Servants 5. Trickling Down: Impact of the Global Movement on Open Government Part 3: Conclusion: Growing Impact despite Resilient Filters 6. Globalization and Civil Servants: A Response Typology

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Book SynopsisBillions of American tax dollars go into a vast array of programs targeting various social issues: the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, chronic unemployment, and so on. Yet the problems persist and even grow. Howard Husock argues that we have lost sight of a more powerful strategy—a preventive strategy, based on positive social norms. In the past, individuals and institutions of civil society actively promoted what may be called “bourgeois norms,” to nurture healthy habits so that social problems wouldn’t emerge in the first place. It was a formative effort. Today, a massive social service state instead takes a reformative approach to problems that have already become vexing. It offers counseling along with material support, but struggling communities have been more harmed than helped by government’s embrace. And social service agencies have a vested interest in the continuance of problems. Government can provide a financial safety net for citizens, but it cannot effectively create or promote healthy norms. Nor should it try. That formative work is best done by civil society. This book focuses on six key figures in the history of social welfare to illuminate how a norm-promoting culture was built, then lost, and how it can be revived. We read about Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children’s Aid Society; Jane Addams, founder of Hull House; Mary Richmond, a social work pioneer; Grace Abbott of the federal Children’s Bureau; Wilbur Cohen of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone—a model for bringing real benefit to a poor community through positive social norms. We need more like it.

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Book SynopsisColonialism led to the importation, or better still imposition, of European administrative systems on the indigenous people of Africa. France specialized in this, practicing direct rule and an assimilation policy in their colonies up to the time of independence. In Cameroon, French administrative law (“droit adminstratif”) became part of the national legal system.In this highly original new book, Cameroonian legal scholar Moye Godwin Bongyu explores the intersection of public administration and the state, colonization and administrative systems, public and private laws, rule of law, and comparative administrative law. He then addresses laws relating to administrative organization in Cameroon. Part Three of the book deals with laws governing administrative resources. Part Four describes practical administrative action and the civil procedure. Part Five focuses on the control to administrative action, examining the submission of the administration to specific law, as well as the history, rules, and procedures of administrative justice in Cameroon.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the intersections of welfare, gender and mothering work in the context this political reality. It explores austerity and the policies of neoliberal governments that work to deprive some mothers of their welfare. This volume also explores how motherhood is socially constructed in various social locations and places around the world. Last, it examines different ways of thinking about mothering and what changes to laws and policies are required to assist all who are mothering and provide better support to their families.

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Book SynopsisThis volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership is far from over. The long term implications of these crises for governance, political and civic institutions are hard to be precise about. However, we can observe how across a number of nation states and supra national relationships (from the European Union to the IMF) are institutions and those who lead, manage or hold them to account in crisis too. The broad group of scholars and academics examine key conceptual and theoretical ideas in contemporary international public management and explore: What are the implications of these developments for city managers and local political leaders (from elected mayors to NGO leaders and activists) ? Is coalition and consensus building possible in a time of uncertainty and change? And, finally, what are the implications for those who seek to manage or administer public services in this time of crisis?Table of ContentsThe public policy context: International trends. ‘Who’s responsible for the state we’re in?’ Government and public sector: Accountability and responsibility in an era of crisis and austerity. Local government in england: Fault lines in ethical governance?. Rethinking urban regeneration? Insights into the future through use of the strategic-relational approach. The retreat of the state: The challenges faced by regeneration managers in a climate of austerity. Civil society and social movements: Consensus or crisis?. The State of higher education and training in Egypt post the Arab Spring. Resist, Refuse, Occupy. Civil Society, the left and community organising: Towards a progressive politics. Review and reflection. ‘The way we do things around here’: Personal and epistemological reflections of the influence of inter-disciplinary identity on effective knowledge leadership for tackling inequalities. Introduction: From austerity to acceptance?. Conclusion: Policy and practice implications. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Looking for consensus?: Civil society, social movements and crises for public management. Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management. Looking for consensus?: Civil society, social movements and crises for public management. Copyright page. Editorial Advisory Board.

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Book SynopsisThe customer problem in the public sector appears when too many processes are in place and staff volumes are too large to adapt to sudden change. As situations evolve and solutions are required, public managers are faced with an overload of information for decision-making, as normal day-to-day policy is overlooked to accommodate management by crisis. Generally, emergency situations call for effective steps to be taken, constrained by short time frames and a dispersed public workforce. Managing teams require structure in their response to an evolving crises, which is generally a difficult position to attain when information and resources are limited. Protocol and response plans are only activated in extreme crises, leaving a gap in response when overload has been reached but is not within the stipulated margins. Recognition at this stage is important if successful outcomes are to be achieved. This book proposes an 8-point model, which it labels the DALI Model, for responding to these situations, to simplify and synthesize decision-making processes.Trade ReviewThis book details an approach to dealing with crisis situations and rapid change in the public sector using an eight-point model, the DALI model, to help public sector organizations efficiently use resources while managing change. Based on a qualitative research study, the model examines internal staff processes to produce a shift and includes the customer perspective. It focuses on connection, capacity, governance, standards, networks, policy, training, and process improvement and discusses theoretical models of public sector responses to radical change; case studies of decision-making in response to rapid change, namely Malta's response to the Libya crisis, fire and rescue restructuring in Scotland, and an emergency department overload in Malta, and application of the model to them; and the role of timing, reform, productivity, and preparedness. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsFigures and tables Abbreviations 1. Introduction – Setting a Standard for Service 2. Public Sector Responses to Radical Change: An Analysis of Theoretical Models 3. Public Sector Cases: Decision-Making and Response 4. The Results 5. Conclusions and Reflections Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCharged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, in their pursuit of more control, how do the police manage crowds, provoke violence and even break the law?Since the 1980s under successive governments the police have been allowed to suppress protests, using aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. The landscape of how police deal with protest changed following criticism of the police during the 1981 Brixton riots. New military-style tactics were sanctioned by the Thatcher government, in secret. Over the next forty years those protesting against racism, unfair job losses, draconian laws, or for environmental protection were subject to brutal tactics. In the aftermath, media attention denigrates protesters while the police are praised and continue to act with impunity.Looking through these moments of conflict widens our understanding of policing public order to reveal the true character of the state. Since the 1980s successive governments, from Thatcher to Johnson, covertly plot to suppress protests, using standardised aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti poll tax campaigners, student protestors and Black Lives Matter. The voices of protesters however have been undeterred.Trade ReviewBrilliantly readable, it carries you with it every step of the way. One forgets how frightening authority is and the detail on police behaviour is dreadfully shocking and distressing. It never assumes what you might believe or what you might already know and at the end leaves the reader in no doubt as to what has happened in this country. -- Emma Thompson, actor and activistMatt Foot and Morag Livingstone have carefully documented the organised violence and secret police tactics used to attack trade unionists and others who have exercised their right to protest in Britain since the early 1980s. They uncover the way that successive Home secretaries and chief police officers have covertly worked together, deploying and legalising draconian tactics to defend vested interests from active legitimate dissent. If you want to know the dark history that has led us to the current police bill and to understand how the powers it contains would be used, I recommend that you read this book. -- Sharon Graham, Unite the union general secretaryMeticulously details violent state suppression in the protection of capital; backed by a propaganda machine. Exposed is the unofficial but permanent government with sharp attention to every detail. This is a story of how justice has been repeatedly stolen in this ruthless war against the right to protest. Read every word because you are holding history in your hands. Our history -- LowkeyFoot and Livingstone have done a magnificent job of intertwining analysis of the legal system with history, showing us how the thing we call 'the law' morphs with what those in charge of the justice system want it to do. This is a great piece of bottom-up history because the authors write in sympathy and solidarity about what it's been like in recent times to be a protestor on the receiving end of these changes -- Michael RosenFoot and Livingstone show without a shadow of doubt that the suppression of protest over the past 40 years is essentially a strategic choice made by the elite in the neoliberal era. -- Adrian Weir * Morning Star *When you read Charged, you will see ours is one of many struggles, past and present. -- Chris Peace * Tribune *An important study of how history influences the present. -- Kirsty Brimelow QC * The Times *Timely and important. -- Chris Nineham * Counterfire *Table of ContentsForeword: Michael Mansfield QC Introduction: Secrets and LiesPART 1: Maggie Thatcher's Bootboys 1. The Guinea Pig: The Messenger Printers, Warrington 1983 2. Maggie's UK War: The Miners, Orgreave 19843. Boot Boys in the Beanfield: Battle of Stonehenge 19854. Murdoch's Paper Boys: Wapping 1987 5. The Tinderbox: Anti-Poll Tax Protest 1990 PART 2: Major - Back to Basics6. The Trap: Welling Anti-Racist Protest 1993 7. Succession of Repetitive Beats: Battle of Park Lane Criminal Justice Act 1994 PART 3: New Labour - Tough on Crime 8. The Commissioner's Kettle: May Day Protest 20019. Barriers to protest: G8 Summit Gleneagles 2005 10. The MP's Kettle: G20 Protest 2009PART 4: Austerity Justice 11. Charged: Student Fee Protest 2010 12. State of PlayAcknowledgementsEndnotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHighly Commended for the W.G. Hoskins Prize in the Devon History Society Book of the Year awards. This book is one of the first to study the regional role of women in public and professional life, breaking new ground in early twentieth-century local and gender history. Covering politics (Eleanor Acland and Clara Daymond), medicine and education (Dr Mabel Ramsay and Jessie Headridge), and a variety of voluntary organizations (Florence Cecil, Georgiana Buller, Jane Clinton and Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn), it shows how women worked individually and in collaboration to create new opportunities for women and girls in a large, mainly rural, county far from London and the industrial heartlands of England. These biographical studies are based on original research and reveal the huge public contribution made by these eight women, who up to now have been largely hidden from history. Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900–1950 is a contribution to the history of women in Britain between the wars, a period that has received less attention than the Edwardian era and the two World Wars. It also fills a major gap in the history of Devon women, on which almost nothing has been published, and on Devon in the inter-war period, similarly neglected by historians. It will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of gender history and the history of modern Britain, as well as everyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Devon. Trade Review... an important advance in the recognition of the role of women in political and professional life -- Helen Wilson, Devonshire Association NewsLook no further for a book that demonstrates the importance of local and regional studies in understanding crucial historical themes and issues; or, indeed, one that is so successfully multi-authored. -- Jane Howells, The Local HistorianThe individual women come alive as we hear about their social backgrounds, personal feelings, and motivations as well as their public achievements...Devon Women is an important text that adds to our understanding of the many spheres in which women could make a difference as active citizens in the period after the vote was won. -- June Hannam, Women's History ReviewScholarly, yet eminently accessible (both in terms of style and method of production, it being available on Open Access), this study is an excellent addition to what I hope will yet prove to be a growing corpus of local studies highlighting the individual and collaborative work undertaken by women who were intent on improving the lot of their communities, while engaging so many others in active citizenship. -- Elizabeth Crawford, The Devon Historian...this volume reminds us of the diversity of women's activism, then as now, and reveals the vibrancy of the contemporary women's movement. It is particularly commendable that it should do so through a local study of a largely rural county, far from the capital. -- Anna Muggeridge, Twentieth Century British HistoryThis is a well-written and impressively researched series of essays. -- Mark Egan, Journal of Liberal HistoryThe authors have ably achieved what they set out to do, and the reader's understanding of women's participation in public life is the richer for having read this book. -- Janet Few, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Introduction – Paul Auchterlonie Chapter 1 Eleanor Margaret Acland (1878–1933) – Mitzi and Paul Auchterlonie Chapter 2 Clara Henrietta Daymond (1873–1957) – Julia Neville Chapter 3 Mabel Lieda Ramsay (1878–1954) – Ann Roberts Chapter 4 Jessie Headridge (1871–1946) – Julia Neville Chapter 5 Florence Gascoyne-Cecil (1863–1944) – Julia Neville and Helen Turnbull Chapter 6 Georgiana Buller (1884–1953) – Julia Neville Chapter 7 Jane Grey Clinton (1863–1953) – Julia Neville and Helen Turnbull Chapter 8 Mary Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn (1881–1962) – Julia Neville Conclusion Appendix: Voluntary Organizations in Devon Supported by the Subjects of these Biographies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGrand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary.Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America's most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a century of Colorado River water development demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came out of these controversies, and debunks the myth that the Sierra Club saved Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon's savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law.The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963-68 into the broader the context of Colorado River water development and debunks 50 years of Colorado River water development and Grand Canyon history.Trade ReviewThis book is a very important corrective to the literature on the history of the Grand Canyon and for twentieth-century U.S. environmental history that for so long now has not told the complete story (and truth) on exactly how dams were kept out of the greater Grand Canyon area. Along the way, he [Pearson] tells a compelling story on so many levels of this controversy." - Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History at the University of Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma"A fresh, bold new case for who should get the credit for preserving the Grand Canyon." - Bob Wyss, Professor of Journalism, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents Preface: Centennial Reflections Introduction Chapter 1: "Something to be Skinned" Chapter 2: New Lines in the Sand Chapter 3: Dinosaurs and Rainbows Chapter 4: A Time for Water Statesmanship Chapter 5: A "Fjord-like Setting" Chapter 6: "A Little Closer to God" Chapter 7: "Permanent Massive Things" Chapter 8: Be Careful What You Wish For . . . Chapter 9: Alternative Realities Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how professional and organisational cultures influence global public-private partnerships, which form a key element of global governance. Using case studies, the partnerships of three international government organisations – the International Telecommunication Union, Interpol and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – illustrate how partnerships are formed and operate in accordance with the accepted cultural beliefs and values associated with both profession and organisation. In brief, engineers create partnerships they are comfortable with, which are different in form and operation to those of police, which also differ from those of the conservator. This book will appeal to scholars of international relations, global governance, organisational studies and public administration. It also conveys lessons for professionals at the international level in international government organisations, business and civil society who engage in, or want to engage in global public-private partnerships.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbstractTable of ContentsList of Tables, Figures & Boxes1. Across the Public-Private Divide in the International Sphere2. Global Public-Private Partnerships: Theoretical Perspectives3. Introducing the case study organizations4. Cultures5. Leaders6. Ideology, Ideas and Implementation7. Resources and Private Interests8. Perspectives on Global Issues9. Conclusion – Comparing Cultural InfluencesReferencesAppendices

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Book SynopsisIn the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national statistics offices and various research centers present modern econometric methods for an efficient data-driven policy evaluation and monitoring, assess the causal effects of policy measures and report on best practices of successful data management and usage. Topics include data confidentiality, data linkage, and national practices in policy areas such as public health, education and employment. It offers scholars as well as practitioners from public administrations, consultancy firms and nongovernmental organizations insights into counterfactual impact evaluation methods and the potential of data-based policy and program evaluation. Trade Review“This book, edited by Nuno Crato and Paolo Paruolo, provides a thorough analysis of evaluation studies and is a valuable contribution for a reader seeking to gain an understanding of the literature on microdata issues and the use of the results related to policy evaluation. … the book could be very useful to scholars interested in regional development and regional policy effectiveness given the topics and the discussions included.” (Roberto Gabriele, Regional Studies, Vol. 53 (6), 2019)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Microdata for Policy Research.- Part II: Microdata Access.- Part III: Counterfactual Studies.- Part IV: Use of Results.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement’s ideas about participatory democracy. It makes particular reference to two key periods: the 1980s ‘people’s power’ movement and the subsequent years of policy formulation from 1990 when the ANC began to design and implement a system of participatory democracy alongside a representative government. Through the examination of historic documents and in-depth interviews with former ANC activists, government officials and those involved in policy development, the author explores the inspiration for the party’s commitment to establishing participatory democracy. The book combines democratic theory and political and intellectual history to look at the role of popular participation as part of a broader trajectory of the ANC’s democratic thought. It critically engages with concepts used in the party’s participatory discourse with a view to deepening our understanding of how ideas have shaped the construction of South Africa’s democracy.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Battle of Ideas1.1. The Intertwining of Movement and Democracy1.2. South Africa’s Landscape of Participatory Traditions1.3. Approaching the Study of Ideas1.4. The Role of Theory in Shaping Democracy1.5. Currents of Participation and their Intellectual Origins1.6. The ANC’s Theory of Participatory Democracy2. Participation in the History of ANC Democratic Thought2.1. From Conservative Liberalism to African Nationalism2.2. Participation through Mass Movement Politics 2.3. Revolutionary Theory and the Popular Role2.4. Conclusion3. Discourses of ‘People’s Power’3.1. The Context for a Popular Movement3.2. Themes and Ideas in the Conception of ‘People’s Power’3.3. Ideologues and Influences 3.4. Implications for Participatory Democracy 3.5. Conclusion4. The People Shall Govern: The Codification of Ideas4.1 Participation and Constitutionalism4.2. Participation and the Local4.3. Conclusion5. Post-1994 Policy and Movement Discourse5.1. Participatory Policy in New Local Government5.2 Participation in Movement Discourse5.3. Conceptual Tensions and Parallels5.4 Conclusion6. Conclusion: The Power of Ideas6.1. Vanguardism and Democracy

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the efforts of the European Union, both past and ongoing, to harness the socio-economic potential of the internet in public policy-making. In order to achieve this, the author delves into the interactions between actors in the process of EU decision-making, using an outlook which focuses on how both multi-level and experimentalist governance can provide solutions for digital policy governance. The book also addresses the involvement of local and regional authorities in digital policy-making, both in how they endorse decisions made at the EU level, and in how they contribute directly to digital policy-making in their own localities.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Theoretical FrameworkChapter 2. Digital Policies: Past and PresentChapter 3. The Governance of Digital PoliciesConclusionIndex

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Book Synopsis“A truly expansive and valuable book that challenges the assumptions and constraints of current leadership thinking... Its focus on integrating theory and practice is particularly helpful in linking its key ideas to current public sector management concerns.”—Gareth Morgan, Author of Images of Organization“While other authors have offered general principles of systemic leadership or given readers single approaches, Hobbs is much more ambitious: she brings together diverse, well-tested theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to provide today's leaders with a multifaceted resource that can aid them in thinking systemically. In this respect, her book is a significant advance on previous offerings, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to leaders, aspiring leaders and leadership academics around the world.”—Gerald Midgley, University of Hull, UK“This is an impressive and innovative work that draws together the disparate strands of complexity theory, systems thinking and operational research to build an adaptive social learning approach for local governance, helping to shift it from a service-led to systemic-deliberative model. This is essential reading for local government actors, students of local policy and for the public policy generalist.”—Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UKAddressing matters of complexity systemically rather than mechanistically is now an ethical and practical paradigm-changing challenge for public policy. This optimistic book explores how action could be led in a joined-up way, signposting resources to thinking differently. Attention is paid to leading the design of adaptive social learning around what matters, re-connecting with public purpose to enable tailoring towards contemporary needs and constraints. Relevant to postgraduates, academics, local government managers, curious practitioners and the wider public, private and third sectors where there is interest in interpreting leadership via the cognitive capabilities of Systems Science.Table of Contents1 Introduction: local government reform and a journey to the empty quarter2 Thinking differently matters 3 Assumptions matter 4 The wider context matters 5 People matter 6 Systemic effectiveness matters 7 An Adaptive Learning Pathway for Systemic Leadership 8 With or without? 9 Conclusion: systemic leadership as design for adaptive social learningIndex

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Book SynopsisFederal models of government have shaped history and demonstrated how diverse people can live together and govern together in relative harmony. The Forum of Federations Handbook of Federal Countries 2020 builds on the previous 2005 edition and offers a much-needed update to this signature resource in comparative federalism. Outlining every federal country in the world, each chapter provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of the history of federalism in its specific country, the constitutional nature of federalism, and recent historical dynamics. As new countries have joined the Federal ranks, this handbook brings readers up to speed offering an authoritative look at both the older federal countries as well as new federal countries like Nepal. The Forum of Federations Handbook of Federal Countries 2020 is an essential resource for academics, researchers, university students, libraries, history and governance teachers, politicians and civil servants, and casual observers of federalism.Table of Contents1. ​Introduction (Rupak Chattopadhyay). 2. Argentina (Argentine Republic): Balancing centralization with federalism (Patricia Farah, Moritz Pepel & Ann Griffiths).3. Australia (Commonwealth of Australia): Using innovation if a dual federation (Cheryl Saunders).4. Austria (Federal Republic of Austria): Balancing distributed federalism with centralization (Peter Bußjäger with Christoph Schramek).5. Belgium (Kingdom of Belguim): Federalism in two languages (Andres Lecours).6. Bosnia and Herzegovina (The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina): A country for two constituent units and three peoples (Dejan Vanjek). 7. Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil): Federalism after centralization and new constitutions (Celina Souza).8. Canada: Two languages, 10 provinces and Indigenous Peoples (David R. Cameron)9. Comoros (Union of the Comoros): Three islands with three languages and a federal system (Ann Griffiths). 10. Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus): Seeking a federal solution for Greek and Turkish Cypriots (Neophytos Loizides). 11. Ethiopia (Federal Deomocratic Republic of Ethiopa): Regional states for democracy and rights for ethnicities (Asnake Kefale).12. European Union: Evolving from a free trade area to a federation (Annegret Eppler).13. Germany (Federal Republic of Germany): A federal system for unity, justice and freedom (Klaus Detterbeck).14. India (Republic of India): Sharing power with state and local governments (Rekha Saxena).15. Malaysia (The Federation of Malaysia): A centralized federation with challenged from the states (Francis Kok Wah Loh).16. Mexico (Mexican United States): Centralization, innovation with resistance from the states (Daniel A. Barcelo Rojas). 17. Micronesia (Rederated States of Micronesia): Uniting a federation of 10 olanguages and 607 islands (Anna Dziedzic).18. Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal):From a centralized monarchy to a federal democratic republic (Surya Dhungel and Phillip Gonzalez). 19. Nigeria (Federal Republic of Nigeria): Reforming state and local governments, resisting restructuring (Olakunle Adeniran).20. Pakistan (Islamic Republic of Pakistan): Governing a federation when one province has 57% of the population (Kaiser Bengali). 21. Russia (Russian Federation): Autonomy for a very few constituent units (Andrey Starodubtsev).22. St. Kitts and Nevis (Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis): A federation with rules for succession (Ann L. Griffiths). 23. South Africa (Republic of South Africa): Reform, reduce and strengthen the provinces--or not? (Vinothan Naido).24. Spain (Kingdom of Spain): A union of autonomous communities (Jose Tudela, Mario Kölling).25. Switzerland (Swiss Confederation): Governing with 26 cantons, 4 languages and frequent referendums (Sean Mueller, Adrian Vatter).26. United Arab Emirates: Centralization and prosperity before democracy (Julie M. Simmons). 27. United States of America: Polarization between Democratic and Republican states (John Kincaid). 28. Federal Constitution-Making Processes and the Stable Cessation of Conflict (Jason Gluck, Sumit Bisarya). An Essay on Federalism by Sumit Bisarya and Jason Gluk

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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times. It builds upon the scholarly tradition of institutional scholarship pioneered by Philip Selznick, and highlights common themes in the stories of these highly diverse organizations; demonstrating how leadership, learning, and luck all play a role in becoming and remaining an institution. This case study format makes this volume ideal for classroom use and practitioners alike. In an era where public institutions are increasingly under threat, this volume offers concrete lessons for contemporary organisation leaders.Table of Contents1. Guardians of Public Value: How public organizations become and remain institutions (Arjen Boin, Lauren Fahy and Paul 't Hart)2. The Election Commission of India: Guardian of democracy (Amit Ahuja and Susan L. Ostermann)3. Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau: Guardian of public integrity (Zeger van der Wal)4. The BBC: Guardian of public understanding (Jean Seaton)5. Sweden's Riksbank: Guardian of monetary integrity (Johannes Lindvall)6. The European Court of Justice: Guardian of European integration (Arjen Boin and Susanne K. Schmidt)7. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: Guardian of symphonic music (Bert Koopman)8. The World Anti-Doping Agency: Guardian of elite sport's credibility (Maarten van Bottenburg, Arnout Geeraert, and Olivier de Hon)9. CERN: Guardian of the human aspiration to understand the universe (Jos Engelen and Paul 't Hart)10. Rijkswaterstaat: Guardian of the Dutch delta (Margo van den Brink)11. Médecins Sans Frontières: Guardian of humanitarian values (Liesbet Heyse and Valeska Korff)12. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Guardian of climate science (Eric Paglia and Charles F. Parker)13. The ACCC: Guardian of viable markets and consumer rights (Amanda Smullen and Catherine Clutton)

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses local area planning in the Lombardy region of Italy. The book provides valuable insights about the development of local welfare systems and the territorial organization of social services through the analysis of the evolution of the Local Area Plan, which lies at the intersection of sub regional governance and of social services delivery models. Using Lombardy as a case study, this brief analyzes the structural conditions influencing the establishment of Local Area Plans, their effect on inter-municipal cooperation, and the need for possible reforms. The book is organized as follows: the first chapter presents a reconstruction of the national and regional framework, analyzing the structure of ties and opportunities within which Local Area Plans are called to act. The second chapter provides a review of the extant literature on Local Area Plans and introduces the theoretical framework used by the volume. The third chapter details legislation introduced in Lombardy to reform the governance structure of Local Area Plans by supporting a process of reorganization and aggregation. The fourth chapter presents some cases of Local Area Plan aggregation. The final chapter presents the conclusion and some brief considerations about the future of social planning. Providing an empirical analysis of local service delivery, this book will be useful to scholars and practitioners interested in public administration, welfare, local government, non-profit and public organizations, and management.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The structuration of the Italian welfare system: from fragmentation to innovation.- Chapter 3: A (possible) answer to fragmentation in social assistance policy. The Local Area Plan.- Chapter 4: Redesigning territorialisation to improve planning and management capabilities in social assistance. Change or business as usual.- Chapter 5: The difficult path towards change.- Chapter 6: The road towards the new planning phase (2021-2023). Challenges and opportunities.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides insights on regulatory effectiveness in the field of food safety, by focusing on the variety of institutional factors affecting regulatory outcomes. Drawing upon the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, it investigates differences in effectiveness of food safety regulation and explains them by differences in domestic governance designs, by applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The empirical focus of the book is the food safety governance designs of 15 EU Member States, which are investigated through the collection of an original dataset inclusive of measures of independence and accountability of the domestic food safety agencies, of policy capacity and of food safety delivered. The results show the prominent role of the institutional dimension of policy capacity in producing regulatory effectiveness, in conjunction with an integrated model of distribution of the regulatory tasks. As to ineffective governance, the conjunction of low independence or low accountability with low institutional capacity produce ineffective responses. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular residents as well as local service providers, the book sheds new light on the intricate mechanisms that either help or hinder the diffusion of immigration control into concrete institutional settings, like schools or hospitals. A simple and innovative analytical framework enables the systematic comparison of three different spheres of service provision across two distinct local as well as also national contexts. This is necessary to understand the complex interplay between formal law and policy, the intrinsic rules and logics operating within institutions, and the ethical or practical obligations and constraints attached to particular roles and professions. Based on empirical findings and rigorous analysis, the book argues that internalised control is part of the problem that irregular migration poses for society, rather than constituting a potential solution to it.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The ‘Management’ of Migration – And of the Resulting Irregularities.- Chapter 3. Research Design, Cases and Methodology.- Chapter 4. Migrant Irregularity in Britain and Spain, London and Barcelona.- Chapter 5. Managing Irregularity Through the Provision of Public Healthcare.- Chapter 6. Managing Irregularity Through the Provision of Public Education.- Chapter 7. Managing Irregularity Through the Provision of Social Assistance.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis'This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It provides an overview of the main elements of urban form—streets, street blocks, plots and buildings—structuring our cities and the fundamental agents and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to explain the functioning of contemporary cities. After the initial focus on the 'object' (cities), the book introduces how different schools of thought have been dealing with this object since the emergence of Urban Morphology, as the science of urban form, in the turning to the twentieth century. Finally, the book identifies the main contributions of urban morphology to cities, societies and economies. This second edition of the book offers updated and more accurate knowledge on several morphological issues, presents expanded contents, and it has a more explicit didactic nature, including a set of exercises in the end of each chapter, that will help teachers and students (in architecture, geography, planning, history, sociology and urban studies) in acquiring and consolidating their urban morphological knowledge.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The elements of urban form.- The agents and processes of urban transformation.- Cities in history.- Contemporary cities.- The study of urban form: Different approaches.- From theory to practice.- Relationships with other fields of knowledge.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public sector decision-makers, it demonstrates and compares the development and use of various deterministic and probabilistic optimization and simulation modeling methods for analyzing planning and management issues. These modeling tools offer a means of identifying and evaluating alternative plans and policies based on their physical, economic, environmental, and social impacts. Learning how to develop and use the mathematical modeling tools introduced in this book will give students useful skills when in positions of having to make informed public policy recommendations or decisions.Table of Contents1. Analyzing Public Policy Decisions.- 2. Public Sector Systems.- 3. Creating Models.- 4. Modeling Examples and Solutions.- 5. Models for Managing Money.- 6. Solving Models Using Excel.- 7. Discrete Optimization Modeling.- 8. Linear Optimization Modeling.- 9. Some Linearization Methods.- 10. Solving Models Using Calculus.- 11. Lagrangian Models.- 12. Dealing with Uncertainty.- 13. Modeling Stochastic Processes.- 14. Chance Constrained and Monte Carlo Modeling.- 15. Simulation Modeling.- 16. Multi Criteria Analyses.- 17. Fuzzy Optimization.- 18. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about policy efforts to achieve ‘Health in All Policies’: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as implementing impact assessments. In contrast, and focusing on the European Union, this book argues that ‘Health in All Policies’ is essentially a political project shaped by institutional power, competing ideas, and discourses. We can only really understand the failure to realise its ambition through political analysis. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What is 'Health in All Policies'?.- Chapter 3: Where is ‘health’ in EU governance?.- Chapter 4: How can we research ‘Health in All Policies’ in the EU?.- Chapter 5: Setting the scene: Are EU institutions ‘HiAP-friendly’?.- Chapter 6: Going deeper: Is it about more than institutions?.- Chapter 7: Shifting focus: Why did ‘Health in All Policies’ still reach the EU?.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored in public health scholarship. Bringing together academics and researchers working at the intersection of both, the book demonstrates how integrating these fields can help reconcile the roles of politics and scientific evidence in policymaking. It also highlights the key conceptual, methodological and substantive implications for bridging this divide, and charts a path forward for a movement towards political science with public health. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in public health, political science, public policy, and the role of scientific evidence in policymaking.Table of ContentsPart I. Conceptual Introduction. - Chapter 1. Public health political science: The view from public health Anita Kothari. - Chapter 2. Public health political science: The view from political science Scott Greer. - Chapter 3. Political science for, of, and with public health Patrick Fafard, Isaac Weldon and Adèle Cassola. - Part II. Democratising Evidence and Institutionalizing Expertise. - Chapter 4. Mechanisms to bridge the gap between science and politics in evidence-informed policymaking Adèle Cassola, Patrick Fafard and Steven J. Hoffman. - Chapter 5. How policy appetites shape, and are shaped by evidence production and use Kathryn Oliver. - Chapter 6. Democratizing efforts to 'bridge' public health research and policy Kat Smith. - Part III. Reconciling Evidence and Politics in National and Local Policymaking. - Chapter 7. How corporate actors shape and mobilise evidence for policy: The case of e-cigarettes policy in the UK Benjamin R. Hawkins & Kathryn Oliver. - Chapter 8. The politics of pandemics Katherine Fierlbeck, Kevin McNamara, and Maureen MacDonald. - Chapter 9. Council collects the evidence garbage and deposits it into policy landfill Evelyne de Leeuw. - Chapter 10. Sidestepping the stalemate: The strategies of public health actors for circulating evidence into the policy process Carole Clavier, France Gagnon and Blake Poland. - Chapter 11. The politics of evidence-based ‘Health in All Policies’ Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny and Heather Mitchell. - Chapter 12. Developing a policy framework to reduce social inequities in health: (Moving beyond HiAP) Ditte Heering Holt & Katherine Frohlich. - Conclusion. Integrating science and politics for public health Patrick Fafard, Evelyne de Leeuw and Adèle Cassola

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Book SynopsisThe book discusses smart governments and innovation in the public sector. In hopes of arriving at a clear definition of innovation in the field of public administration, the volume provides a wide survey of global policies and practices, especially those aimed at reducing bureaucracy and using information-communication technologies in public service delivery. Chapters look at current applications across countries and multiple levels of government, from public innovation labs in the UK to AI in South Korea. Providing concrete examples of innovation culture at work in public institutions, this volume will be of use to researchers and students studying new public management, public service delivery, and innovation as well as practitioners and professionals working in various public agencies.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Innovation and Government.- Chapter 2: Innovation Practices.- Chapter 3: Smart Cities.- Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 5: From Smart State to Smart Citizen.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.- References.- Appendix.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a conceptual and methodological approach for researchers evaluating governance and policy in the face of complexity, and demonstrates the application of this approach across different governance and policy contexts. It fills a significant gap in the literature on governance, and proposes a theoretical focus on coordination to enable the assessment of multi-tier, cross-sector governance institutions and policy. It also introduces a range of applications for the proposed approach, including two case studies of governance and policy for the built environment and health services. The book introduces, analyses and draws from a range of perspectives in political economy, political science, policy analysis and evaluation. It also engages with longstanding debates in political economy about states and markets, which are largely overlooked by political science analyses of coordination challenges in governance. The book will appeal to scholars and students of governance, public policy and political science.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Governance, markets and institutional analysis. - Chapter 3. The challenge of coordination. - Chapter 4. Policy goals and knowledge. - Chapter 5. Coordination beyond the market. - Chapter 6. Scales of governance. - Chapter 7. Evaluating coordinative effectiveness. - Chapter 8. Case studies and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides an authoritative overview of public administration, public management and public governance in Japan. Written by a team of expert scholars, it will appeal to international researchers and practitioners interested in Japan, as well as public administration and public management more broadly.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany. The case studies presented examine different digital projects by looking at their impact as well as their alignment with their national governments’ digital strategies. The contributors assess the current state of digital government, analyze the contribution of digital technologies in achieving outcomes for citizens, discuss ways to measure digitalization and address the question of how governments oversee the legal and regulatory obligations of information technology. The book argues that most countries formulate good strategies for digital government, but do not effectively prescribe and implement corresponding policies and programs. Showing specific programs that deliver results can help policy makers, knowledge specialists and public-sector researchers to develop best practices for future national strategies.Trade Review“The book provide a useful resource for government policy makers and public sector researchers to develop best practices for evolving national strategies. … The book may also be useful for graduate students pursuing a course on e-governance in their public policy or public sector management programs; it provides a concise reference resource for taking up further research.” (C.S. Arora, Computing Reviews, April, 2018)​Table of ContentsTheory and Foundations of Digital Government: The Promise of Digital Government.- Measuring Digital Government: How to Assess and Compare Digitalisation in Public Sector Organisations.- Technology for Good: Innovative Uses of Emerging Technologies to Address Social Challenges.- Regulation of Digital Government.- Country Studies: Mexico: Single Window for Foreign Trade.- USA: Broadband Access and Adoption in New York State.- Brazil: Transparency Portal of the Federal Government.- India: Unique Identification Authority.- Germany: The Path to Open Data Leadership.

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Book SynopsisThis open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable.To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some important problems. These problems essentially relate to one point: while there are a large number of contributions dealing with the measurement of differences between welfare states per se and as a dependent variable, there is a lack of feasible recommendations for a standardised operationalisation of welfare stateness as an independent variable.So far, there has been no systematic investigation of how such different approaches may affect the results and their comparability. Also missing is an in-depth conceptual discussion of which features of the welfare state are particularly relevant for explaining certain effects.This book fills both gaps. First, it exposes the pitfalls of existing approaches and shows how much empirical results can vary depending on the operationalisation chosen. Second, it proposes a framework for a standardised conceptualisation and operationalisation of social policies as independent variables that constrains operational decisions in a theoretically meaningful way.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Premises: perspectives on the welfare state.- The welfare state as an independent variable: debates, pitfalls, potentials.- Literature review: mechanisms and hypotheses.- Welfare stateness as an explanatory concept.- Welfare stateness as an explanatory variable: empirical illustration.- Towards solving the independent variable problem.- Reference.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Dare for More Citizen Participation!.- Contested Future.- Participation a Panacea for Police Work?.- What is Citizen Participation?.- Current Developments: Citizen Forums, Online Surveys, Local and Neighborhood Security Walks, and Cooperative Security Partnerships.- Foundations for Participation Processes How Does the Police Achieve Them?.- Action Approaches for Police Participation Practice.- What Can Citizen Participation Contribute to Police Work?.- Outlook.

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Book SynopsisWith only 0.55 beds available for every 1,000 people, India''s public health system struggled to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, even while out-of-pocket expenditure pushed millions back into poverty leading to economic, educational, and equity distress. Also, with the increase in the use of technology, concerns about data privacy and citizens right to privacy emerged. Tensions between the State and Centre over the allocation of funds built up as budgetary resources started dwindling for both. Children becoming orphans and girls vulnerable to child marriages and trafficking was another disturbing fallout. Amidst these multifarious challenges in several sectors, there were States like Odisha which stood out, by adopting the famed 5T framework of governance which forms the overacting policy approach in what has now gained prominence as the Odisha Model of growth and development. Odisha Government''s handling of the covid crisis riding on its earlier experience in handling natural disasters has been applauded nationally as well as globally. Pandemic Disruptions and Odisha''s Lessons in Governance compiles various essays that the author wrote during the pandemic years outlining India''s and Odisha''s fight against COVID and all the concomitant unintended consequences while also commenting on how either policy planning or implementation could possibly have been better, setting out a roadmap for the future. Several of these policy prescriptions were later adopted by the Government.

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Book SynopsisFor five months in 2013–2014, Dušan Pavlović took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia’s Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to make a penetrating diagnosis of the economic activity of the postcommunist government. He found that a coterie of tycoons and politicians live off the wealth of the majority of citizens and smaller entrepreneurs, while the economy performs below its capacities. In academic terms, extractive economic institutions create allocative inefficiency. Vivid, suggestive, and even entertaining accounts depict how privatization is administered and foreign investment projects are handled, and how party members, relatives, and friends are hired into public administration and state-owned companies. They show how the managers of firms that queue for state subsidies resist the systematic screening of their businesses. The principles of Keynesian economics are distorted and misused to conceal deliberate fiscal mismanagement. Huge ill-conceived development projects siphon taxpayers’ money from “non-economic” activities like social services, health, education, science, and culture. What Pavlović found in Serbia is acutely symptomatic of many other European post-communist regimes of our time, lending his book singular importance.

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Book SynopsisThe governments of today are not able to transform and adapt to changes in the world around them, as demanded by their constituents. The nature of work, value of public goods, and the constant bombardment of crises are making the old bureaucratic structures obsolete.Agile Government is an emerging theme, that of government-wide reinvention for adaptiveness and responsiveness. It places the accountability, delivery, capture, design and creation of public value at the heart of the government. The concept of agile government is confused with terms like Agile Manifesto, agile governance, agility among others, and because of this, needs some unpacking.This book is a deep dive into this topic. It offers insights from the theoretical development of the topic of agile government, some lessons from government practices around the world, and ongoing academic and policy research. The project is spearheaded by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, which is the first teaching and research institution in the Arab world focusing on public policy and governance.

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Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions offers a toolbox drawn from normative ethics which finds applications in public governance, primarily focusing on policy making and executive action. It includes ethical concepts and principles culled from different philosophical traditions, ranging from more familiar Western theories to non-Western ethical perspectives, thereby providing a truly global, decolonized and expanded normative lens on issues of governance. The book takes a unique and original approach; it demonstrates the use of the ethical toolbox in the context of actual examples of governance challenges.Taking three major case studies each representing an aspect of human-human and/or human-nature and/or human-animal relationship, the book attempts to show the significance of public practical reasoning in policy decisions with the aim of arriving at reasonable responses. Acknowledging the challenges that policy makers often face, the book highlights the fact that policy making is hardly an exercise yielding a black-or-white solution; rather it involves finding the most reasonable normative outcome (course of action) in a given situation, especially employing an expanded understanding of values including well-being, sustainability, interdependence and community. This effort that helps bridge the gap between ethical theorists and policy practitioners exemplifies the necessary role of ‘engaged philosophy’ in public governance.In the major case studies, Boxes offer facts and figures along with pertinent ethical questions that have been raised and discussed. Aiming to aid the engagement of a diverse audience including non-philosophy readers, each chapter also includes Boxes containing examples, shorter case studies, at-a-glance charts, and tables with comprehensive ethical tools for a quick recap.Table of Contents Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Role of Public Practical Reasoning in Good Governance.- Chapter 2: Introducing the Cases.- Chapter 3: Western Consequence-based ethics: Cost versus Benefits.- Chapter 4: Principle-based ethics: ‘means’ versus ‘ends’.- Chapter 5: Human Well-being: Moving Beyond Social Welfare and Human Rights.- Chapter 6: Care, community, compassion and virtue: Decolonizing our Moral Landscape.- Chapter 7: Revisiting the Cases: The Ethical toolbox in Praxis.- Conclusion: Ethics of Governance: Moral Limits of Policy Decisions.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world. As a concise, holistic, and critical documentation of the first year of COVID-19 in Singapore, the multi-disciplinary chapters in this book provide a broad-ranging analysis of an internationally admired model of governance severely tested by a global pandemic crisis whose end is still not in sight.The book focuses specifically on the interconnections among Singapore’s political economy, public health policies, immigration policies, and the elite and pragmatic system of state authoritarianism that, especially since the 1980s, has been at the heart of managing the tensions and contradictions of a nation-state that is also a global city, an important node in a network of goods, services, investments, wealth, people, ideas, and images, all moving rapidly. The chapters critically employ topics and concepts such as neoliberal globalization, authoritarian populism, moral panic, social stigmatization, heterotopia, spatial segregation, and others to make sense of a thoroughly complex situation.Table of ContentsChapter One: Neoliberal Globalization, Authoritarian Populism.- Chapter Two: Neoliberal Singapore: Nation-State and Global City.- Chapter Three: Public Health Legacies: Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and Sars in Singapore.- Chapter Four: Tackling Covid-19, The Singapore Way.- Chapter Five: The Contradictions and Challenges of Singapore’s Immigration Policy.- Chapter Six: Migrant Worker Dormitories: Virus in A Neoliberal Politics Of Space.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in Western-orientated thinking. The book investigates the application of methodologies which explain numerous African contexts in connection with issues of poverty and inequality. It reflects on comparative practices and praxes on the African continent, including commonplace traditions and practices in alleviating poverty, taken against a background of the failure of current prescriptions for poverty alleviation, such as the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). There is a dire need for new practical perspectives which move Africa forward using its indigenous knowledge. Owing to a general lack of recorded African theories and methodologies on poverty, inequality and innovation, this book represents a pioneering corpus of African knowledge addressing poverty and inequality through local innovations. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, it is relevant to students and scholars in development studies and economics, African studies, social studies, political history and political economy, climate studies, anthropology and geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tackling poverty and inequality.- Part 1 Povery and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.- Chapter 1. Onomastic and Conceptual Pathologisation of African Culture as a Creation and Perpetuation of African Poverty in Zimbabwe.- Cha.pter 2. Empirecrafting or Statecrafting Africa? Beyond Banal “Traditional” Witchery and Towards Rebuilding the Moral Economy.- Chapter 3. Impoverishment as a Constraint to Africa’s Social Development.- Chapter 4. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in the Conservation of Sacred Heritage Resources in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6. Kinship Relations and Urban Poverty: A Case Study of Budiriro in Harare, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 7. Processes, Policies and Systems Needed to End Poverty on the African Continent.- Chapter 8. Valuing Common Good in Addressing Inequalities and Poverty in African Economies.- Chapter 9. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation: Experiences from Cameroon.- Part 2 Innovation.- Chapter 10. Interrogating a Developmental State: Opportunities and Priorities for Development using Policy and Innovation in Agricultural Production.- Chapter 11. Technological Opportunities and Challenges: A Review of Bottled Gas Smart Metering Technology - An Experience from Tanzania.- Chapter 12. Examining the Role Incubation Centres Play at Universities in Supporting Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 13. 13. Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in Tanzania: Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and catalysts. The human section considers economics, sustainability education, the knowledge economy, and waste management. In doing so, the book demarcates the ways in which the country encounters and grapples with significant challenges and delves into the range of options for future pathways to sustainability in Qatar. Relevant to policymakers and scholars in energy and environment, urban and developmental studies, as well as the arenas of politics, climate change and policy, this book is a landmark collection on environmental policy in the Gulf and beyond.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Sustainable Qatar.- Chapter 2. The Evolvement of Qatar’s Environmental Sustainability Policy: The Strategies, Regulations, and Institutions.- Chapter 3. Law and Governance Innovations on Sustainability in Qatar: Current Approaches and Future Directions.- Chapter 4. FIFA World Cup 2022 as a Catalyst for Environmental Sustainability in Qatar.- Chapter 5. Qatar Foundations: A Sustainability Innovator.- Chapter 6. Qatar's Energy Policy and the Transition Towards a Renewable and Carbon-Neutral Future.- Chapter 7. Qatar in the Energy Transition: Low Carbon Economy Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 8. A Systems Perspective on the Sustainable Development of Qatar .- Chapter 9. Sea Level Rise and the National Security Challenge of Sustainable Urban Adaptation in Doha and other Arab Coastal Cities.- Chapter 10. Assessing and Reporting Potential Environmental Risks Associated with Reefing Oil Platform During Decommissioning in Qatar.- Chapter 11. The Domestic Water Sector in Qatar.- Chapter 12. Contribution of Non-Profit Organizations to Food Security Sustainability in the State of Qatar.- Chapter 13. Terrestrial Biodiversity in Arid Environments: One Global Component of Climate Crisis Resilience.- Chapter 14. Doha as a 15-Minute City – An Urban Fareej.- Chapter 15. Post-Oil Urbanism: A Need for Smart and Sustainable Urban Development Strategies and Framework in the Gulf States.- Chapter 16. Towards the Circular Qatari Zero-Waste Management Sector.- Chapter 17. Education for Sustainable Development in Qatar.- Chapter 18. Developing A Vibrant Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Qatar: A Sustainable Pathway Toward the Knowledge-based Economy?.- Chapter 19. Pathways for a Sustainable Future.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the national automotive policy in Malaysia to help readers gain an understanding of the country’s industrial policy-making processes. Addressing a gap in analysis of the political economy of the national automotive policy, the research presented combines the new institutional theory and the developmental state approach to provide new insights into elite policymakers’ measures to shield domestic automotive enterprises from pro-market reforms. The formation of the national car project marks a turning point for Malaysia's industrial development as a country, which it envisions will lead to it becoming a major player in the global automotive market. However, the domestic institutional factors embedded in ethno-economic interests and patronage constrain national car-makers, limiting their potential to grow, and instead causing a slowdown in the industry.Allowing readers to understand the background to Malaysia’s heavy industrialisation programme and the birth of its national car projects, this book critically discusses the significance of institutional context in policy outcomes, and highlights how institutions and policies have impact growth or decline. It is a valuable resource relevant to analysts, researchers and students who are interested in the political economy of the national industrial policy and automotive industry in Malaysia and beyond.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Theoretical framework.- Malaysia automotive policy and industrial policy.- The political economy of the national car project.- Political economy analysis of the national automotive industry.- Conclusion.

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